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The Rana Plaza Donors Trust Fund, established by labor groups and clothing companies to help victims, has raised only about $15 million of its $40 million target.
The consultations on the strategy and its endorsement have raised expectations that the Bank will intensify its assistance to countries to help them strengthen their good governance efforts.
Especially given the sharp brake on growth in global liquidity as central banks have raised interest rates, the prospect of risk premiums returning to more normal levels is itself one of the major risks the world faces today.
This outcome raised concerns about a crisis in Internet governance – concerns that the recent conference in Brazil alleviated, but only slightly.
All the money raised goes directly to the individual whose care you are paying for.
If Badre’s plan is implemented, an additional $10 billion – or even as much as $20 billion – could be raised for international development annually.
Translating this abstract concept into reality is the most difficult of all the challenges raised by the crisis.
Today, more than $25 billion has been raised across the continent – $7 billion in 2014 alone.
The success of economies such as China, which is driving economic development through its SOEs, and the United Arab Emirates, which is driving economic diversification through its sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), has raised potent questions about the efficacy of private-sector-led growth.
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government accomplished a major pension reform, cut public spending, and raised taxes.
This immediately raised suspicion that the CBR delayed the interest-rate hike in order to complete the deal at the lower rate.
The result has been average annual GDP growth of 9.5% (compared to a 2.9% global average) since 1978, which raised China’s share of global GDP from 1.8% to 18.2% and lifted 740 million people out of poverty.
America’s Dangerous Debt Ceiling DebateNEWPORT BEACH – It has been raised more than 70 times in the last 50 years, mostly without commotion.
It must be raised again this summer if the United States government is to continue paying its bills on time.
The World Bank Treasury has issued a variety of Islamic financial instruments, including two Sukuk (bonds that meet Islamic strictures on interest), which have raised $700 million.
This process has outpaced the expectations of experts; not surprisingly, its possible adverse effects on both the quantity and quality of employment have raised serious concerns.
If the Maghreb countries fragment further into mutually hostile, protectionist entities, the only possible outcome is economic growth that is too slow to meet their populations’ expectations – already raised by the mounting contrasts in living standards north and south of the Mediterranean.
And, while President Barack Obama’s administration did expand cooperation with Cambodia, it also repeatedly raised the issue of human-rights abuses with Hun Sen, including during a tense visit by Obama to Phnom Penh in 2012.
Minimum wages could be raised to reduce inequality.
We have to examine the issue with some care, understanding that the issue that Mandeville raised is really a statistical one: the outcome of government deficit reduction is never entirely predictable, so we can ask only how likely such a plan is to succeed in restoring economic prosperity.
Last year, an appeal for aid for Syrian refugees raised only 54% of its goal.
The recent opening of the economies of Africa to global trade, combined with more realistic exchange rates, have probably raised Africa’s growth rates by around 2 percentage points per year compared with the rates of the 1980s.
The final issue raised by the Section 301 report relates to cyber-enabled theft of IP and sensitive commercial information, which the US claims is carried out by the Chinese government.
This is not to say that the issues raised by the Section 301 report are mere fantasy, or that China’s fulfillment of its WTO commitments has been impeccable.
Nabulsi, who worked for charities in Upper Egypt that raised money to provide running water and electricity to poor households, wrote about how Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Jim Collins’s Good to Great affected his thinking about social change.
But young people, born and raised in democratic societies, have increasingly been yielding to the appeal of death-dealing groups like the Islamic State, leaving their homes and families to wage jihad in faraway places.
Should the minimum wage be raised?
Japan has a high income-tax rate for the rich (45%), and the inheritance tax rate recently was raised to 55%.
Third, the nuclear deal with Iran, despite facing continued scrutiny in Iran and the US, has raised hopes that the country could play an important role in pushing for a political solution in Syria.
Following the passage of America’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930, countries raised trade barriers in a tit-for-tat frenzy, with no rules to constrain their behavior.
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