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This is a serious accusation, given that one of the big attractions of foreign
direct
investment is local job creation.
In contrast to monetary policy, the US president does have a powerful and
direct
impact on future fiscal deficits.
The more one country reaps in foreign
direct
investment, the less investment another country can attract.
For the past decade or more, a great deal of technological imports came in the context of foreign
direct
investment.
Findings like these lead many people to conclude that eradicating poverty requires us to rely on overall growth, and that
direct
government policy interventions have little merit.
Protecting civilians in areas like Tripoli that were under Qaddafi’s
direct
control, they argue, required overturning his regime.
The best therapy for reinvigorating growth is both direct, by increasing competitive pressure, and indirect, by triggering the necessary adaptation in national employment, welfare, and education policies.
Given its great depression, Greece should use its savings to pay pensioners, provide food relief, make crucial infrastructure repairs, and
direct
liquidity toward the banking system.
These complaints are all the more peculiar given that Germany is a major beneficiary of the OMT announcement: its
direct
financial risks, via balances in the eurozone’s Target2 system and the size of the ECB’s balance sheet, have shrunk, despite the eurozone recession.
To be sure, national policy has a more
direct
effect – good or bad – on a country’s citizens.
The effect on foreign
direct
investment stands out as a crucial factor linking poverty and malaria.
No other human condition appears to result in such a disjunction between its (relatively mild)
direct
effects on local populations and its total effect on national economies.
Neither presidential (the prime minister is accountable to the National Assembly, whereas there is no accountability in a presidential regime) nor parliamentary (the president is elected by
direct
suffrage and has significant power), the system has seen increasing periods of “cohabitation,” which has generally proven inefficient.
But, given that most of the public supports the main principles of the Fifth Republic – such as
direct
election of the president and a strong executive – any rebalancing of France’s political institutions is unlikely to substantially alter the 1958 constitutional structure.
Although the
direct
threat of invasion and occupation has diminished, sinister forces still loom and must be confronted.
For example, a New Zealand government focused on wellbeing would
direct
more of its attention and resources to childhood poverty.
This places it in
direct
competition with the United States – which currently leads in those industries – in what is emerging as an undeclared but intensifying cold war over technologies with both commercial and military applications.
Fiscal austerity has exacerbated the impact of deleveraging by exerting a
direct
and indirect drag on growth.
Environmentalists’ plan to obtain 20-50% of all energy from biomass could mean a tripling of current biomass consumption, placing its production in
direct
competition with that of food for a growing global population, while depleting water supplies, cutting down forests, and reducing biodiversity.
By contrast, the
direct
costs of a military attack on Saddam Hussein's regime will be minuscule in terms of total US government spending.
To be sure, the Chinese government is pressuring the biggest tech companies to give it a
direct
role in corporate decision-making – and
direct
access to their data.
His proprietorship provides Thais with a
direct
connection to an elite team in the world’s most popular sport.
But the lion’s share of this industrial haze – like the growing pollution of its coastal waters – is a
direct
result of the rapid industrialization of the Pearl River Delta across the border in China’s Guangdong Province.
Nevertheless, the station, whose owners have deep pockets, expanded to add a
direct
satellite broadcast, a children’s station, two sports stations, and soon an international, English-language station.
A shock in one place produces tremors elsewhere, even when there are no
direct
financial links, because pattern-seeking market participants perceive fundamental forces at work.
Roughly half of Russian foreign
direct
investment in 2012 went to the Netherlands, Cyprus, and Switzerland (which is not an EU member, but is subject to EU pressure), while an estimated 75% of Russia’s inward FDI comes from EU countries.
Today’s far-right Jobbik party is his
direct
political heir.
Japanese
direct
investment is expanding in Vietnam and India, for example, which will boost demand for Japanese machine tools and capital goods.
Georgia’s economic success has been largely dependent on
direct
foreign investment, for which there is hardly any appetite today.
Overly burdensome Codex standards for GM foods are ominous not only because of their
direct
effects on research and development, but also because members of the World Trade Organization will, in principle, be required to follow them.
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