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Katrina has also raised questions about other items on the president’s agenda.
To be sure, most taxes entail heavy "excess burdens": the cost is significantly greater than the value of the revenue raised because of potential taxpayers' myriad attempts at evasion and avoidance.
In all of the other crisis-hit countries (and, indeed, in most of the dozens of countries that have received IMF loans in recent decades), rising exports offset, at least partly, the hit that demand took when their governments slashed spending and raised taxes to balance their books.
Former President Jimmy Carter, whose Atlanta center monitors elections around the globe, has raised questions about whether America’s recent election lives up to the standards the United States should uphold.
So, even as growth slowed, the central bank raised interest rates in order to rebalance demand and the available supply, causing the economy to slow further.
Large-scale, debt-funded capital investments have raised the country’s credit/GDP ratio to nearly 200%, increasing the financial system’s vulnerability – a development reflected in the recent spike in interbank interest rates.
The recent assassination of the secular Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has raised the stakes for women there.
These fears multiplied when the Helsinki Summit of 1999 raised the number of candidate countries from 6 to 12.Of course, offering membership to more countries is praiseworthy, but doing so may postpone membership for the first candidates.
With foreign central banks and international investors shunning dollars, the US Treasury would have to pay more to borrow, even if the debt ceiling was eventually raised.
They can increase production enormously by operating in several nations, as Chilean electric power companies have raised their profits and expanded production out of their small domestic market by operating in other Latin American countries.
Greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to reach a record high of 36 billion tons this year.That figure is expected to grow dramatically, as the great emerging-market boom of recent decades, which has lifted billions out of poverty and raised living standards around the world, puts increasing strain on the world’s environment and resources.
Two central questions raised by Young remain topical today.
Austerity has raised debt/GDP ratios, but a debt write-down or bigger bailouts would undermine the long-term goal of minimizing the risk of similar debt crises in the future.
While the ECB’s actions represent the best chance yet to put an end to a crisis that has been playing out since 2010, the Bank has markedly raised the stakes for governments.
The ECB has bought time, but it has also raised the stakes.
Here, Milosevic’s fall raised hopes by offering the promise of open dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo.
After the first two arrows of Abenomics – expansionary monetary and fiscal policies – raised expectations that Japan’s economy would finally escape stagnation, the country began slipping back into recession in the second quarter of this year.
That question, often raised in the past, has been heating up in the aftermath of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s emotional outburst during the recent World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos, when he abruptly left a panel he was sharing with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
While this was regrettable, it raised no “deep conceptual issue” – that is, it didn’t demand that they reconsider their theory.
Moreover, CO2 acts as a fertilizer, and its increase has probably raised global yields more than 3% over the past 30 years.
This is a pittance in comparison with money raised and spent by US conservative groups.
Other examples come to mind: the accusations of collaboration with the secret police raised against Lech Walesa, Romania’s public controversies surrounding Mircea Eliade’s fascist past, and the attacks on the alleged “Jewish monopoly of suffering” which equate the Holocaust with the Soviet Gulag.
And export competitiveness is raised as investment pours into the construction of links in global supply chains.
Worse still, in response to recent pleas for education aid in conflict zones such as Chad, South Sudan, and Gambia, just 2% of the requested sum was raised.
What was a theoretical curiosity raised by John Maynard Keynes in the 1930's has become the fundamental issue confronting policymakers in the world's largest economies.
Perhaps the fault lies not only with the current practice of democracy, but also with the expectations raised by some of democracy’s advocates.
My concerns about the legitimacy of the election results are further raised by interference by Mugabe's militia, whose members prevented the MDC from placing polling agents in 52% of rural polling stations.
By signaling that the present China-North Korea border may not be final, Beijing has raised the specter of potential tensions over frontiers in the future.
Gordon argues that the major technological changes that raised the standard of living in the past are much more important than anything that can happen in the future.
The Ottoman Empire raised funds from pious Muslims (and brought in German technicians) to lay a railway from Damascus to Medina.
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