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When the Japanese company Daiichi Sankyo paid $4.6 billion for majority control of the Ranbury pharmaceutical group in 2008, they were placing a bet on continuing corporate success.
Moreover, the total effect on labor income – the product of jobs times hours worked times average hourly wages – has been more severe than that implied by the job losses alone, because many firms are cutting their workers’ hours, placing them on furlough, or lowering their wages as a way to share the pain.
Placing an emphasis on automated, computer-based systems for procurement and revenue collection will go a long way to limit corruption.
A government that buys political risk insurance by placing an ever-growing stock of reserve assets in dollar securities guards against some dangers.
And the trend is not abating, placing increasing pressure on already-strained political systems.
Partisan polarization in Congress has also undermined the executive branch, unduly blocking government appointments – including routine and essentially uncontroversial ones – and placing unwarranted obstacles in the way of implementing even the most sensible and seemingly bipartisan legislative proposals.
The inability of Europe’s politicians to contemplate this scenario is placing a huge burden on the European Central Bank.
By placing Ukraine’s energy needs in the hands of a shadowy company linked to international criminals, the agreement has planted the seeds of new and perhaps more dangerous crises.
In fact, the eurozone will contract in the first half of next year – and probably in the second half, because of the deficit-cutting policies now being pursued – placing further pressure on banks and sovereigns.
Western central bankers need to become much more vocal and, one hopes, more persuasive in placing pressure on politicians and other policymakers.
This requires placing some sand in the wheels of globalization.
And all of this would amplify rather than attenuate political polarization, placing other urgent policy priorities at even greater risk.
Revenues have been increased, without placing additional burdens on vulnerable social groups.
Moreover, Africa’s economies have already begun to diversify, placing less emphasis on natural resources relative to thriving tourism, agriculture, telecommunications, banking, and retail sectors.
They are placing their faith in their ability to wash their own dirty laundry and drive economic, social, and political change from the top down.
Placing the spouses and children of henchmen on the list would make ostracism particularly effective.
Placing a higher price on carbon-based fuels, electricity, and industrial activities will create incentives for the use of cleaner fuels, save energy, and promote a shift to greener investments.
And many of those who bravely fought for freedom had little political experience, placing an even greater premium on great leadership to channel Egyptians’ enormous energy – and their demands for greater social justice – into a shared vision and common purpose.
Demographic trends, shifting patterns of disease, and strained public funding are placing new burdens on health-care systems.
As a result, placing so many eggs in one basket leaves the business of aid provision looking increasingly risky.
And they are placing a high priority on investments in critical areas, including education, basic health care, and increased agricultural productivity – the building blocks of a self-sufficient and prosperous future.
Such action from the WHC would also help to educate and empower civil society, while placing pressure on financial institutions to withhold the funding required for massive development projects.
Placing that understanding at the heart of the SDGs will help to improve the health and wellbeing of all societies long into the future.
The Electoral Integrity Project ranked the 2013 election 66th for polls held worldwide last year – placing it firmly in the lowest tier, below Pakistan and Iran.
Rebalancing the US-China Economic RelationshipCAMBRIDGE – As the global economy stabilizes, there is a growing danger that the United States and China will slip back into their pre-crisis economic patterns, placing themselves and the rest of the world at risk.
Hezbollah, which claims it is fighting for Lebanese independence and sovereignty, also bears responsibility for unacceptable aggression, placing the lives of innocent Israelis and Lebanese at stake.
For example, as Western countries increasingly move to protect gay rights, the expectation has arisen that aid recipients follow suit, placing such rights above the “national rights” of the government.
Lifting a country out of poverty and placing it on a path of sustainable growth requires hard work, the creation of a robust system of property rights, and – crucially – private investment.
In 2018, the AfDB predicts, average growth will accelerate to 4.1%, while the World Bank expects Ghana to grow by 8.3%, Ethiopia by 8.2%, and Senegal by 6.9%, placing these countries among the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Gligorov remembered looking up at his grandfather to correct him, and his grandfather placing his index finger over his mouth to silence him.
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