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Beyond inadequately financed health systems, which remain weak and inefficient, especially in rural areas, African countries face challenges in affording new, more
expensive
vaccines.
The current political game in the US is one in which both Republicans and Democrats compete for corporate money, which they then deploy in
expensive
campaigns to preserve or increase their power.
Expensive
border fences and walls are not necessary for these purposes: they do not stop the missiles or fighter jets of an invading army, and they are no better than a map at representing the edges of different polities, economies, and jurisdictions.
We could even see the rise of “gene-rich” and “gene-poor” populations: although CRISPR itself is a low-cost method, it requires women to undergo the complex, expensive, and sometimes risky procedures of IVF.
Such a system is relatively
expensive
to manage, but it is cheaper than the costs of not having it.
Photovoltaics can be rapidly deployed in rural areas without the need for installing an
expensive
grid system – Bangladesh is a pioneering case in point.
Throughout the 1990s, the American Petroleum Institute (API) – the largest oil and gas trade association and lobbying group in the US – repeatedly relied on economic models created by two economists, Paul Bernstein and W. David Montgomery, to argue that pro-climate policies would be devastatingly
expensive.
In cities like Rio de Janeiro, land costs can account for more than 40% of a home’s price; in extremely
expensive
markets, like San Francisco, it can be double that.
To the extent that the renminbi becomes more expensive, appreciation would discourage the influx of foreign capital.
Valued at millions of dollars, it is the world’s most
expensive
piece of African art.
The Dollar Wars ReturnFaced by uncertain re-election prospects, and worried about job losses, US President George W. Bush has begun to blame other countries, sending his Treasury Secretary to demand that they raise their exchange rates in order to make foreign goods more
expensive
for American consumers.
Prefabricated schools are
expensive
to ship and often unsuited for real learning.
During this time, Italy became 25% more
expensive
(on the basis of its GDP deflator) than its eurozone trading partners.
Relative to Germany, Italy became a whopping 42% more
expensive.
For less
expensive
shoes, with lower sums invested in the intangible parts of the production process, this figure was not as high, but still more than 50%.
In particular, they could use production costs in more
expensive
countries as a proxy for true Chinese costs, increasing both the likelihood of a dumping finding and the estimated margin of dumping.
Up to 30% of the more optimistic consumers in some countries say that they are shopping more frequently and purchasing new and more
expensive
products.
More surprisingly, Copenhagen’s politicians have confidently declared that cutting CO2 now will ultimately make the city and its citizens wealthier, with today’s
expensive
green-energy investments more than paying off when fossil-fuel prices rise.
Proponents of carbon cuts argue that green-energy technologies only seem more expensive, because the price of fossil fuels does not reflect the cost of their impact on the climate.
In those days, if you wanted to know something but did not own an
expensive
encyclopedia (or your encyclopedia was no longer sufficiently up-to-date to tell you what you wanted to know), you had to go to a library and spend hours searching for what you needed.
International phone calls were prohibitively expensive, and the idea of actually seeing someone while you talked to them was the stuff of science fiction.
Knowing that you cannot ask people to choose between buying food and buying data, the partnership will seek new, less
expensive
means of connecting computers, more data-efficient software, and new business models.
While leverage normally becomes scarce and
expensive
during recessions, this time declining confidence in sovereign debt also has increased the cost of capital.
The solution is either a broad and deep debt restructuring that imposes losses on the private sector, or an ever more
expensive
bailout by taxpayers.
In the US, for example, while many goods and services are less
expensive
than they would be if the country were walled off from the global economy, we cannot assume that these cost savings necessarily compensate for diminished employment opportunities.
After dropping by more than half between mid-June and mid-January, oil prices in euros have since bounced back by a third, partly owing to the euro’s sharp depreciation, which is making imports generally more
expensive.
If we fail to make progress in these areas now, future generations will judge our inaction as expensive, unjust, and immoral.
For Kenya, by contrast, borrowing is
expensive.
If Westerners benefit from less
expensive
Chinese-made cell phones and consumer electronics and South Korean-made automobiles, then so much the better.
As a result, the likely outcome of the report’s release will be more of the same: a welter of scary scenarios, followed by politicians promising huge carbon cuts and
expensive
policies that have virtually no impact on climate change.
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