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Indeed, in pursuing rapid industrialization, megacities have often been less successful than smaller cities – which have largely evaded such constraints – in accumulating productive capital, attracting foreign
direct
investment (FDI), and demonstrating entrepreneurial spirit.
But the policy decisions that gave rise to these problems – decentralizing control over land and permitting markets to
direct
the flow of talents, trade, investment, and capital – have also been critical to progress.
The invasion of Afghanistan was not merely an improvised response to a local development (a putsch in Kabul); it was also a
direct
result of this trend.
Despite the rising regional tensions that inspired these moves, China’s relations with its neighbors and the United States are not fated to lead to
direct
confrontation.
Traditional theorists of representative democracy are deeply skeptical of
direct
democracy.
For countries like Switzerland, which practice true
direct
democracy, referenda do not tend to produce deep polarization.
By turning to the mechanisms of
direct
democracy, Britain has undermined its capacity to address the challenges it faces in a manner that promotes stability.
Never mind that America's bilateral trade deficit with China, even including Hong Kong, accounts for less than one-fifth of the total US deficit: growing imports from China and more
direct
investment by US companies supposedly fueled US unemployment.
For their part, terrorist groups, recognizing that they cannot defeat a conventional military in a
direct
war, attempt to use governments’ own power against them.
Though the government can use its hukou (household registration) system to slow that migration, even it cannot
direct
people to the specific cities with the most excess capacity.
It is true that a helicopter drop would be functionally equivalent to a
direct
government transfer to households, financed by central banks’ permanent issuance of money.
The
direct
impact is that a stronger dollar reduces the cost of imported goods.
Indeed, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s willingness to intervene (alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron) helped close a dangerous gap between the world of “values,” which would call for
direct
American intervention against Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the world of “interest,” which impelled President Barack Obama to restraint.
In the US, the QE strategy has increased the “core” inflation rate – which excludes the
direct
effect of declining prices of energy and food – to 2.1% over the past 12 months.
Poland is making its own
direct
contribution, above all by helping senior Burmese decision makers, opposition leaders, and business representatives to understand the “technology of transition” – that is, the sequencing of technical reforms, which has helped to make Poland one of Europe’s healthiest economies today.
A more subtle danger is that the fund will be seen as a
direct
means to combat the so-called "Dutch disease."
Instead, the changes in taxes on imports and exports would lead to a rise in the value of the dollar that offsets the
direct
impact of the border tax changes.
Some banks may even prefer these flows to
direct
deposits.
With no one having a
direct
financial interest in the outcome pressing an alternative view, the SEC’s initial decision was as predictable as it was bad.
But Germany is Hungary’s largest economic partner, accounting for more than 30% of exports and more than half of foreign
direct
investment.
Simply put, there is no better place to
direct
cryptocurrency philanthropy than health-care projects in the Global South, where digital-currency trading is expanding faster than anywhere else.
If the ECB wants to reduce the value of the euro and increase the eurozone’s near-term inflation rate, the only reliable way to do so may be by
direct
intervention in the currency market – that is, selling euros and buying a basket of other currencies.
While
direct
intervention to weaken the euro would create challenges in other parts of the world, policymakers in the US and elsewhere should recognize the importance of a more competitive euro to the future of the European economy.
This could take a number of forms: quantitative easing combined with fiscal expansion (for example, higher infrastructure spending),
direct
cash transfers to the government, or, most radically,
direct
cash transfers to households.
It should spur a fundamental reconsideration of a paradigm of peacemaking –
direct
bilateral negotiations, under US guidance – that lost its relevance long ago.
Beyond emulation, small countries can help one another through
direct
alliances.
One critical difference was the authorities’ emphasis on boosting R&D in these sectors before reducing the government’s
direct
role.
Though Ukraine, on its own, is no match for Russia’s military might, its allies could decide to do “whatever it takes” to help, short of becoming involved in a
direct
military confrontation with Russia or violating the Minsk agreement.
Today's post-war generations, lacking
direct
memory of WWII, view Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace, and prosperity - as a given.
Indeed, not only has the effectiveness of that intervention been almost a daily disappointment to the Libyan rebels, who expected far more
direct
military aid from the United States and the West, but it has also exposed long-simmering resentments in the US about the state of the NATO alliance.
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