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Instead, bureaucrats and politicians prefer a quota system, whereby bureaucrats, not the market, select who immigrates.
So, while older people do not prefer to live in a crisis-stricken country, they do not find it intolerable, as opportunity-starved young people do; they are simply more focused on purchasing power than on the economy’s animal spirits.
This will not be easy, in part because practicing in developed countries is far more lucrative than practicing in the developing world, and doctors overwhelmingly prefer to work in the countries where they have trained.
I have long argued that, because many in rich countries are retiring while still in sound health, and because altruism increases with age, we could organize a Grey Peace Corps of senior citizens to share their skills in countries whose own trained professionals prefer to settle abroad.
Moreover, there have been proposals to eliminate regional presidents from the FOMC, largely because they tend to be policy hawks – committed to keeping inflation low – while governors in Washington often prefer to focus policy on economic growth and employment, even if it places price stability at risk.
Because China has no universities that rival the Ivy League or Oxford and Cambridge, senior Chinese officials prefer to send their children to these schools.
Russia and China are both frustrated by the global dominance of the United States since the Cold War’s end, and would prefer to see a multipolar world develop.
Of course, everyone would prefer it if the line between monetary and fiscal policy had not become blurred as a result of the crisis.
Implicit in any major new investment in energy infrastructure is that operations will continue for decades, as even if demand and prices fall dramatically, an owner or investor will prefer some income return on that capital rather than nothing.
All ECO’s partners would prefer to both import from and export to Western and developed Asian economies.
The prevailing view in these countries is that Roma prefer stealing and damaging others’ property to working; that they receive disproportionate and undeserved social benefits; and that they produce children in order to qualify for more public assistance.
In fact, a majority of states and citizens would prefer to stop enlargement – the most important and effective means by which Europe is capable of projecting power – once and for all.
But Iran’s youth will likely overlook Rouhani’s economic-policy shortcomings, and vote for him again, because they prefer his more relaxed social-policy positions to his conservative rival's stern moralizing.
A former Turkish diplomat in Iran described the business climate in stark terms: “it is as if Iranians prefer a lose/lose outcome to a win/win one in their dealings with foreign partners.”
While South Korean officials rarely say in public what they really think, it is widely believed that US policymakers have little motivation to reconcile with South Korea’s government right now – they would prefer to stifle South Korea’s increasingly loud demands.
But, rather than deal with today’s problems and find a formula for growth, they prefer to deliver homilies about what some previous government should have done.This may be satisfying for the sermonizer, but it won’t solve Europe’s problems – and it won’t save the euro.
It is not out of the question that the Chinese, who speak the language of realpolitik fluently, would prefer to meet the ad hoc demands of the Americans over the multilateral conditions of the Europeans.
The Real Reason for Trump’s Steel and Aluminum TariffsCAMBRIDGE – Like almost all economists and most policy analysts, I prefer low trade tariffs or no tariffs at all.
In the absence of special reasons, like a change in sexual partners, there seems to be no reason to prefer the existence of one child to that of the other.
So why prefer one genetic potential over the other?
It is economically irrational for Greeks to prefer continued membership in the eurozone, when they could remain in the EU with a restored national currency that they could devalue.
One would prefer to see Mexico’s presidential candidates offer platforms with ideas and proposals that respond to the challenges facing the country, but this substance deficit occurs everywhere now, almost all the time.
First, we found that Chinese state-owned and private companies, government departments, and non-governmental organizations prefer to do business in African countries that have already formalized their ties with China.
Would they perhaps prefer independence or some sort of internationally guaranteed autonomous, self-governing status?
Even agricultural producers would prefer some price stability over the wild ups and downs of the last five years.
But no one forces it to do so, and the US would much prefer a stronger renminbi.
Privately, many Chinese might still prefer the former.
No one doubts that Germany and most other eurozone members would prefer the single currency to continue.
If Soros were right, and Germany had to choose between Eurobonds and the euro, many Germans would surely prefer to leave the euro.
How many people would prefer to live in Moscow than in New York?
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