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In a highly competitive market, in which legacy media companies are under pressure from Internet news sites and social media platforms, news programs quickly realized that they could leverage Trump’s outlandish behavior to attract larger audiences and strengthen their bottom lines.
To attract deposits, banks have been offering interest rates of ten percentage points or more above of the inflation rate, while using new deposits to pay previous depositors.
The public projects financed by the funds would provide sufficient efficiency gains to attract private financing.
In 2004, for example, Guangdong Province had to raise the mandatory minimum wage by as much as 20% to attract workers from other regions.
In a populous country, it is not difficult to attract a large crowd.
And, because housing availability affects companies’ ability to attract talent, employers near proposed housing sites must also be engaged.
Likewise, in markets without many investors, not enough trades can be executed to generate the returns needed to attract them.
Without a common fiscal authority, the single market opened the way to tax competition – a race to the bottom to attract investment and boost output that could be freely sold throughout the EU.
Tech companies’ track record – time and again proving their capacity for exceptional growth – enables them to attract massive investment.
Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.
But India should not be railroaded into compromising its interests to attract FDI.
But they showed that private interests could attract greater interest than political pursuits.
Instead, Greece should concentrate on activist policies that attract globally competitive firms, an area where Ireland has much to teach – and where Stiglitz has sensible things to say.
Lacking in domestic saving and wanting to consume and grow, America must import surplus saving from abroad and run massive current-account and trade deficits to attract the foreign capital.
At the same time, the effective corporate-tax rate in Japan is higher than it is elsewhere, making it difficult for Japan to attract investment, foreign or domestic.
Once hitched to the governors, Mayor Luzhkov was able to attract as their candidate for president next year Yevgeny Primakov, the popular former spymaster-cum-prime minister (and supposedly Russia's most trusted man), who had been sacked by President Yeltsin last May due to his very popularity.
By joining the World Trade Organization, improving their investment climates, and stopping interference with shuttle traders – mostly poor women trying to make a living –governments would give the region’s businesses and farmers access to markets and attract much-needed new investment.
On the contrary, it is starving the ability of key units such as the WHO to carry out their job, and to attract and keep the expertise that they need.
Add to that fear mongering about issues like immigration and trade, and their ability to attract frustrated or anxious voters is strong.
The ECB’s rescue operations have hindered the internal depreciation – lower prices for assets, labor, and goods – that the troubled economies need to attract fresh private capital and regain competitiveness, while the euro’s appreciation is now compounding the challenge.
And “ever-closer” political union has ceased to attract public support – if it ever did – and is thus not feasible today.
Any claim like that will inevitably attract attention.
Though the People’s Bank of China still officially caps interest rates on deposits, commercial banks – in cooperation with nonbank financial institutions, especially trust companies – are using wealth-management products to attract deposits with de facto free-market interest rates.
The UK, unable to attract short-term capital inflows, was forced to borrow from the International Monetary Fund.
She merely had to attract people capable of refining the ideology and policy program that would eventually bear her name.
And the Macri government has created a plan to attract $12 billion per year in fossil-fuel investments, predicting that revenues from oil and gas exports will surpass those from agriculture – currently Argentina’s leading export sector – by 2027.
The new German political party would attract much more support, and sentiment might shift.
Twenty-five years ago, China had a more egalitarian society than Sweden; today there is vast inequality between city and countryside, between the western provinces and those bordering the Pacific ocean, and within cities, which attract a constant flow of former peasants looking for jobs.
Business must define issues to attract popular attention.
Other highly visible issues - corporate governance and combating corruption - also attract large followings.
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