Restrictions
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By contrast, the proposed
restrictions
on the visa-waiver program include “safeguard clauses” that would temporarily suspend access to Europe’s Schengen area, most likely for those from Balkan countries.
Easing
restrictions
on development would curb property speculation and allow cities to grow, create more jobs, and increase the supply of affordable housing.
One example is Cali, Colombia, which drove down homicide rates in the 1990s after the city’s mayor, Rodrigo Guerrero, tightened alcohol restrictions, introduced community-development programs in the most impoverished neighborhoods, and imposed temporary gun bans in public places.
By one reckoning, close to a quarter of American imports were covered by some form of trade
restrictions
at the peak of Reagan protectionism (including so called voluntary export restraints).
Research suggests that these
restrictions
did not affect the flow of long-term capital.
During this period of
restrictions
on capital flows, Chile grew rapidly, by 7% per year on average.
More importantly, capital
restrictions
meant that when Latin America was sent into recession and depression later in the decade, as speculative capital fled most Latin American countries, Chile was largely spared.
Should Chile find other products that can compete against American producers, these too will likely face
restrictions.
Much of Taiwan's manufacturing sector has migrated across the Taiwan Strait--despite
restrictions
on direct contacts with the mainland--and Singapore is becoming a kind of Asian Switzerland, betting its prosperity on investments in China.
For example, there are likely to be more stringent
restrictions
on technology transfer and investment, owing mainly to national security considerations.
Salaries for pilots and cabin attendants were high because of entry
restrictions.
Gripes about
restrictions
on freedom of expression or economic freedom, which are popular in Moscow, have few echoes in the provinces.
At the same time, they should focus on those IP measures that run the least risk of clashing with international obligations: regulatory facilitation rather than restrictions, investment in infrastructure rather than in specific economic activities, and fiscal incentives that are accessible to all.
Trump’s proposed budget would place
restrictions
on federal funding for clean-energy development and climate research.
In the summer of 2015, Greece’s short-lived default on its International Monetary Fund loan and the introduction of capital controls and deposit-withdrawal
restrictions
were at the center of the eurozone drama.
For all Reagan’s free-trade rhetoric, he freely imposed trade restrictions, including the notorious “voluntary” export restraints on automobiles.
Migratory
restrictions
would become tighter, and trade opportunities and foreign direct investment would plummet.
For example, the cotton textile industry that developed in Bombay between 1857 and 1947 operated with no employment restrictions, complete security of capital, a stable and efficient legal system, no import or export controls, freedom of entry by entrepreneurs from around the world, and free access to the British market.
Economic activity is everywhere hedged by rules, regulations, and
restrictions.
Western Europe is not terribly efficient, let’s face it, with too many regulations and
restrictions
and different laws that are not harmonized.
But China also imposes capital-account
restrictions
on portfolio-investment flows, which means that its stock markets remain relatively closed.
Will today’s freedom and transparency, having led to undesired results, result in a return to
restrictions
on movements of goods, people, and capital?
For instance, if your infrastructure is bad, or you have domestic policies that prevent investors from responding to market opportunities (such as South Asia’s stifling licensing restrictions), you will see no results.
Using trade
restrictions
to uphold particular values must be distinguished from using them to impose values.
But trade
restrictions
were largely avoided, because the WTO and G20 stepped in to facilitate multilateral cooperation.
In Argentina, it took a 30% inflation rate, massive corruption scandals, and
restrictions
on foreign-currency purchases to bring about a slim majority for the center-right Mauricio Macri in the recent presidential election.
From this perspective, the proposal to use the IMF as a conduit for ECB resources (thereby circumventing
restrictions
imposed by European Union’s treaties), while providing the ECB with preferred-creditor status, would exacerbate the Fund’s exposure to risky borrowers.
For example, the administration could still pursue protectionist measures that would precipitate a trade war, and it has already imposed migration
restrictions
that will likely reduce growth, by eroding the labor supply.
The result has been a marked rise in nationalist populism – a trend that has led to new trade restrictions, the ongoing re-negotiation of existing arrangements (such as the North American Free Trade Agreement), and a backlash against supranational institutions (such as the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union).
By inserting into a country’s constitution
restrictions
on, say, the ability of governments to run deficits, or suspend currency convertibility, these decisions are effectively stripped from the normal horse-trading of politics.
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