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Representatives from the world’s major fishing nations, meeting this fall in Australia, have an opportunity to
limit
krill catches, thereby helping creatures that need krill to survive.
Although the needs of krill-dependent species were previously considered for large areas of the Southern Ocean, the CCAMLR must still scientifically subdivide the overall catch
limit
into smaller units.
As the Sunni world’s most influential country, Saudi Arabia knows that it must do what it takes to
limit
Iran.
We should welcome Myanmar’s desire for guidance and advice from multilateral institutions and the United Nations Development Program; instead, we continue to
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the role that these institutions can play in the country’s transition.
Representatives may demand interpretation into their home language, but a proposal to
limit
each country’s translation budget is likely to be accepted soon.
These measures contributed to the improved economic fundamentals that helped
limit
the impact of the global financial crisis.
In sum, the pragmatists would
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Iranian-American dealings, keeping them focused on an agenda that largely reflects Iran's domestic concerns.
The country’s creditors, for their part, have an incentive to protect the euro and
limit
the geopolitical risk of a Greek exit from the eurozone.
The final source of risk, cyberspace, may soon overshadow all the rest, because borders and armies cannot
limit
it.
The latter was intended to impose market discipline, and the former, to preserve the stability of public finances by fixing a strict
limit
on the size of national budget deficits.
This would be a key measure to
limit
the disruption from a default.
This leaves only the financial regulator or the central bank, which can use macroprudential tools – such as loan-to-value and debt-to-income ratios on new mortgage lending – to
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the deterioration of banks’ balance sheets during boom times.
As a result, the tech giants, in particular, have achieved a new level of regulatory capture, allowing them to
limit
free speech when it serves their interests, expand into non-high-tech markets, and shape emerging global policy agendas, such as financial inclusion and e-commerce.
When output crumbled due to a profound banking and financial crisis (linked to the collapse of the gold standard), tax revenues plummeted in the US and Europe, and conservative governments tried to cut budget spending to
limit
budget deficits.
The Bosman ruling, named after a Belgian player who successfully challenged the rule’s application to players from other European Union countries, eroded the limit, which collapsed altogether under the onslaught of the richest European clubs’ demand for a free hand in hiring the best players, wherever they might be found.
Governments and central banks are responding to damaged balance sheets and credit lockups in an attempt to
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extreme harm to their economies outside the financial sector.
Thus, as Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum observes, the “scarcity of a skilled workforce rather than the availability of capital is more likely to be the crippling
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to innovation, competitiveness, and growth.”
US President Barack Obama has announced a far-reaching plan that authorizes the Environment Protection Agency to take dramatic measures in the next few months to
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power-station emissions, virtually ending coal-fired electricity generation altogether.
Powerful vested interests – not least the world’s fossil-fuel industries – will no doubt seek to
limit
progress, and most governments are not yet focused on the problem.
Countries should
limit
their exposure to short-term international bank loans so that they are less vulnerable to wild swings of international lending.
By agreeing to
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the current tax rates for just two years, the tax package reduces the projected national debt at the end of the decade (relative to what it would have been with the Obama budget) by some $2 trillion or nearly 10% of GDP in 2020.
Nevertheless, I am glad to see that Skidelsky (unlike Krugman) acknowledges the need for supply-side reforms “to improve skills, infrastructure, and access to finance,” and concedes that he and his fellow Keynesians “have been slow to understand that a government cannot increase the national debt without
limit
for a cause in which most people do not believe.”
They would like to be able to refrigerate uneaten food, which would
limit
waste as well as time spent cooking.
Insurance companies face inherent difficulties in measuring risks, and they must tailor their policies creatively around the human foibles that
limit
uptake.
And that’s not all: the European Commission should be able to waive the 2%-of-GDP
limit
on the exemption for increases in defence expenditure up to the NATO target, depending on external security risks and economic needs in individual countries or the EU as a whole.
It is time for states to sit down and discuss how to
limit
this threat to world peace.
In contrast to the Commission, the stated intention of a growing number of member states is to
limit
appropriation commitments to 1% of GDP.
EU countries agreed to
limit
their fiscal deficits to 3% of GDP to ensure debt discipline under the euro, so that no country could use the new currency to take its neighbors hostage and force them into bailout operations.
In fact, the EU countries exceeded the 3%
limit
97 times.
But any attempt to
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the fiscal discretion of America's Federal government in the manner of the Stability Pact-for example, the infamous Gramm/Rudman rules of the Clinton era-always collapse in the end in the face of presidential and congressional pressure.
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