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Taiwan initiated a single-payer system in 1995, significantly curbing health-care costs and improving the population’s quality of life.
By contrast, the commission argues, “there may be big benefits to the UK as a financial center from demonstrating that it can establish and adhere to standards significantly above the international minimum.”
Afghans’ fears and concerns are focused on what legacy will be left behind, and whether the Afghan state can provide security, justice, and good governance, which it has so far been unable to deliver in the face of an insurgency whose strength is not significantly weakened.
At the end of Macri’s first year in office, Argentina faced the same macroeconomic imbalances that it did when he took office, but with significantly higher external indebtedness.
But Iran has faced similar economic difficulties before – in the 1980’s, oil exports fell significantly amid the country’s eight-year war with Iraq, and in 1986-2000 global oil prices were extremely low – and handled them relatively well.
Reinhart and Rogoff published a paper that appeared to show that public-debt levels above 90% of GDP significantly impede economic growth.
While not a cause of price volatility, speculation on derivatives of essential food commodities significantly worsens it.
Selective migration policies and talent-friendly environments supported at the European level could significantly improve the net skill migration balance, which is currently negative or zero in all EU countries.
Combining these conservative assumptions about potential GDP with the effect of the cyclical rebound – an estimated 1.2% annual rise in real GDP – would produce real GDP growth at an average annual rate of 2.6%, which would be significantly higher than the 1.9% rate in the decade ending in 2009.
If Americans’ demand for housing picks up and businesses want to increase their investment, a clash between China’s lower saving rate and a continued high fiscal deficit in the US could drive up global interest rates significantly.
Thus, by encouraging the purchase of health insurance by individuals or employers, the Chinese government could reduce significantly the overall household saving rate.
The way much of GDP is now produced has made it significantly harder for the left to organize in traditional ways.
The researchers found that gay men who take Truvada, in addition to using condoms when they have sex, were significantly less likely to contract HIV.
But it may be argued that regulatory reform, particularly the far higher capital requirements established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision for systemically significant banks, has significantly reduced the risk of incurring those costs.
But, even with significantly more public-debt relief, Greece could not return to growth without rapidly restoring competitiveness.
And the deal itself significantly reduces the chances of nuclear proliferation in Europe’s backyard.
One team of economists has found that respondents “primed” by references to lobbyists or the Wall Street bailout display significantly lower levels of support for anti-poverty policies.
Though the country has made significant progress on this front since 2008, its total trade-to-GDP ratio (37%) and export-to-GDP ratio (18%) remain significantly higher than those of the US, Japan, and other large economies.
A comparison of the two most common types of cannabis in the United Kingdom, hash and sinsemilla (“skunk”), found that using skunk implied a significantly greater risk of psychosis, while hash did not.
Significantly, whereas the regime previously sought to downplay the challenge posed by the opposition, Syrian state television has covered the fighting in Damascus extensively.
To be sure, international institutions and many developing countries have invested significantly in improving data collection to track better their performance against MDG targets.
The euro, too, has depreciated significantly against the dollar over the last year, and some US trade critics want provisions to prevent currency manipulation added to the TTIP.
Cluster seeds are already underway in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas and, very significantly, in Japan.
Two of most damaging US proposals were rejected or weakened significantly.
As a result, private companies do not offer life annuities at attractive rates, because they cannot be reasonably sure that they can fulfill their promises unless they are significantly overcapitalized.
The German government has been all but reneging on its commitments to strengthen significantly public investment in infrastructure and education.
Nonetheless, China’s average tax rate is significantly higher than that of Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.
There is indeed the obvious danger that governments might easily become addicted to monetary finance to pay for private and public spending, which is why it is unlikely to be tried openly unless economic conditions worsen significantly.
Simply put, by controlling deforestation we can significantly affect the carbon emissions that cause climate change.
By the 2008 Beijing games, the world had changed significantly.
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