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Trade flows may be driven substantially by longevity: countries expecting a relatively
large
number of elderly in the future should be running trade surpluses now and deficits later.
If there were no longevity risk – that is, if the probability of dying at each age in the future were reliably known – then pension funds could easily offer life annuities to
large
numbers of people by investing their assets in bonds of various maturities in order to pay out just the right amount each year.
We thus need a
large
and liquid market for longevity risk so that these different groups can creatively share their risks with each other.
It will also require
large
improvements in productivity.
The chances are higher that a
large
number of decision makers will be able to identify these new projects, and much slimmer that a centralized version of financial planning will do so successfully.
On September 11, 1933, the famed nuclear physicist Lord Rutherford told a
large
audience, “Anyone who looks for a source of power in the transformation of the atoms is talking moonshine.”
Progress in AI relies on the availability and analysis of
large
sets of data on human activity, online and offline, to distinguish patterns of behavior that can be used to guide machine behavior and cognition.
Nor is there much risk of large, future corrective price swings because all but a few prices are completely liberalized.
Notably, it is not a party to a
large
number of important international conventions, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (one of only three UN members that has not ratified the CRC).
Japan’s past predilection toward saving has long implied a
large
trade and current-account surplus, but now these surpluses are starting to swing the other way.
Until recently, its
large
domestic market and relative geographical insulation provided considerable protection from imports, especially from low-wage countries.
If that is correct, its perpetrators are still at
large.
For the US, this means recognizing Russia for what it is: a large, still-important country with a hybrid political system and serious domestic economic, demographic, and political challenges.
The bottom line, however, is that even the domestic issues that loomed so
large
in the election can never be addressed effectively without regard for the colossal sums that Netanyahu and his allies have been pouring into the occupation system in Palestinian lands.
Yet Canada, with a financial system dominated by just five
large
banks, sailed through the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 more easily than almost any other country.
Even without the risk fee for
large
banks, the Dodd-Frank legislation was a step in the right direction.
On the other hand, because it required significant and expensive short-run cuts in emissions by industrial countries, it threatened to impose
large
immediate costs on the American, European, and Japanese economies.
What if the technology was used for military purposes, or a big multinational corporation had a
large
role?
Right now, the OECD’s definition of ODA does not even include some of the more effective instruments for facilitating structural transformation in recipient countries, such as equity investment and
large
non-concessional loans for infrastructure.
Moreover,
large
emerging-market economies such as China, Brazil, and India can use their comparative advantages in infrastructure and light manufacturing to help others.
So far, China’s
large
reserve of patient capital has been used to finance its own domestic projects.
Some are getting so far as to create a single batch of soup and then promptly selling themselves to Google or Facebook or some other
large
firm.
We can argue about the value of education, but
large
companies are good at offering practical business skills – turning college graduates into project managers, marketers, human-resources specialists, and the like.
Western taxpayers are incensed that good money has been thrown after bad to bail out
large
banks and save the eurozone, which irresponsible countries have brought to its knees.
At the “micro” level, the transaction costs and uncertainties imposed on all businesses by the daily exchange of one currency for another are supposed to decrease, delivering
large
gains in efficiency as a result.
If the non-Muslim South had gained at independence a
large
degree of religious, cultural, and administrative autonomy within a devolved federal structure, it is conceivable that the country could have remained at peace.
Here, too, local governments, which are the most susceptible to popular prejudices, will be empowered to implement a law that seems specifically targeted at the Rohingyas, with their
large
families.
These private sector improvements, however, are nowhere to be seen among
large
businesses controlled by Government, even though many of these firms have a substantial minority of private shareholders who need protection from managerial abuse.
This was highlighted by the surge in many countries’ housing prices in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the steep decline in asset and commodity prices immediately after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the return to asset-price inflation since then, and recent
large
currency fluctuations.
Fearing retribution by the Tutsi-dominated army,
large
numbers of Hutu fled the country while armed rebels engaged the army.
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