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Inevitably, in countries where children have inadequate nutrition, insufficient access to health care and education, and higher exposure to environmental hazards, the children of the poor will have far different life prospects from those of the rich.
Worse still, because derivatives and repo investors jump to the head of the repayment line in so many ways, they have less incentive to foster market discipline by closely monitoring their counterparties’ solvency and carefully rationing their exposure to any single counterparty.
The risk that a substance poses broadly depends on two factors: its inherent capacity to cause harm and one’s exposure to it.
This body evaluates the risks of substances like 2,4-D, considering real-world variables such as the amounts in soil and nearby water, exposure to animals passing through treated fields, and the potential for direct human contact.
Its decisions, which have wide exposure, pose the greatest risk to human and other animal life – at any dose.
Countries should limit their exposure to short-term international bank loans so that they are less vulnerable to wild swings of international lending.
Consider black carbon, a component of the soot emissions from diesel engines and the inefficient burning of biomass cooking stoves that is linked to 1.6 million to 1.8 million premature deaths annually as a result of indoor exposure and 800,000 as a result of outdoor exposure.
Over the last 40 years, the world’s population has almost doubled, to seven billion, but global exposure to tropical cyclones has almost tripled.
Economic exposure to floods is increasing faster than per capita GDP in all regions.
The Framework can help them to understand their exposure and vulnerability in today’s hazardous world, and to set priorities for action in developing a culture of prevention.
We know that we will all have to get used to more exposure and make the best of it, but that shouldn’t stop the effort to draw lines where they really matter.
According to the ILO, dangerous machinery, long working hours, and exposure to toxic pesticides makes farm work one of the world’s deadliest jobs; more than 170,000 agricultural workers are killed every year on unsafe farms, twice the mortality rate of any other industry.
While companies like Monsanto argue that pesticides are necessary to ensure food security, the consequences of chemical exposure to workers like Tomasi – whose body was left twisted and mangled after years of handling chemicals without protection – reveal the human cost of their use.
Admittedly, this means that the rest of the world has some exposure to US monetary policy.
And a Portuguese banker declared that, while banks should reduce their exposure to risky government bonds, government pressure to buy more was overwhelming.
Moreover, the McKinsey Global Institute finds that while the world’s exposure to China in terms of trade, technology, and capital increased from 2000 to 2017, China’s exposure to the world peaked in 2007, and has declined ever since.
By treating eurozone-government bonds as risk-free, permitting commercial banks to hold them without any capital provision, and failing to apply limits on large-scale credit exposure to sovereign debt, the system encouraged undercapitalized banks to increase their bond purchases.
Furthermore, government bonds should no longer be treated as riskless, and they should be subject to the limits for large-scale credit exposure.
At the session, I asked Caplin about his effort, starting with his co-authored 1997 book Housing Partnerships, which proposed allowing homebuyers to buy only a fraction of a house, thereby reducing their risk exposure without putting taxpayers at risk.
Adaptation to climate change is critical worldwide, but nowhere as much as in Africa, where exposure to natural disasters is higher than in most other regions.
Finally, exposure to the discipline of financial markets would make it harder for profligate governments to misbehave.
But the ECB has already provided about €120 billion (60% of Greek GDP) to Greece’s banks, and cannot tolerate any further increase in its exposure to a country that has just defaulted.
Nonconscious responses can also be treated with exposure therapy, in which repeated interaction with a threatening stimulus is orchestrated in order to dampen its psychological effects.
Findings about how conscious and nonconscious brain systems work may enable us to make exposure therapy more effective.
Start with nonconscious exposures (using subliminal stimulation to bypass conscious thoughts and feelings that can be aroused and interfere with the exposure process) to dampen the response of areas like the amygdala.
Rather, drugs can be used to make the exposure treatment more effective (the pharmaceutical d-cycloserine has shown some promise in this regard).
Exposure to international trade and finance, which is what EU membership entails, may have benefited the UK as a whole, but it has not worked to every individual’s advantage.
In Switzerland and Denmark, investors want exposure to a currency that is expected to appreciate in nominal terms.
The jury is still out, but it may be that there is no safe level of exposure to many common radiations; the more we are exposed, the more damage we do.
In addition, cross-border capital flows, which increase economies’ exposure to the effects of one another’s policies much more than in the past, are not necessarily guided by economic conditions in recipient countries.
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