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Obama would
raise
the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher-income individuals and small businesses.
These considerations
raise
the prospect of trying to bring about an alternative future: an Iran with a political leadership that is more moderate at home and abroad, and that forgoes developing a nuclear weapon or anything close to it.
This followed two visits he made to Haiti over the past 18 months and a donor’s conference he sponsored in April that sought to
raise
$300 million in aid and investment.
There is already talk that Obama will
raise
$1 billion or more for his re-election campaign.
Still, some countries may have room to
raise
tariffs on certain consumer goods.
Title IV of the law would
raise
the threshold for “applying enhanced prudential standards from $50 billion to $250 billion.”
Estonia and Costa Rica are well-known examples of how information-access strategies can help accelerate output growth and
raise
income levels.
With popular destinations like the United States and Canada cutting back on research and public education and facing the need to
raise
top tax rates, Europe has a unique opportunity to attract skilled migrants and reduce the exodus of European researchers.
That growth of the labor force will
raise
potential GDP by only about 0.5% per year.
But efforts to eliminate material viewed as extreme by some will
raise
the specter of censorship.
Environmental taxes could lead to better air and water quality, even as they
raise
substantial revenues; congestion taxes would improve quality of life in cities; property and capital-gains taxes would encourage higher investment in productive activities, promoting growth.
Pressures are mounting on the ECB to
raise
interest rates – and Berlusconi and Co.’s attacks are as much as an attempt to forestall future rate hikes as to get the ECB to loosen its monetary policy.
Should this change, the ECB will have to
raise
rates even if Europe’s economic growth remains slack.
It is doubtful that the ECB would
raise
interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to
raise
their standard of living as well.
China now plans to
raise
the relative growth rate of real wages and to encourage increased consumer spending.
If central banks were to act credibly to
raise
interest rates substantially (for whatever reason), they would not lack the tools or ability to do so.
A higher level of consumer spending would
raise
the average Chinese family’s standard of living, a primary component of what China’s leaders now call the “Chinese Dream.”
Reducing the share of income that Chinese households save could also
raise
consumer spending faster and more easily.
Making migration easier would not only open up opportunities in the cities; it would also accelerate agricultural transformation, as the fewer remaining agricultural workers would need to acquire new skills to
raise
productivity and wages.
New legislation will slow the growth of pension benefits substantially, and the Monti government’s increase in taxes on owner-occupied real estate will
raise
significant revenue without the adverse incentive effects that would occur if rates for personal-income, payroll, or value-added taxes were raised.
In partnership with the World Bank, the WHO, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it has used innovative financing tools to
raise
funds for global immunization programs, while working with industry to lower the prices of vaccines.
But there are other taxes that can
raise
significant amounts of revenue with a much less negative impact on the economy.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that
raise
the same amount of revenue.
Energy and carbon taxes can
raise
revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.
Conventional taxes
raise
revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.
For the past 20 years, annual GDP growth in Mexico has averaged about 2.7%, which is low by emerging-economy standards and not enough to
raise
living standards substantially across a growing population.
These two Mexicos are pulling in opposite directions, which explains why three decades of reforms to open markets, privatize industries, embrace free trade, and welcome foreign investment have failed to
raise
growth rates.
Mexico also needs to continue to
raise
educational attainment to prepare the labor force for modern-sector employment.
The question he asked of his opponents was: “What must they believe in order to claim that persistent mass unemployment is impossible, so that government ‘stimulus’ to
raise
the employment level could do no good?”
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