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Driven to the margins of most societies by collective memories of Nazi and fascist horrors, such men (there were hardly any women) had the grubby air of middle-aged patrons of backstreet porno cinemas.
Not necessarily, if only because the areas where India excels, notably services, have far higher potential margins than manufacturing.
This erodes net interest margins, puts pressure on certain fee structures, and makes certain providers more cautious about entering into long-term financial relationships.
Many governments have now implemented interest-rate ceilings and margin caps to curtail excessive profits for MFIs, while ignoring the margins of the market’s non-organized alternatives, like pawnbrokers.
Such an oversimplification is no more accurate for China than it would be for the US, where Hillary Clinton won the popular vote over Trump, or the UK, where those who wanted to remain in the EU lost the Brexit referendum by the slimmest of margins.
Far from seizing on deregulation to improve their own profit margins, at the expense of consumers and communities, companies should be working hard to boost transparency.
The high-tech crash was thus the result of a realization by investors that the "new economy" was, in most sectors and for most firms, unlikely to lead to large quasi_rent type profits from established market positions, but rather to heightened competition and reduced margins.
As they do, profit margins will fall: competition will become swifter, stronger, more pervasive, and more nearly perfect.
Those products that can be competitively supplied will be supplied at very low margins.
The future of technology is bright; the future of the profit margins of businesses--save for those few that truly are able to use economies of scale to create mammoth cost advantages--is dim.
The gap in price does not tell us that diamonds are useful and valuable and water is not, but that it has so far proved easier to maintain market power and high margins in the diamond business than in the water business.
So, what NASDAQ's crash tells us is that the new economy is more likely to be a source of downward pressure on profit margins than of large, durable quasi_rents.
And yet the money has not followed; the industry’s revenues and margins have both plummeted.
Of course, it makes sense for US leaders to nudge events at the margins in an effort to advance democratic values in the long term.
Those who pursue such interests -- not superficially and only verbally, but sincerely -- are pushed to the margins of society as idealists standing apart from the real state of affairs.
They can erode bank profitability by narrowing interest-rate margins.
Evolution - whether of microbes or humans - involves pushing at the margins, going a little bit further than yesterday or last year, driven by the need to find additional sources of food.
Over the last few months – on the margins of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and at the World Education Forum in May – an informal group has been considering a proposal to establish a new global fund for education in emergencies.
There remain in Romania today disadvantaged and neglected groups who are pushed to society’s sordid margins.
As prices rose, the lucky owners of low-cost oil and gas fields – notably Russia and producers in the Middle East– were able to capture increasingly large margins.
Because policymakers operate in second-best environments, optimal reform trajectories - even in apparently straightforward cases such as price reform - cannot be designed without due regard to prevailing conditions and without weighing the consequences for multiple distorted margins.
Global debt ratios have risen sharply since the financial crisis began, while traditional lenders’ margins have been squeezed, raising questions about their overall health.
In the process, conspiracy theories are pulled from the margins of public discourse, where they were generally consigned in the past, and sometimes into the very heart of politics.
Frequently enough, it is citizens digging at the margins of the discourse – pursuing such theories – who report on news that the mainstream media ignores.
But as cities around the world are already demonstrating, it is possible to deploy technologies that serve everyone – even those on the margins of connectivity.
International investment has become an important source of external finance for many countries; for developing economies, in particular, FDI can exceed official development assistance by wide margins.
It is on the way to a US-style capital market where households hold funds and companies issue paper and stocks, intermediation margins are small and governance significant.
Deregulation meant competition and thinner margins.
And the sector is already profitable: Chinese e-tailers are logging margins of 8-10% of earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization, which is slightly larger than the average margin for physical retailers.
In a difficult market, mergers – by enabling banks to cut costs, share information-technology platforms, and increase market power, thereby relieving pressure on margins and rebuilding capital – make sense.
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