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Finding rational ways to share and co-manage water may be easier than solving the “big” issues.
Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says that the slowdown in economic activity will make it easier for the EU to achieve its 2020 goal of ensuring that greenhouse-gas emissions are 20% below their 1990 level.
Hence, even if businesses get easier access to money and loans, many firms will still decline to hire on a large scale, fearing that they would be saddled with a large payroll in a future downturn.
Indeed, while this process has become easier in Europe in recent years, the World Bank estimates that it still takes twice as long to start up a small business in Greece and much of the rest of the EU as it does in the US – and four times as long in Spain.
A factory might get easier access to funds, and it might see more demand for its products, but, rather than hiring new workers, it might decide to raise its prices.
But that ambitious outcome is easier described than achieved.
Designing such a growth strategy is both harder and easier than implementing standard neoliberal policies.
But easier access to private finance will force a re-evaluation of the IBRD’s methods and the magnitude of its lending.
And, in the run-up to the G-20 summit in London, it thoroughly overhauled its lending policies, de-emphasizing traditional conditionality and making it easier for countries to qualify for loans.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen insists that years of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing were not intended to make it easier for the US government to fund its deficit.
Source and destination countries urgently need to make it easier and safer for people to move, or to remain where they are if they cannot afford or choose not to leave.
Even as the Internet and communications technology have made speaking up publicly technically easier than ever, ubiquitous state and commercial surveillance has ensured that expression, association, and protest remain constrained.
That, of course, makes it easier for today’s politicians to ban shechita.
Indeed, investment has fallen despite financing conditions for enterprises that have never been easier, both in terms of ultra-low interest rates and banks’ willingness to lend.
As was the case with computer-aided design and manufacturing, it is easier to run a 3-D printer than to master all the steps needed to make the same part the traditional way.
Artificial intelligence may make technology less reliant on knowhow and consequently easier to diffuse.
The globalization of value chains has made it easier for more countries and regions to participate in international trade, because each country needs to assemble less complex teams; but it has been bad for places like Detroit, where fully integrated industries used to cluster.
Of course, it is always easier to export blame than to shoulder it.
Moreover, keeping people at home is easier said than done.
Developing countries need to grow, but nowadays it is easier to acquire capacity and grow through FDI than it is to develop domestic mass consumption markets.
Japan’s New Monetary PolicyCAMBRIDGE: The economic world breathed easier when the Bank of Japan announced that it would expand Japan’s money supply in order to boost demand.
Initially, the market economy breeds new crimes - especially petty crime such as theft and burglary - because its booty can be resold much easier on a market, and thus becomes more valuable.
It is thus easier for sharks to slip through the gaps in international law than to elude fishermen’s nets – especially the massive specialized nets that fisheries employ nowadays.
Rows about the short-term costs of dealing with climate change won’t make it any easier to keep markets open.
Such moves, which are needed in any event, would make it easier to start on the task of building stronger alliances – which may well become essential.
What is certain is that in an environment like the current one, where the worst has passed, the task has become easier.
In short, universities prove their worth if students find it easier to appropriate academic knowledge than the academics themselves originally did.
With the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans may rail against raising the debt ceiling, but they are likely to back down in the end, because, among other things, debt-funded wars – say, in Afghanistan and Iraq – are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go wars that voters must finance up front with taxes.
Of course, it is always easier to blame others than to look in the mirror.
This is easier said than done.
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