Raise
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They can also
raise
revenue, whether through income taxes, property taxes, or myriad fees.
More important, the government will try to
raise
another 1.5% of GDP – one trillion rubles ($13 billion) – by privatizing state-owned firms, including “crown jewels” such as Rosneft (Russia’s largest oil company), the diamond monopoly Alrosa, and the flagship airline Aeroflot.
On the contrary, if privatization does not
raise
budget revenues or increase efficiency, the public is likely to deem it illegitimate.
The dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over navigation on the San Juan River, and the heated jurisdictional arguemnts between Colombia and Venezuela also help
raise
regional tempers.
But there is a hitch: Someone has forgotten to
raise
the anchor, which remains planted firmly in Ireland.
If the world’s central banks
raise
interest rates while the major problem is insufficient global demand, they might cause a depression.
If they do not
raise
interest rates while the major problem is inflation, they might cause spikes in prices, rising inflationary expectations, and a stubborn wage-price spiral like that of the 1970’s that can be unwound only with a later, deeper depression.
When the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory group investigated how to
raise
money to pay for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, its members singled out instruments that address international aviation and shipping emissions as one of the most productive methods.
And, in order to help offset soaring operating costs, which resulted in losses of €1.5 billion ($2 billion) last year, EDF will
raise
electricity prices this year for its French customers by 5%, on average, and by another 5% next year.
Higher prices encourage firms to
raise
production and households to increase their spending.
And because inflation is still too low, owing to depressed macroeconomic conditions, there is no need for the Fed to
raise
interest rates and offset any inflationary effects of the increase in spending.
Opinion polls in Taiwan reflect public dismay over the Chinese legislation, and this negative sentiment will
raise
the pressure on President Chen, who recently antagonized some of his more ardent pro-independence supporters by reaching out to the pro-unification opposition People First Party.
While outright military conflict is still considered unlikely, the combination of China’s vague “red lines” and non-specific threats will certainly
raise
the likelihood of miscalculation and misinterpretation on both sides.
On the fiscal front, the shift from a complex system of state-level indirect taxes to a national goods and services tax (a type of value-added tax) will improve efficiency and
raise
revenue.
At a private gathering of top business and political leaders in Paris a few weeks ago, he said, “You Europeans are becoming a Third World country, you spend time on the wrong subjects –the constitution, the welfare state, the pensions crisis – and you systematically give the wrong answers to the questions you raise.”
Last year’s viral “ice bucket challenge,” in which people challenged one another to donate to ALS research or dump ice water on their heads, raised over $100 million, 20 times more than MND charities would usually
raise
in that time.
The Jospin and Schroeder governments were elected on manifestos that promised to cut unemployment and
raise
growth by expanding government regulation.
While recent developments
raise
the risk that the crisis could escalate, they also present an opportunity to enhance US-Russia cooperation, and give the “reset” of bilateral relations strategic substance and concrete impetus.
They frequently assume that working twice as hard as those around them – while never speaking up for their own worth or accomplishments – will generate a
raise
because an authority figure will notice.
These improvements
raise
farm productivity and facilitate diversification into non-traditional crops with higher returns.
This substantial deficit is the consequence of a chronic gap between investment and saving, and past AKP governments’ failure to enact structural reforms to
raise
total productivity and enhance Turkey’s international competitiveness.
After all, no economy can
raise
living standards forever through innovations that make production of existing goods more efficient.
Instead of advising Japan and China to
raise
their consumption rates, macroeconomists would be wiser to encourage these economies to use their high savings to fund not only domestic but also overseas investments.
Structural reform is needed to
raise
the anemic growth rate.
A Planet for All ApesMELBOURNE – Two new movies released this month – one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary –
raise
the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes.
We also hypothesised that more responsive economies would be less encumbered by bureaucratic “red tape” that
raise
the costs of starting and developing firms.
Borobio, who organized the presidential advertising campaigns for both Fujimori and Toledo, declared from exile in Chile that two of Toledo's brothers had secretly hired him to help "slow down the president's fall from popularity, improve his public image, and
raise
his ratings."
To ask politicians in a democracy with big surpluses to
raise
taxes or cut benefits or public investment by the enormous magnitude needed to stave off disaster strikes is to be out of touch with reality.
The main blame should therefore be put on the system’s founders, or those who saw the problems coming but chose not to
raise
a word of warning.
Smaller members of the eurozone, particularly those on its periphery and with weaker economic links to the heartland of the EMU, become vulnerable to overheating and inflation when their ability to
raise
interest rates is abolished.
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