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Citizens are rejecting fraudulently negotiated mining contracts that imply high environmental and social costs and few
benefits
for the public.
By contrast, the commission argues, “there may be big
benefits
to the UK as a financial center from demonstrating that it can establish and adhere to standards significantly above the international minimum.”
While their use of a range of unconventional monetary-policy tools has had benefits, it has also generated significant uncertainty, without fully stabilizing the world economy.
Indeed, as Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has pointed out, after years of effort, the
benefits
of unconventional monetary policy are diminishing, while the costs are increasing.
And it produces these
benefits
automatically, without officials having to do anything more.
And any changes made would need to translate into relatively large growth
benefits.
“The House Republican plan would cut the top tax rate back to 30% or lower,” he writes, before listing a few “mights”: the bill “might…eliminate the estate tax”; and it “might eliminate tax deductions for state and local taxes, and tax some of the fringe
benefits
that are currently excluded from taxable income.”
While America
benefits
from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces borrowing costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2% - essentially zero in real terms.
This reflects the
benefits
that NATO believes can be drawn from Israel’s unique military experience.
So it is our rational duty to tell the truth, regardless of the
benefits
lying might bring in practice.
Furthermore, leaders from across the political spectrum are questioning scientifically-established principles – such as anthropogenic climate change, evolution, and the
benefits
of vaccination – with no scientific basis.
If India could transform its IP regime to resemble the US system, which is more robust than China’s, the
benefits
would be even greater.
So, too, can the charitable work of US foundations or the
benefits
of freedom of inquiry at American universities.
A comprehensive program would cost $27 billion, but the potential social
benefits
would be immense: avoidance of more than 28 million new cases of HIV/AIDS by 2010.
This makes it the best investment the world could make, reaping social
benefits
that outweigh the costs by 40 to 1.Similarly, providing micronutrients missing from more than half the world’s diet would reduce diseases caused by deficiencies of iron, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin A with an exceptionally high ratio of
benefits
to cost.
If we could only find the political will, establishing free trade could be achieved at a very low cost, with
benefits
of up to $2.4 trillion a year.
Because private companies reap the
benefits
of the trials that do succeed, they should also shoulder the risks.
It is still a good idea, particularly if the bank maintained a professional staff to help guide public choice on costs and
benefits
(including environmental costs and benefits).
The problem, for scientists and consumers alike, is that the
benefits
are not the same for everyone.
Difficulties stemming from professional jargon, organizational structure, and distance are more than offset by the
benefits
of integrating nutrigenomics facilities and expertise to ensure cooperative use of knowledge and its application in nutritional research.
Meanwhile, the Assad regime
benefits
from the fact that parts of the country that it no longer controls cannot be called “liberated zones,” given the prevailing chaos and extremism in these areas.
Any graduate student in economics knows that deregulation, privatization, and trade liberalization cannot be expected to produce economic
benefits
without a long list of unlikely conditions being satisfied.
Private incentives always need to be aligned with social costs and
benefits
if productive efficiency is to be achieved.
Similarly, the principle that private incentives should be aligned with social costs and
benefits
hardly results in unconditional support for policies of trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization.
The weakness of the current wage insurance proposal is that it pays
benefits
only for a limited period and relies for its long-term effect on the retraining incentives that it creates.
But this would not apply to livelihood insurance, because its
benefits
are tied to the rise and fall of income indices, which are beyond the control of individuals.
Both hope that showing that China and Taiwan can get along without too much trouble will bring electoral
benefits
for the Nationalists.
The
benefits
for the North would drastically change the regime’s strategic calculus, particularly concerning nuclear weapons.
International linkages – or, rather, sanctions that blocked the
benefits
of such linkages – were vital to Libya’s decision to denuclearize and Iran’s willingness to reach an agreement with world powers regarding its nuclear program.
Yet some economists suggest that we are not correctly measuring the output of cheaper software – as opposed to hardware – and the many
benefits
of the free goods associated with the Internet.
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