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Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.
But, there are reasons to believe that higher interest rates, even though expected, can have a negative impact on home prices.
This is because if they have to move and sell their house, there may be no buyers who can afford higher interest payments, unless the home's price also falls.
Lower productivity and higher unit labor costs eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.
If future generations in these countries are to receive the same per-capita level of public goods, their net lifetime taxes will be at least 75% higher than the taxes facing current newborns.
Italy’s future generations, for example, can expect to pay 131.8% higher lifetime net taxes if current policies are maintained.
Achieving these goals will require that countries pursue some combination of higher taxes and lower government transfers and spending.
In a 2001 paper, the economists Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Jeemol Unni found that India’s education-wage relationship is convex, meaning that economic returns from secondary education are higher than they are from primary education.
Despite higher government spending on educational infrastructure, inadequate coordination and poor transport mean that a significant share of promised resources fails to reach schools in time for the start of the academic year (or, in some cases, at all).
In the 1950’s, India’s first prime minister, the Cambridge-educated Jawaharlal Nehru, established several institutions of higher education, notably the Indian Institutes of Technology, to educate more scientists and engineers to compete during the Cold War.
A symmetric adjustment has also occurred in China, via real appreciation of its currency and higher prices for labor and land.
The result is higher prices and no job creation.
The best cure would be controlled higher inflation – that is, the aforementioned temporary increase in the inflation target – to erode the real value of public debt and forestall the risk of a much more damaging inflationary shock later, one in which expectations become unhinged.
Commodities on the RiseSEOUL – The commodity super-cycle – in which commodity prices reach ever-higher highs, and fall only to higher lows – is not over.
As long as China’s commodity demand grows at a higher rate than global supply, prices will rise.
For many commodities, such as oil, the reserve price is higher in emerging countries than in developed economies.
By implication, if nothing else, global energy, food, and mineral prices will continue to be buoyed by seemingly insatiable emerging-market demand, which commands much higher reserve prices.
Around the world, governments are taking greater control of resources and imposing policies that hamper global production and ultimately force prices higher.
Denmark elected a center-left government committed to higher government spending financed by new taxes on the rich.
In other words, Rwanda has achieved so much so fast because we are enjoying higher rates of return by investing in the poorest.
Perhaps a maximally extended life expectancy is of higher value to you than living in a society where doctors do not leave curable patients to die if they cannot pay for the required treatment out of their own pockets.
The higher the technical capabilities, and the costs, of modern medicine become, the more contested this particular value judgment will be.
For Saudi Arabia, Iran’s escape from global isolation, losses in proxy wars in Syria and Yemen, the specter of an ISIS onslaught, and America’s non-committal regional policies are far higher priorities than the Palestinians.
For example, progress in education – especially girls’ education – is closely associated with improvements in child survival and nutrition, and maternal health, as well as higher wages.
Is there something in it for him – a higher stock price, an advertising fee, or someone else’s gratitude?
New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.
The impact is most pronounced in African cities, where prices for white rice, frozen chicken, bread, butter, eggs, and even carbonated soft drinks are at least 24% higher than in other cities around the world.
These prices hit consumers both directly and indirectly (owing to pass-through of higher input costs by food conglomerates and service providers).
From an economic standpoint, the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas – which encompass megacities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen – are undoubtedly the most important such urban agglomerations, set to generate the higher future productivity gains from economies of scale and complementarity.
As a result, these countries are confronted with an untenable choice: either stop sending children to school, or borrow money at much higher rates and risk accruing unsustainable debts.
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