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And that number may be set to fall: the largest informal education center, run by UNICEF, is set to close in December, because the €30,000 ($34,900) per month needed to operate it cannot be found.
Greek officials have given the Ministry of Migration 30 days to improve conditions in the camp or close it down.
The Education Cannot Wait fund was established to close the education-financing gap for such children.
In the euro zone and Japan, the outlook for 2009 and 2010 is even worse, with growth close to zero even next year.
But, in practice, these affinities have not translated into close political or strategic relations.
Airliners and fighter planes operate in “controlled” air close to the ground, while nationality is supposed to matter less the higher you go.
The regulators are focusing on an important feature of derivatives contracts that allows the derivatives industry to close out their dealings abruptly with a financially distressed entity, thereby making the institution incapable of recovering.
By most accounts, Lehman’s derivatives portfolio was a winner when it went bankrupt, but bankruptcy exemptions for derivatives allowed Lehman’s counterparties to close out their positions rapidly, in ways that were costly for Lehman, chaotic for financial markets, and damaging to the real economy.
US regulators, for example, cannot first try bankruptcy before deploying their expanded powers under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation; if they did, the bankrupt firm’s counterparties in the derivatives and repo markets would close out their contracts and dump their collateral as soon as they could.
So privatization would not protect retirees against the Social Security system’s insolvency; it would merely add enormously to today’s fiscal deficit, because partial privatization entails diverting money to private funds that would have been used to close the gap between government expenditures and revenue.
Beyond Secular StagnationNEW YORK – As Larry Summers rightly points out, the term “secular stagnation” became popular as World War II was drawing to a close.
For that reason, we should greet the poll results positively, and resolve to close the gaps that still exist between rhetoric and reality.
Thus, “Russia annexed Crimea in response to…NATO’s obvious attempt to move too close to Russia’s borders and push Russia’s fleet out of the Black Sea.”
The Banker magazine produces another, with New York on top and London a close second – though the distance between them and their pursuers is narrowing.
To close this gap, we need to design loans and savings vehicles with more flexible requirements that work for women.
Instead of opening the door, the EU seems determined to find covert ways to close its markets to Russian goods.
President John F. Kennedy’s first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stands out in American political lore: the young American President somehow comes across as underwhelming to his Soviet counterpart, who then tries to get away with deploying long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, a move that brought the US and USSR as close to war as they ever came.
It is another to recognize the inevitable impact of images of dead Palestinian women and children on communities in France that feel close to Palestine the way that Jews feel close to Israel.
And yet dangers arise when business gets too close to government.
It is a cycle that often resembles the fox guarding the henhouse, with those who regulate too close to those whom they regulate.
Likewise, Volkswagen’s close relationship with the German government has led to accusations that regulators went easy on the company, setting the stage for the emissions-testing scandal in which the carmaker is now embroiled.
But close ties between business and government are also necessary.
In most of the advanced world, investment amounts to little more than 15% of GDP, compared to close to 45% for China.
A democratic Ukraine with an open economy and close ties with the European Union could not fail to influence Russia’s future path as well.
The main culprit in this conventional view is China, although the International Monetary Fund is a close second.
For close followers of the Syrian conflict, tracking key reporters and opposition representatives on Twitter can be a surreal experience.
If it is deemed sensationalist to characterize this situation as terrifying, one may add that a much larger share of the population (estimated at close to 50% in the NIMH study) is affected by less severe forms of mental disease that only occasionally disturb their functionality.
Syriza, for its part, maintains close contact with Germany’s Left Party (die Linke).
Turkey’s powerful military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
The new government implemented an effective and very big program to close a budget deficit of roughly 12% of GDP.
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