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By creating independent courts, securing property rights, and collecting fair taxes, the state is crucial for making the environment favorable for business.
The process of collecting and verifying claims is time-consuming, and the net benefit for taxpayers is low.
Moreover, the method is vulnerable to illicit practices, such as collecting receipts issued to foreigners and students, who cannot claim their own refunds.
We are impressed with the amount of work that he and his colleagues have put into collecting, assembling, and cleaning the data; the intelligence and skill with which he has constructed and presented his arguments; and how much blood Arthur Goldhammer sweated over the translation.
But almost two years after their launch, a business-as-usual approach prevails in most countries, and accountability has been reduced to exercises in collecting data.
Fortunately, most developed countries – and an increasing number of developing countries – recognize the importance of collecting data on wellbeing.
There are currently proposals to require tech companies to obtain an affirmative opt-in from users before collecting their data, and to allow users to retrieve or erase their data easily.
Banks are profitable on an ongoing basis, borrowing at very low interest rates, often from the central bank, and collecting higher interest rates on their loans.
Moreover, different methods of collecting consumer prices yield different results, depending on how housing costs are treated and the hedonic adjustment applied.
The key to tackling that challenge was cooperation among governments, development partners, and local communities in collecting, processing, and using data to adjust strategies.
Collecting these data would, it is argued, violate the Republican tenet that France is “one and indivisible.”
And we will launch a UN Global Vulnerability Alert, collecting real-time information on the social effects of the economic crisis worldwide.
The popular vote can’t be reversed but a signature collecting campaign could transform the political landscape by revealing a newfound enthusiasm for EU membership.
Currently, disparate study registries and data portals make it difficult for an individual researcher, collecting data with the goal of getting published in a high-impact journal, to find similar projects.
The Arab Peace Initiative has been collecting dust for over six years.
Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.
Perhaps he suspected that Stalin, as the BBC alleged last year, was collecting and analyzing his feces to glean information about the Great Helmsman’s temperament.
Too many Europeans are collecting too many benefits, but so far governments have mostly ducked the issue, taking on massive debt in order to postpone the reckoning.
Aside from the risks to interviewers collecting such data during a conflict, these include the selection bias of households in the sample, a lack of credible population data to which to apply the changed mortality rates, and mistaken or misleading accounts by participants.
At first sight it seems unreasonable, indeed irresponsible, to undermine the all-too difficult task of collecting taxes by taking away the device of automatic withholding.
But micro-financiers may have no choice: given the small size of the loans, the costs of processing them and collecting payments are relatively large, driving up the break-even interest rate.
The Philippine law-enforcement agencies prosecuting the drug war have thrown out the rulebook and ignored fundamental requirements such as collecting evidence, adhering to due process, or even holding trials.
A healthy democracy cannot have half the population paying taxes and the other half collecting benefits.
But it could also exceed its export quota if its government paid the partner government a fine equal to the value of the excess exports, either collecting the necessary sum from its export producers or using its currency reserves.
All that is needed is a willingness to experiment with new approaches to collecting, using, and sharing data.
But who will benefit from that wealth, and who might be put at risk?Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi undoubtedly likes collecting data.
The challenges associated with collecting and protecting data will only intensify in the years to come.
One would assume that the national capital-formation figures are based on local reports – not least because, until recent reforms, the NBS was not collecting data independently.
Governments can play a critical role in collecting the data needed to determine which skills are in demand and what kind of training is effective.
The government partially redistributes profits by collecting taxes and paying salaries.
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