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Aside from announcements of modest outlays for the next few years, which might – just might – add up to a real few billion dollars, the big news was a commitment of $100 billion per year for the developing countries by 2020.
The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies to support a modest workforce.
Second, the electorate grasped the importance of re-electing a modest but wise and determined leader who understood the direction India needed to take.
This is not because the predicted acceleration in growth is still quite modest.
The world has learned since 2008 how dangerously financial expectations can interact with policy blunders, turning modest economic problems into major catastrophes, first in the US and then in the eurozone.
The Republicans must now choose between passing their tax cuts (and adding $2 trillion to the public debt) and pursuing a much more modest reform.
Of course, Greeks have little love for Merkel; but, thanks to Europe’s modest economic recovery, some of the poison has been drawn from Germany’s relations with Europe’s most damaged and distressed economies.
Low-value silver coins were used for small day-to-day transactions, including payment of modest wages and rents.
The good news is that this welcome but modest effect on growth probably will not die out in 2016.
They could guarantee the losses in the same way as they underwrite the World Bank: each government would provide a modest pro-rata capital infusion and commit the rest in the form of callable capital that would be available if and when losses are actually paid out.
In today’s America, the proud claim of “justice for all” is being replaced by the more modest claim of “justice for those who can afford it.”
Promising signs are now emerging, though initial efforts have yielded only modest and fragile results: the Minsk agreement on a ceasefire and military disengagement in Ukraine; the trilateral gas agreement concluded by Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union; and a halt to the escalation of mutual sanctions.
Breaking the vicious cycle of hunger and malnutrition requires complementing the focus on agriculture and rural development (more than 70% of the food-insecure population lives in rural areas of developing countries) with investment in other social and productive programs, including modest but predictable financial transfers to the poorest families.
Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s foreign-policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.
Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors’ confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.
When he had negotiated with European diplomats in 2003, Iran had a modest nuclear program, and could enrich uranium only with great difficulty.
Initially, President Bashar's accession to power was accompanied by a modest, but noticeable political thaw.
According to one analysis, with only modest ad purchases on Facebook, Russian agents gained access to a goldmine of online advertising data – such as Facebook’s customer targeting software – which enabled the “sharing” of Russia’s fake news hundreds of millions of times.
To stop Brexit in the year ahead, four similarly modest shifts in behavior need to happen.
Indeed, a modest 3% increase in the developed-country workforce would provide a larger economic boost than removing all remaining trade barriers.
Even the European Commission’s modest proposal to share responsibility for processing asylum applications and resettling refugees – rather than leaving Greece and Italy solely responsible for processing all of the asylum seekers who reach their shores – has faced inexplicably strong resistance.
Nevertheless, I share Bernanke’s instinct that, while central banks do set very short-term interest rates, they have virtually no influence over long-term real (inflation-adjusted) rates, other than a modest effect through portfolio management policies (for example, “quantitative easing”).
Many studies, including those that I did for the World Health Organization, show that for a modest amount of money worldwide, perhaps an extra $50 - $100 billion per year in aid from rich countries, the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved.
Only 2-3% of North African countries’ modest foreign trade occurs within the region, so they have missed out on the surge in international business that over the last two decades has lifted billions of people out of backwardness and misery in Asia, Latin America, and even sub-Saharan Africa.
Obama did not, however, define the new goals tightly, leaving that up to NASA – a sensible and modest approach, but unfortunately a political mistake.
Assuming 2.5% average annual inflation, a modest €0.15 profit per kWh in 2020-2045, and a conservatively estimated annual yield of 70 GWh per square kilometer, these countries’ debt could be reduced by up to 30%.
But even this modest proposal was not enacted.
The Bush administration has pushed forward tax cuts that lead to deficits while providing only a modest amount of stimulus.
Obama’s foreign-policy mistakes, by contrast, have had only modest repercussions.
But it will be a monument less to the modest Gandhian it ostensibly honors than to its builder’s overweening ambitions.
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