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Interestingly, the best economic rationale for a zero-interest-rate system is provided in John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory:“Provisions against usury are amongst the most ancient economic practices of which we have record….In a world, therefore, which no one reckoned to be safe, it was almost inevitable that the rate of interest, unless it was curbed by every instrument at the disposal of society, would rise too high to permit of an adequate inducement to invest.”
Targeting can be a useful instrument of universal policies, but it can never serve as a substitute for them.
Indeed, few countries currently provide comprehensive social protection, as defined by ILO Convention 102 (the instrument establishing internationally-agreed minimum social-security standards).
For our industry to remain an instrument of progress, we must therefore work closely with our peers from other industries and government in three major areas: safety, the environment, and affordability.
A promising financial instrument, capable of improving the efficiency of credit markets, is rejected; or the agency's investigative and review procedures become stultified.
By far the most widely used instrument are anti-dumping duties aimed at imposing some restraint on companies that behave in an anti-competitive way.
In reality, what they don’t like is competition itself, and they fight it by deploying an instrument that can inflict even greater damage on themselves.
The natural resources are therefore not only a target of corruption but also an instrument of holding power.
Back then, the instrument guaranteeing Britain free trade in the China market was a gunboat; today it is the total disregard of the fundamental rights of six million people.
Von Braun endorsed an automated telescope in space, but thought that astronauts would need to visit the instrument to change the film.
The Supreme Court has a new chief justice whose ruling in the Abubakar case demonstrated that he could be counted on to intervene on the side of fair play, but it is not clear what constitutional instrument could be used to resolve the election crisis before the hand-over date.
In other words, Europeans are pessimistic about the future and thus are reluctant to stimulate growth, whereas Americans remain optimistic and prepared to give any policy instrument a chance.
Such horror is the direct result of the systematic manner in which the Pakistani military establishment has reared jihadist militants since the 1980s as an instrument of state policy against India and Afghanistan.
Of the roughly $200 trillion in global financial assets today, almost three-quarters are in some kind of debt instrument, including bank loans, corporate bonds, and government securities.
Punishment is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
A boycott is a blunt instrument that would, regrettably, harm many US workers who did not vote for Trump and are in no way responsible for his policies.
Currency undervaluation is such a potent instrument for growth for the simple reason that it creates incentives for the economy’s growth-promoting sectors.
To succeed, the Bank must broaden its toolkit beyond country-specific loans – the key instrument on which it has relied for seven decades.
He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.
In the longer term, Fatima recommends that the international community consider adopting a comprehensive legal instrument and civil accountability mechanism for the protection of children in armed conflict.
In practice, it is often hard to identify the losers and to find the right instrument to support them.
In addition, vaccination is a crucial instrument in the fight against one of the twenty-first century’s biggest health challenges: antimicrobial resistance.
The RRR is only one example of a textbook sterilization instrument.
Further raising the effective tariffs Chinese firms face is an anti-dumping regime that is often used as an instrument of protectionism, with rules that are biased against Chinese producers.
It remains the best instrument to produce those cooperative outcomes that confrontation effectively impedes.
This proves the point: European integration is first and foremost an instrument to preserve and strengthen peace and liberty.
Again, China’s authoritarian politics means that it cannot profit from the innovations that depend on software, as that is an instrument through which dissent can flourish and become subversive of total control.
A Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (CSCM) could quickly become a useful instrument for promoting this comprehensive approach to security and development.
With stronger capabilities, new members, and deepened partnerships, the Alliance will demonstrate that it remains the premier instrument to address current and future security challenges.
And, together with the Islamic Development Bank Group, the United Nations, and other donors, the World Bank has created a joint facility to assist the countries hardest hit by instability with concessional financing, which includes an Islamic-finance instrument for Lebanon and Jordan to help them bear the costs of supporting refugees from Syria.
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