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But the secret of the University of California’s success is its ability to obtain ever-higher amounts of funding from private sources and the federal government.
In many countries, adverse social norms are also codified in laws that limit women’s professional choices and their ability to obtain passports, travel outside their homes, start businesses, and own or inherit property.
Under the European Union’s current fragmented regulatory regimes, companies must obtain separate permission to sell in each of the 28 national markets.
But these countries held too few eligible securities to obtain enough euros under the ECB’s initial terms.
Rather than intervening to obtain a short-term increase in their share of slow-growing global demand, it makes sense for countries to make their economies more balanced and efficient over the medium term.
A third approach would be to obtain increased contributions from the world’s richest people.
While regional groups may obtain some short-run benefits by pursuing narrower interests outside of multilateral channels, neither emerging nor advanced economies can fulfill their long-run potential in an environment characterized by isolationism and a zero-sum mentality in areas like trade and exchange-rate policy.
With luck, Italy may soon get a credible government of national unity, Spain will obtain a new government in November with a mandate for change, and Greece will do enough to avoid roiling the markets.
Using commodity revenues to obtain political support is not a strategy unique to Brazil.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law,” the government may rely on “cybersecurity systems to identify and obtain cyber threat information.”
In fact, long term insurance may encourage homeowners to invest in risk reducing measures because the premium discounts they will obtain for taking this action will justify incurring the cost of investment.
Unable to obtain a permanent change in these rules, Modi vetoed the WTO’s eagerly anticipated Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Despite the scale of the challenge, the West lacks a clear policy on what to press for and how to obtain it.
Specialization in each country allows people to obtain more of what they want, which, especially at higher income levels, includes cleaner air and water.
If the authorities manage to adhere to this rule – or combine spending cuts with tax revenues to obtain an improvement of 0.6% of GDP per year in the public-sector primary balance – the trajectory of public debt could become sustainable again within a decade.
After this the firm can obtain new profits only by still more improvements in its efficiency.
Though farm “collectives” have remained the owners of rural land, households may obtain all “residuals” of their production, which creates the necessary incentive to use land productively.
The most recent public-opinion poll suggested that Yanukovych’s Party of Regions would obtain 28% of the vote, and that its only ally to surpass the 5% electoral threshold would be the communists, with 11%, giving them a total of 39%, compared to 36% for two opposition parties, Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party (19%) and the heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR (17%).
The businessmen’s main objection to Yanukovych is that he prefers to keep Tymoshenko in prison rather than obtain an Association Agreement with the European Union.
The third component is the exercise of suasion on bondholders to achieve maximum participation, obtain binding pre-commitments, and eliminate free riders.
They claimed that scientists were fabricating evidence in order to obtain government research grants – a ludicrous accusation, I thought at the time, given that the scientists under attack have devoted their lives to finding the truth, and have certainly not become rich relative to their peers in finance and business.
Even with the same physical volume of national output, the value of US output to domestic consumers would fall, because the US would have to export more output to obtain the same value of imports.
To obtain a clearer picture, questions related to monetary union should be kept distinct from wider political issues.
Ten years after world leaders agreed to amend the landmark 1987 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) to make it harder for terrorists to obtain nuclear material, the new measures have yet to enter into force.
In many countries, governments would need to obtain parliamentary approval.
And in his effort to obtain it, the survivors of the Cultural Revolution – people who know what it means to be intimidated into choosing politics over the personal – have become Xi’s most reliable political capital.
Moreover, the Fed lends very little to banks, whereas the ECB has lent massive amounts to weak banks (which could not obtain funding from the market).
It does, however, take on credit risk, because is lending to banks that cannot obtain funding anywhere else.
He has encouraged Japan and South Korea to obtain nuclear weapons.
Countries can be eligible to obtain a credit line at the IMF if they are making good progress adhering to international standards; working to establish and maintain strong financial systems; maintaining sound fiscal and monetary policies; establishing constructive relationships with private creditors; and satisfactorily managing their external debt and reserves.
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