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In July, Germany jettisoned 40% of its immigration rules, lowering
barriers
for mid-skilled workers like train drivers and machinists.
This includes fighting harmful practices such as child marriage and gender-based violence; removing legal
barriers
to contraception; and working with communities to address misconceptions around sexual and reproductive health.
Nuclear attribution is not perfect, but there are only nine states with nuclear weapons; the isotopic identifiers of their nuclear materials are relatively well known; and non-state actors face high entry
barriers.
Eliminating
barriers
in these areas will be critical for African entrepreneurs seeking to offer their products and services to American consumers, and to American entrepreneurs seeking opportunities in Africa.
They did ask one thing: a reduction of tariff
barriers
and greater access to markets abroad.
Governments treated their parliaments as potential
barriers
to IMF plans, and therefore as nuisances to be evaded, not places to create coalitions of national political support.
Product-market deregulation and falling trade
barriers
belong to what academics call microeconomics.
The experts – including five Nobel Laureates – compared ways to spend $75 billion on more than 30 interventions aimed at reducing malnutrition, broadening educational opportunity, slowing global warming, cutting air pollution, preventing conflict, fighting disease, improving access to water and sanitation, lowering trade and immigration barriers, thwarting terrorism, and promoting gender equality.
By enabling companies to move operations to lower-wage markets, the elimination of trade
barriers
can have a similar effect.
More politically effective, but economically and socially damaging, is the approach of populists like US President Donald Trump, who offer simplistic explanations that play on voters’ fears and frustrations (for example, by blaming immigrants or countries with trade surpluses) while pretending that there are easy fixes (say, erecting walls and import barriers).
Efforts to ease product regulations and lower
barriers
to foreign investment would promote competition and technological innovation.
For the rest of the world, raising trade
barriers
would be a case of cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
The EU began as an agreement among six countries to achieve free trade in goods and capital and to eliminate
barriers
to labor mobility.
There are language
barriers.
By removing
barriers
to information we will provide refugees with the opportunity to continue their studies.
We would need to negotiate not just the removal of tariff barriers, but the prevention of non-tariff barriers, which today are often the biggest impediments to trade and pile costs on business.
Feeding this perception, some members of Congress are now exhorting CFIUS to block CNOOC’s proposed acquisition of Nexen, a Canadian energy company with holdings in the Gulf of Mexico, until China resolves ongoing disputes with the US over preferential government procurement policies and
barriers
to FDI by US companies in China.
Ultimately, whatever
barriers
Italy, with its debt-laden economy, poses to greater EU integration are unlikely to be insurmountable, if France and Germany exercise decisive leadership.
Those who lose their jobs cannot find new ones because of
barriers
to entry, while high long-term unemployment makes those who do have jobs feel threatened.
As the world’s two largest consumer markets and leading trade partners, China and the US can do much to help each other overcome the
barriers
to increased, broad-based, and high-quality job creation.
The worthy aim, Hill wrote, was “to identify the
barriers
to the cross-border flow of investment,” and “work out how to overcome them step by step.”
To break their vicious circle, Latin American countries need to close infrastructure gaps, improve access to credit, enhance state capacity, and reduce institutional
barriers
that are impeding resource allocation and innovation.
When trade
barriers
are lowered for the few trading partners included in the regional agreement, producers in those countries tend to shift their attention to those partners, causing imports from other countries to decline.
The Sino-American trade war is different, because the two economies, previously rather open to each other, are imposing substantial trade
barriers.
Against this background, Rousseff’s government was perhaps rash to decry the inflow of “unwanted capital” in recent years and to erect import
barriers
aimed at protecting domestic industry by hampering market competition.
For India to derive the full potential of these technologies, it will need to dismantle
barriers
to adoption.
McKinsey’s Internet
Barriers
Index for 25 countries classifies India as part of a cluster (along with Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) characterized by medium-to-high
barriers
in four key areas: infrastructure, affordability, incentives, and capability.
There are those who wish for India to become a Hindu Rashtra, a land of and for the Hindu majority; those who wish to raise even higher the protectionist
barriers
against foreign investment that have started to come down; and those who believe that a firm hand at the national helm would be preferable to the failures of democracy.
The international debate about Germany’s current account should thus focus on measures to liberalize the country’s services and remove other
barriers
to investment.
First, China can help boost the EU’s exports by lowering its administrative trade
barriers
to products from the EU.
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