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Institutional change requires a long, tedious, and modest implementation of multiple small steps, in which the correct sequencing of reform is crucial.
A more modest option could, in the short term, do much more for every dollar spent.
Reaching 53 million children in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa would yield economic benefits six times higher than the astonishingly modest annual cost of $26.5 million.
And the Kremlin is aggressively portraying the planned establishment of a modest US missile defense installation in Poland and the Czech Republic as a threat to Russia’s vital security interests.
Given the enormous advances in oil-extraction technology since the 1970s and the immense size of Iran’s reserves (the fourth-largest in the world, after Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela), restoring output to the levels of 40 years ago seems a modest objective.
Indeed, there is only a modest correlation between higher incarceration rates and lower crime rates.
Meanwhile, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Chile have already acquired modest amounts of renminbi reserves.
If all member countries had little public debt, issuing European bonds up to 40% or 60% of GDP would cover all their funding needs, and they could reap a modest liquidity premium.
The Financial Times reports that peak demand for coal in India will come in about ten years, with modest growth between now and then.
Additionally, “proof of concept” studies are typically inexpensive for software innovations (except in pharmaceuticals); with modest capital, IT innovators can test ideas without surrendering a major share of their stock.
Here, then, is a modest proposal that applies to all democracies: the marketplace of ideas works better if it is easier for citizens to see the trade-offs between accuracy and entertainment, or between accuracy and party loyalty.
The problem is that silence has narrowed the frontier of political possibility even further, so that more modest proposals have fallen by the wayside as well.
That rapidly depleted its modest foreign-exchange reserves, triggering a severe financial crisis in 1991, which in turn compelled India to embark on radical economic reforms that laid the foundations for its economic rise.
While down from the blistering, unsustainable 12.7% pace recorded during the three years prior to the crisis, this represented only a modest shortfall from the 30-year post-1980 trend of 10%.
Burden sharing by the European Union has produced very modest financial support for refugees in Turkey, with most of the aid going to help Turkey’s government stop further westward migration of the displaced.
Today, sustained appreciation of the yen would probably derail the modest progress forged by the Bank of Japan in raising inflation and inflation expectations.
I can claim credit for modest successes, but Ghana needs more than modest successes.
In addition, governments introduced modest subsidies and regulations to encourage conservation and renewable energy sources.
Despite these considerable macroeconomic achievements, however, Ukraine’s microeconomic progress has been modest.
The protests erupted despite two years of modest improvement in the Iranian economy.
Hu Jia’s political actions are much more modest than that.
Despite a huge investment of time and energy, he has failed to marshal even his own troops in support of a relatively modest proposal to stave off collapse of the nation’s old-age insurance program.
One modest way for the pharmaceutical industry to address the AMR threat is to sponsor such exhibitions, so that more people have a clear, scientific understanding of the issue.
Even those estimates are probably too modest, given that immigrants are also an important source of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Extrapolating Europe’s modest growth from 1980 onwards, my calculations show that output in the eurozone today is more than 15% below where it would have been had the 2008 financial crisis not occurred, implying a loss of some $1.6 trillion this year alone, and a cumulative loss of more than $6.5 trillion.
As it happens, Europe is currently experiencing a modest but significant surge in growth.
These investments bring a modest real financial rate of return of 4% through fees, tolls, and, in the longer run, tax revenues (stemming from an increase in GDP).
Just recall the market’s “taper tantrums” in May 2013, when then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested a far more modest turn in monetary policy.
Given widespread apathy about changes in consumer prices, the modest success of a new market to hedge inflation risk, the European inflation futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), is noteworthy.
It may mean that after a decades-long economic miracle, people must accept a modest reduction in their standard of living.
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