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In India, the government’s failure to contain rising prices, pursue structural economic reforms vigorously, attract foreign
direct
investment, advance infrastructure development, manage expenditure, and avoid liquidity crunches underscores the many challenges it faces.
By removing the exchange rate and interest rates from the
direct
control of Italian authorities, the plague of high inflation and high interest rates disappeared.
In past years, South Korea has been the primary external source of food, through either
direct
food assistance (for the immediate problem) or deliveries of fertilizer.
Many bankers also suffered
direct
losses as their banks collapsed, or as investigations exposed them to public ridicule, and even jail.
Merkel would cause outrage among her conservative voters (as well as court defeat at the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe) should she agree to a more free-spending policy, including any
direct
financial assistance for Greece.
In fact, we calculate that up to one-fifth of the AfDB’s jobs commitment could be met by economic activity linked to the off-grid solar industry alone – through
direct
and indirect employment.
It is imperative for both economies that
direct
transport links be established immediately.
With such wage subsidies, competitive forces would cause employers to hire more workers, and the resulting fall in unemployment would cause most of the subsidy to be paid out as
direct
or indirect labor compensation.
A society can let the free market distribute this gain, or it can intervene to
direct
it to the least advantaged, so that some get more than their marginal product, others less.
The new GeneXpert test diagnoses not only TB, but also, in the same step, MDR-TB, which means that it can rapidly
direct
adequate treatment and prevent infection of contacts – a true breakthrough.
In order to maintain growth and continue to attract foreign
direct
investment – which rose six-fold in the last decade – Africa must develop a high-skilled, well-trained workforce.
Foreign
direct
investment in 1991-2001 averaged $1,400 per capita in the eight former communist EU candidate countries.
It is also 850 miles south of Moscow, with few
direct
flights from Europe, while the trip from the United States can involve up to four legs.
Production costs (wages, office rents, land, capital, etc.) in China’s coastal provinces – where most of the country’s manufacturing and service production, as well as foreign
direct
investment, are located – have been rising fast.
Voters would thus play a more
direct
role in choosing a new European chief executive.
Governments allocate credit (through
direct
bank ownership or by guiding credit decisions by privately owned banks), provide
direct
subsidies and/or tax incentives, grant trade protection, or use other regulatory devices in an attempt to “pick winners.”
Today, China’s proclivity for industrial production is manifested in large-scale manufacturing and infrastructure projects, encouraged by
direct
and indirect government subsidies.
Growth returned, and confidence among foreign investors was such that large inflows of foreign
direct
investment, especially in the banking sector, arrived.
In fact, only the UK is visibly opting for a more coordinated and
direct
way to counter the persistent shortfalls stemming from the private part of the credit crisis.
America has spent roughly $800 billion in
direct
military outlays in Afghanistan, and indeed has been at war there almost non-stop since the CIA covertly intervened in 1979, helping to provoke the Soviet invasion of that country.
The US invaded in 2003 on false pretenses (Saddam’s alleged but nonexistent weapons of mass destruction), squandered another $800 billion in
direct
military outlays, destabilized the country, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, and, contrary to stated US objectives, plunged the region into turmoil.
The indirect costs of the two wars (including the long-term costs of veterans’ disabilities) roughly equal the
direct
costs.
There is a better path: negotiations with Iran and North Korea over mutual security interests that are direct, transparent, objective, and free of US military threats.
It is also discouraging foreign
direct
investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt’s police forces.
Standard economic theory tells us that excessive profits are the
direct
result of concentrated ownership.
Direct
military intervention to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would never win Security Council approval, and has no volunteers anyway among capable military powers – albeit in most cases because of the political and military risks involved, rather than the legal indefensibility of acting outside the UN Charter.
Zhao’s blog wasn’t under the
direct
control of the Party’s Propaganda Department.
In recent years, however, as the political battle shifted to the deteriorating economy, the public accepted more
direct
anti-Tudjman critiques, allowing parliamentary opposition to follow.
Without fundamental change now, there is a real possibility of mass popular protests, and not just against Tudjman's
direct
heirs.
Another approach estimates the total change in mortality that the war caused (including deaths due to the war’s
direct
and indirect effects) by calculating the change in the death rate from the pre-war period.
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