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If joining the EU is a matter of economic gains and losses and no longer necessary for national survival, perhaps it is not desirable?
Market-share considerations are zero-sum from a global standpoint in traditional industries, and any resources invested in generating national gains come at the cost of global losses.
If “credibility” were purged from the debate and the focus placed squarely on advancing long-term US interests, it would become apparent that an attack on Syria might not yield even temporary geopolitical gains.
Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1% in both sectors in 2012.
Yet while East Asia and other regions have been making substantial gains in building a knowledge economy, Africa has not.
As Wolfers explains,“The principle of comparative advantage tells us that gains from trade are largest when your trading partner has skills and endowments that are quite different from yours.
When your skills are so similar, the gains from trade aren’t so large.
Accordingly, they will show very limited appetite for risking the hard-earned policy gains of the last 10-15 years, and the resilience and self-assurance that has come with those gains.
When the country’s political leadership does not meet that expectation, a leader like Peres assumes the role – and gains the glory.
have captured most of the gains, something that societies are unlikely to tolerate for long.
The gains do not accrue to the most deserving.
The economist Dani Rodrik recently suggested that governments should fund themselves from the dividends earned by investing in public venture funds, thus socializing the gains from innovation.
Strengthening routine immunization will protect our gains against polio and enable us to reach the most vulnerable children in the hardest-to-reach and most underserved communities.
Earnings gains have been especially strong for those with tertiary degrees, while the real wages of high-school educated workers, especially men, have fallen sharply.
But this is not what sparked Holland’s dramatic employment gains.
While the United States is ahead of the pack, some of its gains could soon be lost, as accumulating inventories begin eroding profits.
But America’s misbegotten democratic message has ended up alienating both its conservative regional allies, as it gave a new lease on life to political Islam, which can use the ballot box as a route to power, and the Islamists, whose electoral gains are then rejected by the US.
If, as expected, GDP grows by about 2% next year, Spain will outperform the eurozone average and create an environment conducive to significant long-term employment gains.
It should be noted, however, that productivity gains are partly attributable to a massive wave of employee layoffs – the dark side of economic remediation.
Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.
- Socializing losses while privatizing gains is more worrisome than the consequences of nationalizing banks.
Bank losses have already occurred, and their gains must now come at taxpayers’ expense.
The danger is that slow growth will not lead to sufficient wage gains and job creation to defuse the ticking time bomb of high youth unemployment in many countries.
On the other hand, new technological advances could deliver immense economic gains.
Nowhere is this insight more relevant than in Africa, where large-scale investment in education has enabled significant gains in literacy, school attendance, and university enrollment in recent years.
Had there been more irrigation, the Taliban’s gains might have been far less impressive.
This leads to a clear increase in efficiency and provides overall income gains.
Even if losers were fully compensated, the sum of the gains – shared by the firm, its mostly part-time workers, and its customers – would far outweigh the losses.
The short-term efficiency gains from dropping consensus may well be outweighed by higher long-term costs.
Did the outcome - together with Republican gains in the Congress - represent an endorsement of Bush's positions?
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