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Equality and social justice, long the cornerstones of Germany's social cohesion, now are major
barriers
to change.
Multidisciplinary “Team UN” groups could be deployed in the field to break down departmental
barriers
and confront appropriate challenges.
An escalating trade war, with each side erecting symmetric import barriers, would fuel inflationary pressure in the US, potentially driving the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates higher and faster than it would otherwise.
The CER points out that product- and labor-market regulation in the UK are closer to that of the United States than to Western Europe, and the same broad pattern emerges from the OECD’s assessment of
barriers
to entrepreneurship.
At the heart of European integration is the idea that
barriers
to trade – including tariffs and other impediments – can be and have been reduced.
International trade is about getting access to a bigger market, and trade agreements involve mutual reduction of barriers, including all kinds of non-tariff rules that minimize competition in the provision of services.
In nearly every country, women and girls face systemic
barriers
that bar them from full and equal participation in the workforce and the formal economy more broadly.
By investing in women and girls and ending gender inequality, we can eliminate those costs and change the fate of entire countries.Moreover, by considering economic empowerment in terms of gender, we may better understand how intersecting issues like ethnicity, age, disability, or language also create
barriers
to full and equal economic participation.
Dismantling these
barriers
would bring even more far-reaching benefits.Only by unleashing the full potential of all people to participate fully in the economy can we strengthen growth, eliminate poverty, and respond effectively to mounting global challenges, from conflict to climate change.
Moreover, by considering economic empowerment in terms of gender, we may better understand how intersecting issues like ethnicity, age, disability, or language also create
barriers
to full and equal economic participation.
Dismantling these
barriers
would bring even more far-reaching benefits.
Now everyone has to gather around that table and guarantee that no red tape, no political issues, and no practical
barriers
stand in the way of these children’s chance to return to school.
One can hope that, as Asian-Americans continue to break
barriers
in other arenas – they remain under-represented among corporate CEOs, for example – these rising superstars will be greeted with similar acclaim.
Perhaps most revealingly, though, Rajan nonetheless optimistically argued that “[d]eregulation has removed artificial
barriers
preventing entry of new firms, and has encouraged competition between products, institutions, markets, and jurisdictions.”
In other words, he clearly believed that regulation created “artificial barriers,” and that “competition between jurisdictions” – that is, between regulators – was to be welcomed.
In particular, according to WAVE, a pan-European consortium of service providers for rape and sexual-abuse survivors, when migrants, who comprise 13.8% of Sweden’s population, report rape and abuse, they face high systemic hurdles in even telling their stories to police – including longstanding linguistic
barriers
in communicating with them at all.
Major hurdles include poor transport connectivity and stifling non-tariff barriers, which impede growth and undermine welfare in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and north-eastern India.
Companies that are not afraid of language
barriers
and cultural differences early in the integration process are rewarded with the chance to train and hire people who are highly motivated and often highly skilled.
Nor can one argue that trade growth has little to do with trade policy: while lower transport costs have increased trade volumes, so has steady reduction of trade
barriers.
More compelling is the dramatic upturn in GDP growth rates in India and China after they turned strongly towards dismantling trade
barriers
in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Nonetheless, the report argues, the thousands of protectionist measures that still impede US exports in other countries may well give Trump the excuse he needs to increase
barriers
of his own.
Responding to other countries’ protectionism by erecting
barriers
of our own amounts to shooting ourselves in the foot.
During the onset of the financial crisis a decade ago, many feared that countries would erect new trade barriers, because that is what happened in the 1930s and during other post-war recessions.
As technological innovation further reduces entry
barriers
for both producers and consumers, the proliferation of these linkages becomes even easier, amplifying what already is essentially a spaghetti bowl of cross-border relationships and dependencies.
Second, it was assumed that the major participants in global trade – including the emerging economies that joined this process and, later, its anchoring institutions, such as the World Trade Organization – would eventually embrace the basic principles of reciprocity, continuing gradually to reduce both tariff and non-tariff
barriers.
For starters, systemically important but not sufficiently open countries – beginning with China – should liberalize their economies more rapidly (particularly by reducing non-tariff barriers) and adhere to internationally accepted norms on intellectual property.
Instead, the
barriers
faced by all minority populations in the US apply equally to Asian Americans, with certain features particular to, or more apparent in, this community.
Still, it is the US that is currently leading the push for freer trade across the Pacific and a substantial reduction in
barriers
to trade with Europe.
A second problem, even in areas with adequate infrastructure, is the prevalence of bureaucratic and economic
barriers
that limit access to essential medicines.
A renewed push to integrate European markets for services, digital goods, capital markets, and energy would remove
barriers
to business and bring new incentives to invest.
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