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These schemes imply socialization of debt – taxpayers elsewhere in Europe would share a country’s debt
burden.
Of course, aging citizens should not be viewed simply as an economic
burden.
And the current trajectory, with the
burden
of rising health-care costs increasingly being shifted onto patients themselves, is not encouraging.
How to End the Greek TragedySANTIAGO – European leaders, faced with the reality of an insolvent Greece, are reportedly now considering a “Plan B” that would involve reducing the
burden
of its future debt payments.
That is an unimaginably large burden, and it risks condemning Greece to permanent recession and social unrest.
The conclusion is clear: Greece’s debt-service
burden
is too large, and it must be reduced.
A recent study by Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov from the World Bank, “Who Bears the Cost of the Russian Military Draft,” indicates that the
burden
of conscription falls disproportionately on poor, low-educated, and rural households.
A prolonged and sustained central bank policy of purchasing ever-increasing quantities of long-term assets is essential to encourage a wary financial sector to use some of its risk-bearing capacity for its proper purpose: reducing the risk
burden
on entrepreneurship and enterprise.
Moreover, monetary policy, which has been shouldering much of the
burden
of recovery since the 2008 economic crisis, must be rethought.
The result is a continuing disaster for the poorest countries, where the
burden
of infectious disease is rising starkly, in diseases ranging from Malaria, to HIV/AIDs and Tuberculosis.
The alarming rise in infectious diseases will
burden
the whole world, not just the poorest countries.
Five years ago, policies aimed at cutting greenhouse-gas emissions were seen as a cost
burden
on the economy.
Despite this haemorrhage, the debt
burden
grows ever larger.
The first is to determine who should bear the
burden
of proof in identifying which debts are "odious."
If Iraq's occupation gives impetus to legal challenges that free Africans from the
burden
of odious debts, then the war will have succeeded in dismantling at least one weapon of mass destruction.
But these countries’ education systems, which were strained even before the crisis, cannot handle the
burden
that they are being forced to shoulder.
The February conference was supposed to produce solutions that would ease the
burden
on Syria’s neighbors.
If we calculate the time and energy lost in developing nations to gathering, treating, and storing water, and the health
burden
caused by a lack of decent drinking water and sanitation, the costs of creating a typical water and sewer network can remain higher than the benefits.
Becoming a mother – the rite of passage that Mothers’ Day celebrates – can carry a terrible
burden
of fear, anxiety, and loss for many women and their families.
The debt
burden
destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.
Brazil should have been downgraded below investment grade last year, as the economy struggled with a widening fiscal deficit, a growing economy-wide debt burden, and a weak and worsening business environment.
The generosity of the US system--and hence the
burden
of layoff taxes--is limited.
Opponents of legal voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide sometimes say that if the laws were changed, patients would feel pressured to end their lives in order to avoid being a
burden
to others.
“If somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they’re a
burden
to their family, or the state,” she argued, “then I think they too should be allowed to die.”
Because Canada’s public health service provides care for people with dementia who are unable to care for themselves, Bennett knew that she would not have to be a
burden
on her family; nonetheless, she was concerned about the
burden
that she would impose upon the public purse.
But this is clearly problematic, as it puts the entire
burden
of refugees on the EU’s frontier countries.
The only way forward is to leave out the countries that are most averse to accepting immigrants, at least temporarily, and create a solution involving just those that are willing to share the
burden.
Second, the EU needs to improve
burden
sharing – ideally among all countries, but perhaps among a smaller group at first – in providing shelter for those who gain asylum.
While the demographic inflow could become a large net benefit for Germany in the long run, it remains a
burden
in the short term.
Russia would assume most of the
burden.
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