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The US imposes a tariff of more than 50 cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol from Brazil, but subsidizes inefficient corn-based American ethanol heavily – indeed , it requires more than a gallon of gasoline to fertilize, harvest, transport, process, and distill corn to yield one gallon of ethanol.

To explain this abrupt and radical change requires examining more closely the relationship between the monetary base and inflation, and understanding the changing role of the reserves that commercial banks hold at the Federal Reserve.

At the recent European Banking Conference in Frankfurt, there was near-unanimous agreement that a functioning banking union requires a central resolution authority (to deal with failing financial institutions) and a mutually guaranteed deposit-protection fund (to boost confidence in weaker banks in the eurozone’s troubled economies).

Naval assets are not only expensive to build; they are extremely costly to operate, as each unit requires specialized equipment and highly trained personnel.

Accurately assessing maritime operations’ success requires time and care, because naval capabilities cannot be built up quickly.

A year of education in Africa requires at least $300 per student.

Success in US presidential politics requires superb intuition, being quick on one’s feet, and, above all, a compelling rationale for running.

Productivity-enhancing farm machinery, for example, usually requires more power than off-grid household systems can provide.

It also requires building up the necessary skills and capacities in the labor force.

But narrowing the global governance deficit requires closer cooperation, and a willingness to invest in civil-society organizations that hold governments accountable.

But modern production requires many inputs that markets do not provide.

But this requires a substantial increase in assistance at a time when the paltry levels of aid provided by rich countries continue to fall.

This much is clear: addressing the plight of the world's poorest countries and providing the global public goods needed in this age of globalization requires us to explore innovative ways of raising the necessary financing.

For example, Nigeria requires 100,000 megawatts of electricity to support its population of 150 million, but generates less than 5,000 megawatts.

But addressing them requires a prudent strategy that accounts for the structural fragility of the scientific enterprise, in which scientists must complete extensive training, regulation can easily stifle creativity, and funding limitations can substantially delay progress.

Figuring out which side is right requires, first and foremost, an understanding of the six ways that humans have historically created value: through our legs, our fingers, our mouths, our brains, our smiles, and our minds.

That requires, first and foremost, efforts to strengthen and modernize institutions, guided by Western examples.

But that requires commitment to a real vision of what constitutes a minimally functioning Afghan state, beyond the obvious need for effective security forces.

It requires a lot of time, continuous effort, uncompromising integrity, appropriate funding and material support, and unwavering commitment.

But it can do so only in the context of a sustainable and inclusive recovery of economic activity – and that requires a more competitive economy.

That now requires supporting the EU’s deep involvement in Afghanistan as its key contribution to repairing and reforming the Atlantic Alliance.

A cornerstone of the existing international order is the recognition that maintaining peace and human welfare requires an understanding of and respect for the needs and interests of others – needs and interests that are no less legitimate than our own.

Its community model – which requires cooperation, negotiation, and compromise to reach any consequential decision – amounts to a check on extremism, because no member country can push radical policies forward without other members pushing back.

Corruption isn’t only high-level governmental malfeasance; overcoming it requires nothing short of a change in Indians’ mindset.

And that requires much more than just tweaking public spending and introducing some high-tech infrastructure projects; it means recreating the basis for a more dynamic society.

Advanced training in economics requires learning about market failures in detail, and about the myriad ways in which governments can help markets work better.

The measures include concrete and relatively simple steps like “bidirectional screening,” which requires any person diagnosed with diabetes to be tested for tuberculosis and vice versa.

This requires the immediate establishment of a judicial body, whose legitimacy would be based on the same multilateral process that was sought prior to the war.

And it requires IMF management to demonstrate that it can consistently make decisions based on program countries’ economic interest, not on the political preferences of powerful national shareholders.

More fundamentally, governments in oil-producing countries are confronting a political dilemma: Stronger economic growth, though desirable, requires regimes to take risks that could endanger their very survival.

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