Limits
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Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share.
For example, in Japanese cities aspiring to world-class status,
limits
on floor space will become a thing of the past.
But this
limits
its ability to use taxation as a mechanism for redistribution.
When states got waivers for time
limits
and work or training requirements for welfare recipients, they were so successful that federal welfare reform followed.
A humane version of the biomedical sciences would, for instance, acknowledge that it is not about to transcend the
limits
of the human body, and so it would no longer make promises that it cannot keep.
The
Limits
to Fighting the Islamic StateCANBERRA – There is a long history of misconceived and over-reaching foreign military intervention in the Middle East, and it is to be hoped that US President Barack Obama’s decision to wage war against the Islamic State will not prove to be another.
In justifying his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, Bush has always referred to the fact that it did not commit China and India to mandatory emission
limits.
China and India claim the right to proceed with industrialization and development as the developed nations did, unhampered by
limits
on their greenhouse gas emissions.
Under Euro rules, governments must observe strict
limits
on their budget deficits and public debt.
Berlusconi’s promised tax cuts may soon run up against both Treaty limits, and will likely incite conflict with other Euro area governments if they do.
As much as Internet companies like Facebook or Google want to collect data about their users, there are
limits
to their power to do so.
The rules need to impose
limits
on deficits, spending, and debt, and require transparency so that the public knows what’s going on.
So they also need clear, albeit different,
limits
on leverage.
Questions will be raised about which sanctions are to be eased and when; about the terms of compliance inspections; and about what will happen once some of the
limits
on Iran’s nuclear activities expire.
But a decision to purchase sovereign bonds would also need to build on and factor in the institutional specificities of the euro area, including the
limits
set by the EU Treaty.
We take these
limits
very seriously.
While America is facing the
limits
of fiscal policy, monetary policy can do more, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke detailed in a recent speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
But Chinese officials’ piecemeal efforts to restore confidence in the country’s exports – for example, establishing
limits
for trace amounts of melamine in dairy products and tightening quality-control regulations for the dairy industry – are unlikely to reassure foreign consumers or importers.
Alternatively, it could have intervened by instituting planning regulations or imposing
limits
on mortgage loans.
Deteriorating economic conditions at home implied stricter
limits
on American intervention abroad.
But there are
limits.
The residual suspicion that lingers in countries like China and Korea sets
limits
on Japan’s appeal that are reinforced every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni Shrine.
While culture provides some soft power, domestic policies and values set limits, particularly in China, where the Communist Party fears allowing too much intellectual freedom and resists outside influences.
With
limits
on Germany’s willingness to accept a reduction in its competitiveness and repeated signals from the European Central Bank that monetary policy will remain highly accommodating, export-led growth seems to be the goal here, too.
Moreover, contributions paid in a worker’s country of origin are rarely verified, and there is a serious risk that some contractual restrictions, such as
limits
on working hours, will not be enforced when a worker is posted elsewhere.
Instead, Europe’s center-left parties should strike a balance between national and international solidarity with a three-pronged strategy comprising effective
limits
on immigration, a focus on integration, and humanitarian efforts to ease large-scale human suffering.
Elsewhere, political
limits
to tax increases were reached before the gap could be filled.
One question is this: where do the
limits
of private provision for public purposes lie?
More generally, there may well be
limits
to the usefulness of both PPPs and PVPs.
A third lesson derives from a little-noticed but vital aspect of the US experience: debt reduction is comparatively easy in the US, because the no-recourse feature of most mortgages there
limits
repayment obligations to the value of the house.
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