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For example, a small group of companies – mostly located in such bastions of democracy as Russia, Georgia, and China – control between two-thirds and three-quarters of all crypto-mining activity, and all routinely jack up transaction costs to increase their fat profit
margins.
Unlike more established democracies, in which politics only effects the economy at the margins, Poland cannot coast along; it needs leadership from its politicians if the economic gains of the last few years are not to be wasted through lack of progress on privatization, fiscal and banking reform, and modernization of the legal system.
For example, competitiveness has to do with the ability to increase market share without sacrificing
margins
or lowering wages, something that reflects superior productivity.
For the first time, voters in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of illicit drugs in general, and marijuana in particular, approved propositions legalizing possession, production, and distribution of cannabis – and by relatively broad
margins.
French politics is now crystallizing around a strong center, while the two parties of the left and right that traditionally have formed both the government and the main opposition have been swept to the
margins.
As in Russia and Venezuela, a few courageous dissidents are allowed to exist on the
margins
of public discourse, to provide a semblance of free speech.
This patronizing view conveniently ignores the fact that in the last four elections, Thaksin and his allies won by lopsided
margins.
This has contributed to the erosion of Chinese firms’ profit margins, which, according to TCL Corp Chairman Li Dongsheng, have dropped to less than 2%, on average.
For countries that fail to equip their residents with the proper skills, technological progress is unlikely to translate into economic growth, and large swaths of the population risk languishing on the
margins
of society.
In a remote corner of Ghana, one “telemedicine” program illustrates just how effective digital care can be when coverage is extended to those on the medical
margins.
The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises’ profit
margins
of – small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.
Without competition, lowering tariffs may merely be reflected in higher profit
margins
for a monopoly importer.
Russia, while never renouncing its imperial dreams and instruments of domination, was nonetheless coming to terms with the inevitability of democracy, at least on its
margins.
Price stability has not put profit
margins
under pressure.
Such speculative purchases may barely register in inventories, because the purchases are small compared to the overall market, and because of the global storage system’s many
margins
of accommodation.
Indeed, it is only on the
margins
where Latin America’s left is striving to differ – and partly succeeding.
If adopted, this instrument can make a real difference in the lives of those who are often left to languish at the
margins
of society, and are denied their economic, social, and cultural rights, such as access to adequate nutrition, health services, housing, and education.
China and India are seeking global influence commensurate with their economic weight;Brazil and South Africa are emerging as continental powerhouses, and hydrocarbon-fueled Russia is chafing at its status on the
margins
of the Western system.
But whatever he does, the Belovezha Accords created a new reality that can be revised only at the
margins.
That is not to say that dissent has not been tolerated; but, more often than not, it was mere quibbling at the margins, never a genuine reflection on what might be flawed or missing.
In other words, the US and Europe – that odd miscellany of small and medium-size nation-states – are already divided and consigned to the
margins.
Feeling ourselves outcasts or at least on the
margins
of Europe, we seek to build a society without outsiders or outcasts.
Slumping orders devastated low-end producers, which barely survived on wafer-thin
margins.
I hope that they will take them to heart and address once and for all the long-standing injustices that for too long have pushed too many people with leprosy to the
margins
of society.
By acceding to Musharraf’s desire to keep Sharif on the political margins, the US has left itself with few options if the Bhutto-Musharraf alliance fails to produce a government acceptable to Pakistanis.
As a result, governments have been confined to tinkering at the
margins
of markets’ allocation of resources.
The rise of the digital economy, dominated by people in their twenties and thirties, is also pushing older workers to the
margins.
Indeed, despite the magnitude of the initial shock, capital flows and risk
margins
had essentially normalized by 2009, when bond financing in Latin America began to surge, soon reaching triple the pre-2008 average.
More remarkably, the Fed’s two recent interest-rate hikes have had no perceptible impact on risk
margins
and financial flows, though higher rates have been transmitted to Latin America.
Trump’s election increased Latin American risk
margins
by less than one percentage point, and that premium had disappeared by the end of the year.
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