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So far, confidence-building measures have been
limited
to financial markets, through public guarantees, liquidity support, and capital injections.
Second, because most exporters also import intermediate inputs that are priced in dollars, exchange-rate fluctuations have a
limited
impact on their costs and thus on their incentive to change dollar prices.
Qaddafi’s Long ShadowANTALYA – The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Hiftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country’s dysfunctional central government, whose power is
limited
to the capital, Tripoli, can rule effectively.
Second, it is important to recognize the
limited
logic and impact of “transition.”
Even the largest and richest country in the world has
limited
resources.
This is especially true of so-called forward guidance on policy rates – and increasingly so as central bankers’ scope for policy action has become more
limited.
Even such
limited
cooperation would advance the “Geneva process” – especially negotiations aimed at establishing a transitional authority that would command the armed forces.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a
limited "
honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
By acknowledging itself as finite and limited, society could think of itself as also sanctioned by God.
The weakness of the current wage insurance proposal is that it pays benefits only for a
limited
period and relies for its long-term effect on the retraining incentives that it creates.
One reason why government-run wage insurance programs must have
limited
duration is that they involve so-called “moral hazard”: the risk that people will get lazy or would take easier, lower-paying jobs and continue to collect insurance that pays them the wage of a more demanding occupation.
Despite their protests, Reinhart and Rogoff were accused of providing scholarly cover for a set of policies for which there was, in fact,
limited
supporting evidence.
While US Chief Administrator Paul Bremer recently vested authority in a number of judges, their powers are extremely limited, and apply only to present violations, not the sustained abuses of human rights that defined Saddam's regime.
But the coalition's choices are extremely
limited.
But even such
limited
action is better than doing nothing.
Third, financial speculation should be
limited
as well.
In practice, order must be established before it can be
limited
by the rule of law and international human rights norms.
While a similar initiative failed in Oregon, and Proposition 19 (which called for
limited
legalization of cannabis) was defeated in California in 2010 (by seven percentage points), the outcome in Colorado and Washington sent a powerful message to the rest of the US.
Since the Oslo Accords of l993 between Israel and the PLO, the Palestinians enjoyed
limited
transitional autonomy.
For most Chinese, Libya is a far-away and out-of-reach country, owing to China’s
limited
capacity to project power.
But the peculiar way in which SDRs were adopted
limited
their usefulness.
Given the myriad special interests that such a deal would mobilize, it is highly unlikely that any trade agreement – even one
limited
to industrial products – will materialize any time soon.
In the beginning, the idea of human rights was
limited
to domestic politics.
Moreover, whereas some states hope to revive the GGE process or enlarge it into a broader UN process, others are skeptical, and believe that future progress will be
limited
to discussions among like-minded states, rather than leading to universal agreements.
True, in exchange for considerable European aid, Greece’s ability to maneuver independently will be
limited.
In his classic On Liberty, John Stuart Mill used the “harm principle” to express the view that a person’s individual liberty could be
limited
only in order to protect others and avoid harm.
Fiscal integration is
limited.
Of course, no magic wand can turn small business owners with
limited
capital and skills into entrepreneurs.
China’s insolent prosperity, even if it is far from being distributed equally, China’s relative political stability, even if the regime’s opening remains strictly limited, are undeniable and deserving of respect.
With short- and long-term interest rates so low, mortgage-credit restrictions seem to have a
limited
effect on the incentives to borrow to purchase a home.
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