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For some, this approach will seem overly modest.
No wonder that this very modest amount of often-misdirected assistance has yet to end extreme poverty!
But when they are available, they provide solid evidence that, for example, distributing bed nets to protect children against malaria-bearing mosquitos does save lives – and at a modest cost.
It speaks to ten-year default probabilities of less than one in 500,000; notes that even if the analysis is off by an order of magnitude, any risks to government are very modest; and appeals to the regulatory system in place at the time to minimize that their model missed risks.
They would not mind an America that was more modest abroad and more ambitious at home.
Although the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump reviles, has likely had only modest effects on US trade and jobs, he has attempted to humiliate Mexicans insisting that they pay for his border wall, as if Mexico were a US colony.
In late June, the IMF projected modest growth, and, at the time of the “bailout” agreement in May 2011, GDP in 2013 was expected to grow by 1.25%.
Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
The first is that stimulus packages around the world arrested the slide into depression, and may have started a modest recovery.
British banks, having grown up in the early nineteenth century, when industry’s capital needs were modest, specialized in financing foreign trade rather than domestic investment, thereby starving industry of the capital needed to grow.
On the basis of those reforms, and a new WHO agenda on global health, Dr. Bruntland made the extremely modest request that the core WHO budget from the donor countries should be raised sufficiently to absorb rising costs due to inflation and exchange rate changes.
Yet even this modest request was rejected by donor governments.
Even the International Monetary Fund’s forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government’s ability to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.
But, if anything, Kopacz’s proposal was too modest.
The worst threats to liberties come when insecurity is greatest, so modest trade-offs can sometimes prevent greater losses.
Today, Russia is coming to grips with its real size, slowly doing away with globalism, becoming more modest and thus more European.
Efficiency and equity require that this tax be levied on a broad base, harmonized at the EU level, and set at a modest rate.
The fiscal stimulus that will result from these uncoordinated G7 policies will likely be very modest – at best, 0.5% of GDP of additional stimulus per year for a few years.
By comparison, in the US and Germany, the share of the population with a tertiary education rose by a more modest 25%.
It is instructive, however, that the Fed’s next two policy installments, QE2 and QE3, were not matched by large foreign purchases and appeared to have only modest effects in financial markets.
One hopes that modest recovery in the south, aided by strong German leadership in the north, will steer Europe in the right direction.
In reality, the Made in China 2025 strategy – which, incidentally, is inspired partly by the US government’s own massive investment in research and development – seeks to raise China’s manufacturing ability only to the average level of the world’s major manufacturing powers by 2035 (not 2025), a rather modest goal.
The same holds true, though at a more modest level, even for energy-intensive industries, like chemicals.
What the world really needs to do is accelerate productivity – not at a modest pace, but at the economic equivalent of warp speed.
Notwithstanding some recent modest improvements in the US labor market, America’s job situation remains terrible.
Across the Atlantic, there are few signs of even a modest US-style recovery: The gap between where Europe is and where it would have been in the absence of the crisis continues to grow.
This attempt to introduce modest changes within the existing strategic paradigm has won few converts.
It is the result of enormous corporate re-structuring over the past several years, which increased labor productivity, and of German trade unions’ willingness to accept modest wage increases.
Even the modest Bali package was touch and go, requiring an extra day of negotiations to reach agreement on contentious issues like Indian farm subsidies and the US embargo of Cuba.
Though the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases were modest compared to those under Fordney-McCumber, their timing turned the act into a virtual synonym for bad trade policy.
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