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Russia is also flexing its muscles over the question of Kosovo’s future, raising objections in the United Nations Security Council to the UN’s plan for independence and openly supporting Serbia’s quest to maintain its supremacy over Kosovo.
Beyond the moral question of raising Africans’ living standards, the continent’s development is crucial to reducing geopolitical risks.
To increase labor productivity and gain competitiveness, Greece and Italy have three options – domestic devaluation (slashing domestic prices), intra-euro devaluation (raising prices in Germany), or an exit from the eurozone – all of which require a stable government.
Should they now be blamed for developing diabetes and raising health-care costs?
The West should also recognize that the constituencies of Hezbollah and its allied, largely Christian, Free Patriotic Movement, led by presidential contender Michel Aoun, will be hit hardest by many of Siniora’s proposed economic and administrative reforms, such as lifting fuel subsidies and sharply raising value added tax.
The US Congress responded in 1983 by gradually raising the age for full benefits from 65 to 67.
The obvious solution to the current and future Social Security financing problem is to reprise the 1983 legislation by gradually raising the age for full benefits from 67 to 70, with appropriate actuarial adjustments for earlier and later retirements.
Such investment-based annuities would be a natural supplement to the lower pay-as-you-go benefits that would result from raising the eligibility age for full benefits.
So the key to raising revenue is to reduce tax expenditures, use some of the resulting revenue to reduce tax rates, and devote the rest to reducing future deficits.
Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue-raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.
Much of that money went directly into raising industrial productivity.
Apple cannot build an iPhone from scratch in the US, so it would have to search for alternative suppliers, raising its production costs considerably.
Soon enough, they will be raising taxes.
Signs of inflation in product and labor markets loom; the only question now is whether the economy will slow quickly by itself or whether the Federal Reserve Board must beat it into the ground by quickly raising interest rates.
Kim accuses Japan of introducing unnecessary obstacles and complications into resolution of the nuclear question by raising the sensitive issue of North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens.
New entrants into an industry are the ones raising the heat.
Third, a burgeoning migration crisis is raising questions about European values and identity.
When forced to cut employment, they are more likely to think that they are destroying lives rather than raising economic efficiency and increasing wealth.
They have the backing of luminaries like the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who, building on the pioneering work of economists David Card and Alan Krueger, argues that raising the minimum wage need not destroy a lot of jobs (as conservative opponents insist) – and may even create some.
Since it is increasingly difficult to recruit and retain soldiers, to do so will probably require raising their wages and improving their quality of life.
If policymakers go slow on raising rates to encourage faster economic recovery, they risk causing the mother of all asset bubbles, eventually leading to a bust, another massive financial crisis, and a rapid slide into recession.
For now, policymakers in countries with frothy credit, equity, and housing markets have avoided raising policy rates, given slow economic growth.
The obvious conclusion is that raising rural incomes sustainably is required to eradicate hunger.
Genuinely concerned about raising the incomes of his desperately poor people, he recognized that Bolivia needs foreigners’ expertise to achieve growth, and that this entails paying fairly for their services.
To be sure, recent research suggests that increased government spending can be effective in temporarily raising output and employment during deep, long-lasting recessions when the central bank has reduced its short-term policy interest rate to zero.
Here is a word of warning to the hard money crowd: holding an exchange rate at all costs, raising interest rates to defend the situation, playing tough -- is stupid.
In order to stem this decline without raising interest rates too much, they have resorted to administratively targeted credit loosening.
From Ghana to Kenya, governments are having increased difficulty in raising money for infrastructure projects and selling official debt.
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home.
Its main proponents are creditors, who have much to gain from it (relative to the alternative of raising domestic wages and forgiving debts).
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