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It is this prospect of a massive enlargement that defines the central challenge facing the EU: how to strengthen its institutions to be able to handle a Union whose membership will expand from 15 to 27 countries - perhaps more.
By resisting protectionist barriers at home and abroad, by continuing to recruit and welcome the world’s best students, by sending more students overseas, by fostering cross-national research collaboration, and by strengthening its own research universities, the US can sustain its well-established academic excellence while continuing to expand the sum total of global knowledge and prosperity.
Silicon Valley CEOs say they will not expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation, which make the state uncompetitive.
It would also allow other Asian countries to let their currencies rise or expand their exports at the expense of Chinese producers.
Trump also has a tax-reduction plan that would not be revenue-neutral, and thus would expand the budget deficit (though the effect on demand would likely be small, given the concentration of benefits at the very top of the income distribution).
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
Financial leaders have already begun to spread the word about such progress, and the policies that enabled it, in order to bolster and expand financial inclusion.
China, especially under Xi, has often used aid, investment, and other economic leverage to compel its neighbors to deepen their economic dependence on – and expand their security cooperation with – the People's Republic.
As each year passes, China’s markets expand worldwide, and its domestic market comes to represent a greater percentage of its own GDP.
After all, the leaders of the United States and Germany had promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastward.
When US policy is easier, lower interest rates encourage capital to flow elsewhere – tending to expand credit in many other economies.
As we help French businesses to expand abroad, we must also work to encourage inward foreign investment.
Therefore, the political response to rising inequality – whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance – was to expand lending to households, especially low-income households.
Policies to expand social security and improve the provision of public goods could support these efforts, boosting domestic consumption by allowing households to reduce their precautionary savings.
In order to kick-start progress, ECB President Mario Draghi has proposed a grand policy bargain to European governments: if they implement structural reforms and improve fiscal flexibility, the central bank will expand its balance sheet to boost growth and thwart deflation.
Insofar as they narrow rather than expand the menu of available institutional choices, they serve the cause of good governance badly.
On the supply side, urban land – with all its physical and social infrastructure – must expand quickly enough.
But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.
Within the younger Bush’s administration, imperial idealism prevailed over hardheaded realism, resulting in sustained destabilization of the Middle East as a whole and helping to place Iran in a position to expand its influence.
So, like Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, and others, I would expand fiscal deficits, not try to shrink them.
Since many of these services require face-to-face interaction with customers, US multinationals had to expand their foreign employment to satisfy demand in these markets.
A successful summit requires member governments to reaffirm – and expand upon – commitments in four areas.
The report estimates that Argentina’s economy will expand by 6.1% in that period, while Costa Rica’s will grow by 3.8% and El Salvador’s by just 1.6%.
The region in and around Syria is also populated by extremist Islamist groups that are attempting to expand their spheres of influence - and that are quick to capitalize on instability in any country.
Although overall global trade declined by 12% that year, trade in creative goods and services continued to expand.
Kenya is also exploring ways to expand regionally focused power generation and transmission.
And, while people love to hear about “reining in” or “punishing” financial leaders, they are far less enthusiastic about asking these people to expand or improve financial-risk management.
They are also trying to develop their housing finance in order to expand homeownership.
That means pivoting away from bilateral deals, toward a multilateral approach that enables the country to rebalance and expand its trading arrangements around the world.
The banks made large loans to undercapitalized enterprises, which were thereby able to expand rapidly despite a shortage of equity capital.
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