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The extraordinarily high proportion of foreign labor within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is often considered problematic, because, as some see it, it threatens local cultures and national identities, holds down wages, and impedes the development of domestic skills and talent.
In some countries, sheer population density also impedes growth.
The short-term thinking that impedes environmental conservation efforts today could prove devastating; indeed, to some extent, it already has.
The crippling sense of dishonor that accompanies poverty, and impedes people from taking positive action to improve their situation, has been seen around the world.
Meanwhile, crony capitalism fuels income inequality, impedes rural development, and erodes the education system.
This external drag is likely to continue, as politics in developed countries impedes efforts to implement the structural reforms – such as reducing wages, lowering social benefits, financial deleveraging, and consolidating budget deficits – needed to revive economic growth.
This “gender chore gap” limits women’s choices, as it impedes their ability to obtain formal education, secure good jobs, and achieve equal pay.
It remains the best instrument to produce those cooperative outcomes that confrontation effectively impedes.
Worse, these are often informal jobs characterized by high turnover, which impedes long-run human-capital accumulation.
Cuba’s government argues that America’s financial and political support for the opposition impedes that.
Even as corrosive political discourse impedes effective action at the national and international levels, at the municipal level, progressive and effective immigrant-integration initiatives are flourishing.
On the economic front, it is clear that early deindustrialization impedes growth and delays convergence with the advanced economies.
Despite such examples – of which there are plenty – there is a school of thought that argues that the clumsy inclusiveness of the democratic process impedes economic development.
Indeed, the lack of a restructuring plan heightens uncertainty and thus impedes the investment needed to restore economic growth.
The President's stem cell policy - developed without consulting Congress - impedes US science and cruelly prolongs the agony of millions of sick and suffering people.
Blaming China merely impedes the heavy lifting that must be done at home – namely, boosting saving by cutting budget deficits and encouraging households to save income rather than rely on asset bubbles.
This impedes competition and contestability, undermines the diffusion of general-purpose technology, and blocks the type of adaptation and evolution that a dynamic private sector requires.
To the extent that this perception impedes progress, it is the real threat to global food security.
At the same time, the fact that police agents must intervene in places with which they are not familiar severely impedes their effectiveness.
The Chinese authorities’ reluctance to allow the renminbi to appreciate slows down global rebalancing and impedes world growth.
But the prize impedes the flow of knowledge, reduces the benefits derived from it, and distorts the economy.
This, however, will not happen overnight, and in the meantime the demand for more regulation may result in a structure that is heavy, ineffective, and in the end impedes, rather than corrects, market forces.
Too much inequality impedes social mobility, thereby potentially stoking political instability; as Stiglitz has often pointed out, it also tends to lead to weaker economic performance.
But those now demanding further deficit-financed stimulus must confront considerable evidence that an overhang of public debt impedes growth for a long time.
To derail emerging economies’ growth momentum at this stage probably would require either an additional major demand shock from the advanced economies, or some kind of failure in China’s leadership transition that impedes systemic reform and affects the country’s growth.
Some development researchers have started to make a compelling case, too, that oppression of women impedes countries’ efforts to escape poverty.
That raises the next issue: what impedes investment, and what can be done to remove such obstacles?
Economists since David Ricardo have argued that restricting imports reduces consumer welfare and impedes productivity growth.
That leads to the challenge of effective management of public assets – management that promotes rather than impedes market efficiency and innovation.
While this certainly impedes long-term economic growth and causes great structural problems, it also means that the state reacts extremely counter-cyclically and stabilizes the economy to a great extent, which benefits the entire world.
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