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Large tax cuts are a short-term “solution” that could do serious long-term damage.
The IMF’s advice, which accompanies the new loan, might also do real damage to Russia.
These boom-bust cycles do great damage, which is one reason why the IMF has responded with so many emergency loans in recent months.
Countries pursuing harmful policies that blunt their development prospects are doing the greatest damage to themselves.
Death by MasculinityLONDON – News media are constantly reporting ways that everyday activities can damage our health.
Not long ago, I criticized the British government's stance, first announced at last year’s Kyoto conference on climate change, and was chided for being wrong about the limited amount of economic damage that climate change would inflict.
The economy was also badly hurt by the massive floods of 2010, which caused damage estimated at $10 billion.
This damage could lower annual GDP growth by 1-1.5% for several years to come.
When a high-profile consumer company, one built on confidence and specialized skill, breaches the public’s trust, the damage is enormous.
The financial damage is set to be enormous: Volkswagen now says that it will set aside €6.5 billion ($7.4 billion) to cover the costs of the scandal.
BUENOS AIRES – Today’s global currency war resembles real war in two important respects: a face-off over the structural imbalances between two large opponents – China and the United States – has forced uncomfortable smaller allies to take one side or the other, and third parties that may not be directly engaged are suffering collateral damage from both sides of the dispute.
Some economies may sustain collateral damage from both sides of the war, because, in addition to the pressure coming from excess dollar liquidity, they may be confronted with tougher competition (domestically and in third markets) from China, so long as the renminbi remains quasi-pegged to the dollar.
Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great magnitude.
Ingesting too much vitamin D – above 10,000 IUs per day – may cause kidney and tissue damage and promote hypercalcemia (the buildup of calcium in the blood).
The more that can be done to prevent people from becoming cocaine addicts, the less damage these people will do to themselves and their families, the less money will get into the pockets of criminals, insurgents, and terrorists, and the less damage will be done to the environment.
These gases, particularly CO2, increase the risk of damage to the world’s climate.
To be sure, they have suffered reputational damage from this fiasco and will likely try to improve.
The damage they will do will likely weaken the US and add instability to the world economy.
The greatest damage to the UN’s legitimacy has been self-inflicted.
But policymakers must recognize the damage being done by excessively high real interest rates.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew caused significant damage at the Turkey Point nuclear-power plant on Biscayne Bay, Florida, but, fortunately, not to any critical systems.
Because reactors located inland put serious strain on local freshwater resources – including greater damage to plant life and fish – water-stressed countries that are not landlocked try to find suitable seashore sites.
A better approach would be to create a mechanism for orchestrating orderly sovereign default, both to minimize damage when crises do occur, and to discourage lenders from assuming that taxpayers’ money will solve all major problems.
It has been shown, for example, that vaccinated children not only do better at school, but also that, through the prevention of damage that can be caused by infectious diseases and resulting nutritional imbalances, they appear to benefit in terms of cognitive development.
The procedures to trigger this intervention, however, are complex and the funding is sufficiently opaque that the bill will not eliminate collateral damage from a large bank failure even for US institutions, let alone for international ones, whose unwinding would require coordination by several states, with varying degree of solvency.
Because many contracts are “sticky" (that is, not easily revised) in monetary terms, inflation and deflation would both inflict damage on the economy.
Hunger and undernourishment damage the health and productivity of adults, undermining their ability to learn and work.
But the damage cannot be blamed on the weather alone.
The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they would damage Bhutan’s environment and culture, and so reduce happiness in the long run.
It is not rational to impose such punishment when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.
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