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In Malaysia, the central bank took a lead role in raising the public’s level of financial literacy.
The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.
Macron and Verhofstadt’s aim in raising the specter of Eastern European populists is to undermine their own populists at home.
While it would not matter much to any individual bank whether it did so by reducing its loan portfolio or by raising its capital, it mattered very much to the economy that the banks chose the second.
Despite making some progress in investigating the complaints and referring them to the justice system, as well as in raising public awareness about the issue, the challenges remain huge.
Worse still, if Bank of England Governor Mervyn King is right that above-target inflation is due to imported inflation, raising interest rates has little impact unless it induces sterling appreciation, which would reduce the cost of imports.
On mainland China, Alibaba recently made history by raising $25 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering to date.
By raising the double-freeze solution, China put the ball in America’s court, and placed the onus for resolving the crisis squarely on Trump’s shoulders.
To be sure, debt forgiveness is tricky, raising complicated issues of fairness and incentives.
Moreover, while South Korea can afford to increase public spending today, raising expenditure without paying careful attention to resource allocation will eventually undermine fiscal sustainability.
A majority of today’s French recognize that raising the retirement age is necessary to ensure the survival of the pension system.
It will also mobilize support for African parliamentarians, enabling them to work with their constituents in raising awareness, at a local level, of new sustainable agricultural policies that respond to changes in weather patterns and other consequences of climate change.
A renewed scramble for oil is raising fears of a new generation of geopolitical conflicts.
Saudi Arabia, for example, is raising taxes, cutting domestic subsidies, and shifting its foreign-aid paradigm away from grants and toward investments.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons program threatens to upset that balance, by giving its regime the capacity, through the long-range ballistic missiles it is testing, to strike the West Coast of the US, thereby raising a new version of an old question: would the US risk Los Angeles to protect Seoul?
Raising interest rates won’t have much impact on the international price of grains or fuel.
Raising interest rates can reduce aggregate demand, which can slow the economy and tame increases in prices of some goods and services, especially non-traded goods and services.
But the effectiveness of TB treatments is declining, raising concerns that drug-resistant strains are becoming more virulent.
Thus, large banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.
But whatever their purpose, by raising fanciful hopes they thwart the possibility for real reform - something, incidentally, that the West ceaselessly demands from the Kremlin.
Small and mid-sized cities are also raising their international profiles.
This forecast of excess demand is an important part of the Fed’s rationale for raising the policy rate and shrinking its balance sheet.
Moreover, ripping up trade agreements and raising tariffs will do nothing to create new, high-paying factory jobs.
The PBOC frequently does this by selling bonds to commercial banks or raising their reserve requirements.
But while inequality is a problem, raising interest rates is no way to address it.
The population at large just does not understand what links raising the retirement age with the crisis.
Raising interest rates to the sky won't be credible because it would cause a recession and the ECB could not hold to such a policy for long.
Some members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC, the Fed’s policymaking body) therefore fear that raising the short-term federal funds rate will trigger a substantial rise in longer-term rates, creating losses for investors and lenders, with adverse effects on the economy.
Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but trade unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.
According to the Financial Times, investment in Xi’s initiative declined last year, raising doubts about whether commercial enterprises are as committed as the government.
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