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But workers who worry about being laid off are unlikely to go spend, regardless of how much money fiscal stimulus puts in their
pockets.
India is a glorious democracy with an economically literate government and
pockets
of real economic achievement.
One reason for Rajapaksa’s potential victory is his deep pockets; another is that he can probably count on support from China, having allowed the construction of ports and other facilities for the People’s Liberation Army during his presidency.
Burundi will need even deeper
pockets
from its donors to transform today's political overtures into sustainable peace.
Other
pockets
of extreme poverty, in China and India, are on the path of amelioration due to these two giants' rapid economic growth.
Even more aggressive criticism has been advanced about American regulators – and, indeed, about Congress – alleging that they were in the
pockets
of investment banks, hedge funds, and anyone else with lots of money to spend on Capitol Hill.
With roughly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, the Chinese do have deep
pockets
to fund massive increases in government spending, and to help backstop bank loans.
Ronald Reagan’s famous Tax Reform Act of 1986 was a supply-side policy designed to improve incentives, rather than a traditional demand-side policy designed to put more cash in people’s
pockets.
For all of our lives, my generation has defined success in terms of rising GDP growth: more money in more pockets, more resources for public programs, and more jobs.
These
pockets
of the bacterium, now completely immune to antimicrobial treatment, mean that the challenge of global eradication has become even more daunting.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is also fostering unprecedented public health action among nations in order to beat remaining
pockets
of polio in south Asia and parts of Africa.
The apparent paradox is resolved by noting that rapid productivity growth in the
pockets
of innovation has been undone by workers moving from the more productive to the less productive parts of the economy – a phenomenon that my co-authors and I have called “growth-reducing structural change.”
Unlike France, however, they also used census data to identify
pockets
of new unemployment, and to invest socially and politically, not only in excellent job-training programs, but in job creation, and, just as importantly, in job-placement schemes.
There are ups and downs from year to year because of the weather, and there are
pockets
of starvation around the world (due not to a global lack of food, but to a lack of ways to transport it where it’s needed).
Such a policy response would have to include pro-growth structural reforms (such as higher infrastructure investment, a tax overhaul, and labor retooling), more responsive fiscal policy, relief for
pockets
of excessive indebtedness, and improved global coordination.
Thanks to their deep pockets, Big Tech can gobble up or squelch any new firm that threatens core profit lines, no matter how indirectly.
While there are
pockets
of high quality community-based services in most of the region’s countries, tens of thousands of people with mental disabilities are still living in institutions, and most of them have no prospect of ever leaving.
The European Central Bank has weighed in with more specific concerns: “Vulnerabilities in financial markets continue to build up amid
pockets
of high valuations and compressed global risk premia.”
Much of the vast earnings that the Soviet state collected from energy sales, particularly exports, now flows into a few private
pockets.
Or the change might come more suddenly, with, say, the discovery of large
pockets
of toxic loans that are unlikely to be repaid.
Fourth, repeated street protests, combined with a weak police force, fuel small
pockets
of criminal activity.
It is also a source of vast amounts of money, much of which will end up in the tyrants’
pockets.
Unlike big government-to-government transfers, which can often end up in the
pockets
of officials, the point is to ensure that deals actually get done and investments flow to their intended destination.
If the fate of borrowed money cannot be traced, then they must infer that it was diverted into private
pockets.
With the innovations pioneered by Bitcoin, the fees, delays, and other inefficiencies that serve to line the
pockets
of those in the financial-services industry can largely be eliminated.
If nothing works, it will be time to sprinkle the country with what Milton Friedman called “helicopter money” – that is, put purchasing power directly into people’s pockets, by giving every household a spending voucher with an expiration date.
Pockets
of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Of course, he did mainly fill his own
pockets
– and his social and political activities certainly were not entirely altruistic, either.
The rich countries fear that such “reparations” would disappear into the
pockets
of local elites; and they, too, are right.
Simply put, health costs are bankrupting some of the poorest people in the world, because many of the richest are lining their
pockets.
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