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The current system misallocates Chinese talent, prevents graduates from reaching their full potential, and impedes the economy’s capacity to ascend global value chains.
It also prevents funds from being channeled to private-sector investment projects with far higher rates of return than the government can offer.
Researchers have found that a key part of the human MNS is Broca's region, an area of the brain that, when damaged, prevents the patient from speaking.
As a measure of sincerity, he needs to order the immediate release of Ayman Nour and take steps to terminate the 24-year-long state of emergency, which effectively prevents political campaigning from taking place.
Animal-welfare advocates protest that crowding the chickens keeps them from forming a natural flock, causes them stress, and, in the case of laying hens, prevents them from even stretching their wings.
Lest we blame China too much, though, we should remember that there is little that prevents developing countries from replicating the essentials of the Chinese model.
In such circumstances, restructuring is desirable, because it prevents the money injected by the IMF from simply going to pay off a country’s creditors, which in Ukraine’s case includes Russia.
The global gag rule, officially known as the Mexico City policy, prevents official US funding for development aid from going to non-US organizations that provide any kind of abortion services to women – even information or referrals – regardless of how those services are financed.
And, if action prevents the problem, the public never experiences the averted calamity, and voters therefore penalize political leaders for the immediate costs that the action entails.
Well-run economies achieve higher levels of welfare not because there is less regulation of these sectors, but because more efficient regulation prevents the emergence of cartels, thereby protecting consumers.
Rapid introduction of major reforms also prevents the various interest groups who benefited from communism from organizing effectively to slow and try to derail the transformation to a market economy.
But it also creates uncertainty and delay, and prevents the ECB from acting as a true lender of last resort.
German public opinion also prevents the ECB from cutting interest rates and expanding the supply of money and credit.
As a result, their offspring produce high levels of a protein that prevents their cells from functioning normally, causing them to die before reaching maturity.
Now, global warming is real, and cutting CO2 is a good idea when the reduction cost is lower than that of the damage it prevents.
For example, the EU has long been committed to the “precautionary principle,” which prevents products that may harm human health from entering the EU market – even if the scientific evidence is not yet conclusive.
This is largely because confidentiality in sex-crime reporting prevents the media from shining a light on the crime, inhibits institutional memory of repeated assailants, and prevents scrutiny of whether a court, college, or police precinct is doing better or worse at handling such cases.
But since he doesn’t have a security clearance, there is nothing that prevents him, unlike me, from saying to the outside world, ‘This is what they did to me.’Nothing prevents that – except for the fact that he is physically in custody.”’
Hence May’s agonized efforts to secure a deal that prevents a “hard” border with customs checks.
We must bring to an end a practice that prevents millions of them from reaching their potential.
That law prevents any shareholder who controls more than 20% of voting shares in Volkswagenwerk GmbH (VW) from casting more than 20% of the votes in a shareholders' meeting.
That’s where Trump enters the equation, by targeting China as the villain that purportedly prevents America from being great.
Yet volatility in the assessment of potential growth prevents politicians from “owning” the already abstruse structural deficit and causes volatility in the policies based on this assessment, paradoxically resulting in a shortening of decision-makers’ time horizon.
In other words, the poor design of EU climate policies triples the cost and prevents only three cents of climate damage per dollar spent.
But unemployment is high because of taxes and excessive protection for those employed, which prevents the market from creating new employment opportunities.
But that is less likely now, as many countries are undertaking fiscal consolidation simultaneously, non-sovereign interest rates are already low, and monetary union prevents the most troubled countries in the eurozone – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain – from devaluing their way to competitiveness.
This approach prevents bank runs, because banks with more capital are safer.
Higher inflation would cause the interest rate on new debt to rise in a way that prevents the erosion of the real value of the total debt.
The resulting fall in wealth has reduced consumer spending, while the decline in homeowners’ equity prevents borrowing to finance any increase.
Similarly, the government will phase out the hukou system of residency permits that now prevents migrants to the cities from obtaining full health care and education benefits.
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