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Costa Rica’s reforms have greatly improved her quality of life, and no doubt there are many other patients just like her, in every corner of the world, who could benefit from a similar approach.
Before then, profound inequalities between China’s poor countryside and its dynamic industrial centers will generate tensions, which may be increased by the gender imbalance – young men greatly outnumber young women.
Of course, China benefits greatly from access to Burma’s energy and other natural resources.
Second, economic policies have greatly improved.
If a large proportion of a country’s assets cannot be liquidated easily, or would be greatly depreciated by a large-scale sell-off, the fact that assets exceed liabilities would not rule out the possibility of debt default.
The EPP’s “victory” was thus due mainly to the fact that the ratio of voters per MEP varies greatly across countries.
Finally, some observers – although relatively few at this point – argue that the biggest banks have greatly improved their control and compliance systems, and that the mismanagement of risk on a systemically significant scale is no longer possible.
Building support for legislation to simplify the biggest banks would greatly strengthen the hand of those regulators who want to require more shareholder equity and better regulation for the shadows.
And, though cooperation in areas such as of data privacy, financial-sector regulation, and climate change may not require the degree of political integration that a common currency does, it would benefit greatly from stronger political cohesion and a more profound sense of shared European identity.
There is clearly a trade-off between access to the single market, which most financial firms greatly desire, and one of its main conditions: freedom of movement for EU citizens, which is seen as having contributed to wage stagnation in the rest of the UK.
But, propped up by military contracts, those state companies were never well run or efficient; greatly overstaffed, they produced little, similar to the failed state-owned enterprises of the old Soviet Union.
In the process, a dramatic reshuffling greatly raises productivity as established and tired organizations break up.
In some nations, labor greatly influences the firm through politics-i.e., opposing mass lay-offs and resisting restructuring plans that change the nature of the workplace.
Of course, no nation completely bans lay-offs, but flexibility varies greatly and can be central to profitability.
Watch a World Economic Forum discussion with Lucy Marcus and Barbara Novick, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, USA, on boardroom ethics and corporate governance:The Causes and Cures of CorruptionCHICAGO: In recent years, allegations about corrupt public officials have toppled or greatly weakened governments in many nations, and diminished public support for the transition from communism in many parts of the former Soviet empire.
Temptations arise because these transactions often greatly exceed the salaries of government employees.
Cameron’s government used to claim that its policies would produce a boom by bringing a visit from the Confidence Fairy that would greatly reduce long-term interest rates and cause a huge surge of private investment spending.
Argentina Helps Lead The Way In Privatizing SocialCHICAGO: Since 1989, Argentina has rapidly introduced revolutionary reforms that greatly reduced government regulations and controls.
High rates of return on these retirement funds should also greatly raise Argentina's savings rate once its economy fully recovers.
The revocation of patent protection for medicines in 1972 greatly expanded access to essential medicines, and led to the growth of a globally competitive domestic industry that is often called the “pharmacy of the developing world.”
Many in the developing world have benefited greatly from the last boom, through financial flows, exports, and high commodity prices.
To this one could add, stop wrecking the oceans, greatly enlarge investment in agricultural research and development, and move proper nutrition for all to the very top of the global policy agenda.
Even when developing-country governments win the suits (which have proliferated greatly in the last 15 years), the litigation costs are huge.
The US Still Runs the WorldWASHINGTON, DC – Reports of the death of American power have often been greatly exaggerated.
That would greatly benefit both countries, not least because they would each have a greater stake in the other’s success.
Europe is not a federal state, but the eurozone’s resilience would be greatly boosted if deposit insurance were pooled – which would obviously require changes in banking supervision – and if banks diversified their bond holdings so that they were more representative of the eurozone as a whole (through Eurobonds, for example).
This would greatly improve the sustainability of these countries’ debt.
But, as a result of its success, the process of instituting adequate regulation has been greatly accelerated.
Although shock therapy, with price liberalization, stabilization, and privatization, greatly diminished the extent to which the Kremlin controls Russia’s economy, remnants of the massive communist bureaucracy remain.
The world stands to benefit greatly if the components of China’s GDP continue to shift from manufacturing-led exports and investment to services and household consumption.
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