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To be sure, investments in CHWs should not come at the
expense
of critical public-health measures to slow the spread of Ebola or support for frontline clinics.
First, why should a country concentrate on accumulating trophies at the
expense
of other desirable goods?
It was an agenda written by and for large multinational companies, at the
expense
of workers and ordinary citizens everywhere.
While the Fed and the Treasury refloated US markets (at the
expense
of weaker Americans left behind since the 1970s), nothing would be the same: Wall Street’s capacity to continue “closing” the global recycling loop vanished.
Regardless of when the second summit occurs, the North Korean regime will continue to reap dividends at America’s
expense
in the meantime.
Since gaining independence, Malaysia’s leaders have pursued policies that favored the indigenous Malay majority, at the
expense
of the country’s minorities, most notably the sizable Chinese and Indian populations.
The 0.5%-of-GDP
expense
will reduce emissions ever so slightly (if everyone in the EU actually fulfills their requirements for the rest of the century, global emissions will fall by about 4%).
Instead, the gerontocracy has simply realized older generations’ dreams of equity and social security at the
expense
of today’s youth, who have been shouldered with a crushing burden of public debt.
Multinational corporations and investors have increasingly shaped the agenda of international trade negotiations, resulting in global regimes that disproportionately benefit capital at the
expense
of labor.
Both China and India will seek to impress upon the US that any action against Iran aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons should not be at the
expense
of economic growth and energy security in Asia.
So it is past time that the European Union stopped treating energy as a bilateral issue, with some of the larger member states trying to protect their own narrow interests at the
expense
of the common European good.
The slow adoption of solar energy is usually blamed on its
expense.
Most traditional companies, meanwhile, remain focused on their macro environment, at the
expense
of responding adequately to the new micro-level forces in play.
Control enables the majority shareholder to extract revenues and wealth from the company at the
expense
of minority owners.
A “beggar-thy-neighbor” taxation policy, by which one country pursues tax policies at the
expense
of others, is just as dangerous as beggar-thy-neighbor monetary policies based on competitive currency devaluation.
In 2008-2009, the influence of the G-20 grew, at the
expense
of the G-8.
When such rules are too lax, insiders face insufficient constraints on their ability to run the firm in ways that serve their private interests at the
expense
of outside, general investors.
In such countries, rules are supposed to limit the controlling shareholders’ power to advance their interests at the
expense
of minority shareholders.
Given that children from wealthier households are more likely to pursue higher education, directing limited public resources, including tax revenues, toward reducing its cost amounts to a subsidy for the wealthy, at the
expense
of the poor.
But it can refer to something else: an outsider’s understanding of a country that is based on disproportionate interaction with the urban population at the
expense
of those who live in harder-to-reach rural areas.
If current trends continue, China is bound to devote an increasing proportion of its resources to the military at the
expense
of the general population, whose expectations the leadership will find increasingly difficult to meet.
Investors’ obsession with short-term returns, according to the new conventional wisdom, compels corporate boards of directors and managers to seek impressive quarterly earnings at the
expense
of strong long-term investments.
The United States, former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rightly argued, for too long had pursued “stability at the
expense
of democracy”; as a result, it had “achieved neither.”
Second, workers are concerned that profit-sharing may come at the
expense
of wages, with the substitution of uncertain profits for certain wages resulting in lower overall compensation.
Both US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the British Tories’ leader, David Cameron, have spoken recently of a new synthesis of defense, diplomacy, and development, noting that recent American and British foreign policy has placed too much emphasis on the first element at the
expense
of the latter two.
In the long run, I am certain that the Nehruvians will be rewarded for not pursuing an economic-growth model that favors a select few at the
expense
of everyone else.
Poaching also has a negative impact on communities, benefiting a few at the
expense
of the many.
If resource allocation is skewed toward physical capital at the
expense
of accumulating human capital – for which adequate consumption is indispensable – economic growth would be more likely to slow than rise.
For starters, by maintaining an undervalued real exchange rate, China has fallen into the so-called “dollar trap,” boosting the US dollar’s international importance at China’s own
expense.
Sterilization also leads to a serious misallocation of resources, most obviously by functioning as a subsidy to the export sector, at the
expense
of the rest of the economy.
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