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Even worse, given that Obama’s effort to enforce a permanent moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank has failed, is that
direct
negotiations between the conflicting parties have run aground.
There is much to be said for that approach – not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, where
direct
and indirect taxation on employers and jobs accounts for half of the total tax take, while taxes on capital comprise only a fifth.
The only other alternative is
direct
reduction.
The British government has warned telecoms companies to consider their suppliers very carefully, while the United States has been looking to restrict some kinds of foreign
direct
investment in key technologies like semiconductors and robotics.
In a world of ultra-low returns, Greece would be seen as a splendid opportunity, sustaining a steady stream of inward foreign
direct
investment.
Ensuring future advances will require
direct
policy interventions and investments in innovation across the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research, and early-stage company financing.
This fact alone is not a reason to pick a candidate; but in Ghebreyesus’s case, his
direct
experience working in developing countries makes him uniquely qualified to tackle our toughest global health problems, which tend to hit developing countries the hardest.
Everything changed in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon, unable to contain the fiscal deficit resulting from spending on the Vietnam War and expanded social-welfare programs, abolished the dollar’s
direct
convertibility to gold.
At their recent trilateral summit, Japan, China, and South Korea skillfully evaded
direct
mention of the delicately poised security issues that they face.
In an assessment for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, the think tank I direct, researchers examined the cost of the United Nations’ objective to “double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency” by 2030.
The
direct
impact on the world economy is likely to be limited by the fact that other countries will to some extent gain from Britain’s loss.
For example, the UK was until recently one of the top destinations for foreign
direct
investment, precisely because companies saw it as a good base from which to sell into the rest of Western Europe.
This is what is known as oligarchy:
direct
control of the state by people with substantial private economic power.
In effect, the oligarchs will reduce
direct
taxation on themselves and increase indirect taxation on everyone – much like increasing the sales tax on all goods.
Given this – and China’s general reticence to assume a global leadership position –
direct
Chinese engagement is likely to come only through targeted initiatives with concrete goals.
In their view, it is not only a straightforward way instantly to boost real demand; it also seems preferable to debt-financed fiscal stimulus, owing both to political constraints on debt-burdened governments and to MFFP’s more
direct
– and thus faster – impact on economy-wide spending.
In the only comprehensive overview based on surveys of businesses and households, the World Bank puts the total
direct
cost of corruption at $1 trillion annually.
But it is not, and the most
direct
evidence of this is that, despite rock-bottom interest rates, investment is not booming.
Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa are its
direct
neighbors, and this unstable neighborhood poses the greatest security risks to Europe in the twenty-first century.
Moreover, the alleged “cost-savings” of nuclear power never include the price tag for
direct
and indirect governmental subsidies, decommissioning of aging facilities, and emergency clean-up and remediation of impacted communities when disasters occur – all, again, at taxpayers’ expense.
Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati’s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as
direct
intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad’s overthrow has exacerbated the country’s own longstanding sectarian tensions.
By violating the Helsinki Final Act in the spring of 2014, Putin placed Russian foreign policy in
direct
opposition to that of the US and Europe.
Rather than opting for interest-rate hikes and an external funding anchor to support domestic policy adjustments, the government has adopted a mix of less
direct
and more partial measures – and this at a time when Turkey is in the midst of an escalating tariff tit-for-tat with the United States, as well as operating in a more fluid global economy.
Externally, the government has mobilized at least $15 billion from Qatar to be used for
direct
investment in Turkey.
However,
direct
controls on credit growth, while necessary, are often leaky and not very binding in practice.
The Project, which I
direct
on behalf of the Secretary General, represents an effort by more than 250 scientists and development experts to identify practical means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals to cut extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.
The fact that commercial banks are not allowed to hold shares in companies has also impeded deleveraging, as it prohibits the use of
direct
debt-equity swaps to reduce SOE debt.
On the other hand, economic life flourished earlier in the American zone, whereas the British tried to extract
direct
benefits by, for example, dismantling steel works and bringing the parts to Britain.
And teacher absenteeism, a major aspect of corruption in education, can lead to
direct
losses of up to a quarter of a country’s public spending on primary education.
For the first few decades, this system leaned heavily toward “peg,” owing to the US dollar’s
direct
convertibility to gold.
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