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True, some of these may be technical, and can be fixed by applying a known solution, such as a robust information-technology system or a best-practice norm.
Had the government let these goods through, volunteers would have distributed them to schools, hospitals, churches, and other social organizations, helping to sustain people until the broader problem can be fixed.
And rather than merely patrolling, they have established a fixed presence (with pitched tents, concrete structures, and several miles of road) well beyond China’s own “Claim Line,” occupying the “Finger Heights” near Pangong Tso Lake.
In the first three quarters of 2018, fixed investment grew by just 5.4% year on year (compared to 7.5% in 2017), largely because growth in infrastructure investment, which accounted for some 27% of fixed investment, plummeted from 19.8% in 2017 to just 3.3% in 2018.
In May 1921, the Reparations Commission fixed Germany’s indemnity at $33 billion.
Because the bulk of transportation costs are fixed, in the sense that they are incurred at the time of construction, cities have many degrees of freedom to decide who pays for them and when.
Digital tools can help midsize firms to narrow the productivity gap with larger companies, and develop products for the vulnerable classes by cutting fixed design and start-up costs.
In addition to his pronouncements on interest-rate policy, Moore has repeatedly said in the past that he supports a currency regime under which the dollar would be convertible into a fixed amount of gold.
The Indian government holds a fixed 49% minority share in the NIIF itself, and in the company that manages it, with private and institutional investors controlling the majority stake.
Though I once argued that coordination of monetary policy was necessary for better performance under the fixed exchange rate, I now completely agree with them.
As long as policymakers create a credible expectation of long-term profits by committing to strong environmental standards and providing a long-term framework for eliminating fossil-fuel subsidies, investors will likely be willing to incur the fixed costs of green investments.
But economists’ benchmark mental world – particularly their instinctive framework for thinking about public policy questions – is one where competition is static, preferences are fixed and individual, rival goods are the norm, and so on.
By eliminating fixed costs wherever possible and lowering marginal costs, they could make themselves less reliant on economies of scale and become profitable at lower volumes of output.
These interpretations all miss the point, which is that Shelton is a proponent of fixed exchange rates.
Her belief in fixed rates is catnip to an administration that sees currency manipulation as a threat to winning its trade war.
Then, the leading power, Great Britain, unilaterally fixed the domestic currency price of gold.
Once multiple countries had pegged the domestic price of gold, the exchange rates between their currencies were effectively fixed.
Second, a fixed trap threshold of $16,000-$17,000 may be a great literary device, but it makes little sense in a dynamic global economy.
The world in which they had grown up – its values and fixed identity – was, it seemed to them, being systematically trashed.
In addition to being lopsided, they were predicated on a stable environment, reflected in fixed and detailed contractual terms.
That is equivalent to 80% of all capital investments during the first 30 years of the People’s Republic and exceeds the total value of China’s fixed assets during that period.
But, because the large fixed cost of compliance will hit smaller companies hardest, the GDPR may end up protecting larger firms from competition from small ones.
For example, some epidemiological models of infectious diseases assume a fixed population.
Policymakers therefore need to know which aspects of the real world a model assumes as fixed.
But as people face long periods with lower incomes, they will continue to hoard funds to ensure that they can repay their fixed debts.
By contrast, the EU recovery fund’s fixed allocation to member states will turn them against one another, as the fixed sum to be given to, say, Italy or Greece is portrayed as a tax on Germany’s working class.
On the policy front, programs like Horizon Europe, the EU’s primary funding vehicle for research and innovation, can accelerate advances in blade design, and ultimately drive down costs for turbines that don’t need to be permanently fixed onto the seabed.
Unlike other cryptocurrencies, Libra would be fully backed by reserves, and its value would be fixed in terms of a global basket of currencies.
The presidential term reset abolished the fundamental constitutional principle of power rotation, and other constitutional amendments fixed the ideological framework of what is now a mature authoritarian state.
Debt involves the commitment to repay a certain fixed amount of money at certain dates.
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