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What is needed is not more sophisticated statistical methods, but serious historical analysis of the political and economic particulars of specific historical cases in which countries were burdened with heavy debts.
Here we see why heavy subsidies for the opera seem so uncontroversial in Europe.
The first, which he outlines in a program called Vision 2030, is to diversify the Saudi economy, by reducing its heavy dependence on oil revenues, and creating good jobs outside of the oil sector.
To achieve these goals, Europe’s leaders must make clear that the days of relying on the US to carry out the heavy lifting of global leadership are over.
This leads to heavy deforestation and lethal indoor air pollution, which kills 1.3 million people each year.
Few in the rich world would switch to renewables without heavy subsidies, and certainly no one would cut off their connection to the mostly fossil-fuel-powered grid that provides stable power on cloudy days and at night (another form of subsidy).
Foreign bottom trawlers have fished recklessly and acted with impunity, dragging heavy nets, razing the bottom of our seafloor, and damaging an astounding 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of important marine habitat.
But the GCC economies are also rife with structural problems that short-term economic packages will not address – bloated public sectors, heavy dependence on imported labor, and endemic unemployment, especially among young people, who make up a disproportionately large share of the population.
Indeed, with banks failing to impose hard budget constraints on financially unsustainable businesses, and with the planning system incapable of imposing alternative effective discipline, China is already awash with apartment blocks in third-tier cities which will never be occupied, and with huge overcapacity in heavy industry.
Reflecting the New York Fed's heavy regulatory responsibilities, owing to its proximity to the seat of finance, its president has a permanent seat on the Federal Open Market Committee, the body that sets the Fed's benchmark interest rate.
This year’s heavy monsoon rains have wrought havoc in the area, severing road connections, washing away bridges, and rendering over half a million people homeless in these mountains – without “dwellings, farmlands, moveable assets,” or even “graveyards.”
As a result, many institutions had to write off much of their loan portfolios and take heavy losses, sending shock waves through the industry and the investor community – and causing the poor to suffer.
Given India’s dependence on cross-border water flows from Tibet, it could end up paying a heavy price.
With heavy social spending go heavy taxes, particularly on labor, which distorts economies, reduces capital inflows, and raises unemployment rates, partly because work shifts to the untaxed grey economy.
In the 1980s and early 2000s, Turkey, too, achieved macroeconomic stability, which required heavy doses of supply-side medicine – and the iron hand of the state to deliver them.
Moreover, in some quarters of Europe, the euro’s survival is viewed as requiring a cull: its membership should be reduced to those countries with convergent economic structures and performance, notwithstanding the enormous economic and social disruption that would be unleashed, or the heavy blow to Europe’s global influence.
This forgotten term, which dropped out of usage following World War II, referred to heavy taxation on sudden increases in profits.
So California has set a bad example, and Californians will probably pay a heavy price for it.
They may not pay as heavy a price as France a century and a half ago, when the popularly elected Louis Napoleon transformed himself, via a wildly popular referendum, into Napoleon III--that vote being the last the French would enjoy until the end of the Second Empire.
Africa will pay a heavy price.
Beyond the West, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party justsuffered heavy losses in five state elections, owing to mounting economic worries.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
Sustainability in the Trump EraCOPENHAGEN – The forces fighting global warming and battling to strengthen environmental protection must brace for heavy collateral damage as a result of Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election.
The best-known feature of China’s macroeconomic imbalances is heavy dependence on exports for growth, which is typically attributed to weak domestic demand: as a middle-income country, China lacks the purchasing power to consume the goods that it produces.
Many of the countries that performed poorly on this test – most notably France, Greece, Italy, and Spain – were European welfare states where generous public pensions place heavy burdens on national finances.
Europe is already a heavy user of gas, but its consumption is stagnating (along with its economy).
Broad strategy is set by management at the top: growth targets, the structural shift from heavy industry to consumption, the Belt and Road Initiative (which will guide exports and foreign aid), and so on.
In the 1960s, memories of the horrors of World War II still hung heavy over Europe.
At home, meanwhile, small, distinctively French businesses – cheese makers, patisseries, or restaurateurs – get hammered by heavy taxes and social-welfare costs while supermarkets flourish selling products from Asia.
As a result of sanctions, the regime desperately needed heavy fuel for heating purposes.
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