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Delaying marriage and childbearing allows them to gain more education and perhaps more earning opportunities, as well as improved health, education, and labor market success for their future children –
benefits
worth ten times more than the cost of providing reproductive services.
Studies show that each dollar loaned by a microfinance institution increases household expenditure by almost 10% in the first year, and that the
benefits
will continue for another 30 years.
Benefits
are estimated to end up about six times higher than the costs.
There may be some losses from electing women because they tend to have less political experience than men, but the record in India suggests that if it took 20 years to establish a 30% share of women in local positions in other countries, the
benefits
would be at least double the costs of achieving this.
But, in order to regain and maintain public confidence, governments, regulators, and operators must be transparent about the
benefits
and risks of nuclear power – and honest when things go wrong.
Trade usually
benefits
both sides.
That is why so many studies do not consider the economic
benefits
of tariff-free transatlantic trade as the primary reason for pursuing it.
Economists are often ambivalent about the
benefits
of financial integration, not least because large flows of bank credit can have a serious impact on macroeconomic stability.
But steps can be taken to maximize the
benefits
of cross-Channel provision of financial services after Brexit.
Despite being seen as a poster child for the
benefits
of globalization, India is not unduly dependent on global flows of trade and capital.
On the other hand, if the left tries to play up the
benefits
of immigration, it might drive more people into the arms of anti-immigrant parties.
Moreover, while the technological innovations that markets promote bring real
benefits
in the long run, they tend to leave much economic and social wreckage in their wake.
Hamas’s control of the Palestinian Authority does not diminish or increase the need for Israeli military action, but it does increase its political benefits, because the fighting and destruction tells Gaza’s population that their rulers are endangering their physical survival.
In today’s globalized world, a slight reduction in interest rates by an individual central bank can bring some benefits, beginning with weakening the currency and thus boosting exports.
The
benefits
extend beyond status.
The
benefits
of winning an election have become so large that political parties will stoop to new lows to clinch a victory.
When second place confers no benefits, the cost of showing unilateral restraint can grow intolerably high.
Each of these programs, or, as we call them, “social ventures,” provides societal
benefits
beyond improving access to health care or simply donating medicines.
This approach was also deemed to yield collateral benefits, from enhancing internal social mobility to reducing the risk of violent conflict among countries.
Moreover, the high payroll taxes needed to finance these
benefits
constitute another deterrent to hiring, as does the high minimum wage, which tends to price unskilled labor above its potential productivity.
And the
benefits
of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
More fundamentally, the Fund has accepted that there are risks as well as
benefits
to cross-border financial flows, particularly sharp inward surges followed by sudden stops, which can cause a great deal of economic instability.
But it would help maximize the
benefits
of domestic reforms.
For now, the periphery countries calculate that the eventual
benefits
to be gained from remaining within the eurozone will outweigh the current pain of austerity.
Scottish independence, the “No” campaign argues, would bring few if any of the claimed benefits; on the contrary, it would cause many economic calamities, ranging from financial panics to the flight of jobs and industry from Scotland.
In the UK, the vast majority of people diagnosed with mental illness go untreated, at a huge cost not only in wellbeing, but also in disability
benefits
and lost earning power.
Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush frequently referred to democracy’s
benefits
for security.
To this extent, developed countries’ bear a responsibility for cushioning the impact on their workers by providing adequate social welfare protection, together with relocation and re-training
benefits.
Despite these benefits, the potential of mini-grids to help address Africa’s energy challenge has yet to be tapped.
So far, Macron has emphasized a type of social solidarity that makes more social
benefits
universal and portable, while advocating more preventive health care.
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