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Innovative multilateral partnerships like the Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – of which the United States is the largest funder – have saved millions of lives, as they have reduced the
burden
of infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.
The arrangement would shift more of the financing
burden
to Europe, where it properly belongs.
Indeed, if conflicts in Asia become more virulent, Europe cannot expect the US to shoulder the
burden
of maintaining regional stability alone.
China’s leaders recognize that North Korea is a huge
burden
for them, but, like loving parents of a rogue son, they cannot bring themselves to disown him.
After all, member countries would then be able to pool their resources, harmonize programs, and rationalize costs, thereby reducing individual governments’ financial
burden.
We have pressed ahead on reducing the tax
burden
by decreasing various rates, particularly on payroll taxes, thereby reducing hiring costs without harming workers’ purchasing power – one reason why Brazil is now one of the world’s few major economies with low unemployment.
With low interest rates, price stability, a more competitive exchange rate, a lower tax burden, plentiful resources for investment, and the reduction of electricity tariffs, Brazil is strengthening its potential for more rapid expansion.
In any scenario, most of the
burden
of adjustment will fall on Greece.
Income inequality is correlated with inequalities in health, access to education, and exposure to environmental hazards, all of which
burden
children more than other segments of the population.
Let me stress that I have no complaints about the policies implemented by the United States Federal Reserve, which has had the main
burden
of responsibility for “managing” the crisis.
The more aggressively the Italian government, for example, cuts expenditure or increases taxation, the more its public-debt
burden
– already above 130% of GDP – will likely grow to unsustainable levels.
It is neither fair nor sustainable for Lebanon to shoulder this
burden
alone.
In reality, the question of what to do in Afghanistan concerns the old vocation of the “white man’s burden,” which never seems to die, however costly and duplicitous it might be.
The only difference is that, if exchange rates remain fixed, advanced countries will have to go through a protracted period of low inflation (or even deflation), which will make their debt
burden
even harder to bear, and emerging countries will have to enter an inflationary period as capital flows in, driving up reserves, increasing the money supply, and ultimately boosting the price level.
The R&D
burden
must be shared among the public and private sectors, and resulting treatments must be universally adopted and available.
With much of the world facing very low inflation, and even the possibility of outright decline in the price level, the real
burden
of debt has been increasing.
China has the savings to address its growing debt
burden.
Under full renationalization, Italian investors would sell their foreign assets and acquire domestic bonds, which would insulate Italy from financial shocks abroad and lower the interest-rate
burden
for the economy as a whole.
Whenever we withhold assistance or impose sanctions, we need to think carefully about who bears the
burden
in bringing about the changes that we seek.
It would also be ineffective, because developing countries will – legitimately – refuse to assume by themselves the
burden
of protecting the world’s biodiversity to the detriment of their economic growth.
The rescue program designed to keep Greece from crashing out of the eurozone has raised the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio from 130% at the start of the crisis in 2009 to more than 170% today, with the International Monetary Fund predicting that the debt
burden
could reach 200% of GDP in the next two years.
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.
On the contrary, she operated on the assumption that the euro was “a machine from hell” – a mess and a
burden
for her and her country.
The opioid epidemic, for example, has become a heavy
burden
for the US government (and thus taxpayers), as it has strained law enforcement and the health system.
The US can therefore impose a much larger
burden
on Chinese exporters than the Chinese can impose on US exporters.
It is too early to say that the “yellow man’s burden” is about to replace Rudyard Kipling’s “white man’s burden” in world history.
Come January 20, all countries that deal with the US will have to make minimizing the
burden
of his administration one of their highest priorities.
What is not clear is whether Russia’s economy can bear the
burden
of Putin’s objectives in Ukraine.
The wage surprise draws its inspiration from the Netherlands, where a consensus emerged in the early 1980’s that in order to sustain employment, the
burden
of taming rampant inflation should be shared by employers and the employed.
A Second Chance for European ReformMUNICH – The European Central Bank has managed to calm the markets with its promise of unlimited purchases of eurozone government bonds, because it effectively assured bondholders that the taxpayers and pensioners of the eurozone’s still-sound economies would, if necessary, shoulder the repayment
burden.
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