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Germany wants to attract companies and investment, but it also wants to create as many high-paying jobs as possible.
Yet the idea continues to attract a motley crew of tech and labor leaders, libertarians, and progressives, who fear a coming age of mass technological unemployment.
Universities, in turn, can become caught in a zero-sum competition of ever-increasing expenditure to attract paying students.
But Democratic fundraising will also be strong, and Democratic challengers in places like California’s 45th district will attract money and volunteers from around the country, not least with the help of new political technologies.
Ireland’s greatest weapon against the ensuing debt deflation was its ability to attract US-based tech giants, by offering them a combination of EU law, a well-trained English-speaking workforce, and a 12.5% corporate-tax rate.
Suppose, for example, that the Greek government, seeking to attract 6,000 jobs to its ravaged economy, offered Apple a subsidy of €110,000 per job per year, or €660 million.
The government has also sought to attract foreign investment and promote economic diversification.
No one knows what will happen as those questions attract more attention.
Russia's support on promising terms may attract them, particularly because the matter of forfeiting sovereignty will not be raised.
Gravity explains how celestial bodies attract each other at a distance, but it does not tell us why.
But this idea could also run up against resistance, not least because the countries that would attract the most refugees are those that already have stronger economies, and therefore need EU funding the least.
The Compact with Africa is designed to facilitate economic reforms across the continent, and to attract investment from pools of private-sector funds in the global North.
On legislation, however, extremism will not work, owing to the need to attract some relatively centrist Republicans in order for it to pass.
The main effect so far has been to help bankers generate bonuses (rather than attract borrowers) by hiding exposures.
And a Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-African version of the Erasmus student-exchange program would not only attract African students to Europe, but would also boost European students’ interest in the development of the southern Mediterranean and Africa.
Moreover, the Japanese language is not widely spoken, and Japan’s meager English-language skills make it difficult to attract international talent to its universities.
Perhaps emerging economies with improved prospects will attract higher capital flows, financing larger trade deficits as capital goods are purchased directly or indirectly.
Cameroon is expected to attract $10 billion over the next few years to develop some of the most promising new mineral reserves in the region, while Equatorial Guinea is pushing infrastructure development.
But the company’s Web site continues to attract new prospects, with 1,000 people now registered as likely or certain to buy such a vehicle.
To attract it, the government must improve transparency, simplify rules and regulations, introduce performance bonds (to guarantee the completion of projects), and abolish the cap on return on investment.
These companies compete in global markets with firms headquartered in countries that use business-friendly tax policies to attract the investments, income, and associated externalities of multinational companies.
But a fifth supply chain – that of human talent – has largely been neglected, and cities cannot achieve their potential unless they can attract the best human talent.
In other words, the segment of the US government that is directly responsible for upholding national security recognizes the need to attract and retain highly educated workers to provide care and early learning to the children of all employees.
The US has the world’s most dynamic technological sector – not least because it offers the high salaries needed to attract the best talent.
By characterizing the fight against ISIS as a Cold War-style ideological struggle between “radical Islam” and the West, Trump not only reduces a complex crisis to a binary narrative; he recites from the same script that ISIS recruiters are using to attract support.
The government, desperate to earn foreign exchange, has launched a major campaign to attract international tourists.
The new measures also helped to attract large capital inflows and foreign direct investment, underpinning a dramatic rise in foreign-currency reserves, from $14.8 billion in 2004 to more than $36 billion by the end of 2010.
Governments must become more investor-friendly to attract greater private-sector interest.
More broadly, they can capitalize on escalating tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims to attract alienated young Sunnis.
She has homed in on a powerful message, one with the potential to attract supporters from other parties.
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