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In Germany we have reached an intervention status that can be easily expressed by the fact that 50% plus of GDP in Germany is controlled directly or indirectly by the state: 30% through the collective social security distribution systems, and about 23% through
direct
taxes.
Fiscal stimulus has a
direct
and powerful impact on demand.
Monetary stimulus alone is less direct, takes longer, and risks causing adverse side effects.
Opening up China to a major joint enterprise, foreign
direct
investment, or privatization drive provides a one-time bonus to prosperity over and beyond the supply side effects.
Moreover, Russia’s efforts to gain monopoly control of the gas pipeline networks across Eurasia pose a
direct
danger for China, because monopolists can not only gouge their consumers, but also shut off supplies for political purposes, as Russia has done repeatedly over the past two decades.
The ECB, however, will have a harder time making the case for wealth effects, largely because equity ownership by individuals (either
direct
or through their pension accounts) is far lower in Europe than in the US or Japan.
These banks also need
direct
support.
Direct
action by demonstrations has become a regular and often effective occurrence.
Some want to cut through the tangle with more
direct
democracy.
China’s development of the Ainak Copper Mine is the largest single foreign
direct
investment in Afghanistan’s history.
On September 2, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on recent negotiations between the embattled Qaddafi regime and Chinese armaments companies with
direct
ties to China’s government for contracts worth $200 million.
Given the
direct
role development can play in exacerbating human-rights conditions in areas it affects, it is incumbent upon distributors of aid to stop the cycle of violence.
Moreover, many European countries have
direct
interests in Libya, and thus had a clear stake in the outcome.
The significant obstacles to intervention, and the genuine risk of making an already terrible situation worse, makes
direct
military intervention in Syria a remote possibility at this time.
This is by far the most
direct
statement of China’s intentions on this important question offered so far.
Treating all EU languages on the same footing is a
direct
consequence of the formal equality of member states under the founding treaties.
A significant part was financed by non-debt-creating inflows of foreign
direct
investment, but external borrowing, particularly by the private sector, also grew very rapidly.
The Life You Can Save, like GiveWell and similar organizations, seeks to influence individual donors, encouraging them to think about where they can
direct
their donations to do the most good.
But the latest crisis was sparked by China’s use of
direct
military means in a strategic border area close to the Karakoram Pass linking China to India.
The peace, compassion, and cooperation Asians are contemplating with such admiration are the
direct
product of values which some of them see as “Western,” and that, yes, we regard as “universal.”
Complicating matters further, Trump has continued to
direct
abusive early morning tweets at members of Congress, the media, and others, while losing or firing top advisers.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most
direct
of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
First, there are the
direct
costs of military operations and of supporting the Crimean regime and its woefully inefficient economy (which has been heavily subsidized by Ukraine’s government for years.)
A
direct
cost of this magnitude amounts to less than 0.5% of Russia’s GDP.
Annual inward foreign
direct
investment is estimated to have reached $80 billion in 2013.
Any non-trivial trade sanctions (including sanctions on Russian financial institutions) would be much more painful than the
direct
cost of subsidizing Crimea.
Yet foreign capital, both
direct
and financial investment, has continued to flow into the region.
Those at the top, in such cases, are enriched at the
direct
expense of those at the bottom.
None of the Big Three can be seriously threatened without triggering
direct
resistance and the security guarantees of allies.
The international community should demand the immediate start of negotiations towards the creation of a Palestinian state and push for
direct
negotiations on a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.
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