Quantity
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Should we aim for the greatest possible total
quantity
of happiness, or the highest average level of happiness?
The IMF (responsible for issuing SDRs) could issue them, or a new institution could be created to decide on
quantity
and allocations.
There may also be latent concern about foreign policy in the attention being given to the
quantity
and quality of candidates’ relevant experience.
In short, favorable tax treatment of the purchase of insurance for major medical costs would reduce the national saving rate, increase consumer spending, lower the public’s anxiety about the cost of treatment, and increase the
quantity
of health care.
Increasing the quantity, quality, availability, and usability of data for development requires addressing the market failures that lead to gaps in data use and coverage in developing countries.
The People’s Bank of China, for example, bought a record
quantity
of dollars from 2004 to 2014, thereby preventing the renminbi’s exchange rate from appreciating as fast as it otherwise would have done.
The heart of the problem is not the overall
quantity
of oil, but its location.
That is not because they fail to affect the
quantity
or composition of flows, but because such effects are quite small.
I learned about one example when discussing antimicrobial resistance, to which the government has responded by attempting to limit the
quantity
of antibiotics a patient may take.
Rather than making really substantive improvements in the
quantity
and quality of aid delivery, not to mention finding a path towards better governance in Africa, they chose a desperate plea for photo ops with Bono and Angelina Jolie.
Sufficiently high rates will induce commercial banks to prefer the Fed’s combination of liquidity, safety, and yield to expanding the
quantity
of private lending.
Economic growth is a matter not just of quality of life, but of
quantity
as well.
The UK media have been full of sympathetic stories about Plummer’s plight, despite the fact that she was carrying a
quantity
in excess of that for which a UK doctor can write a prescription.
In the United States, the
quantity
of available opioids – that is, drugs with morphine-like effects on pain – is more than three times what patients in need of palliative care require.
In India – where the man threatening to hang himself was from – the supply is just 4% of the
quantity
required; in Nigeria, it’s only 0.2%.
Today, we can see that greater money supply has invariably led to higher inflation, exactly as the
quantity
theory of money teaches us.
Lastly, improving the
quantity
and quality of education and healthcare through partnerships with the private and non-profit sector and researchers is essential to sustain growth beyond the next five years.
The situation is different in emerging economies, where the
quantity
and quality of the existing stock of housing is woefully inadequate.
The theory behind this strategy is simple: Unable to cut the price of credit further, central banks shift their focus to expanding its
quantity.
The implicit argument is that this move from price to
quantity
adjustments is the functional equivalent of additional monetary-policy easing.
In economics, Friedman revived and developed the monetarist theory that the
quantity
of money in circulation is the main determinant of how economies perform.
In a system of elastic money with no intrinsic value, the
quantity
of money has to change over time if the purchasing power of money is to stay broadly constant.
So price stability, not the
quantity
of money, is what matters.
The argument here is that if you increase the
quantity
of labor, its price (wages) falls.
Attempts to stimulate it will produce only higher prices as people spend more money on the same
quantity
of goods and services.
The US spends far more on defense than its European allies, and as a result its military capability is different in quality as well as in
quantity.
At the same time, growing numbers of traditional source countries for students, from South Korea to Saudi Arabia, are trying to improve both the
quantity
and quality of their own degrees, engaging in a fierce – and expensive – race to recruit students and create world-class research universities of their own.
India may be the world’s largest milk producer and grow the second largest
quantity
of fruits and vegetables (after China), but it is also the world’s biggest waster of food.
As countries increase their national biofuel targets, a huge amount of additional land will have to be cultivated, requiring an enormous
quantity
of water.
Police seized a
quantity
of the substance from an individual who was attempting to sell it.
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