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Prioritizing investments, good planning, and sound project design can significantly boost the impact of new and modernized infrastructure on growth and job creation, as well as
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returns on scarce resources.
Since there had been inflation between the two rounds of the PPP computation, in 2005 and 2011, we would obviously have to
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the nominal poverty line to keep the real line constant.
However, a third approach was possible: to
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the poverty line with the new PPP indices so that the incidence of global poverty remained unchanged (because PPP arguably tells us about parity across countries and should not change the absolute level of global poverty).
However, before graduates flock to private equity, they should know that only the very big funds can use debt to skew returns for insiders in this way, primarily because only they can
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the capital needed to buy well-established companies that are rich in fixed assets, and thus in potential collateral.
The latter scenario would
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serious concerns, given the experience of 2015-2016.
At the core of India's reform agenda lay a reorientation of the government's role in the economy: to improve efficiency by minimising unnecessary state intervention, thus freeing the private sector to
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long-term economic growth.
Whereas the United States and the United Kingdom are now growing strongly enough to exit their expansionary policies and
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interest rates, the eurozone and Japan are doubling down on QE, pushing policy long-term interest rates further into negative territory.
But the EU budget has already enabled an indirect form of leveraging: the European Commission’s use of implicit budget guarantees to
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capital on financial markets.
A Greek default would threaten to sink them, too, for it would
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immediate concerns about the solvency of Europe’s systemically important banks and insurance companies.
When producers of substitutes collude, they usually
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prices; producers of complements, by contrast, collaborate to lower them.
Now, free-trade agreements are being negotiated – namely, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – that will undermine the continued expansion of Chinese exports to the extent that they
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entry barriers for Chinese firms.
John’s efforts to
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money to regain lost lands in France exceeded the usual taxes and levies that the nobles had accepted from his predecessors.
And Brazil has already said that it has no issues to
raise
with China, which recently became its largest export market.
Even as education levels play an increasingly important role in economic growth, the funds needed to
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them have failed to materialize.
Indeed, by promoting agricultural practices and technologies that are environmentally sustainable and
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rural incomes, these policies also stimulate rural non-farm activities.
The problems with microcredit
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a larger question: should the poor be served by modern financial institutions that
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their funds in capital markets, or must they rely exclusively on non-profit sources of support?
While that might be fine for financial investors, it makes little sense to
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interest rates to confront price increases for food (and oil), which already slow the economy by reducing real wages (and cooling off production).
In an environment of high liquidity, in which Latin American countries are far less successful than China in fending off capital inflows, advising them to
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real interest rates can only lure more short-term capital, compounding appreciation pressures.
And on national days, such as the birthday of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, these expats are almost forced to contribute; indeed, they can be assigned to
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sums big enough to cover the cost of food distributed to North Koreans on such occasions.
An undercover investigation by the Financial Times recently revealed that the “Presidents Club” was hosting annual men-only charity fundraisers, secretive gatherings where British business, government, and entertainment figures would
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money for worthy causes.
The Fed will
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interest rates when it senses that the economy is nearing full capacity and that inflation – wage inflation, in particular – is accelerating.
Today’s capital markets
raise
money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds’ investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.
Although my own best guess is that the Fed will start to
raise
rates in March, the starting date is less important than the pace of the rate increase and where the rate will be by the end of 2015.
In that case, the Fed is likely to
raise
the federal funds rate more rapidly and to a higher year-end level than its recent statements imply.
Make no mistake: education presumably does
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productivity.
In a hungry and poor rural economy, as China was in the 1970’s and as most of Africa is today, a key starting point is to
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farm productivity.
My government is looking for ways to
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revenue to pay for services, but it is unrealistic and even negative to exact more taxes from an already overburdened people.
They also
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questions about why some in the media read so much EU control into the report; maybe the fact that it was an EU report meant more than its content.
As with any attempt to change the status quo, this approach would
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challenges.
But Keating’s remarks
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a general question about history that goes to the heart of the sense of identity that binds every community.
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