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This raises the big question of whether the best escape from poverty comes from general economic growth or from a
direct
attack on poverty.
Rather than wait for a rising tide to lift all boats, policymakers should consider
direct
policy interventionsto reduce poverty.
A
direct
attack on poverty can yield a double dividend: in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for
direct
poverty reduction.
If not addressed through
direct
measures, all of Asia will suffer.
Foreign
direct
investment will flow in, bringing more access to world-class technology and further boosting economic growth.
Today’s financial markets are dominated by non-bank institutions – investment banks, money market funds, hedge funds, mortgage lenders that do not accept deposits, so-called “structured investment vehicles,” and even states and local government investment funds – that have no
direct
or indirect access to the liquidity support of central banks.
And Syria’s increasingly bloody civil war is no longer a domestic issue, given Iran’s
direct
support for the regime and the growing number of refugees fleeing to surrounding countries.
Free markets alone cannot cope with the “externalities” that arise when economic activities produce harmful consequences that impose no
direct
cost on individual producers and consumers.
First, the tradable part of the global economy – where competition for economic activity and jobs is
direct
– is becoming a larger share of the whole; the same is true of individual economies.
Economic relations between major players such as China and Japan are increasingly close – owing not only to booming trade, but also to
direct
investment and regional production networks.
Nothing short of a drastic change in the conflict’s nature that threatened America’s core interests would lead to
direct
US involvement.
Marwan Barghouti, the leader of Fatah’s grassroots group on the West Bank, is now in an Israeli prison for organizing the bloody uprising that began in 2000, and for
direct
involvement in planning the killings of many Israeli civilians.
So far, the sub-prime crisis has had a limited
direct
impact on Latin America’s mortgage markets.
Being physically present at work means
direct
contact with other sharp and creative minds.
By contrast, a
direct
equity stake in Spanish banks taken by an appropriate eurozone investment vehicle would decouple bank and sovereign risk.
Sechin has always had a
direct
line to Putin.
The connection between R&D and growth is too obvious to doubt that Europe's sluggish economies are a
direct
result of European backwardness at innovation - and that this in turn may reflect the absence of critical military spending to drive investments in research and development.
But, at the end of the day, such a transfer is the most
direct
approach to faster recovery.
Thadden himself, however, avoided providing a
direct
answer, suggesting that he would not have fought alongside his sister.
Maybe the terrible floods in Pakistan and China are not the
direct
result of climate change.
A useful way to make
direct
comparisons between targets is to analyze how much each will cost to achieve and how much good achieving each will do.
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, conducts
direct
online polling of consumers to find out what innovations they would like to see.
For starters, because Chinese firms are not starved for capital – thanks to China’s chronic savings glut – gaining access to foreign technologies is their main motivation for trying to attract
direct
investment from abroad.
Fortunately for China, foreign firms have been more than willing to enter its market, not least because of its preferential treatment of
direct
investment.
There are far more constructive areas for policymakers to
direct
their focus.
Removing Berezovsky would also allow Putin to establish
direct
control over Berezovsky's media empire – another boost to his personal power.
We already know that the narcotics trade has played a
direct
or indirect role in political upheaval in countries such as Guinea-Bissau and Mali.
With American protesters citing Egyptians and Spaniards as
direct
inspiration, online communities from Syria to Europe cross-pollinating, and continuing strong turnout for rallies like those on May Day 2012 in the US, it is clear that the spirit of community is here to stay.
In the eyes of the Arabs (and some other Muslims), Israel’s strength and resilience is a
direct
consequence of their own weakness, divisions, and corruption.
He will also oppose free trade, globalization, immigration, and foreign
direct
investment, while favoring domestic workers and firms, particularly state-owned enterprises and private business and financial groups with ties to those in power.
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