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Of course, aid should be directed to specific needs – for example, malaria control, food production, safe drinking water, and sanitation – whose fulfillment can be measured and monitored to resist corruption.
History and geography – measured by distance from the closest seaports – have isolated these countries physically, economically, and socially, and have exacerbated the difficulties of their transitions to market economies.
But in emerging economies with substantial dollar debts – whether private or public – devaluation raises the cost of outstanding debt (when measured in domestic currency) and can wreak havoc with balance sheets and creditworthiness.
Policymakers commonly assume that what cannot be easily measured statistically is either inconsequential or irrelevant.
Likewise, a country’s prosperity can be measured properly only by including elements of moral philosophy and sociology, which fall outside of the boundaries of wealth creation and individual rationality that form the domain of conventional macroeconomic analysis.
The fact is that the industry’s safety record is second to none when measured against those of its rivals.
What impact do lower interest rates have on measured inequality?
They welcome measured and respectful US, European, and wider support.
The ECB shifted its refinancing credit and money creation – to the tune of €900 billion – toward southern Europe and Ireland, as measured by the Eurosystem’s Target balances.
This means that limits on our consumption of fossil fuels cannot be measured only by the availability of supplies, but must also take account of the environmental costs.
In all three countries, tourism is an important sector for employment and the balance of payments, and expenditures have been rising when measured in euros.
A RAND study projects that by 2015, China’s military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan’s, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).
Rather than continuing to pursue the uncontrolled proliferation of poorly equipped and operated health-care facilities, policymakers should consider a more measured approach.
With a more measured approach, it will take longer to build the same number of clinics.
As Frederick Mackeson, a British colonial officer, observed of the tribesmen in 1850, “their fidelity is measured by the length of the purse of their seducer, and they transfer their obedience according to the liberality of the donation.”
In measured but devastating prose, the Winograd Commission gives failing marks to all three leaders.
The issue is not only increased investment, but also of a change in the organization of research to reward creativity and excellence as measured by international standards.
But it can be argued in simple language that markets work for all only if they are regulated in the interests of all; that public expenditures that create productive assets can reduce the ratio of public debt to national income; and that performance should be measured by how widely the fruits of growth are shared.
Counting What Counts in DevelopmentNEW YORK – To most people, “development” is best measured by the quantity of change – like gains in average income, life expectancy, or years spent in school.
Consider the statistics measured by the HDI – life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
From 2000 to 2010, Sub-Saharan Africa’s poverty rate (as measured by the share of those living on less than $1.25/day) fell to 48.5%, after having risen from 56.5% to 58% in the 1990-1999 period, while overall annual economic growth, which averaged 2.3% from 1990 to 2000, more than doubled, to 5.7% during the 2000-2010 period.
That is true, and measured UK productivity growth has remained low, but nobody can be sure why.
Hobbled by the self-inflicted wounds of the debt-ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011 – which undermined economic growth and job creation, and further damaged Americans’ confidence in their political system – the US Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration recognized the need for a measured and rational approach to fiscal reform.
The Japanese are like mice on a treadmill: they are moving production offshore to low labor cost locations in the United States, in Thailand, in Indonesia,wherever entry and even mid-level products (measured in terms of required labor skills) can be produced more profitably than in high wage Japan.
That was the case in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008-2009, when global saving imbalances, as measured by the disparities between countries with current-account deficits and surpluses, hit a modern record.
In the coming weeks, Europe’s governments will be measured by their commitment to the preservation of this vital global resource.
However, that evidence is problematic because the GDP includes government "output," which is not sold in the market and so cannot be directly measured.
Better indicators would have revealed the highly negative and possibly long-lasting effects of the deep post-2008 downturn on productivity and wellbeing, in which case policymakers might not have been so enamored of austerity, which lowered fiscal deficits, but reduced national wealth, properly measured, even more.
Of course, resolving uncertainty is no reason to invade Iraq prematurely, for the costs of any war are high, and are not to be measured only, or primarily, in economic terms.
Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.
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