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Many of these things are, and will be,
expensive.
Compare this to other analyses showing that strong and immediate carbon cuts would be expensive, yet achieve as little as $0.02 of avoided climate damage.
The panic breeds a false sense that refugees are a burden and a danger, resulting in
expensive
and counter-productive measures, like erecting fences and walls and concentrating refugees into camps, which in turn breeds frustration and desperation among the refugees.
However, Brazil is driving in the wrong lane, with policies that are dead wrong and
expensive.
Prices in dollars are at least 45% higher today than three years ago (see Table 2) This is not an esoteric economic issue;Brazil is just plain
expensive.
The most serious structural flaws concern high payroll taxes and labor-market regulation, which make it difficult – or at least prohibitively
expensive
– for firms to reduce their workforce when business conditions worsen.
If, say, driving a gas-guzzling car becomes more expensive, people will presumably be less likely to do it.
Such a system is expensive, but so is the current system, which pays millions of people 100% of their incomes while they are not working.
Moreover, maintaining large inventories of missiles is dangerous – the chance of accidental or unauthorized launches can never be eliminated – and
expensive.
Critics also claim that missile defense will not work against incoming warheads surrounded by decoys, that it will be terribly
expensive
and that rogue-state proliferation can be better addressed through prevention (using diplomacy and export controls) and deterrence.
Forcing everyone to buy more expensive, less reliable energy pushes up costs throughout the economy, leaving less for other public goods.
Over the past five years, heating a UK home has become 63% more expensive, while real wages have declined.
The rich world gets just 1.2% of its energy from hugely
expensive
solar and wind technologies, and we would never accept having power only when the wind was blowing.
In fact, developing countries can leap-frog the developed world by going straight to mobile broadband, thereby avoiding the need for
expensive
fiber-optic cables for the “last mile” – or access point – of the network.
History has shown that retreating from the fight against an epidemic can lead to a renewed plague that is immune to our best drugs, requiring far more
expensive
measures to control.
Allow for some substitution away from more
expensive
imported goods, and the number drops below 1%.
For the moment, the real question is if and when global regulation will stamp out privately constructed systems that are
expensive
for governments to trace and monitor.
Poor and erratic rains have left 2.5 million people facing an ongoing food crisis; some 400,000 children live with acute malnutrition; food prices are rising; and dry wells have left communities dependent on
expensive
trucked water.
Finding security with others, rather than against them, and concentrating on cooperative approaches to achieving global and regional public goods, seems more productive than giving free rein to crude nationalist sentiment and planning ever more sophisticated and
expensive
ways to destroy one another.
Distributed generation using renewables can also help to reduce the risk of massive power outages and resulting reliance on
expensive
diesel power, which currently can cost up to 5% of a country’s annual GDP – a problem that affects 30 of the 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The road ahead will be long, hard, and, most likely,
expensive.
Kyoto’s Misplaced PrioritiesWhen the Kyoto treaty enters into force on February 16, the global warming community will undoubtedly congratulate itself: to do good they have secured the most
expensive
worldwide treaty ever.
They are
expensive
and a source of political and supply volatility.
A rise in the index signifies real appreciation, meaning that the yen became more
expensive
relative to other currencies after correcting for relative price-level changes.
First, the world has, for the moment at least, reached its resource limits, and we are seeing a big shift in relative prices as the global economy responds appropriately by making labor and capital cheap and oil and other resources
expensive.
Virtual training programs, for example, allow students to practice using
expensive
machinery without interfering with actual production – and with no risk of damaging the equipment.
A world in which 2.6-ton vehicles were prohibitively
expensive
for single-passenger use would entail no sacrifice of human welfare.
Acute episodes and
expensive
hospitalization can be avoided by providing expert team support for patient self-care.
But efforts like these, by focusing on the need to provide appropriate and less
expensive
care for chronic diseases, constitute a small step in the right direction.
The heavy social and financial costs of an
expensive
bailout or a disruptive restructuring could thereby be avoided.
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