Pockets
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Despite the dismal condition of most scientific and technological institutions in Africa,
pockets
of strength exist.
If anything, domestic banks with shallower
pockets
were more likely to cut back in the crisis.
While their proliferation has brought economic growth, jobs, and prosperity, it has also created today’s environmental, energy, food, and financial crises, in addition to widening income inequality and large
pockets
of poverty.
It is no longer best to be subject to the most favorable regulatory regime, but to be where the state has the deepest
pockets.
In the United States, applying the equivalent proportion would mean forcing every citizen to pay roughly $20,000 – all to line the
pockets
of some billionaires, intent on wringing the country dry.
In many countries, most people now have in their
pockets
a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s.
If we were to create a real market, it would become unpleasantly commercial – a bit like those charity auctions where celebrities or tycoons donate the pleasure of their company for lunch with the highest bidder, except that the VIP
pockets
the money.
Dubai was the world’s most spectacular real estate bubble and will have to be rescued by the deep
pockets
of Abu Dhabi.
These groups should also be transferring funds from the richest to the poorest regions to eliminate
pockets
of persistent poverty.
Governments can too easily end up in the
pockets
of business, resulting in cronyism and rent-seeking instead of economic growth.
If rich countries blame unlucky countries - claiming that they are somehow culturally or politically unfit to benefit from globalization - we will create not only deeper
pockets
of poverty but also deepening unrest.
For countries that want such assistance, there is quite a lot of money in the EU’s
pockets
for this sort of work.
Trump’s goal of removing the government’s groping hand from Americans’ pockets, by cutting the top marginal tax rate on ordinary income from 39.5% to 33%, is entirely consistent with mainstream Republican ideology, according to which high tax rates penalize success and stifle innovation.
Nicaragua’s dictator, Anastasio Somoza, diverted much of the international assistance meant for the survivors into his own
pockets
and those of his cronies.
That metric makes sense in the early stages of development: poor economies need foreign capital to build factories, train workers, and put money in the
pockets
of ordinary citizens.
Common people believe that most politicians, irrespective of party, care only about lining their
pockets.
(There is, undoubtedly, a bit of rank hypocrisy in this as, over the years, no group has picked the Union’s
pockets
more than French peasants).
It is because politicians are in the
pockets
of financial interests, they said, that the regulatory environment allowed those interests to reap huge rewards at great social expense.
There is also a need, highlighted by the protracted Greek crisis, to address
pockets
of severe over-indebtedness, which can have crushing impact extending well beyond the directly affected.
More competition for investment-banking oligarchs from commercial bankers and insurance companies with deep
pockets
seemed likely to reduce the investment banking industry’s unconscionable profits.
There are large
pockets
of fragility and weakness in world debt markets, with current monetary easing covering up deep-rooted problems beneath the surface.
What is needed, in particular, is simultaneous progress on pro-growth structural reforms, better demand management, addressing
pockets
of excessive indebtedness, and improving regional and global policy frameworks.
There is no volunteer like Germany or the US Treasury willing to dip into its deep
pockets.
Anemic growth, deflationary forces, and
pockets
of excessive indebtedness will hamper investment, tilting the balance of risk to the downside.
Chronic adjustment is not sustainable, given localized
pockets
of unemployment above 20%, minimal recourse to fiscal policy to smooth adjustments, and a lender of last resort that is constrained by its members’ preferences.
Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have the ability to lower the risk of instability by implementing structural reforms, ensuring more balanced aggregate demand, removing
pockets
of excessive indebtedness, and smoothing out the mechanisms of multilateral and regional governance.
Even in China, where the government has deep
pockets
to cushion the fall, one Lehman Brothers-size bankruptcy could lead to a major panic.
Reducing the pool of hopeless young men also requires implementing strategies to expand economic opportunity, both in the developing world and in the most depressed
pockets
of the developed world.
Megacities like Mumbai, Nairobi, and Kinshasa are essentially small cities surrounded by huge slums –
pockets
of wealth in a sea of despair.
But, with oil and gas revenues flowing into state coffers, Putin started to fill his own
pockets.
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