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This assessment is not only far too generous toward Berlusconi; it also risks making it seem that Trump is less dangerous than his Italian counterpart.
History shows that slower economic growth can make societies less generous, less tolerant, and less inclusive.
Thanks to generous support from international donors, I have been able to conduct path-breaking research in the field.
The Colombian insurance scheme costs around $164 for each person covered, or $83 for fully subsidized coverage with a less generous benefit package.
The new tax law creates generous incentives to encourage private investment in distressed urban and rural areas; and a provision in the budget package will establish a competitive grant program to help states fund “pay-for-success” contracts.
Governments in Eastern Europe cannot credibly match the broad deposit guarantees issued by their Western neighbors, and the generous recapitalizations have brought down Western banks’ relative funding costs, further weakening local institutions’ competitiveness.
Rich countries have provided generous subsidies and other incentives for increased bio-fuel production, while poorer countries encouraging bio-fuel production have provided far fewer market-distorting incentives to farmers.
Yes, we need genuinely progressive tax systems, respect for workers’ rights, and generous aid policies on the part of rich countries.
The financial markets encouraged consumers to borrow by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms.
In France’s case, the loss of competitiveness and resulting sharp decline in export performance has been aggravated by relying on crushing taxation of labor to finance generous welfare programs and top-drawer public services (a practice exacerbated by stifling labor-market regulation).
American policy is based overwhelmingly on the idea that Africa can lift itself out of extreme poverty through its own efforts, that aid is largely misused because of corruption, and that the United States already gives generous amounts.
Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.
And a smattering of smaller countries in Central America and the Caribbean fell into political line in exchange for generous infusions of Venezuelan cash and oil.
This was partly because the EU was not as generous toward its newest members as it had been toward new members in the past.
Why should the rest of Europe care if, say, Spain preserves a generous pension system?
Further assuming a relatively generous 20% administration overhead, the total cost of the scheme would be approximately $600 million – equivalent to a fifth of the reported aid flow to these countries in 2004 and to 3.5-4% of their combined GDP.
But this is nothing more than yet another temporary solution – or, to be less generous, the continuation of what has come to be known as the “extend and pretend” approach.
Europe's Designer DemagoguesThe world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees.
International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations – and the need is much greater.
This induces lenders to provide not only NINJA (no income, no job, no assets) mortgages, but also generous loans to real-estate developers to build ever larger mansions and housing estates.
Nonetheless, Europe needs to be much more generous in permanently writing down debt and, even more urgently, in reducing short-term repayment flows.
That is a very generous deal for COFINA bondholders.
This cozy relationship created a “moral hazard” in Pakistan, as the generous flow of US aid insulated the government and military from any sense of urgency about economic reform: some foreign friend would always rescue the country from its perennial shortage of cash.
The result is a system that is £3 billion ($4 billion) less generous than the system it replaces.
The goal should be benefits that are generous and stable enough to let people focus on finding work, while also helping their children with homework and looking after their own health.
Given this possibility, Varoufakis may have believed that he was making other EU finance ministers a generous offer by proposing to cut the primary surplus from 4% to 1% of GDP, rather than all the way to zero.
In today’s highly competitive global economy, European countries’ relatively small size, aging populations, and excessive indebtedness, combined with a lack of energy resources and insufficient investment in research and development, mean that their high living standards and generous social-welfare states are in jeopardy.
The generous retirement pensions, unemployment compensation, health coverage, and all kinds of social programs that make Western Europe a comfortable place to live were established when Europe’s economy and population were growing fast.
Nonetheless, like Warsh, Taylor has long believed that monetary conditions are excessively generous.
Germany and Sweden are generally seen as having the most generous migrant benefits, yet there is no uniform flow of people toward those two countries.
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