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Many European governments used compulsory early retirement to push down the unemployment rate, effectively reducing the number of applicants for any given job by ridding the labor market of older, more
expensive
workers.
Back then, America urgently needed to rebalance the federal budget to rein in explosive growth in the debt/GDP ratio; to overhaul America’s extraordinarily
expensive
and inefficient health-care system; and to begin to deal with global warming via a slow ramp-up of a carbon tax.
If a service-based economy simply has less need for
expensive
fixed capital, why should we expect a return to the days when business investment was a strong component of demand?
The system is complex,
expensive
to administer, and can result in double taxation because members usually do not allow full write-offs for losses and tax liabilities incurred abroad.
Many people are willing to do their bit for the environment, but they do not always have the opportunity to consume in environmentally friendly ways, because sustainable low-carbon choices are more
expensive
and harder to find.
A policy of expanding legitimate micro-lending schemes and prosecuting illegal loan sharks, not to mention the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices that require fewer
expensive
(and environmentally dangerous) inputs, would do far more to help India’s poorest farmers than this
expensive
and misguided measure.
To be sure, as the American economist Barry Eichengreen argued in 2007, technical considerations make exiting the eurozone difficult, expensive, and dangerous.
Your crops are withering as weather patterns become more volatile, your well water is too salty to drink, and rice is too
expensive
to buy at the market.
Of course, some imports would become more
expensive
for Iran, but the economic effect of such sanctions would remain limited.
Taxes on tobacco – the least expensive, least implemented, and most effective tool in the fight to reduce the use of this deadly product – should not be left unimplemented.
If countries began to define energy security as energy independence and try to supply all their own needs, the result could be
expensive
overcapacity, massive price distortions, slower technological progress, and weaker economic growth.
The test for the BRCA mutation is
expensive
– roughly $3,500.
But any deployment of trainers is seen as too dangerous, expensive, and likely to fail.
That makes the 2012 US election the most
expensive
ever held.
In such cases, newly selected drug-resistant bacilli may appear, leaving only second-line drugs that are more toxic and
expensive.
It does, however, buy political time for US administrations to continue prosecuting ill-considered and
expensive
wars with little domestic scrutiny.
All too often, the world’s poor are forced to drink contaminated water, drill holes in pipelines, or buy bottled water that is far more
expensive
than what flows from the taps of their richer neighbors.
When we started the Gates Foundation 15 years ago, we assumed that all of the obvious steps were already being taken, and that we would have to go after the
expensive
or unproven solutions.
The Open Data Institute-backed start-up Mastodon C uses open data on doctors’ prescriptions to differentiate among
expensive
patent medicines and cheaper “off-patent” varieties; when applied to just one class of drug, that could save around $400 million in one year for the British National Health Service.
Among the most discussed remedies are those that would use market forces to make traditional fuels more expensive; ideas include putting a price on carbon and protecting natural resources that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Ecological devastation should be expensive, and the world no doubt needs workable strategies to move people away from dirty sources of energy toward greener, more sustainable alternatives.
These journalists would attend
expensive
courses run by former special forces personnel, who trained them to navigate hostile environments.
The captain of England’s professional women’s team, Steph Houghton, is paid just £65,000 ($90,000) a year, whereas Neymar, the world’s most
expensive
male player, receives roughly 500 times as much.
And, of course, they were
expensive
and did not conform to any 'market logic'.
Tough and
expensive
law-and-order campaigns, for example, though appealing to voters, generally have little effect on underlying crime rates.
Experts say it will take three to five years to complete just one of Iran’s most ambitious and
expensive
development projects.
Policies and funding to support midwife education, training, and regulation can produce up to a sixteenfold return on investment, because when midwives are involved in pregnancy and childbirth, mothers are less likely to require
expensive
emergency interventions such as caesarean sections.
These technologies currently are too
expensive.
But governments should be wary of
expensive
fiscal stimulus.
An unwillingness to lend and
expensive
loans in foreign currencies are a real burden to eastern balance sheets.
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