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Smaller countries spend more, as a percentage of GDP, on education and health care – another habit that new small countries would do well to uphold.
That is why Cameroon, a country slightly smaller than Spain, is home to 230 languages.
By contrast, when the Industrial Revolution increased the value of larger markets, Italy (1861-1871) and Germany (1870-1871) were created by unifying smaller states on the basis of nationalist sentiment and a common language, both of which actually had to be created.
The second lesson is that the two slope coefficients in the algebraic equation that is the Phillips curve – the link between expected inflation and current inflation, and the responsiveness of future inflation to current unemployment – are both much smaller than they were back in the 1970s or even in the 1980s.
And, while the US has many engineers of its own (and imports others, despite restrictive immigration policies), many other countries do not, exacerbating the challenges smaller start-ups there face in getting qualified people.
That’s good for large companies, but it leaves behind smaller companies that can’t afford to train the middle ranks or compete for the best.
A return of real long-term bond yields to their historic level would involve a loss of about 30% for investors in 30-year bonds and proportionately smaller losses for investors in shorter-duration bonds.
Indeed, he did, after all, announce last year that contrary to his Likud Party’s previous position, he was now willing to accept a two-state solution – a position that is still anathema to many Likud members, as well to at least three of the smaller parties in his government coalition.
Similarly, new partnerships with large industry incumbents – such as the tie-up between Daimler and Tesla and the controlling stake that Total took in SunPower – are reducing the cost of finance for smaller firms.
When stressed, a big surface bifurcates in big chunks, but then the disintegration continues into smaller and smaller fragments.
In Europe, where party discipline is strong and the parties, not the individual candidates, finance election campaigns, money plays a smaller role.
This means that the barriers that EU negotiators are in a position to impose – which largely affect trade in goods – are likely to have a much smaller impact than the UK-imposed barriers, such as quotas on EU workers.
Yet the more diffuse threats faced by the smaller number of southern NATO members may well be more acute.
Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves, and is a major exporter (though smaller than ten years ago).
Smaller independent dealers that the government could allow to fail thus become less appealing.
This includes select over-the-counter products, which we sell in smaller, more affordable packages, helping to keep patients’ weekly out-of-pocket costs low.
In the final scenario, what emerges is a more decentralized Europe, with less top-down agreement in areas beyond trade and a smaller, more homogeneous eurozone composed of the EU’s core economies.
Schisms emerged between northern and southern states, and between smaller and larger ones.
The announcement comes less than a month before the ECB takes over direct supervision of some 130 banks, representing more than 80% of eurozone bank assets, leaving only smaller national banks under the jurisdiction of local supervisory agencies.
Higher growth rates are particularly good for smaller businesses and startups, which in turn are a major contributor to economic mobility.
Unlike the United States, where the financial sector is smaller as a share of GDP, the UK economy has still not recovered the output lost in the post-2008 Great Recession, owing to continued retrenchment in the banking sector.
But, as a big country, China would not have the vulnerabilities of smaller strong currencies (the Norwegian krone or the Swiss franc, for example).
But while women in the developed world are waging big battles over gender bias, women and girls in developing countries remain focused on smaller victories.
The main message of the election result is that British voters do not welcome the fragmentation of the political system and the rise of smaller parties leading to a new era of coalition governments.
Such tectonic shifts are jarring enough for the large powers that bring them about; for smaller countries, they can be even more disorienting.
Individually, the far smaller cities in England’s north cannot really compete with that.
And, indeed, the distances between Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and Sheffield are smaller than the distances covered by the Central, District, and Piccadilly lines in the London Underground.
A reluctance of foreign investors to keep accumulating dollar assets will cause a smaller capital inflow from the rest of the world.
The smaller states could not do Keynesianism in a hand basin.
Smaller countries, meanwhile, will be freer to develop according to their own political, cultural, and economic preferences.
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