Limits
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Some scholars believe it has reached its
limits.
For example, the United States has term
limits
and sunset provisions for the appropriation of funds; and the United Kingdom has the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and other special agencies to hold the government accountable for its actions.
The Scotland Act of 2012 caps the region’s deficit at 10% of its budget and
limits
how much the Scottish government can borrow.
But reconsidering debt and deficit
limits
on regional governments is not the same thing as abandoning them.
It also sets clear
limits
on how long data can be held and what can be done with it.
NATO fixes hard
limits
on the autonomy of local political elites to do what they want.
The US retreat from Iraq signaled the
limits
of its engagement, and the problems in the EU’s immediate neighborhood – not just in Syria, but also to the east and the south – are now knocking on its door.
But the paper also offers a reminder that there are
limits
to how much income the tax system can redistribute.
Together, these patterns could lead to an extended period in which aggregate demand
limits
growth.
It requires an industrialization drive, accompanied by the steady accumulation of human capital and institutional capabilities to sustain services-driven growth once industrialization reaches its
limits.
There are
limits
in China’s socialist market economy, but they lie on the liability side of banks’ balance sheets, not on the asset side.
The program, announced by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in November, amounts to a massive shadow budget, twice as large as the European Union’s annual official budget, that will finance public investment projects and ultimately help governments circumvent debt
limits
established in the Stability and Growth Pact.
This will render meaningless EU-wide debt-management agreements, including the Stability and Growth Pact, which
limits
the overall deficit to 3% of GDP, and the 2012 “fiscal compact,” which stipulates that countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceed the 60% limit should reduce them by one-twentieth annually until they are in compliance.
This “gender chore gap”
limits
women’s choices, as it impedes their ability to obtain formal education, secure good jobs, and achieve equal pay.
But these reforms went in precisely the opposite direction from today's proposed changes: fewer
limits
on policy makers' discretion, more power to the Board, and a larger role for the New York Fed, all to enable the Federal Reserve System to react more quickly and robustly in a crisis.
Was it sufficient to fix
limits
on the Soviet Union’s ambitions, or was a more aggressive stance, sometimes described as “containment plus,” necessary?
One can also say that both Putin and the Islamic State have drawn much of their strength from the West’s weakness, particularly its failure to have enforced clear and credible
limits
to their actions.
By setting
limits
to “them,” the West will define – with newfound clarity – who and what it is.
Its fiscal weakness
limits
its ability to act as global policeman.
Missing the Forest for the XiLONDON – In recent weeks, Western media commentators have focused extensively on the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) decision to abolish presidential term limits, which will allow Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely.
For Putin, the agreement reached in 1945 at the Yalta Conference is not dead; its
limits
on the Kremlin’s influence have simply shifted eastward, essentially to the boundaries of the former Soviet Union.
In the case of Iran, the first Iraq war teaches us that economic sanctions will likely not be enough to persuade the Revolutionary Guards (who increasingly dominate the country) to accept verifiable
limits
on their nuclear program.
Of course, some of the pessimism arises from the weakness of Europe, which has agreed only that the European Central Bank be lender of last resort; and some stems from recognition of the
limits
of quantitative easing.
Fatal ThawsMOSCOW – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external
limits
on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be “frozen.”
So Europe’s goal must be to set clear
limits
on Putin’s ambitions.
For their part, state governments, forced by new
limits
on the deductibility of state and local taxes to pare their budgets, are likely to move further in the direction of limiting the duration of unemployment benefits and the extent of their own food and nutrition assistance.
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology is calling for all age
limits
on marriage to be abolished.
But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.
While this might sound like an excerpt from a Monty Python sketch, it raises an important issue: should there be
limits
as to what prospective citizens are tested for?
Should we place our faith in the Kyoto Treaty, which sets firm
limits
on human emissions of so-called greenhouse gases?
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