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Taxes generally have little redistributive effect, because most countries rely heavily on indirect taxes.
From field to fork, the food sector is a major contributor to climate change through direct and indirect emissions, and by its often-negative effects on soil health and deforestation.
Yet, even at times when fighting is less intense Congo suffers from the indirect effects of the war.
For the Bosnian experience has shown that outside threats of the indirect type now most likely cannot tie this Alliance together.
An Indirect Route to a Palestinian State?
RAMALLAH – Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly contradictory expectations from the indirect negotiations that the United States has pushed both sides into beginning.
It is clear that for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, the start of indirect talks without freezing settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory.
Just to remind the world of this, as the indirect talks were preparing to get off the ground, Israel’s government approved a decision to break ground on 112 housing units in a settlement south of Bethlehem, and 1600 new settlement units in East Jerusalem.
For Palestinians, the return to talks, albeit indirect, is focused on one strategic issue: borders.
Unfortunately, therefore, the indirect negotiations now being launched are unlikely to produce any tangible result on the borders of the Palestinian state.
Perhaps the most interesting new aspect in the upcoming indirect talks is what has been happening on the ground in the occupied territories.
The American negotiators who are planning to play an active role in the indirect talks, and will for the first time sit at the negotiating table if face-to-face talks do take place, have apparently promised the Palestinians that the US will point its finger at the party that dares to derail the negotiations.
Is it necessary to go further just because the indicators linked to national origin are not enough to identify discrimination – especially indirect discrimination – based on ethnic grounds?
That is why, over the last decade, physicists have begun to look for indirect evidence of quantum gravity.
These tests work much like those that use the stability of atoms as indirect evidence for the quantization of the electromagnetic force.
The Commission, for example, is particularly opposed to the Irish policy of reducing indirect taxes rather than social contributions, because the latter are supposedly more inflationary.
But the indirect impact can be nastier.
Germany agreed to relinquish the Deutsche Mark on the condition that the new currency area would not lead to direct or indirect socialization of its members’ debt, thus precluding any financial assistance from EU funds for states facing bankruptcy.
But such encouragement must be undertaken in ways that do not incite the North’s fears of being destroyed by indirect means.
In its way, All4Syria has provided an indirect conduit for dialogue between government and opposition, which may not have taken place otherwise.
Many who want Olmert to go would still not welcome a Netanyahu comeback, which may also explain what appears to be an indirect endorsement of Olmert by the United States.
Roughly 18,000 children died daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition.
And now, as this new study implies, immunization has an additional, indirect role to play.
The best therapy for reinvigorating growth is both direct, by increasing competitive pressure, and indirect, by triggering the necessary adaptation in national employment, welfare, and education policies.
But fighting malaria also poses particular problems because so much of the disease's economic burden is indirect, threatening the lives of non-immune visitors to endemic sites.
Fiscal austerity has exacerbated the impact of deleveraging by exerting a direct and indirect drag on growth.
And the estimate of avoided emissions ignores indirect land-use changes, making the likely real cost at least eight times higher.
But, while marginal deterrence is important, I believe the resistance of murderers to being captured, possibly at the expense of their own lives, is really indirect evidence that criminals do fear capital punishment.
Yet, without direct US military support or indirect (and in some cases implicit) political support, it is difficult to imagine that such risky operations would have been launched.
In his classic treatise Strategy: The Indirect Approach, B.H. Liddell Hart, reflecting on his World War I experiences, insisted on the foolhardiness of direct attacks on an entrenched enemy.
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