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Zucman examines discrepancies in international accounts to provide the most precise and reliable figures we are likely to obtain about the amount of money stored in tax havens.
If investors sense that new projects may obtain special treatment, everyone will decide to wait.
A combination of measures and international agreements must be found that would allow taxpayers to obtain decent returns on their investments, without removing the incentives for savvy entrepreneurs to commercialize innovative products.
It should not be necessary to obtain the agreement of 27 national parliaments each time action is needed.
But for that two-thirds equivalent to U.S. expenditure, the European states obtain a military capability which can be assessed, at most, at about 20% of American military power.
There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran’s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.
The time needed to obtain an export license fell from an average of 230 days in 2005 to 212 days in 2010.
In Guatemala, once again, President Oscar Berger was obviously proud to receive Bush, but failed to obtain a commitment from him to stop the inhuman, hateful Homeland Security raids by US law enforcement officers against undocumented immigrants, exemplified by the detention and attempt at deportation, on the eve of Bush’s visit, of nearly 300 Guatemalans working at a Massachussetts, military vest factory.
But even those lucky enough to obtain treatment – usually a six- to eight-month course of powerful antibiotics – still face a 20% chance of relapse.
Increased liquidity in international capital markets also reduced the need to obtain multilateral financing, and with it the need to accept conditions like privatization of natural resources and deregulation of public utilities.
Corporate America’s Health-Care GambitLUND, SWEDEN – In late January, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced plans to create a company that would help their employees in the United States obtain heath care “at a reasonable cost.”
Many doctors struggle to obtain proper consent.
Moreover, doctors often obtain consent hastily, in a way that sounds almost rehearsed, as if unaware that the patient is receiving the information for the first time.
Estimates suggest that over 60% of Iraqis depend for their income on government, which will obtain the bulk of its revenues from oil for the foreseeable future.
But to flatter Trump is one thing; to obtain significant diplomatic and trade concessions from him is quite another.
These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
The event that has been accomplished, of course, is President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to obtain a majority in the National Assembly.
Denmark has hired Swedish icebreakers for repeated expeditions, and Russia has been deploying special submarines to obtain samples from the ridge and the ocean floor.
The idea that the families of murder victims cannot obtain “closure” until the murderer has been executed seems not to be a universal human truth, but a product of a particular culture – perhaps not even American culture as a whole, but rather the culture of the American South, where 80% of all executions take place.
In calling for early elections, originally scheduled for 1998, he had hoped to obtain a new confirmation of the mandate of his prime minister, Alain Juppe, who has been beset by ever harsher critiques.
If most community members work for just a few employers and obtain health care from just a few providers, the effort of corralling the players will be easier.
Because educational attainment is considered a measure of merit, officials scramble to obtain advanced degrees in order to gain an advantage in the competition for power.
The French chess federation recently suspended three of its top players for conspiring to obtain computer assistance.
Its framers understood that social and cultural stigmatization precludes full participation in public life and the ability to influence policies and obtain justice.
For small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which often struggle to obtain loans, government-run institutes can be used for collaborative research and development.
I am hopeful that as we obtain deeper insights into human nature and cultural evolution, this can be improved.
One would be to simplify procedures for talented foreign nationals to obtain resident status.
He has reduced the membership of the Politburo from nine to seven, making it easier to obtain agreement in a system designed to institutionalize collective leadership.
Or would they become mired in ineffective, poorly-funded attempts to obtain quick results, and then say it couldn’t be done?
And in the Philippines, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas helped double the number of access points where consumers could obtain financial services, supporting the opening of 517 micro-banking offices, many of them in municipalities with no traditional bank branches.
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