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If Israel's labor market remains closed to Palestinian workers, maintaining this regime will become increasingly counter-productive.
They fear, rightly, that sooner or later everyone else will begin demanding that the budget deficit be closed in part by raising taxes on the rich.
They do so knowing that the resulting trade deficit will allow them to make more investments, and achieve a higher rate of growth, than they ever could in a closed economy.
Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.
Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.
It would be a tragedy if those who still want to control the media win by taking their tactics underground, behind closed doors.
Instead, Germany got a government that will implement a predetermined set of policies, contained in a 170-page agreement hammered out behind closed doors – one that promises more of the same.
These developments in Germany are in keeping with trends across Europe, where nationalist and populist parties have made electoral gains by rejecting EU-level solutions and calling for closed borders.
But while the Balkans did become a highway for asylum seekers fleeing Syria for Germany and Sweden in 2015 and 2016, that route was effectively closed down when Turkey agreed to host refugees in exchange for EU financial aid.
He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.
In today’s mostly closed environment, they mostly lack awareness of their political skills and vision.
This gap cannot be closed overnight, but countries that do nothing to overcome it could very well fall behind.
The total will be far more than governments can make available, and the gap cannot be closed by official development assistance, now at $132 billion per year.
In Liberia, 60% of markets are now closed; in Sierra Leone, only one-fifth of the 10,000 HIV patients who are on anti-retroviral treatments are still receiving them; and Guinea’s government is reporting a $220 million financing gap because of the crisis.
Shell has closed key facilities in the Delta after the abduction of several workers.
A new era of citizen involvement and public scrutiny has begun, creating opportunities for truly inclusive environmental action that promise to achieve more than elites negotiating behind closed doors ever could.
Nurseries and schools are closed while retirement homes and hospices spring up everywhere.
After a perfunctory closed trial, they were sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively.
The most interesting explanation I heard was that economics has become more interesting, because it no longer seems to be a finished and closed discipline.
The Evian Summit will clarify whether greed, ignorance, and the bombast of war have closed the eyes of the US entirely, and whether Europe and Japan will look inward rather than outward.
Research from the McKinsey Global Institute shows that, thanks to global flows of goods, services, finance, data, and people, world GDP is more than 10% higher – some $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone – than it would have been had economies remained closed.
Indeed, though party officials had been in place for some time, they waited until the votes were cast before putting their cards on the table, and even then did so behind closed doors.
For example, many people both inside and outside the United States had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.
The Council of Ministers – which, together with the European Parliament, makes up the EU’s legislature – is as impenetrably secretive as that of North Korea; indeed, it operates behind closed doors, without any public record of who said what.
Second, most job markets have a large information gap that will need to be closed.
In a closed economy, to every credit there must a corresponding debt.
The deterioration of economic conditions is casting doubt on their governments’ budgetary arithmetic, undermining political support for structural reform, and reopening seemingly closed questions about the stability of banking systems.
Not surprisingly, leading bankers lobbied against debt restructuring, both behind closed doors and publicly.
Each referral that was avoided saved patients, on average, 110 Ghanaian cedis ($25), and the high success rate of closed cases reduced waiting times in clinics.
Yemen’s airports have been closed down and its seaports blockaded.
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