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The inability of Europe’s politicians to contemplate this scenario is placing a huge
burden
on the European Central Bank.
Taxing emissions while cutting the tax
burden
on the workforce will benefit the environment and, potentially, the economy.
All countries carry some
burden
from the past, and China is no exception.
But the
burden
of protecting North Korea from the world’s justified outrage is one that China cannot afford to carry for long.
There is a discussion of how much of the
burden
to pass on to future generations.
Just like the Club of Rome, today’s climate scientists make the case against having children by pointing to the environmental
burden
caused by adding to the planet’s population.
This lead to a U-turn: from bail-outs to "bail-ins," and to private sector
burden
sharing.
While for-profit providers have higher administrative costs and larger executive salaries, their main
burden
relative to not-for-profit provision is the need to generate returns for their shareholders.
The basic problem lies in the fact that the heritage of communism is a much greater
burden
than the majority of people, including experts, ever imagined, and was much more about the inheritance in people's heads than the inherited economic structure.
That means redistributing some of the economic benefits of free movement to communities bearing the
burden
of it; strengthening control of external borders and cooperation against terrorism; ensuring greater flexibility for eurozone integration and migration; and returning to the idea that EU institutions’ highest calling is to defend Europe’s nation-states, not to develop their own power.
Greeks have been forced to accept brutal austerity measures in order to continue to service an unbearable debt burden, thereby limiting losses for French and German banks and for eurozone taxpayers whose loans to Greece bailed out those banks.
First, the primary concern should not be with reducing disease prevalence, but rather disease
burden
– the health impact as measured by disability and premature mortality.
That means channeling resources according to
burden
rather than according to prevalence, particularly as co-morbidity (two or more diseases in the same patient) increases.
During the emergency period, fiscal retrenchment and austerity are unavoidable; but, in the longer term, the debt
burden
will become unsustainable without growth – and so will the European Union itself.
Quantitative easing, combined with public investment, would impart the growth impetus that the eurozone sorely needs to bring about a gradual reduction in its aggregate debt
burden.
The
burden
of repaying the debt will fall on a smaller labor force – even more so if the retirement age is lowered.
The question is whether governments can afford it, without increasing the
burden
on taxpayers and undermining economic incentives.
No scientific formula can describe how to share the
burden
of global mitigation equitably among countries, leaving every government able to declare confidently that its policies are in line with any given temperature target.
Businesses in oligopolistic sectors often complain about the
burden
of compliance; but they clearly rely on regulation as a barrier to market entry by new competitors.
The cost of their regulatory
burden
is a fee they pay for market power.
That is why smart regulators charged with ensuring healthy competition, like the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, use a “sandbox” approach to enable testing of new technologies and business models without a crushing
burden
of regulation.
Having grown up in a country where nearly one in four children infected with polio died from the disease, my heart soars when I imagine a world in which all families have access to lifesaving vaccines, freeing them from the
burden
of preventable death and disease.
Lebanon is too vulnerable to pressure from Syria and Iran, neither of which wants to see their local clients relieve the Israelis of the
burden
of a “Lebanese front” before their own grievances are addressed.
Clearly, Germany faces many difficulties; most economists agree that reunification was mishandled and the
burden
on the German economy correspondingly excessive.
The PBC knows that rapid deterioration in America’s fiscal position and continual worsening in its external balance may create an irresistible temptation for the US to inflate away its debt
burden.
Moreover, the EU has a somewhat paradoxical asset at its disposal: it is not a Pacific power and does not carry the
burden
of great-power status in Asia.
The enormous investments launched in China’s interior as part of the government’s stimulus program following the 2008 global financial crisis have now become a
burden
and are increasingly showing up as bad debt on the balance sheets of the country’s banks.
On the contrary, the Paris accord is very good for America, and it is the US that continues to impose an unfair
burden
on others.
In particular, they noted, a better regulatory system – one that restrains coal-fired power generation, for example – reduces the
burden
that must be placed on the tax system.
Under both systems, those who accept responsibility to take military action also take on the lion’s share of the financial
burden.
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