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Instead, they are urging businesses to engage in a “strategic, collaborative” push to improve education and training to
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the skill levels of their workers.
These subsidies are also intended to be used to
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wages (first of all, for public employees) and pensions.
But do we want a Fed that looks at the facts in deciding when and how much to
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interest rates?
Ortega’s third term as president may not immediately alarm neighboring governments in Central America, but how it plays out does
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uncertainty in the longer term.
But a conception of citizenship that is basic and minimal is essential where a Pole and a Swede may fall in love while studying in Spain, begin their careers in Germany, and settle down to
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a family in Italy.
But the lesson of 1973 is that a disruption of Gulf oil supplies would
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prices and damage both rich and poor economies, regardless of how secure their own sources of supply might be.
The rationale offered was that “many female students who graduate end up leaving … medical practice to give birth and
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children.”
And their health today will affect their future wellbeing, shaping their ability to earn a living, produce and
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healthy children, care for aging parents, and lead their societies toward peace and prosperity.
Market-oriented reforms, long postponed by the Iliescu government, appear to have failed to
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living standards.
But if firms must purchase higher-cost domestic inputs, they will have to reduce their profits or
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the price of their products.
We urge the UN Security Council to
raise
the issue.
According to a Palais Royal Initiative report, a key way to
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the SDR’s global standing is through “regular allocations of SDRs under appropriate safeguards” or even allocations “in exceptional circumstances.”
Gaining the consent of the majority of citizens to
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taxes can be a tall order politically, and has become more difficult as capital mobility has narrowed the tax base and triggered a race to the bottom on rates.
Commitments never to
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taxes have left the US dependent on debt finance – and, more frightening, on those who are ready to veto refinancing it.
In others, monopolies in trade deprive countries of the advantages of international competition, while monopolies in cement significantly
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the price of construction.
There should be no doubt as to the answer to this question, except in the minds of politicians who fail to
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it because they refuse to think beyond the coming presidential election.
Consider the Internet giant Alibaba, which began using Zhi-fu-bao, the Chinese equivalent of PayPal, to
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money last year.
But the current version of this promise – not to
raise
the overnight interest rate until the unemployment rate drops below 6.5% – no longer implies that short-term rates will remain low for an “extended” period.
Growth pessimists have a point if they are wary about Europe’s prospects for structural reform to
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the growth ceiling.
With a debt-to-GDP ratio of 200%, the higher interest rate would eventually
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the government’s interest bill by about 4% of GDP.
Trump has threatened to
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tariffs on imports from Europe, and some of those higher duties are already in place.
For example, the impact on Harley-Davidson is to
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costs by about $20 million (or more than $2,000 per bike).
Without a new legal regime, limited-liability companies (necessary to
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capital for large undertakings) could not exist.
Increasing the number of insured by 35 million and broadening protection for some who are now insured implies increased demand for health care, which could
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the cost of care paid for by the government as well as by private health-care buyers.
Bankers, by contrast, point to the high cost of equity and argue that forcing banks to
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even more will increase the cost and decrease the availability of credit.
Finally, the proposed “better use” of the IMF’s gold holdings to finance the costs of debt relief seeks to
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up to $8 billion.
First, many who call themselves deficit hawks are really spending hawks: they believe that US social insurance is too generous to the unemployed, the disabled, the elderly, and the sick, and that by far the best policy is to cut back on such programs rather than
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taxes to pay for them.
MANILA – The possibility that the US Federal Reserve could
raise
the interest rate for the first time in a decade sent jitters across emerging markets for weeks.
The concern is that countries that are dependent on foreign financing could be hit by sudden outflows of international capital, or that currency depreciation following the Fed hike could
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debt-servicing costs for countries and businesses.
And the Fed is likely to
raise
rates only if it judges US economic growth to be strong and sustainable, which would be a positive sign for the global economy in general.
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