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The second application of Groucho’s question was that citizens of most Communist countries soon learned that the loss of freedom that they suffered was not compensated by greater prosperity or a higher quality of life.
Moreover, many banking systems have bigger capital buffers than in the past, enabling them to absorb losses from a correction in home prices; and, in most countries, households’ equity in their homes is greater than it was in the US subprime mortgage bubble.
But the higher home prices rise, the further they will fall – and the greater the collateral economic and financial damage will be – when the bubble deflates.
So Amien Rais' assurance that Megawati will remain president until 2004 will not have injected a greater urgency into her presidency.
A new regional autonomy law will provide greater freedoms for regions and local communities to express themselves.
There is an even greater silent force which may produce a new generation of political leaders: the rapidly growing army of Christian believers, now estimated at 20 million.
As part of Europe's Digital Agenda, policymakers have set out to connect 50% of European households to superfast broadband (100 mbps or greater) by 2020.
Reintroducing the drachma risks exchange-rate depreciation in excess of what is necessary to restore competitiveness, which would be inflationary and impose greater losses on drachmatized external debts.
In principle, greater inequality produces a demand for more redistribution.
This intuition is formalized in a well-known paper in political economy by Allan Meltzer and Scott Richard: the wider the income gap between the median and average voter, the higher the taxes and the greater the redistribution.
Contrary to the implications of the Meltzer-Richard framework, ordinary American voters do not seem to be very interested in raising top marginal tax rates or in greater social transfers.
If a trilateral Northeast Asian FTA can be concluded, the three countries would be able to generate more market demand domestically at a time of weak demand from the West, and would gain greater influence in the global political economy.
Success may still prove elusive, but a new game with a greater possibility for success will have begun.
Indeed, the consequences of the fall-off in ODA are already dramatic; the number of people going hungry and in extreme poverty is now far greater than before, and the same is true of the unemployed, those who work in vulnerable jobs, or earn less than $1.25 a day.
In recalibrating their WMD development and testing strategies, North Korea’s leaders hope to offset the military and technological superiority of the US-South Korea alliance, thereby attaining greater economic and political leverage in the region, and, most important, guaranteeing the regime’s survival.
In this context, a new strategic paradigm that allows for greater flexibility, adaptability, and autonomy amid significant uncertainty is crucial.
States that tighten their borders encourage desperate people, exploited by cynical smugglers and traffickers, to take greater risks to cross them.
As an international community, we owe migrants and refugees greater compassion.
An additional benefit of dispersing these productive resources will be greater interaction with Brazil’s South American partners.
Quality of talent, infrastructure, energy costs, and speed to market are assuming greater weight in such decisions.
Twenty-first-century globalization, driven by digitization and rapid changes in competitive advantage, can disrupt local industries, companies, and communities and cause job loss, even as it spurs greater productivity, boosts overall employment, and generates economy-wide gains.
The greater the use, the higher the likelihood of being diagnosed.
A comparison of the two most common types of cannabis in the United Kingdom, hash and sinsemilla (“skunk”), found that using skunk implied a significantly greater risk of psychosis, while hash did not.
There is a greater need than ever before for innovative, forward-looking approaches to global governance.
In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey, rapidly growing and increasingly assertive middle classes want a say in politics and greater economic opportunity.
And now Japan will provide up to $2.8 billion dollars to help improve US bases on Guam, which will have even greater strategic significance in the future.
A country with higher GDP generally has lower child mortality rates, higher life expectancy, better education, more democracy, less corruption, greater life satisfaction, and often a cleaner environment.
This paradigm should be extended to the Geneva negotiations on the Syrian civil war, with countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt assuming a greater role.
Many bankers grumbled about having to throw good money after bad, but they gave in under the threat of greater regulatory intervention.
In a context of far-reaching transformation, brought about by the rise of AI, we may be able to reshape the status quo, so that it ensures greater security and fairness.
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