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Fifth, to promote happiness, we must identify the many factors other than GNP that can
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or lower society’s well-being.
Turkey’s Lonely Neighborhood WatchISTANBUL – For nearly a decade, Turkey benefited from a strategic environment that allowed it to
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its profile, widen its zone of autonomous action, and aspire to regional power in the Middle East.
If France must remove that cyclical deficit, it would have to
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taxes and cut spending.
It is widely suspected, for example, that the reason for the European Central Bank’s otherwise puzzling decision to
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interest rates in July 2008, as the world was sliding into the worst recession since the 1930’s, was that oil prices were just then reaching an all-time high.
Expectations of less political turbulence were enhanced at the start of 2013 by a bipartisan agreement that avoided the so-called fiscal cliff (though at the last minute and with much rancor) and a deal reached later in January to
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the debt ceiling (albeit temporarily).
They cannot
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much more capital during the crisis, so, in order to restore capital adequacy, they stop making new loans and call in their outstanding loans, thereby throwing the entire economy – if not the entire global economy – into a tailspin.
Regulatory hybrid securities would
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the cost of capital to banks (because creditors would have to be compensated for the conversion feature), whereas the banks would rather rely on their “too big to fail” status and future government bailouts.
This approach enables government to
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private capital that would otherwise not be available to support such services, and to cut their costs by working with proven providers to achieve measurable outcomes.
For example, during a chance encounter years ago, I met a well-connected fundraiser at the African Leadership Academy who helped us
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$20,000 in seed money.
Just as the global financial crisis has made euro membership seem more urgent and necessary than ever, euro incumbents have started floating proposals that would
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the bar for entry.
For example, the main provisions of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could be included in the new NAFTA, in order to
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Mexican standards of compliance.
If so, a lasting solution will have to include credible measures to
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eurozone growth rates.
The eurozone has proven itself unable to develop a convincing economic strategy to revive economic growth, reduce public debt to normal levels, and
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credible liquidity walls around its distressed sovereigns.
Then there is the question of how emerging-market policymakers respond to the turbulence: Will they
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rates to stem inflationary depreciation and capital outflows, or will they cut rates to boost flagging GDP growth, thus increasing the risk of inflation and of a sudden capital-flow reversal?
Second, we need a global agreement on a mechanism to
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and channel sufficient and predictable financial support and to accelerate technology transfer to developing countries, especially in Africa.
Facing the prospect of having to
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additional capital at a time when their shares are selling at a fraction of book value, banks have a powerful incentive to reduce their balance sheets by withdrawing credit lines and shrinking their loan portfolios.
In Jordan, a coalition led by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists has launched a new campaign, “Talk is Not a Crime,” to
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awareness about declining media freedom.
Their central banks, he argues, should
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inflation targets to 3% or even 4% per year.
The problem is that most companies prefer not to
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this issue; they would rather let sleeping dogs lie.
The idea that central banks should consider making a new promise to
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their inflation targets is hardly credible.
Whereas ranchers in Australia and the US have huge herds of cattle, Japanese ranchers
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each individual cow on beer and massages.
Could the hope of using the G20 summit to normalize his aggression against Ukraine have informed Putin’s decision to
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a freedom of navigation issue in the Kerch Strait at this particular moment?
Indeed, it seems that only retiring central bankers, such as Mervyn King of the Bank of England, are willing to
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concerns publicly.
Mueller’s findings obviously
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important questions about transparency and the protection of democratic institutions in the digital age.
For example, at the International Conference on Financing for Development, in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, America signed the Monterrey Consensus, which includes a promise by rich countries to
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their development assistance towards 0.7% of national income.
When homeowners default, banks lose money, and uncertainty about the extent of future defaults undermines confidence in banks’ capital, making it more difficult for them to
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funds and causing them to reduce their lending in order to conserve existing resources.
At 5%, the VAT could
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a modest 1.5-2% of GDP in revenue.
A $0.52 carbon tax per liter could
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over $50 billion annually for Saudi Arabia, substantially reducing this year’s projected budget deficit of $90 billion.
Now the debate is whether to introduce a sales tax on top of the VAT or to
raise
the VAT rate.
Republicans unsuccessfully tried to exploit it, reviving the Reagan era's "supply side claims that tax cuts
raise
growth substantially and permanently.
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