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One cannot help but wonder: were there alternative ways of spending a fraction of the war’s $1-$2 trillion in costs that would have better strengthened security, boosted prosperity, and promoted democracy?
Capital outflows of this magnitude are likely to have myriad effects: drying up liquidity, increasing the costs of borrowing and debt service, weakening currencies, depleting reserves, and leading to decreases in equity and other asset prices.
High production costs, particularly in energy, are one key obstacle.
Brazilian authorities have tried to fix the exchange rate before, but these attempts tended to be short-lived, because the financial costs of sterilizing the central bank’s currency-market interventions are too high.
Intervention costs have been limited so far, owing to uncertainty in Europe, capital controls, and lower interest rates at home.
With tariffs and other taxes increasing drug costs by as much as two-thirds in some areas, even the most basic generic drugs become unaffordable for the poorest people.
The “Remain” campaign focused on the economic benefits of staying in the European Union and the costs of leaving, some of which fell due immediately after the results were announced: the British pound plummeted and stock markets wiped out a couple of trillion dollars of wealth.
With insufficient growth to deleverage safely, social costs have been considerable.
But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.
Beyond the human costs, they would threaten the economic prosperity of not only Asia, but the entire world.
What they lack is the willingness to accept the economic and political costs of defending the values that they claim to uphold.
That means that when the risks materialize and the firms suffer losses, the costs fall on taxpayers.
To this end, the European Commission has proposed the European Defense Fund, which would foster common defense research and allow participating member states to reduce costs through collective purchases of military assets.
Worse, they can have a cascading effect, with, say, a pandemic or cyber-attack provoking a financial or political crisis and imposing costs disproportionately on those who can least afford them.
In other words, China must confront the sunk costs of bad local-planning decisions.
For example, when the PBOC cut its benchmark interest rate last November, in order to help reduce private-sector borrowing costs, it triggered a speculative stock-market boom.
List of priorities, outcome document from Copenhagen Consensus by UN ambassadors, June 16-17 2006 at Georgetown University:challengeopportunity1Communicable DiseasesScaled-up basic health services2Sanitation and WaterCommunity-managed water supply and sanitation3EducationPhysical expansion4Malnutrition and HungerImproving infant and child nutrition5Malnutrition and HungerInvestment in technology in developing country agriculture6Communicable DiseasesControl of HIV/AIDS7Communicable DiseasesControl of malaria8Malnutrition and HungerReducing micro nutrient deficiencies9Subsidies and Trade BarriersOptimistic Doha: 50% liberalization10EducationImprove quality / Systemic reforms11Sanitation and WaterSmall-scale water technology for livelihoods12EducationExpand demand for schooling13Malnutrition and HungerReducing Low Birth Weight for high risk pregnancies14EducationReductions in the cost of schooling to increase demand15Sanitation and WaterResearch to increase water productivity in food production16MigrationMigration for development17CorruptionProcurement reform18ConflictsAid post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict19Sanitation and WaterRe-using waste water for agriculture20MigrationGuest worker policies21Sanitation and WaterSustainable food and fish production in wetlands22CorruptionGrassroots monitoring and service delivery23CorruptionTechnical assistance to develop monitoring and transparency initiatives24MigrationActive immigration policies25Subsidies and Trade BarriersPessimistic Doha: 25% liberalization26CorruptionReduction in the state-imposed costs of business/government relations27Climate ChangeThe Kyoto Protocol28ConflictsAid as conflict prevention29CorruptionReform of revenue collection30Financial InstabilityInternational solution to the currency-mismatch problem31ConflictsTransparency in natural resource rents as conflict prevention32ConflictsMilitary spending post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict33Financial InstabilityRe-regulate domestic financial markets34ConflictsShortening conflicts: Natural resource tracking35Financial InstabilityReimpose capital controls36Financial InstabilityAdopt a common currency37Subsidies and Trade BarriersFull reform: 100% liberalization38Climate ChangeOptimal carbon tax39Climate ChangeValue-at-risk carbon tax40Climate ChangeA carbon tax starting at $2 and ending at $20The Eurozone According to MerkelBRUSSELS – We had almost given up waiting for them, but then they came in a quasi-clandestine form.
If profit maximization requires cutting costs and downsizing, the corporate leader can eliminate jobs and issue severance payments to redundant workers.
All of this military activity costs hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.
Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Greece have made considerable progress in lowering their unit labor costs to 1999 levels relative to Germany.
Benefits are estimated to end up about six times higher than the costs.
There may be some losses from electing women because they tend to have less political experience than men, but the record in India suggests that if it took 20 years to establish a 30% share of women in local positions in other countries, the benefits would be at least double the costs of achieving this.
But clean-energy costs are trending in the opposite direction, ripening these solutions at a time when need – particularly in some of the world's largest developing cities – is becoming acute.
Increasingly, the industry is implementing approaches that have ensured success in other sectors, such as reducing procurement costs and deploying lean principles in manufacturing.
In the US, where mid-term congressional elections will be held this November, the outcry from exporters, importers, and consumers facing higher costs will be heard loud and clear.
Low barriers typically have low costs, unless very large volumes of trade are affected.
Producing a car in Britain, for example, costs about the same as producing one in Germany.
In other words, not allowing a Polish worker to work in the UK would imply large economic costs for Europe.
Whereas securitization, for example, can help to reduce risk and increase the availability of credit for risky borrowers under the right framework, the 2008 global financial crisis starkly demonstrated that it can imply huge costs if it goes too far.
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