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So the Taliban are obtaining ample funds from the heroin trade – easily Afghanistan’s largest single source of foreign earnings.
Export-led growth has proved to be necessary for economic development for the simple reason that countries need to purchase technology from world markets (much of it in the form of high-tech machinery), and they can afford to do so only if they are generating sufficient export earnings.
A famous, long-term research experiment in Jamaica suggests that such a project would likely lead to a 35% increase in future earnings.
This means that those hotel or restaurant workers who can retain dollar earnings have incomes that are 25 times higher than those who cannot.
Moreover, state-owned enterprises will be required to pay out a larger portion of their earnings as dividends.
Taxi drivers and hotel owners may feel threatened, but the sharing economy has the potential to increase and redistribute earnings in cities that are already struggling with poverty and inequality.
The idea is that when shareowners furiously trade their stock, corporate executives feel pressed to ensure high earnings every quarter, so that the share price does not fall.
If stockholders know that holding a company’s stock will eventually allow them to benefit from a lower tax rate, the argument goes, they will be more willing to withstand a drop in that company’s quarterly earnings.
The best solution is private capital – from retained earnings, new entrants, new ownership, and new investment.
For middle-income households, the increased taxation was offset by earnings, but leisure also fell.
In the past, bank executives’ bonuses were often based on accounting measures that are of interest primarily to common shareholders, such as return on equity or earnings per common share.
In the future, banks should consider basing bonus compensation on broader measures, such as earnings before any payments made to bondholders.
Education has a much wider impact than simply improving earnings or employment opportunities, which is why it is a component of the human development index.
However distasteful the uses to which those earnings have been put, they at least prevented the financial system from falling off a cliff.
Average hourly earnings are now running 2.8% above the year-earlier level, reinforcing an acceleration that began in 2015, and well above the subdued 2% post-crisis average from 2010 through 2014.
A renewed renminbi appreciation would boost China’s outward FDI growth even further by lowering the cost of overseas assets for Chinese firms, which operate in a fairly competitive market and have strong cash reserves from both retained earnings and large-scale state credit allocations.
But if households instead become optimistic about the pace of recovery, they might choose to cut back on their saving in order to maintain consumption, despite weak earnings.
Corporate retained earnings have averaged about 3% of GDP after allowing for depreciation of existing plant and equipment.
Consider, first, that the previous QE rounds came at times of much lower equity valuations and earnings.
In March 2009, the S&P 500 index was down to 660, earnings per share (EPS) of US companies and banks had sunk to a financial-crisis low, and price/earnings ratios were in the single digits.
If, as is likely, economic growth in the US remains anemic in spite of QE3, top-line revenues and bottom-line earnings will turn south, with negative effects on equity valuations.
Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four-fifths of an average North Korean’s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.
But when the technology requires high skills – technological change is “skill-biased,” in economists’ terminology – its adoption and diffusion will tend to widen the gap between the earnings of low- and high-skill workers.
High oil prices have created huge export revenues for Middle Eastern governments, which still want to park their earnings in American assets.
China will gain a measure of risk diversification, reduce the price pressure that has kept earnings on its foreign exchange reserves low, and avoid running into political trouble.
Multinational corporations use retained earnings to finance R&D, but because this approach can adversely affect a company’s stock valuation, even they tend to be conservative in pushing new ideas forward.
But Italy has objected to such limits, fearing that government funding costs might skyrocket, and perhaps also that Italian banks, which depend financially on the higher interest earnings of their holdings of public debt, might suffer excessively.
This shortfall in oil earnings, not the lack of foreign assistance, is the real cause of Iraq's financial crisis.
Though we have only limited data on their progress, we know from other research carried out in the United States that participation in sports can have long-term benefits for women, including higher educational attainment and job earnings.
That way, both of their earnings will be higher.
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