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Even Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has admitted, however, that while the recent leaks are embarrassing and awkward for the US, their consequences for its foreign policy are modest.
For example, Haruka Nishimatsu, former President and CEO of Japan Airlines, attracted international attention a few years ago for his modest lifestyle.
Trump’s Surprisingly Strong Start with IndiaWASHINGTON, DC – Heading into the recent meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, expectations were modest.
With the prospect of modest rates of return in advanced economies, China has inevitably become a more attractive investment destination, despite a significant risk that China will someday experience its own sharp slowdown and financial crisis.
The problem is that lobbyists in Washington would reject this modest solution if the Doha Round were the end game.
Although described as "ambitious," the millennium goals are modest, for to halve the number of people living in poverty, all that is required - over 15 years - is to reach the better-off half of the world's poorest people, and move them marginally above the poverty line.
For starters, defusing both Brexit and the refugee crisis will require some modest changes in immigration and welfare rules.
A fairly low rate of population growth ensured a modest annual rise in per capita income of about 0.7% during this period.
Given Afghanistan’s vital importance for the security of the subcontinent, India’s assistance program there already amounts to more than $1.2 billion – modest from the standpoint of Afghan needs, but large for a non-traditional donor – and is set to rise further.
At worst, labor-market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital-market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.
Europe has made some modest efforts to regain university competitiveness.
Tariffs are generally modest already, so gains from their further reduction would be modest as well.
Since his sweeping re-election, he has been surprisingly modest and magnanimous.
In both cases, the effective protection of human subjects should receive much higher priority, thereby justifying the modest added expense, which probably would amount to no more than 1-2% of the overall cost of clinical studies.
European politicians today present voters with a choice between modest pragmatism and blustery nationalism.
At such a modest cost, and with the stakes so high, it is hard to imagine the world failing to act decisively.
The same growth rate can bring anything from a modest drop in poverty to a dramatic decline.
So long as a national government is not running more than a modest deficit, a current-account deficit reflects the private sector’s borrowing from abroad (or the sale of previously accumulated foreign assets).
The problem is that a reduction in those extremes to which we are already well-adapted provides only modest benefits, whereas the new extremes to which we are not adapted can be devastating, as recent events in Pakistan show.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), which will convene later this month to discuss social-protection floors, providing basic social-security benefits to the world’s poor would be very modest.
Moreover, while the Trump administration’s modest growth-boosting policies are already behind us, the effects of policies that could hamper growth have yet to be fully felt.
It’s modest at a time when the world is in recession.
The IMF is rounding up the money from the usual sources: its own funds, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, foreign governments, and to a modest extent, foreign commercial banks.
In fact, outside of East Asia, progress has been modest, with the situation worsening in some countries and regions – despite several economic-growth spurts, sustained expansion in some large developing countries, and public commitments by the international community to the 2000 Millennium Declaration, which led to the MDGs.
The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action: it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.
This stance assumes that lower tax rates raise the tax/GDP ratio by ensuring better compliance with tax laws, and favors indirect taxation (such as value-added taxes) in order to broaden the tax base to include those with modest incomes.
Indeed, insofar as the impact of these policies on the recovery can be reliably measured, it is probably modest – definitely not worth the €2.3 trillion ($2.8 trillion) in assets purchased since April 2015, not to mention the other consequences of maintaining zero or negative interest rates.
The Western democracies will survive with only modest changes.
On top of already modest inflation expectations – characterized by a five-year break-even inflation rate of 1.9% – the dollar has appreciated by around 10% this year, and by almost 25% since the beginning of last year.
Germany has relatively balanced trade with China, even recording a modest bilateral surplus in the post-crisis period.
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