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Anyone who visits Mumbai or other major Indian cities sees how zoning restrictions cause misuse of urban land and
limit
modernization.
The government should crack down on instances of high-level graft and use the new system of cash transfers to
limit
the scope of petty corruption.
Growth could easily slow following the next energy-price slump or other external shock, such as proposals in Russia to
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employment and remittance opportunities for Central Asian workers there.
Moreover, there is a
limit
to how fast any economy can shift real resources – and especially labor – among sectors.
Indeed, the US and Europe often acted to undermine regional integration, which they believed would
limit
their roles as power brokers.
If you want to use salt when cooking, pour out a fifth of a teaspoon and
limit
yourself to pinches from this amount over the course of a day.
But there is a
limit
to this option.
In such periods, interest in social problems peaks to make the state, which does not
limit
its presence in theeconomy, provide for exorbitant promises in the social sphere through releasing more money into circulation or building up its internal and external debt.
After all, by capping spreads, the buyback facility would
limit
the downside risk while providing incentives to hold the bonds and wait for the upside – a good reason, perhaps, to make the facility a temporary offer.
But, even if the problem cannot be “solved,” understanding it might help to
limit
the damage, not least by enabling leaders to avoid policies that are either not useful or would exacerbate tensions.
For example, restricting family reunion (to
limit
the number of foreigners) might make matters worse, because the male asylum-seekers would be more likely to be single and seek partners in the local population.
The federal “debt limit” was never a firm construct, and under pressure it became a squishy “ceiling suspension” that allows the government to borrow as much as it wants.
But they are also increasingly fearful of technological change and globalization, and thus seek to
limit
their pace and scope.
In an important recent speech, Tarullo called for a cap on the size of America’s largest banks, to
limit
their non-deposit liabilities as a percentage of GDP – an entirely sensible approach, and one that fits with legislation that has been proposed by two congressmen, Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Brad Miller.
Indeed, most of cyberspace’s infrastructure was designed to ensure its interoperability and openness, often at the expense of security, which tends to
limit
usability.
The data show no deceleration of progress, and there is no strong theoretical reason to suspect a looming natural
limit
to the extension of lifetimes.
Maybe there is a
limit
at 120 or 200; then again, maybe not.
Although the higher level of household saving will
limit
the rise in US interest rates, it will not change the fact that the combination of large future fiscal deficits and foreign lenders’ reduced willingness to buy US securities will lead to both a lower dollar and higher US interest rates.
Likewise, the Bank of England is undertaking important work on the risk that assets like coal or oil reserves could be “stranded” by policy changes intended to
limit
dangerous climate change.
While they managed to reduce their budget deficits below the mandatory
limit
of 3% of GDP to gain eurozone membership, public debt remained above 100% of GDP in both countries – much higher than the 60%-of-GDP cap set by eurozone rules.
If other eurozone countries, especially Germany, lose confidence in Italy’s ability to reach its debt-reduction targets, they could decide to
limit
their losses by cutting off financial support, effectively forcing Italy out of the eurozone.
In India’s case, it is leveraging its clout as a major supplier of power and telecommunications equipment and active pharmaceutical ingredients, not to mention as a lender to financially troubled Indian firms, to
limit
the country’s options.
By steering clear of services that might draw the scrutiny of financial authorities, digital startups face a natural
limit
to the size of their market.
Above a certain limit, China’s stockpiles of US treasury bonds imply welfare losses, not to mention the capital losses that the country almost certainly will suffer.
But many Western politicians (and, to be fair, their constituents) are unable to let go of the syllogism that seemed so unassailable just a decade ago: (1) The Chinese have joined the world economy; (2) their wages are $0.50 an hour; (3) there are a billion of them; and (4) Chinese wages will never be bid up in line with the usual textbook laws of economics, so their exports will rise without
limit.
If not, we will not be able to
limit
the global temperature increase to a sustainable level.
So here is an idea that might work politically: Let taxpayers keep all of the current tax expenditures, but
limit
the total amount by which each taxpayer can reduce his or her tax liability in this way.
It would not
limit
the amount of deductions and exclusions to 2% of AGI, but rather would
limit
the resulting tax reduction – that is, the tax benefit – that the individual gets by using all these special features.
For someone with a 15% marginal tax rate, a 2%-of-AGI cap would
limit
total deductions and exclusions to about 13% of AGI.
In order to
limit
a negative overshoot, Chinese policymakers have been talking up the strength of equity markets, while shoring up and expanding credit channels for the private sector, particularly for otherwise healthy and creditworthy small and medium-size enterprises, which remain disadvantaged relative to their state-owned counterparts.
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