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The bill might yield a net benefit for all or most Americans, or it might be a handout to the super-wealthy.
While preventing cervical cancer might seem a genuine benefit, critics charge that the program seems to be mainly about meeting targets, rather than serving the health-care needs of disadvantaged groups.
Apart from one recommendation – to create a government compensation program for Third World nationals harmed by trials intended to benefit First World subjects – US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Dr. Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, did not get much beyond vague notions of community engagement and transparency.
Given that the computer system does not need things like food, that thousand-fold increase in productivity will redound entirely to the benefit of the middle class.
Applied to nutrition, nutrigenomics will allow us to understand, and perhaps more importantly, to manipulate our individual response to existing foods so as to benefit our health.
From an economic perspective, cooperation would benefit Iran more.
Moreover, the benefit is capped at $5,000 per year.
Women’s economic empowerment is good not just for the women who benefit.
The success of women in e-commerce attests to the power of digital technologies to level the economic playing field, to the benefit of individual women, their communities and societies, and the world economy.
These range from improving information about grain stocks and developing better weather-forecasting methods to strengthening social safety nets for the poor and helping small farmers benefit from tenders from humanitarian purchasers such as the World Food Program.
Whatever gains in agricultural production result from these investments will benefit foreign markets, not local communities.
Most people living in rich countries benefit from it whether they realize it or not.
And with the G20 and the OECD working to stop tax avoidance, Africa may soon benefit from global efforts to end shady accounting.
Chinese assistance in encouraging Pakistan to reach agreement with India and the US on Afghanistan’s future is a good place to start, and will also benefit Chinese security by crimping the ability of terrorists to infiltrate China’s Xinxiang province from either Pakistan or AfghanistanClinton recently offered a vision of a “strong, constructive relationship among India, the US, and China.”
As an added benefit, such an approach could spur “competitive envy” in other sluggish regions.
Although the capital stock will benefit from a higher household saving rate, the increase will be offset by more government “dissaving” as budget deficits remain high.
Likewise, Facebook and Google dominate the digital advertising market, but their profits allow them to offer ostensibly free email and social-media services that benefit consumers.
Of course, he would also have been one of the major investors in the wind-power and natural-gas companies that would benefit from government subsidies.
When the national bathtub has holes, and other people benefit from the warmth, the exercise loses its attraction.
Everyone – even the US – would benefit from that.
There is little doubt that after twenty years of IMF and World Bank programs in Africa, those countries are still mired in poverty, with little benefit to show from all of those Washington-inspired programs.
We therefore need a new strategy for globalization that ensures that much more of the world will benefit from the expansion of world markets.
Historically, the US has been able to conclude trade agreements only when a coalition of actors that would benefit from better export opportunities secured more votes than those who were vulnerable to import competition.
Whatever benefit China derives from such measures may well be outweighed by an escalating trade war– especially now that the EU is safe and China will have to face the US alone.
Brains Drains Are Good for YouSocieties that take in "brain drained" scientists and others benefit enormously.
In others, such as the Internet of Things, norms for security standards may benefit from leadership by the private sector or non-profit stakeholders in establishing codes of conduct.
The total benefit is at least 21 times higher than the total cost.
When one considers the impact on families of not losing their breadwinner, and on communities of not losing their experienced workforce, the real benefit could be even higher.
Unlike the United States, we did not have the benefit of issuing the world’s major reserve currency.
The deal reached at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali this month was a historic step forward – with an estimated benefit to the UK of $1 billion.
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