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Raising medicine prices reduces usage, leading to more illness, lower productivity, and slower GDP growth.
India and China, as major pharmaceutical exporters themselves, have a clear interest in seeing lower medicine tariffs worldwide.
But that is unlikely, because lower GDP would be taken as a sign of the government’s failure.
Street sweepers in developing countries are arguably less threatened by automation than their counterparts in developed countries, because their jobs are less mechanized and lower paid.
He rightly judged that pushing for faster growth and lower unemployment was not taking excessive risks, but rather harvesting low-hanging fruit.
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve NothingNEW YORK – Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and deteriorating infrastructure – the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregulation, to “incentivize” investors and “free up” the economy.
The sordidness of all of this will be sugarcoated with the hoary claim that lower tax rates will spur growth.
On trade policy, meanwhile, the risks are probably lower than they appear at first glance.
The Fed is therefore trying to tamp down expectations concerning future interest-rate levels, by suggesting that changes in demography and productivity trends imply lower real rates in the future.
To avoid an unsustainable snowball, the central bank is likely to lower interest rates gradually after the details of the IMF package are announced.
Even the pessimists are speaking only of lower positive growth.
The Trump administration needs to stay the course, especially as lower oil prices have weakened the Venezuelan government’s hand.
According to the professional services firm Deloitte, mortgage debt in Russia is 20 times lower, on average, than in the European Union.
While standards for students in the region’s upper socioeconomic quintile rose over the past decade, there was little change in the lower quintile, where 70% of students failed to reach the most basic levels.
Minimum-wage increases, for example, counteract income-tax credits and lower payroll taxes aimed at encouraging youth employment.
And that, in turn, has important consequences: as Jack Fisher, a professor of surgery at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, observed, “Keep crying ‘wolf,’ and WHO can expect lower than customary compliance with flu vaccine advisories next fall.”
"The people of Iran," the late Ayatollah Khomeini is reported to have liked to say, "did not make the Islamic Revolution to lower the price of watermelons."
The overall CPI is actually slightly lower now than it was a year ago, implying a negative inflation rate.
Wages so far have responded slowly to lower unemployment.
The irony is that Germany’s anxieties about price stability, which underlie the EU’s embrace of austerity, are entirely misplaced: German inflation could scarcely be lower.
Indeed, sound political decisions can achieve just as much as buying new ships – and at a far lower cost.
Provinces with high levels of private insurance coverage, on the other hand, had lower employment rates and slower wage growth.
Workers in the host country, such as software technicians and call-center operators, clearly benefit from BPO, but so do shareholders and company owners (whose profits grow) and consumers (who pay lower prices).
From 2010 to 2013, 436 death sentences were handed down by lower courts.
Mini-grids can have a major competitive advantage over grid extension in rural and remote areas, because they can provide electricity more quickly and at much lower cost.
The difference reflects a combination of the lower rate on short-term debt and the highly favorable terms on which Greece is now able to borrow from official lenders at the IMF and the ECB.
In the case of China, a key part of its 12th five-year plan is to shift income to the household sector, where the savings rate is high but still lower than the corporate rate.
The right is both for and against Europe; for a market economy and for workers’ ownership; for a strong welfare state and lower taxes; for modernization of agriculture and the preservation of small family farms.
Lower interest rates are not a solution to this dilemma.
In Europe, lower rates risk aggravating the problem by lowering the returns for savers.
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