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Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve’s unusual activism, including an ever-expanding list of experimental measures, will yield fewer benefits and entail growing costs and risks.

In recent years, the UN Refugee Agency has been able to resettle fewer than 75,000 of more than 20 million refugees annually.

In the coming years, the Gulf countries can be expected to import fewer workers from the rest of the Arab world, and to export less capital to it.

But, without Congressional support, they will bring fewer and fewer resources to the table and will suffer from an increasing credibility gap when they seek to negotiate with other countries.

Ensuring access to quality education for children, especially girls, will lead to fewer child marriages and less child labor and exploitation.

The good news, then, is that there are far fewer people who seriously want to see a fascist regime in Russia than the government claims.

Fewer and fewer companies will meet basic risk criteria.

Nearby Tanzania and Mozambique each have fewer than ten such agreements, and have attracted less Chinese activity.

By contrast, when we try to improve an entire health system, we save fewer life years, because our resources also are devoted to harder-to-cure diseases with higher costs.

Sweden does not have fewer one-man enterprises today than other developed countries -- the problem is that most small enterprises can't afford to employ anyone but the owner.

But the high abstention rate in this election – the first with automatic registration and non-mandatory voting – also means that Bachelet will become President with fewer votes than any of her predecessors since democracy was restored in 1990.

Since 1989, the firebrand labor leader and radical Lula of the 1960s, now in his fourth attempt at the presidency, has mellowed into "Lula lite," offering fewer socialist nostrums and more social-democratic banter.

To be sure, girls and women are less powerful, less privileged, and have fewer opportunities than men worldwide.

After all, an approach that focuses on the half of the population that takes fewer risks and uses health-care services more frequently cannot be expected to eliminate gender inequalities.

In 2004, the French worked 28% fewer hours per person than Americans, and the Germans and Dutch each put in 25% fewer hours, and the money they earned was correspondingly lower—almost 30% less income per person than Americans received.

According to research by Argentina’s Socio-environmental and Energy Justice Alliance, although oil and gas companies operating in Vaca Muerta in 2016 invested less than they did in 2015 and provided 3,000 fewer jobs, they received higher earnings.

Perhaps fewer lessons have been learned from Iraq than might have been hoped.

Equity and currency markets regularly punish countries for even a hint of political upheaval, whereas rulers with more power and fewer checks and balances are assumed to be more capable of ensuring meaningful “reforms.”

At the end of the civil war in 2002, Sierra Leone had fewer than 700 health facilities, according to the 2004 Primary Health Care Handbook.

Another would be to work from treaties involving fewer actors to build broader agreements.

Rising inequality may also have increased vulnerability to crisis: with fewer people able to dip into savings during bad times, the impact on growth is even larger.

But experience shows that the decision to retire or to work fewer hours is influenced by the compensation that members of this group receive.

We now have less than full employment in the sense that the payroll tax encourages older workers to work fewer hours than they otherwise would.

First, for some individuals, working fewer hours reduces incomes enough to entitle them to a larger government subsidy for health insurance.

The “Begin Doctrine,” Israel’s preventive-strike strategy for maintaining a regional monopoly on nuclear weapons, has not led to fewer rocket attacks from Israel’s Iranian-backed foes.

In this scenario, foreign producers would bear the cost, because they would receive fewer dollars for the goods they sell to the US.

There are fewer pockets of “patient capital” stepping in to buy when flightier investors are rushing to the exit.

Another problem is that fewer and fewer transnational agro-businesses now dominate marketing, production, and inputs.

When it comes to raising our children, we need fewer tigers and more elephants.

But far fewer homebuyers in 2003 said that they were buying "strictly for investment purposes" than in 1988.

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