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It is the fear of having to pay for
expensive
medical conditions that now drives individuals to accumulate substantial cash reserves.
It is hugely
expensive.
Less than one-third of households have access to electricity, and for only 5-15 hours a day, leaving many in darkness and forcing businesses to buy
expensive
diesel generators.
A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more
expensive
for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.
But water is extremely difficult – and prohibitively
expensive
– to import.
In many developing countries, connectivity is too slow, unreliable, or
expensive
to allow entrepreneurs and individuals to take full advantage of the new global business and educational opportunities.
This would make emerging markets and developing country members regard reserve accumulation as
expensive
and extravagant, thereby helping to liberate those resources to help the world economy overcome today’s crisis.
But, ironically, more
expensive
imports will also put upward pressure on the domestic inflation rate, which could force the Fed to raise interest rates even faster than planned.
Today, such vehicles are hand-built and expensive, typically costing roughly a million dollars each, give or take a few hundred thousand dollars.
This will be expensive, but probably not more so than maintaining the current fossil fuel structure, and will most likely start as station clusters or corridors in metropolitan areas that gradually spread outward.
US automakers gained access to labor-intensive parts at lower cost from Mexico, and Mexican producers gained access to less
expensive
capital-intensive parts from the US.
We looked at how extraordinarily strongly the world's system of relative prices was tilted against the poor: how cheap were the products they exported, and how
expensive
were the capital goods that they needed to import in order to industrialize and develop.
On the other hand, because it required significant and
expensive
short-run cuts in emissions by industrial countries, it threatened to impose large immediate costs on the American, European, and Japanese economies.
The rial has lost 40% of its value since October (making imports less affordable), and financial transactions have become much more
expensive
and difficult for the government, businesses, and households alike.
In general, this is a good idea, but so far it seems rather expensive, and nobody has yet designed a system to then sequester the carbon and keep it out of the atmosphere.
Obama inherited messy and
expensive
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and an economy in meltdown.
They think that global poverty is inevitable and too
expensive
to solve.
The IPCC clearly states that hurricane-damage costs have increased steadily because more people, with more
expensive
property, now live where hurricanes strike.
Wind energy, for example, is about 1.5 to 2 times as
expensive
as electricity from coal-fired plants.
The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for
expensive
specialized equipment, including jack-up barges, heavy-lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high-strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.
As Obama’s Kenyan sister might attest, this could be an
expensive
indulgence.
But gas is
expensive
to transport, for it depends on costly pipelines or gas liquefaction facilities that cannot be replaced quickly when flows are interrupted.
But the Kyoto approach focuses on early cuts, which are
expensive
and do little good.
The parties in Montreal should rule out more Kyoto-style immediate cuts, which would be prohibitively expensive, do little good, and cause many nations to abandon the entire process.
Some low-carbon policies have clearly been expensive, while other, apparently cost-effective options, have not been pursued at all.
Canada’s oil sands are
expensive
to exploit, highly polluting, and far from markets.
The bloated French public sector, which many see as the employer of last resort, cannot afford its
expensive
personnel.
The same week, a former student of mine who lost his lucrative financial-sector job explained that he had no savings because it was so
expensive
to date in New York!
In order to restore confidence among savers and investors, it will have to find a solution to clear banks’ balance sheets of NPLs, which are undermining credit, making capital more expensive, and thus acting as a drag on the economy.
If sizeable amounts of Canadian gas are to flow across the Atlantic, both Canada and Europe will need to beef up their investments in the necessary LNG terminals and storage facilities – a complex and
expensive
undertaking.
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