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If the disincentive is large enough, then a larger debt
burden
may cause the country’s repayment capacity to fall.
For low levels of debt, increasing the debt
burden
increases the flow of payments that creditors get; but this relationship is reversed once the debt volume crosses a certain threshold.
Moreover, fiscal pressures notwithstanding, it seems highly regressive, if not downright perverse, to place the greatest financial
burden
on those in the poorest health (and who presumably are the target of such social programs).
Ireland and the southern European countries must reduce their debt
burden
and sharply enhance their economies’ competitiveness.
The
burden
of disease ruins lives and entire communities.
The aim is also – and this is equally commendable – to share the
burden
of European economic modernization.
In the long run, policymakers will have to explain to their people that they cannot have economic prosperity, a high level of social security, and a population in which pensioners place a growing
burden
on the economically active.
Women and DevelopmentCOPENHAGEN – A girl born in South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa faces a cruel double
burden.
One key barrier to agreement is the perennial conflict over the appropriate
burden
of defense on national budgets – a conflict that is particularly intense in today’s environment of fiscal anxiety.
An opposing third party would have to shoulder the entire
burden
of proof, while the patent office avoided taking any real action, in order to avoid “presumptuous” interference in the public debate.
Lastly, because the currency board freezes the exchange rate, stable rules and flexibility of wages and prices will need to carry the heaviest
burden
in making Brazil competitive.
Africa’s increasing public-debt
burden
means higher interest costs, which divert resources from education, health care, and infrastructure.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s public-debt
burden
has not yet hindered investment demand.
But in northern Europeans’ (quite reasonable) view, insurance after an accident has occurred (think of non-performing loans) is a form of redistribution that shifts the
burden
to innocent bystanders (in this case, northern taxpayers).
With rising tax revenues and the
burden
of debt gone after the default a decade ago, the government went on a spending spree: real public expenditure grew at double-digit rates most years since 2002.
And, while the inability to repay loans can contribute to a high debt burden, the nonperforming-loan (NPL) ratio for China’s major banks stands at less than 1%.
Only when all of the specific linkages between a high debt
burden
and the onset of a financial crisis have been identified can one draw even a tentative conclusion about that.
Indeed, China was not asked to bear anything like its rightful share of the
burden
in curbing carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
Stated differently, now that Greece has achieved a zero primary budget deficit, its debt
burden
will decline if its nominal growth rate exceeds the average interest that it pays on its government debt.
The US insists that it would be unfair to
burden
its companies if energy-intensive industries could simply relocate to developing countries that had not yet constrained their emissions.
To be sure, the question of how to share the economic
burden
of any particular global emissions path is completely different from the question of how environmentally ambitious overall climate-change mitigation efforts should be.
But, as negotiations proceed, this approach can allow us to evaluate whether the
burden
of reducing the harmful effects of climate change is being fairly distributed, and to judge whether individual countries are doing their part as they head into the 2014 UN Climate Change Conference in Peru next month.
As others join China, the US, and the European Union in setting targets for 2030 and beyond, this statistical yardstick for judging fairness can serve as a powerful tool for establishing what share of the
burden
is appropriate for each country to assume.
With private investment remaining weak, owing to the corporate sector's heavy debt
burden
and banks' huge volume of bad assets, the government has clearly decided to jumpstart the process through infrastructure spending.
Once one understands that EU membership costs each British citizen roughly £1 ($1.51) weekly, the argument that it is an untenable
burden
for the UK falls apart.
Following the end of the Rwandan genocide, the heavy
burden
of rebuilding a devastated society was borne by the country's women.
Antibiotic resistance, the WHO cautions, is now present in every country, putting patients at risk of worse clinical outcomes and at greater risk of death, while increasing the
burden
on health systems.
With government budgets already overstretched, coping with the intensifying health
burden
from AMR will be difficult, to say the least.
As in the past, during and after financial crises and wars, central banks increasingly resort to a form of “taxation” that helps liquidate the huge public- and private-debt overhang and eases the
burden
of servicing that debt.
Yet, when it comes to protecting this global treasure, these countries are expected to shoulder the
burden
by themselves.
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