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The economy is incurring the inflationary
costs
of the Bank’s policy while missing out on the intended benefit of growth.
And its investments in renewables at home and abroad can lead to additional technological breakthroughs that drive down
costs
for consumers everywhere.
Its economy is still highly dependent on coal, implying sizeable
costs
as it shifts capacity to other resources such as natural gas and renewables.
And Chinese producers, like most others, are feeling increasing pressure to reduce
costs
and improve efficiency to make up for slower demand growth worldwide.
But now, the
costs
of crisis must be reallocated.
It remains unclear, for example, whether the research and development
costs
for an aircraft carrier are included.
(Hydroelectric power generation emits no CO2, but there are only a few remaining places in the world where it can be expanded without major environmental or social costs.)
Part of the tax revenue should be channeled into subsidies for new low-carbon energy sources like wind and solar, and to cover the
costs
of developing CCS.
These subsidies could start fairly high and decline gradually over time, as the tax on CO2 emissions rises and the
costs
of new energy technologies fall with more experience and innovation.
For example, a small group of companies – mostly located in such bastions of democracy as Russia, Georgia, and China – control between two-thirds and three-quarters of all crypto-mining activity, and all routinely jack up transaction
costs
to increase their fat profit margins.
Lower productivity and higher unit labor
costs
eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.
After decades of pushing the
costs
of today’s expenditures and promises onto future generations, that bit of family wisdom appears - at long last - to be influencing government policy.
But such systems are burdened by large administration and compliance
costs.
When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological
costs
in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.
But if consumers bear the brunt of
costs
for reporting violations to the authorities, subsidies may induce them to seek out vendors willing to offer legal transactions.
Realization of the EU's so-called Lisbon strategy, adopted in 2000 with the promise of creating the world's most competitive economy, is threatened by a growing emphasis on static solidarity, reflected in high social welfare
costs
and the high taxes needed to finance them.
Perhaps now there will be a reassessment in the United Kingdom of the
costs
of an EU exit.
Such are the EMU’s benefits that the visible
costs
of remaining a non-member are beginning to recast the political debate surrounding euro adoption in several countries.
Israel will avoid at all
costs
a large ground incursion.
As Rwanda’s experience has demonstrated, such programs not only broaden access to health care; they also lower overall
costs
by reducing unnecessary hospitalizations.
The higher the technical capabilities, and the costs, of modern medicine become, the more contested this particular value judgment will be.
But the
costs
must be borne by everyone, including firms that are not rescued – probably because they operate more efficiently – and are put at a competitive disadvantage as a result.
When representatives of developing nations asked Bush senior to put the over-consumption of resources by the developed countries, especially the US, on the agenda he said that “the American life-style is not up for negotiation” - no matter what, or so it seemed to his audience, the
costs
to others might be.
But, given a rising bidding rate, peaking capital costs, and restrictions on the downstream transfer of assets, these efforts seem unlikely to ease the strain.
With this in mind, macroeconomic policy should not only reduce borrowing and financing
costs
through cuts in interest rates and reserve requirements, but also work to strengthen balance sheets.
Of course, the boom’s
costs
should not be discounted.
These prices hit consumers both directly and indirectly (owing to pass-through of higher input
costs
by food conglomerates and service providers).
Otherwise, urbanization will continue pushing up already-high housing costs, but not efficiently enough to power sustained growth and development.
Oil companies can immediately deduct a high percentage of their drilling
costs
from their tax liability, which other industries cannot do with their investments.
There would, of course, be
costs.
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