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Further assuming a relatively generous 20% administration overhead, the total cost of the scheme would be approximately $600 million – equivalent to a fifth of the reported aid flow to these countries in 2004 and to 3.5-4% of their combined GDP.
Of course, the fact that micro-financiers charge the very poor relatively high interest rates exacerbates the perception that they are gouging society’s most vulnerable members.
But micro-financiers may have no choice: given the small size of the loans, the costs of processing them and collecting payments are relatively large, driving up the break-even interest rate.
We vote for representatives – either individually or as part of a political party with a relatively predictable platform – to advocate public policies that we support.
And, with its relatively open goods and capital markets, Dubai has become a trading hub not only for the entire Middle East, but also for parts of Africa and Asia.
The US is on relatively strong footing to achieve higher economic growth.
Instead, it makes sense to borrow while the parents are young and their income is still relatively low, and to repay once they are better off.
The Brazilian and Russian economies are contracting;South Africa’s growth has slowed; and India, though maintaining relatively strong growth, must undertake important reforms.
The exchange rate has been adjusted, and, given international conditions, is relatively stable, underpinning Ukraine’s international competitiveness.
Even if the world runs out of oil and gas in the coming years, coal will prove to be plentiful, and solid coal can be converted at relatively low cost to liquid fuels for automobiles and other uses.
Nuclear power is relatively cheap, and could be plentiful, but poses huge dangers for increased proliferation of nuclear-weapons materials.
All this will require some genuinely new thinking, not least in countries where until relatively recently centralized state control of the arts was the norm.
In developed economies, construction can add only a relatively small amount each year to the existing stock of housing.
The relatively small turnout at his funeral confirmed that only a minority of Serbs considers him a national hero.
Overall military pay is relatively flat – that is, it does not go up and down depending on performance, and it is also lower than for comparable positions in civilian firms.
Yet these mistakes are relatively minor and reversible.
The result is the March trade deficit, caused mainly by exceptionally high annual import growth (65%) coupled with relatively low export growth, which reached a nominally impressive 24% only because of the sharp decline recorded in the base period.
In 2004-2007, I considered that I might be wrong about a relatively rapid resolution to the world’s economic distress: as the late Rudi Dornbusch put it, unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances can sustain themselves longer than economists (with their touching faith in rational human decision making) believe is possible.
Its relatively good economic health allows it to finance its debt at less than the rate of inflation, while other European states finance theirs at rates that are three points higher than inflation.
This comparatively benign situation reflects Colombia’s relatively favorable macroeconomic conditions.
It has taken some useful steps that may help to stabilize markets, such as the Joint Oil Data Initiative, but it plays a relatively minor role.
In August 1998, with the ruble's devaluation, we tested the alternative, Keynsian hypotheses: production soared, and relatively quickly, showing that policies emphasizing excessive austerity had caused unnecessary idleness of human and physical resources, and unnecessary suffering.
In fact, the relatively weak support for populist parties in German elections obscures an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in German society that bears striking similarities to the anger that has fueled the rise of anti-establishment parties in Europe and beyond.
So, rather than taking comfort in populist parties’ relatively weak performance in this month’s election, Germany’s political class should take action.
Gene-drive organisms are intended to spread indefinitely, and mosquitoes, especially females, can surf air currents at relatively high altitudes (40-290 meters, or 131-951 feet), where winds can blow them hundreds of miles.
Ultimately, though, the best he can hope for is that the interregnum in Berlin is relatively brief and that Merkel’s successor is more bravely pro-European.
The new plan includes a relatively bright forecast for fiscal year 2019, and foresees economic growth and higher government revenue from then on, despite larger doses of fiscal austerity and declining federal aid.
It bestows access to high-demand currencies on a select few, relatively strong, countries precisely when the weakest countries are at their most vulnerable.
And, given Brazil’s capable professionals and quality firms, its potential to sell stuff around the world, while relatively limited by its trade relationships, should not be underestimated.
If the US and NATO leave Afghanistan to its own devices without first creating a minimum of regional stability, it is all but certain that the Islamist danger will return in relatively short order, and will be greater than it was in the 1990’s.
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