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For example, registering property in Greece is more difficult than in Djibouti; enforcing a contract in Italy takes roughly three times as long as it does in Vietnam; and starting a business in Spain takes roughly 3.5 times longer than in Azerbaijan.
Indeed, over the longer term, the biggest concern for China is that some day money will be trying to get out.
As a result, the recession has been deeper and longer than it would otherwise have been.
Van Rompuy will be able to offer a longer view than that of a six-month national presidency.
Such reforms should work towards developing a multilaterally agreed multi-currency reserve system or even, in the longer term, a world currency based on the Special Drawing Rights issued by the IMF.
Moreover, the number of long-term unemployed (27 weeks or longer) is about 40% of the total – thelowest share since 2009, but still far higher than in the previous recessions since the Great Depression, and about double what it would be in a normal labor market.
Ironically, although central banks are now focused on the problem of deflation, the more serious risk for the longer term is that inflation will rise rapidly as their economies recover and banks use the large volumes of recently accumulated reserves to create loans that expand spending and demand.
To many observers in Russia, however, the regime’s post-electoral offensive against “unfriendly” forces seems certain to be counterproductive in the longer term.
After all, the longer one is unemployed, the harder it is to find a full-time job at a decent wage.
And, in the longer term, it calls for a transition to a system in which multinationals are taxed as one firm, with taxes allocated to the different countries in which they operate according to an agreed-upon formula.
This conclusion follows from the fact that France has suffered from much higher unemployment and a longer post-crisis recession than either the US or Britain, as well as experiencing more problems with terrorism and Islamic militancy.
Even if inaction (or action oriented towards the longer term) is the best policy, it is not an option for democratically elected politicians, whom voters expect to govern, which inevitably means action with the potential for quick results.
Furthermore, it seems likely that many of the short-term effects of the demonetization could persist – and intensify – in the longer term, with closed businesses unable to reopen.
Neither can be true, not with unemployment so high and the average spell of unemployment much longer than usual.
The longer we wait, the costlier and more difficult it will be for us – and our children and grandchildren – to protect the planet.
As a result, our economic interdependence requires careful coordination, not just in the coming weeks, but, crucially, in the longer term.
Countries that have a greater variety of capabilities can make more diverse and complex goods, just as a Scrabble player who has more letters can generate more and longer words.
This trap becomes deeper the longer the alphabet and the longer the words.
The longer the US postpones the day of reckoning, the greater the risk to the dollar’s global standing as the world’s main reserve currency, and to the attractiveness of US government bonds as the true “risk-free” financial benchmark.
As the misdeeds of “banksters” come to light, the system no longer seems fair.
The longer refugees remain in poor living conditions, with inadequate educational facilities for the young and no real employment opportunities, the more likely the camps are to turn into centers of disenchantment, boredom, and radicalization.
But the longer they wait, the weaker the stimulus to economic activity and income, and the more consumers must rely on dissaving to translate their positive sentiment into actual purchases of goods and services.
In other words, short-term economic gain is being supported by policies that threaten to sink the economy in the longer term.
Sentences for non-Han Chinese are typically longer than those imposed on Han Chinese.
In 2004-2007, I considered that I might be wrong about a relatively rapid resolution to the world’s economic distress: as the late Rudi Dornbusch put it, unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances can sustain themselves longer than economists (with their touching faith in rational human decision making) believe is possible.
Rudi Dornbusch was right: imbalances can last for longer than economists believe possible.
The longer children are out of school, the harder it becomes to get them back in the classroom and on track to complete their studies.
The United States managed to get it right, albeit very slowly, whereas many European countries erred on the side of the status quo for a much longer time, if not systematically, as they refused to see that the region could be evolving in a direction contrary to what they deemed to be in their strategic interest.
Lack of export growth thus has made the recession in Greece much longer and deeper than it would have been otherwise.
It may not be true for much longer.
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