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During the campaign, Trump often used scapegoats – especially immigrants and major developing-world exporters, such as China and Mexico – to attract support.
Alongside efforts to attract foreign investment, equal energy should be directed at mobilizing and unleashing domestic capital;In Canada, as in the US and Western Europe, a modest home, a small plot of land or a solid credit history can be enough to secure a loan.
Even Greece, despite its rapidly eroding competitiveness and increasingly unsustainable fiscal path, could attract the capital that it needed.
Although the government recently attempted to attract capital back to the official banking sector by eliminating the lending rate’s lower bound, more substantial reform is needed – and that will likely have to wait until the interest rate on deposits is fully liberalized and the financial sector is open to private banks.
While this horizontal competition has helped China to reach growth targets, central leaders must be supportive of local leaders’ discretionary powers, authority to raise funds, and capacity to attract investment.
Many African governments, desperate to attract foreign-direct investment, engage in an ill-informed race to offer the most generous tax incentives.
There are no easy choices: defending the currency by hiking interest rates would kill growth and harm banks and corporate firms; loosening monetary policy to boost growth might push their currencies into free-fall, causing a spike in inflation and jeopardizing their ability to attract capital to finance their external deficits.
In fact, politicians in India, Mexico, Brazil, and other developing countries are already calling for tax cuts of their own, in order to remain competitive, attract foreign investment, and create or save jobs.
At the same time, Park is working to placate discontented supporters and attract swing voters by blaming the conglomerates’ greedy business practices for breeding anti-chaebol sentiment.
Certainly, many of the same themes in far-right ideology attract the support of some women in Europe today.
Until we stop regarding cultural pluralism as being incompatible with the defense of legitimate universal values, fascist movements will attract those who need the false hope and sense of self-worth that such movements offer, regardless of gender.
For example, Kenya, in a bid to attract private investors, has provided shadow credit ratings of 43 utilities.
Some cities are hesitant to provide services, because they fear it will attract new migrants.
When development has taken off, and conditions have improved sufficiently to attract people back to their homelands, the hugely increased diaspora would indeed return, as they have done in India, South Korea, and China.
In the modern era of globalization, export-led growth is supplemented by policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), a combination that has been particularly successful in China.
Indeed, the cost of labor in Africa is competitive enough that Ethiopia could attract companies from countries as poor as Bangladesh.
Lebanon often struggles to attract funding because of its status as a middle-income country, but this label is misleading, as it does not take into account serious structural weaknesses that pre-date the Syrian crisis or the huge proportion of the resident population composed of refugees from Syria, Palestine, and Iraq living in abject poverty.
As a result, Russia’s capacity to attract others, if not to coerce and pay them, will continue to decline.
A successful strategy against Al Qaeda will require close intelligence cooperation with other countries and policies that attract the support of mainstream Muslim opinion.
“Sustainable cities” attract the creative, educated people who want to live in a pollution-free, modern urban environment that suits their lifestyles.
The Communists attract attention only by their internal squabbles.
And to attract that foreign capital, it has no choice but to run equally large balance-of-payments deficits.
To attract the capital it needs, America must send dollars overseas through foreign trade.
President Barack Obama, in particular, has been able to attract support as a liberal-left idealist and as a centrist-realist at the same time, which enabled him to win re-election in the face of a weak economy and an even weaker labor market.
If researchers are not coming forward on their own, health ministries and organizations must develop strategies to attract them – and fast.
The 2009 conference in Copenhagen was an unmitigated disaster, as Europe’s “lead by example” approach failed to attract followers.
If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.
Countries and regions competing to attract corporate investment make weak negotiators and weak defenders of high labor standards.
We expect our strategy to ensure continued globalization – in a revised form that is more sustainable and inclusive – to attract more such leaders to the cause.
The other major advantage of such regional groupings has been their ability to attract foreign direct investment.
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