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But it has led to significant wasted investment in heavy industry, real estate, and urban infrastructure, and leaves China facing the challenge of deleveraging and working out bad debts.
For example, domestic private investment remains weak, partly owing to overregulated services and heavy bureaucratic burdens.
Russia is BurningMOSCOW – For over a month, Moscow has been boiling in 40-degree (100 degrees Fahrenheit) heat and heavy, sticky, eye-burning smog.
But, until US and EU regional policies are in sync with their aid programs, the aid will be seen, yet again, as a reward to corrupt officials for playing nice with their neighbors at a heavy cost to their citizens.
The cause of this very weak productivity is the same for all sectors: Russia's complex system of disguised subsidies, heavy regulations and price distortions protects state owned firms, whose productivity is abysmal, and hinders the development of new firms, whose productivity is a lot higher.
According to the OECD, these include a very low average number of years of schooling, with young workers having almost no more formal education than their older counterparts; little on-the-job training; heavy bureaucratic burdens on firms; corrupt judges and police; high crime rates; and a large, low-productivity informal sector that narrows the tax base and raises tax rates on the rest of the economy.
Very few Middle Easterners miss George W. Bush’s administration, and we continue to pay a heavy price for the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.
And state income taxes are the best way to introduce a modicum of progressivity at the subnational level: states without an income tax typically rely on regressive sales taxes, which impose a heavy burden on the poor and working people.
Since then, heavy industries – steel, automobiles, machinery, building materials, energy, and raw materials – have experienced an unprecedented investment boom, reflecting demand for urban construction, housing, transport, infrastructure, and equipment renewal.
Productivity and profitability in manufacturing and heavy industries picked up, boosting China’s national savings dramatically.
Nuclear energy is produced in the decay processes of heavy elements, like Uranium or Thorium.
Indeed, in principle, every heavy element, even lead, is a potential source of nuclear energy.
First, heavy TV viewing brings little pleasure.
Moreover, heavy TV viewing has contributed to social fragmentation.
Certainly, heavy TV viewing is bad for one’s physical and mental health.
Perhaps TV is rewiring heavy viewers’ brains and impairing their cognitive capacities.
For starters, anemic investment in traditional infrastructure since the 1980’s has become an increasingly heavy drag on TFP, contributing to waste and inefficiency in existing production systems.
The world-famous Mediterranean diet – heavy in vegetables, fruits, and olive oil – is not only healthy; it is less taxing on the environment.
When the burden of past turpitude is too heavy, there may be no other way to protect future generations.
But there are other, untold stories of people who paid a heavy price for the West’s freedoms that have not gained much attention.
Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.
Although internationalization of the economy has served China well, it is unlikely that the current 35% share of GDP claimed by exports and the heavy reliance on foreign technology are sustainable in the long run.
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
Although Hamas has ruled this out, it has shown no hesitation to use heavy force against its opponents.
Mario Draghi and Germany’s Fiscal FetishFRANKFURT – The European Central Bank is under heavy attack in Germany, a country that has long prided itself on defending the principle of central-bank independence.
Yes, the country’s leaders have sometimes complained about the heavy burden of subsidizing North Korea; but, until now, they had never shown such open disgust with the North’s performance.
Together, these five challenges are taking a heavy toll on the news business, and this poses a risk to democracy itself.
Ordinary Palestinians, who will undoubtedly have to make sacrifices, must be brought on board – especially given the heavy price they incurred during the recent conflict, in which they had no say.
But, in doing so, governments would effectively be transferring private-sector liabilities to their citizens, placing a heavy burden on future generations.
By contrast, China’s strategy emphasizes the heavy lifting of structural change and rebalancing.
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