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But a number of worrying cases of falsification or fabrication can be traced back to
direct
pressures from funding sources.
If successful, it would cover more than 40% of global GDP and account for large shares of world trade and foreign
direct
investment.
A possibility here is to establish a second chamber of the European Parliament with members not elected by
direct
ballot, but by the parliaments of member States from among their ranks.
Hamas leaders claim that they were not consulted before the announcement, and they resent Abbas’s unilateral decision, calling it a
direct
violation of an agreement between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party that led to the current ceasefire with Israel.
The Land Law, although it is not very different from the forgotten one on the books for 40 years, is still portrayed as creating conditions that will starve investment in agriculture and cattle farming and marks a
direct
assault on private property.
He has appointed Anand Panyarachun, a former Thai prime minister who recently headed a United Nations reform panel, to select and
direct
a blue-ribbon national commission to seek reconciliation with the southern separatists.
For example, purchases of bonds issued by euro-area non-financial corporations (NFCs) would probably have some
direct
pass-through effect on firms’ financing costs.
If the Kim regime timed the missile launch to have a
direct
impact on elections in nearby Japan and South Korea, it may have succeeded merely in boosting support for defense-oriented conservative parties.
The primary cause of the regime’s fears is growing political uncertainty, which is the
direct
result of the failing health of Kim Kyong-hui, Kim Jong-un’s aunt and the power behind the throne.
On the one hand, the government continued to provide transitory protection to firms in priority sectors; on the other, it liberalized the entry of private enterprises and foreign
direct
investment into the labor-intensive sectors that were consistent with China’s comparative advantage but were repressed in the past.
Moreover, there is a
direct
relationship between the EMU countries’ private-sector debt dynamics and their current-account imbalances within the euro zone.
Exceptions could be granted for countries with large inflows of foreign
direct
investment in greenfield projects.
He is particularly concerned with the constitutional provision that prohibits Japan from maintaining “land, sea, and air forces,” arguing that it seems to be in
direct
contradiction with the existence of the country’s Self-Defense Forces.
Neither side, it seems, wants a
direct
military conflict.
North-South flows are already extremely low, with the southern and eastern Mediterranean countries receiving only 3% of global foreign
direct
investment.
One such feature is that Islamic finance emphasizes asset-backing, thereby ensuring a
direct
link between financial transactions and real economic activities.
Turkey inevitably views Kurdish activism in northern Syria – led by the Democratic Union party, an offshoot of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey – as a
direct
threat to its stability, and will do its utmost to prevent it from sparking rebellion among Turkey’s own restive Kurdish minority.
For these reasons, I am also pleased that my course will be part of a more general education program of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an initiative under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that I am honored to
direct.
Trump’s favored fiscal and trade policies will crowd out private investment, reduce foreign
direct
investment in the US, and produce larger external deficits.
This could involve
direct
provocations and potentially even armed clashes.
We subsequently shifted our focus to the “hardware” of economic development, intensifying work on the construction of roads and energy facilities and creating incentives for foreign
direct
investment in mining, fishing, agribusiness, and real-estate development.
That is why, beyond advancing Trump’s pro-growth economic agenda at home, the newly appointed members of his economic team should be establishing
direct
contact with their German, Chinese, and Japanese counterparts, with a view to improving international policy coordination.
After all, there is much to be said for the principle of reducing the
direct
involvement of the state in the provision of services.
But for it to be effective, policymakers should focus on three key areas: prevention; immediate and
direct
support for the homeless; and assistance for those making the transition to more stable housing.
The eurozone’s new institutional framework does not have to
direct
18 countries’ fiscal and economic policies.
This should entail the application of powerful macro-prudential tools: higher and countercyclical capital requirements, quantitative reserve requirements, and
direct
controls on borrowing through loan-to-value or loan-to-income limits.
Almost simultaneously, Thein Sein offered even stronger signals that his was a very different Burmese administration: he freed political prisoners and invited Suu Kyi for
direct
talks with him.
When production peaked, the bottom fell out of the market, because OPEC members were forced to enter into
direct
price competition with one another.
This is an economic fact of fundamental significance, for the real long-term interest rate is a
direct
measure of the cost of borrowing to conduct business, launch new enterprises, or expand existing ones – and its levels now fly in the face of all the talk about the need to slash government deficits.
How to precisely
direct
the transformation of embryonic stem cells down predictable and desirable pathways remains unknown.
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