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By contrast, if a country experiences 2% inflation over a ten-year period, the same
items
that $100 can buy today will cost $122 at the end of the decade.
NAFTA may not have been perfect, but under USMCA there is a different cost calculus for vehicles, which account for fully 3.7% of the
items
included in the US CPI.
And agenda
items
such as tax cuts, the Mexican border wall, and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement – to say nothing of Trump’s own emotional outbursts – are fueling America’s radical right.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline
items
like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
Asia has far too many important
items
on its strategic agenda to remain caught in a policy trap.
Could the crisis remind us that we buy luxury
items
more because of the status they bring than because of their intrinsic value?
Haiti, like its next-door neighbor, the Dominican Republic, once created jobs in port facilities, including production of clothing, baseballs, and other light-manufacturing
items.
Statements by new MEPs, EU officials, and national governments indicate that so many
items
have already been removed from the negotiation agenda, or declared non-negotiable, that it is difficult to see how such an ambitious free-trade agreement can be reached at all.
These
items
range from small ones, like the $7,500 tax credit that goes to a buyer of an electric car, to large (for example, the deduction for mortgage interest and the exclusion from taxable income of employer payments for employee health insurance).
Aside from the eurozone’s design flaws, the pressing
items
on Europe’s agenda concern competitiveness, jobs, innovation, and technology.
Consistent with the idea that households at lower income levels were “keeping up with the Vanderbilts,” the non-rich (but not the really poor) living near high-spending wealthy consumers tended to spend much more on
items
that richer households usually consumed, such as jewelry, beauty and fitness, and domestic services.
In every modern society, humans exchange money or other valued
items
for things that they desire and could not otherwise obtain.
Another feature of such summits – the trading of lists of “must do” and “can do”
items
– also should be retired.
Today, the costs of manufacturing such
items
are lower in countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam than in Guangdong.
Developing countries currently face higher rates of inflation not because of poorer macro-management, but because oil and food prices are soaring, and these
items
represent a much larger share of the average household budget than in rich countries.
Economic efficiency, investment, and employment would take a significant hit, while slower growth would be accompanied by higher prices, including for basic food
items.
Most of the
items
on the agenda – from climate change to inequality – resonate particularly strongly for people living in urban areas, who comprise 54% of the world’s population.
Let’s subtract 20% for these two
items.
The Intellectual and PoliticsPRAGUE: Does an intellectual - by virtue of his efforts to get below the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes and effects, to recognize individual
items
as part of larger entities, and thus derive a deeper awareness and responsibility for the world - belong in politics?
The nuclear issue is one of the biggest
items
on the Obama agenda.
This acceleration would place India among the world’s fastest-growing large economies and increase the number of Indian consumers who can afford discretionary
items
from 27 million in 2012 to 89 million in 2025.
Simple
items
like blue jeans, cola, or Hollywood movies helped produce favorable outcomes in at least two of the most important American objectives after 1945.
The site, entirely open and free (thanks to hundreds of volunteers in 82 countries), maintains a decentralized online database of around two million
items
of economic research, including working papers, journal articles, books, and software.
China, for its part, has made clear that it does not intend to inspect cargo moving in and out of North Korea across their long common border to ensure it does not contain
items
prohibited by Resolution 1718.
The discovery of ancient amphorae has confirmed that India used to import products such as olive oil, wine, and glass from Italy, in exchange for exotic
items
like ivory and spices.
Global Finance and Global WarmingNEW DELHI/LONDON – Since 2008, when the global financial crisis nearly brought down the world economy, financial reform has been among the top
items
on policymakers’ agendas.
We are confident that the governments preparing to meet in Kigali understand the need for a strong HFCs amendment, which would give momentum to other agenda items, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in Marrakesh.
With Europe offering only empty promises, and the UN unsure of how to catalyze progress on the talks’ ambitious 12-point agenda (which included more than 100 items), the effort collapsed in 2002.
But, because these
items
amount to a pittance of India’s total budget, total spending remains low, especially relative to need.
Shortages of critical
items
have already cost many lives, not to mention the devastating effects on production.
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