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Say something cannot be done and your boss will receive a fax saying it can.
According to the World Bank, one billion people in 146 low- and middle-income countries currently receive some form of social protection.
In the upper middle-income countries, about 45% of those living in extreme poverty receive social-welfare benefits.
But by August, it was clear that all three corporate giants would receive only a small share of what they wanted.
We suggested, among other things, that officials in vulnerable and important posts receive higher instead of lower salaries than comparable workers get in the private sector.
They can choose not only what kinds of goods and services they deem worthwhile, but also where to live and receive an education.
But other alleged victims of gender-based abuse, sometimes in life-threatening circumstances, typically receive very different treatment.
For example, in the US, the federal budget offsets a substantial part (estimated at 30-40%) of the differences in per capita income levels across states, because poorer states contribute less income tax, on average, and receive higher transfer payments.
But this support is given to all states and thus does not provide those most affected with much more support than the others receive.
These ideas should receive more attention in the future, as our supplies of non-renewable resources dwindle.
And police departments around the world should exercise more caution before acting on an alert they receive through Interpol.
When Inequality KillsNEW YORK – This week, Angus Deaton will receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.”
I was chief economist of the World Bank in the late 1990s, when we began to receive similarly depressing news from Russia.
On the contrary, it has handled the pressure exceedingly well, proving that through sustained collaboration among governments, business, and civil society, countries can develop effective approaches to meeting the needs of refugees and the countries that receive them.
Once in their country of choice, refugees receive protection and support, while they await the assessment of their asylum applications.
Ensuring that today’s info-monopolists can legally collect only a very limited amount of personal data – say, what newspapers receive about their subscribers – would protect users, without fatally diminishing the platforms’ appeal to advertisers.
The assurance that trading firms will receive fair regulatory and judicial treatment from member-state governments is essential; and the principle of nondiscrimination has been a tenet of the global trade system since its inception.
That means that the short-lived story of Italy’s jumbo IMF package, which was to be funded largely by non-European money, can be regarded as a game changer: while Italy may never receive such a package, Europe, it seems, is determined to resolve its problems using other people’s money.
The death of each of the innocent victims of last year’s terrorist attacks is a terrible tragedy for that person and his or her family and friends; but that is also true of deaths that occur in traffic accidents, which receive much less media attention.
If anything, efforts to hold EMU together may have taken us further from the goal of a common foreign policy by re-igniting within member states (regardless of whether they give or receive financial aid) nationalist resentments that we hoped had died long ago.
The three would thus receive the status they strive for, within a larger structure and without acting as a self-appointed directoire .
Finally, the European Commission should receive a seat.
When I visited Barcelona and Madrid last year, I was delighted to receive enthusiastic news about the successes of the growing Romanian community in these cities.
Even today, states’ liabilities receive considerable attention, while their asset sides receive significantly less.
Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.
My country is leading the effort to ensure that they receive both.
There was no dearth of ideas and topics, participants argued, that existing textbooks neglected, and that should receive more attention two decades from now.
The Paris agreement features pledges on greenhouse-gas emissions from developing countries, in exchange for which they will receive huge sums of cash from richer countries.
Emblematic of the difference between the UN and the G-20 conferences was the discussion of bank secrecy: whereas the G-20 focused on tax evasion, the UN Conference addressed corruption, too, which some experts contend gives rise to outflows from some of the poorest countries that are greater than the foreign assistance they receive.
As the stock market dives, they receive margin calls and are being forced to sell their shares at ever-lower prices, causing the stock market’s downward spiral to accelerate.
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