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The next 95% would create much more happiness and opportunity if it was divided evenly among US citizens or others than if they were to consume any portion of it.
University leaders like me spent much of our time persuading them to recycle a portion of their gains to their old schools.
The best way to accelerate the transition from hydrocarbons to greener forms of energy would be to redirect a portion of national oil subsidies to renewables.
India would undoubtedly benefit, though it is unlikely to absorb a significant portion of China’s excess savings.
A substantial portion of a national policy agenda that supports an individual country’s shift to a low-carbon growth path (boosting energy efficiency, for example) will not produce an economic slowdown; such an effort might even lead to higher growth rates than remaining on a high-carbon path would have delivered.
Likewise, issuing more debt to cover the portion of liabilities coming due would merely shift the composition of liabilities without reducing them.
In coming years the most important fiscal task facing East European and NIS government will be to reduce the size of social spending to a more reasonable portion of GDP.
That surplus, in turn, has contributed directly to improved education, as families donate a portion of their surplus to the school’s mid-day meal program.
Regardless of who comes to power, the West should channel a larger portion of the billions of dollars in development aid each year, including the newly approved $535 million for the country from the UN’s Millennium Challenge Account, to foster a local spirit of natural capitalism instead of providing charity.
When the exchange rate plummeted again, the Kremlin urged the five largest state-owned exporting companies to exchange a portion of their assets into rubles, leading to another overshoot, followed by yet another sharp decline.
In some parts of California and Texas, a portion of the water supply is provided to consumers for almost nothing – delivered by a network of dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts that were built decades ago.
Even if farmed supplies from South Africa satisfied a portion of the demand globally, it will not alter demand among consumers drawn to wild product, or those who are indifferent about the source.
But that does not mean that a corporation is the right entity to engage in altruism – though its various stakeholders obviously can spend any portion of the income they earn from the corporation and other sources in altruistic ways.
By relying on some 110,000 foreign state and non-state actors to maintain a hold on the small portion of Syria that he still controls, Assad’s regime is much like his military: a shadow of what it once was.
Imagine that a fixed portion of new equity issues (IPOs) goes into a public trust that, in turn, generates an income stream from which a UBD is paid.
Instead, place a portion of Luke’s equity in the farm in a public trust, which then provides a universal payment to everyone.
We propose that a very small portion of developing countries’ total foreign-exchange reserves – say, 1% – be channeled to the expansion of existing regional development banks or the creation of new ones that would invest in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.
The group also agreed to enhance the CMIM’s flexibility by reducing the minimum portion of crisis lending to be tied to the International Monetary Fund’s lending program from 80% to 70%.
Enhanced regional control would contribute to better information-sharing and decision-making as well, implying that the IMF-linked portion of CMIM crisis lending could be reduced in step with the strengthening of AMRO’s capacity and performance.
In the last quarter of 2007 alone, Mexican issuers sold $1.5 billion in new mortgage-backed securities – a significant portion of $4.4 billion outstanding – with only a slight drop in prices to reflect globally induced risk, according to the publication Asset Securitization Report .
In his budget statement, Osborne challenged the sugary drinks industry to respond to his proposal by reformulating their products, encouraging consumers to switch to low-sugar brands, and reducing portion sizes.
Where the potential pay-out is too big for a single private insurer to bear, reinsurers take over a portion of their risk for a given premium.
Insurance has often also become a public responsibility in developed countries: the taxpayer cedes a portion of his income, in return for which the state may provide unemployment benefits, health care, and other essential services.
In many developing countries – especially small countries in which a large portion of the population is susceptible to the same risks – governments may be understandably reluctant to insure their citizens.
If a single event affects a significant portion of the population, not only will demand for social support grow too rapidly for the government to absorb, but the shock may decrease government revenues at the same time by, for example, lowering tax or export revenues.
In London, the “classical” portion of the championship match ended with 12 draws.
And with a large portion of the fiscal deficit financed by foreign-currency-denominated debt, the external imbalances increase the risk that public debt will become unsustainable in the future.
By contrast, a clearly stated intent that a portion of the fiscal deficit will be permanently financed by money creation, unless and until the stimulative effect is higher than originally anticipated and desired, would have a different effect.
First, the share of government debt that can be pooled must be strictly limited, leaving each country responsible for a significant portion of its national debt, and therefore motivated to maintain sound public finances.
Saudi Arabia is now pursuing a major shift in its foreign, economic, and energy policies, exemplified by the impending privatization of a portion of Aramco, its national petroleum company, which is set to expand its refining capacity.
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