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The increased spending leads to higher employment, an increase in
capacity
utilization, and, eventually, upward pressure on wages and prices.
And, second, European countries must maintain the
capacity
to deal with any major security crisis.
In fact, Putin himself seems convinced that the West has no such
capacity.
But Smith also understood that while the economy was too intricate to be organized by anybody, it has the
capacity
to self-organize.
Lowering interest rates below zero, however, has hurt banks’ balance sheets, reducing their lending
capacity.
For the Israelis, cooperation with NATO is a major component of legitimacy in its frequently troubled relations with the West; for NATO, cooperation serves its
capacity
to work in new theaters of operation andrespond to the changing profile of the threats it confronts.
For Kant, who struggled to re-define ethics in a new era of market societies, our duty can and must be deduced from our
capacity
for rationality.
But if the mark of a rational person is a
capacity
to act on reasons transcending cost-benefit analysis, how can our rational duty be deduced impartially, free of the influence of personal interests or prejudices?
Now the scientific community must use its
capacity
for self-correction – based on new information, discoveries, experiences, and ideas (the stuff of scientific progress for centuries) – to address these threats.
Instead of diluting IP rights, developing countries like India should recognize that strengthening IP protection is a prerequisite for attracting the foreign investment that they need to help their economies grow, create jobs, and improve their citizens’
capacity
to consume.
Instead, they prefer to fall back on military-dominated plans for strengthening the
capacity
of the Afghan army and police, while heeding domestic pressure to demonstrate that Afghanistan will not be an endless conflict.
Leaving aside credible questions about the
capacity
of the Afghan security forces, transferring security responsibility to the Afghan state does not address broader Afghan grievances about bad governance or the abuse of power – both key drivers of the conflict.
The problem is that, as long as violence prevents moderate forces from restoring local services and administrative structures, people’s
capacity
for resistance will remain weak.
The Pope will be invited as a head of state (the Vatican) not in his spiritual
capacity.
So, before any operation, commanders must determine which troops can take part and in what capacity, hampering both efficiency and effectiveness.
What is at stake is not just women’s ability to seize the opportunities offered by the digital revolution, but also their
capacity
to withstand the coming wave of automation.
Comparing the outcomes of these two simulations suggests that large export flows of Palestinian labor to Israel reduce the
capacity
of the Palestinian economy to export goods by putting upward pressure on wages, undermining competitiveness.
Such a commission would afford a measure of preservative justice, enabling a more comprehensive verdict once the institutional
capacity
for achieving this is built.
The judgment by America’s intelligence community that Iran has suspended its nuclear weapon development program – and, more importantly, that its large-scale uranium enrichment
capacity
is likely years away – postpones the day when a US president may have to decide between living with or attacking a nuclear Iran.
Exchange-rate flexibility is not particularly useful when a country has no export capacity, and establishing import or foreign-exchange controls would only generate corruption and rent-seeking.
This is a labour of Sisyphus, since the 'acquis' grows faster than the
capacity
to absorb it in East European legislation.
For most Chinese, Libya is a far-away and out-of-reach country, owing to China’s limited
capacity
to project power.
The authorities also need to strengthen regulatory
capacity
to ensure the safety of food, buildings, medicines and much else.
It would have been a mistake, for example, to destroy America’s excess
capacity
in fiber optics, from which US firms gained enormously in the 1990s.
The challenge facing China as it confronts the problem of excess
capacity
is that those who would otherwise lose their jobs will require some form of support; firms will argue for a robust bailout to minimize their losses.
Excess
capacity
fuels downward pressure on prices, with negative externalities on indebted firms, which experience an increase in their real (inflation-adjusted) leverage.
The European Central Bank clearly has the technical and analytical
capacity
to take on general supervision of European banks, using the member central banks as information conduits.
Such a recovery requires efforts to create jobs and enhance countries’ productive
capacity
– for example, through infrastructure development – thereby encouraging complementary private investments and generating the conditions necessary to sustain long-term growth.
Little more than half of the region’s population has access to electricity, and only around 3% of power generation currently crosses borders (based on current
capacity
levels).
There was general agreement about confidence-building measures and the need to strengthen
capacity.
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