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His basic strategy was a standard one: bet against any central bank that tries to defend an inconsistent macroeconomic policy.
Similarly, the European Union’s leadership is criticized for its inability to secure economic growth rates of more than 1-2%; by this standard, any government of a country with 7% growth – such as Putin’s Russia – should be called super-effective.
At first sight, the Ivory Coast’s post-colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.
For example, in 2004, China attempted to replace standard GDP accounting with the “Green GDP” index, which accounts for the environmental consequences of economic growth.
Designing such a growth strategy is both harder and easier than implementing standard neoliberal policies.
But Japan retains a high standard of living, a highly skilled labor force, a stable society, and areas of technological and manufacturing leadership.
Not only do the US administration and its federal agencies have to accept that a safety standard established and tested in Frankfurt or Athens is equivalent to its US counterpart; congressional committees must agree.
As the now ten-year-old Japanese slump tells us, once deflation and contraction have established themselves, standard policies stop working.
Or apply the same standard to Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela that has been applied to Honduras?
Of course, this requires effective regulation to protect consumers, together with strong governance structures to ensure that services can recover costs (and thus that they will be delivered consistently and at a high standard over the long term).
In fact, female and male sexual response differs in important ways: the length of response cycles, the role of “bad stress,” and the complexity of pelvic neural wiring (which in men is fairly standard, but in women is highly variegated and individualized).
I think this is a risky strategy; if a strong US recovery is not around the corner, then Europe needs to act on its own, using the standard counter-cyclical tools of monetary and fiscal policy.
The deviations from standard inflation targeting do not stop there.
They are poor by an absolute standard based on the most basic human needs.
It’s difficult to see self-sufficiency providing an adequate standard of living for the world’s growing population.
This is standard practice for US state and local governments.
By joining FSM in these efforts, the PNA could raise the bar for transparency and set a new standard for fisheries management.
The standard economic case for trade is a domestic one.
The continuation of extreme cross-country income inequality could deter international cooperation, stalling or even reversing globalization, despite its potential to improve everyone’s standard of living.
Then there was the Nixon shock of 1971 (when the American president took the dollar off the gold standard and imposed wage, price, and trade controls), the 1982 international debt crisis in Mexico, the 1992 crisis in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans’ standard of living.
And, again, even this more substantial rise probably represents a substantial underestimate of the increase in the real standard of living.
Because emotions and cognitions are an intrinsic part of the experience of pain, people differ greatly in their responses to a common injury, such as a standard surgical operation.
The introduction of the Near Zero Energy Buildings standard for new buildings in the EU is set to reduce drastically dependence on gas for heating.
And, if such limits were combined with public financing of election campaigns, they would also help the election to meet an important ethical standard by denying the rich a disproportionate influence on outcomes, and hence on the subsequent actions of the president and Congress.
A double standard applies, because, whatever Nature does is, well, natural, and therefore good.
Moreover, the DOTS strategy requires that health care professionals supervise the standard treatment regimens to ensure that TB patients remain on the antibiotic cocktail for the full six months, thereby slowing the emergence of drug resistance.
Japan and other developed countries prove that a high standard of living requires only a fraction of the energy per dollar of GDP.
The changes in technology will increase the economy’s output and raise the potential standard of living of the population.
Thus, while investors can no longer profit by basing their trading decisions on standard anti-takeover provisions, our findings leave open the possibility that an investment strategy based on other features of corporate governance might be worthwhile.
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