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Moreover, fewer languages are used in the EU’s smokeless backrooms when meetings are less formal and the participants not all that prestigious.
With the labor-force participation rate five percentage points higher that it was back then, it seems clear that fewer workers have been discouraged from job-seeking today than at the start of the EMU, and thus that there is less underused potential in the economy.
First, rural households would be encouraged to have fewer children, and to invest more in each child’s health and education.
At the same time, increased educational opportunities for girls and women, and low-cost contraceptives provided by family-planning services, would empower them to marry later and have fewer children.
And educated women tend to have fewer children and space them more wisely, facilitating a higher level of care; women with seven years’ education, according to one study, had 2-3 fewer children than women with no schooling.
To put the trend in perspective, China graduated fewer than two million people from college in 1999, and the pass rate for the gaokao was only 40%, half of what it is today.
As more Chinese students attend university, fewer are graduating from vocational schools, which teach the skills that the economy actually needs.
Despite the ongoing political crisis surrounding African migration to Europe, the reality is that fewer Africans are migrating to European countries than when the numbers peaked in October 2015.
Most firms operate in a simpler environment with fewer variables than central banks.
Banks and other lenders are extending credit to lower-quality borrowers, to borrowers with large quantities of existing debt, and as loans with fewer conditions on borrowers (so-called “covenant-lite loans”).
Its rulings give credibility to chemophobic activists looking for headlines and raise the likelihood that substances wrongly labeled as harmful will be replaced by other products that could pose greater risks or provide fewer benefits.
The bottom line is simple: fewer and fewer clubs are making it into the European elite.
And the European Central Bank would have fewer excuses to refuse Greek bonds as collateral.
This estimate is an upper bound: once soldiers are no longer free, generals would most likely use them more effectively and hire fewer of them.
So, while there may be fewer economic collapses, owing to better macroeconomic management, high growth will likely remain episodic and exceptional.
Young people who are unemployed have fewer opportunities later in life – representing a waste of education and skills that has a detrimental effect on national economies.
In Germany, educational opportunities for children from immigrant and low-income families are fewer than in many other economically advanced countries.
If Chinese banks and firms are slow to adjust, liberalizing international capital flows will lead only to more volatility, fewer offshore deposits, and less reliance on the renminbi for settling merchandise transactions – exactly as has been the case recently.
The Chinese would still have as many dollars or euros, but those dollars and euros would buy fewer goods on the world market.
It should be reconstituted with far fewer members, including only countries that do not run persistent current-account deficits.
Despite all the rhetoric about "old" and "new" Europe, at the end of the Cold War opinion surveys showed that two-thirds of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, and Bulgarians perceived the US as a good influence on their respective countries, but fewer than a quarter wanted to import American economic models.
As a result, “banks should become more resilient and financially stable,” the consequences of which “should be seen in fewer bank failures and more consistent credit provision.”
No fewer than 25 states produce coal, which not only generates income, jobs, and tax revenue, but also provides a disproportionately large share of their energy.
On the tiny South Pacific island of Tuvalu, for example, fewer than ten streets in the capital, Funafuti, are named, and only about 100 homes have a postal address.
Financial capital and direct investment will flow from West to East, the Western economies will be forced to specialize in highly skilled, capital-intensive production that creates fewer jobs, and unskilled immigrants will move to the West.
In any case, substituting replacement incomes with wage supplements will not only lead to more employment and higher GDP, but ensure that fewer people are deprived of the dignity that only a responsible working life can offer.
What we know is that a tax on transactions would result in fewer transactions.
Far fewer people now live in abject need.
That equates to more than 1.2 million fewer people dying from indoor air pollution each year, despite an increase in population.
Chinese, Russians, and Brazilians are no longer replacing themselves, while Indians are having far fewer children.
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