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There are two ways to reduce the government’s health-care outlays: reduce the
amount
of health care the government buys, or reduce the cost of health care.
The unemployment rate in the US and the eurozone has increased by about the same
amount
as well – three percentage points.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not
amount
to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
For example, a Spanish company that builds replicable four-story multifamily buildings can construct 5-10 times more units than it could with traditional construction methods, but employ the same
amount
of labor.
At the time of his report, he concluded that the European budget would
amount
to some 3% of GDP – identical to the peacetime US federal budget’s share of GDP during the country’s first stage of monetary union, in the nineteenth century.
Because the
amount
of oil was too small to make much difference on the international oil market, the incentive to act appears purely political – a friendly Iranian wink to the US.
Since the mid-1990’s, the net current-account surplus of “all the rest” has risen by an
amount
that one Federal Reserve Bank economist has put at $450 billion a year, not because savings rates have increased, but because investment rates have fallen.
Though Putin has tried to stoke a popular desire for empire with his Crimea annexation and intervention in eastern Ukraine, these actions
amount
to little more than open theft by masked men in the dead of night; they have little chance of begetting lasting glory.
It suggests that policymakers are playing for longer-run sustainable growth and have become warier of policies that, if used persistently,
amount
to a defective, unsustainable growth model.
The logic of a need for specific revenue applies also in modern Europe, where a reformed fiscal system might include common administration of value-added tax (with the additional benefit of eliminating a considerable
amount
of cross-border fraud).
Debt exceeding that
amount
would be left to the responsibility of the member states.
Only a small
amount
of skills training would be required to lift workers – such as the 120 now employed at a tomato paste factory in Nigeria – from the bottom of the value chain.
This is why it is important to examine Trump’s recent tax proposal, which has four salient features – all of which
amount
to tax cuts for the rich.
We can also encourage households to consume less energy, and companies to reduce the
amount
of energy that they waste.
Since 2014, the exchange rate has weakened by an increasing
amount
every year, and is now down over 11% since the drop began, despite intervention by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to support the currency (not to hold it down, as US President Donald Trump has alleged).
The worldwide cost of infrastructure capable of responding to the intensifying water crisis could
amount
to trillions of dollars, and its development would itself be energy-intensive.
There was a certain
amount
of political bluster among rock stars, to be sure, but this was widely regarded as frivolous posturing.
Moreover, they have implemented repressive media laws that
amount
to state control of the Internet, which they claim is necessary to preserve stability, fight terrorism, or defend national sovereignty from Western interference.
Moreover, in addition to expanding the workforce, immigrants actually boost per capita GDP by increasing productivity – that is, the
amount
that each worker produces.
The vast majority of these proceeds are retained by criminal organizations in rich countries and laundered by banks in global financial centers, with just a small
amount
returning to Latin America.
As long as “the state is able to determine the aggregate
amount
of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments [i.e., the capital base] and the basic reward to those who own them,” there is no “obvious case” for further involvement.
Excluding donations to churches, such contributions
amount
to 1% of GDP in the U.S., which is six times higher than in Germany or Japan, and 30 times higher than in Mexico.
That is “six times the
amount
the US government spent to promote rule of law, democratic governance, and respect for fundamental human rights.”
Of these, 4.1 million have been refugees for at least 20 years, longer than the
amount
of time the average person spends in school.
Before the crisis, a substantial
amount
of that money was invested in US, Spanish, or Irish real estate.
In the long term, today’s other pressing challenges – including Russia’s relationship with the West and events in the tumultuous Middle East – will
amount
almost to sideshows by comparison.
Indeed, bilateral trade flows covered by such agreements now
amount
to roughly half of the world’s imports, and have contributed significantly to the dramatic growth of trade.
Germany has insisted that, without limits on the
amount
of government debt banks can hold, no common deposit insurance can be introduced.
And even the current mini-deal implies a significant
amount
of drag – about 1.4% of GDP – on an economy that has grown at barely a 2% rate over the last few quarters.
But by making ourselves more sensitive to their presence and becoming aware of the distorted incentives to which they give rise, as well as by imposing regulations that limit their scope and increasing the
amount
of required disclosure, we can mitigate their consequences, both in the public and the private sector.
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