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Second – and here’s where the surprise came – they all agreed that, with the benefit of hindsight, these excruciating adjustments were worth it, because their crisis-torn economies were forced to embrace structural reforms that paved the way for their spectacular economic performance today.
Global, because the array of services that natural ecosystems provide, such as clean air and fresh water, benefit people far beyond national borders.
His choice should be obvious: a collaborative effort to reform the international order would benefit both sides.
Apart from avoiding the excess burden and injustice of taxation, they also have the benefit of inducing banks’ owners to choose a prudent investment strategy, while persuading creditors to scrutinize and select carefully the banks to which they want to lend.
Indeed, widespread theft of technology from US companies led to a recent agreement between China and the US that neither government will assist in stealing technology to benefit its country’s firms.
The “universal credit” program replaces six different welfare benefits – such as the child tax credit and the housing benefit – with one.
Britain’s benefit system operates in a similar fashion; it is a voracious consumer of bandwidth.
Britain’s new program was championed as a way to reduce costs and incentivize better decisions, thereby moving more people into work and reducing benefit claims.
The answer is simple: while the bubbles are inflating, many people benefit.
Emerging economies would not suffer too much in this scenario, and they might even benefit from a prudently valued dollar and a deficit- and inflation-free American economy.
The strengthening of Ukraine’s democratic institutions and independence that will result from it will benefit Russia in the long term.
Scholarly studies and research projects have established what common sense might already have told us: if you educate a boy, you educate a person; but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.
Educate a girl, and you benefit a community.
The move to annex Crimea has reversed any soft-power benefit that Putin might have gained from the Sochi Olympics and the pardons he granted (as recently as December) to imprisoned opponents like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the members of Pussy Riot.
Many other destination countries would benefit from similar innovations.
The benefit of countercyclical policies is that government debt as a share of GDP falls during good times.
The stimulus stretched past the immediate need, the ultimate price tag rose to $840 billion, and the net economic benefit remains debatable.
First, smaller countries with relatively illiquid sovereign bonds stand to benefit substantially from the extra liquidity provided by the Blue Bond.
At a time of collapsing confidence in “elites” – from political leaders to, yes, board members – actively using this power to protect young people would have the added benefit of fostering trust within divided societies.
What would most benefit commercial banks is not an immediate increase in interest rates, but a monetary policy that contributes to ensuring that the economy is capable of supporting higher interest rates in the future.
A closer look at those at the top reveals a disproportionate role for rent-seeking: some have obtained their wealth by exercising monopoly power; others are CEOs who have taken advantage of deficiencies in corporate governance to extract for themselves an excessive share of corporate earnings; and still others have used political connections to benefit from government munificence – either excessively high prices for what the government buys (drugs), or excessively low prices for what the government sells (mineral rights).
How does this benefit India?
After all, low interest rates benefit debtors and hurt creditors, as does the inflation that can be spurred by monetary easing.
Therefore, the currently prevailing wage-replacement benefit system, which is applied when recipients do not work, should be replaced with a system offering wage supplements and community work.
When the British economist John Maynard Keynes anticipated the “euthanasia of the rentier” in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, he was referring to a financial class that served no purpose other than to exploit scarce capital for its own benefit.
Large reductions in the use of insecticides cut costs for growers of GM varieties, while providing an important health and ecological benefit.
Companies need customers who can afford their products, which means that businesses benefit from social stability and broad prosperity.
A few major drug seizures by a professional group of counter-narcotics agents would make drug traffickers change their perception of West Africa as a low risk/high benefit transit route.
Here, the familiar benefit of diversity confronts the downside risk of a loss of social cohesion.
Moreover, there can be opportunities for American companies to benefit from BRI investments.
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