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Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of patients.
According to the CBO’s alternative fiscal scenario, growth in Social Security is comparatively modest, from 4.8% of GDP in 2010 to 6.2% in 2035.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
To this end, Abe’s modest step toward collective self-defense is a step in the right direction.
In contrast, Obama’s goal concerning Iran was modest and focused on denuclearization.
But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.
I recently co-authored a study (with Tim Dyson, Leela Visaria and others) that concludes, with modest optimism, that while India can manage its population growth, it also faces a number of major difficulties.
If budget targets were strictly enforced by bailout monitors, which seems unlikely, this improvement in conditions for private borrowers could easily compensate for any modest tightening of fiscal policy.
Europeans may want a more “normal” America, closer to their own values, but they simultaneously worry that a more modest America would demand more of them in the realm of “hard” military power.
Its efforts focus mainly on increasing banks’ mandatory reserve ratios while introducing administrative measures to deal with food price pressures, approving a couple of token interest-rate hikes, and managing a modest upward adjustment in the currency.
Even a modest tax increase on the rich is unlikely to find support in American politics.
The TPP’s initial scope was relatively modest, involving the United States and a range of trading partners (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam).
The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) has demonstrated that a low-carbon future is within reach, with huge benefits at a very modest cost.
Despite these benefits, Latin American and Caribbean countries spend a relatively modest 0.1% of GDP on sports programs with broad social goals – about one-third as much as their European counterparts.
Internet telephony allows friends, relatives, and co-workers to interact face to face from halfway around the world, at very modest cost.
Interestingly, much of the positive impact resulted from three relatively modest projects in the building sector.
China’s Baby StepWhatever the ultimate economic effects of China’s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance.
France is “southern” in its current-account deficit, but “northern” in its borrowing costs (slightly above Germany’s), owing partly to inflows of capital fleeing the south, as well as to modest but positive economic growth.
That modest and unassuming role belongs firmly in the past, although German power has still to be matched by imagination.
Notwithstanding a modest firming of global economic growth, inflation in the advanced economies is expected to average slightly less than 2% in 2017-2018.
Free Trade and Costly LoveLONDON – The World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali in December produced a modest package of encouragements to global trade.
But, as usual when it comes to the United Nations, the deal that was struck was big on stated ambition, but far more modest when it comes to commitments to concrete action.
At 5%, the VAT could raise a modest 1.5-2% of GDP in revenue.
In the campaign, he spoke eloquently of America's future but confined himself to a few modest and inexpensive proposals, mainly tax concessions and subsidies for children, students, and schools.
Although no one can know the future of energy prices, modest world prices may last for some time.
Despite a modest uptick in the last three months, government employment is 569,000 below its June 2009 level – a 30-year low as a share of the adult civilian population.
While the very modest extent of current deflation does not create a significant problem, if it continues, the price level could conceivably fall by a cumulative 10% over the next few years.
A modest tax that is narrowly targeted, like the UK’s, does not seem to cause much harm; but the revenue is modest.
The case of Belgium is particularly instructive, because the risk premium on Belgian sovereign debt has remained modest throughout most of the euro crisis, although the country’s debt/GDP ratio is above the eurozone average, at around 100%, and it went without a government for more than a year.
In fact, the modest measures implemented in response to the changing distribution of global power have been limited to the economic realm, with the hard core of international relations – peace and security – remaining the exclusive preserve of a handful of countries.
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