Raise
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Economists have sensibly advocated that China
raise
the interest rates that it pays on bank deposits so that Chinese households earn more and consume more.
In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard-working M&A technicians, well-paid as they are: it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can
raise
the money to attempt to do so.
It can also
raise
or lower the basic rate of income tax – though by no more than 3% – and levy charges, such as road tolls.
As Francis reminded members of Congress, “How much has been done in these first years of the third millennium to
raise
people out of extreme poverty!
(A recent IMF study, for example, concludes that countries can
raise
productivity by improving the design of their tax system, and that eliminating such barriers would, on average, lift countries’ annual real GDP growth rates by roughly one percentage point over 20 years.)
The two that worry me the most are the possibility that we will be unable to
raise
the funds needed to pay for health and development projects, and that we will fail to align around clear goals to help the poorest.
Meanwhile, Hitler and his henchman were exploiting the games to
raise
the prestige of the Nazi Reich.
An explicit remedy is to
raise
revenues through higher contributions, increased labor force participation, stronger productivity growth, or larger transfers from general tax revenue.
The US must
raise
its national saving rate by shrinking its budget deficit, which currently stands at nearly 10% of GDP.
By joining FSM in these efforts, the PNA could
raise
the bar for transparency and set a new standard for fisheries management.
Pacific fisheries ministers are hoping to
raise
revenue even more by working with The Nature Conservancy to co-implement a system similar to one used in western Alaska, where the Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) has helped poor communities generate income by investing in fisheries-related businesses.
Or, by taxing aircraft exports, the US can
raise
the prices that foreigners have to pay.
Within the EU, effect-based jurisdiction might
raise
concerns about the free mobility of capital.
The task facing the world is to meet the environment’s “carbon constraints” while creating the growth necessary to
raise
living standards for the poor.
In fact, the US Federal Reserve is expected to
raise
interest rates again in December, to prevent the economy from overheating.
Will it
raise
the money by hurriedly selling CITGO, now wholly owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA?
For the US, such news all but ensures that the Federal Reserve will
raise
interest rates in March.
After all, for-profits can hire high-quality staff, respond nimbly to changing conditions, and
raise
the capital required to scale up quickly.
Iran’s nuclear ambitions have long posed a major security threat in the Middle East, as they
raise
the risk of preemptive military action by Israel or the US and, perhaps even more harrowing, of a regional arms race with the Gulf states and Turkey.
But the more significant strategy is to alter government policies in ways that will lead to higher spending by Chinese consumers, and that
raise
the level of those government outlays, like health care, which directly benefit Chinese households.
To
raise
consumer spending, the Chinese government must reverse both of these trends.
In order to offset this, the WHO has identified six policies – encapsulated in the acronym MPOWER – that can stamp out the tobacco epidemic: Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies; protect people from tobacco smoke; offer help to quit tobacco use; warn people about the dangers of tobacco; enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship; and
raise
taxes on tobacco.
Governments have made tremendous progress in the fight against the tobacco epidemic through the implementation of multiple MPOWER measures, but many could be doing much more if they were willing to
raise
taxes on tobacco.
Moreover, in small, open economies, a 0% target could strengthen the currency, and
raise
production and wage costs for domestic exporters and import-competing sectors.
Another factor impeding QE’s impact in the eurozone is low bond yields, which, by increasing measured pension-fund deficits, make some companies reluctant to invest and thus more likely to
raise
contribution rates and limit pension benefits.
The ECB will then
raise
interest rates to slow European growth.
Most national research organizations and the European Commission support the idea, but questions persist: who will provide the budget (at least €2 billion is needed, which is roughly half of the increase promised by EU governments to
raise
R&D to 3% of the GNP in 2010)?
But failure to act now will only
raise
the price of delayed action at some moment in the future.
And, at a just-concluded ECB conference that I attended, there was even some discussion of when the ECB could scale back its interventions and perhaps begin to
raise
interest rates.
What Trump’s tariffs will do is
raise
the risk of a global trade war.
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