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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.
Naturally, monetary and fiscal policy should be tightened, but that is difficult when Putin is trying to placate the population.
In the early-to-mid 1990s budget deficits turned into surpluses, bank and financial supervision tightened and labor market reform was repeatedly attempted (if never achieved).
The cap rate could be higher, or it could start higher and be gradually tightened, or it could vary with an individual’s income level.
Ironically, these financial constraints have tightened against a background of strong financial-sector growth.
To rein in a housing bubble and preempt a rise in inflation, the People’s Bank of China tightened monetary policy in January 2010.
Thailand introduced controls on outflows in 1997, and China tightened its controls earlier this year.
When the market tightened in 2011, many projects’ prospects diminished, spurring LGFVs to seek credit in the shadow banking sector, which has caused their borrowing costs to rise and introduced new market-based challenges to the reform process.
Fidesz has tightened its control over the judiciary and politicized law enforcement, by turning the Chief Prosecutor’s office into what is essentially an arm of the party.
During the last two years, the government has tightened fiscal and monetary policy, in the hope of offsetting the adverse effects of the large stimulus package implemented in response to the 2008 global financial crisis.
More importantly, the cap on emissions is being tightened over time – by 11% for the second period, from 2008 through 2012, and by 1.74% annually from 2013 on – so that the required reductions will increase in the future.
Constraints on the property market, such as limiting multiple purchases or highly leveraged investments, have been tightened and then relaxed.
But from 2011 onward, US fiscal policy was slowly tightened, and from March 2012 the eurozone’s “fiscal compact” committed member countries to sustained deficit reduction.
Her government actually tightened the budget just before New Year.
These factors will drive construction booms and busts even if obvious market distortions are removed and market discipline is tightened.
If capital flight occurs, the consequences will be dire: tightened credit, balance-of-payments difficulties, inflation, rising interest rates, fiscal stress, and downgrades by the major credit-rating agencies – all of which implies more capital flight.
To be sure, Russia has tightened its control of the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
As these families have tightened their belts, the pace of consumption spending and economic growth has become more dependent on earners at the top of the income distribution.
By establishing fake opposition political parties that are under the Kremlin’s thumb, creating pseudo pressure groups and organizations such as Nashi (“Ours”), and recasting the rule of law as an instrument of political power, Putin has tightened his control in a more effective and subtle way than many autocratic regimes.
Alcohol restrictions were tightened.
In order to control inflation and real-estate bubbles, the central bank tightened monetary policy and the government refrained from another round of fiscal stimulus.
The government increasingly tightened its policies as the economy continued to surge ahead due to asset bubbles, high local-government investment spending, and buoyant demand in global markets for Chinese goods.
The current negotiations are likely to fail, and even tightened sanctions may not stop Iran from trying to build nuclear weapons.
Should China Be Ejected from the SDR?SANTA BARBARA – Last week, the Chinese government tightened its grip on the renminbi’s exchange rate.
Reagan raised tariffs and tightened restrictions on a wide range of industries, including textiles, automobiles, motorcycles, steel, lumber, sugar, and electronics.
Over the last year alone, China’s authorities have steadily tightened regulations governing the crypto-currency Bitcoin, B2C financing platforms, shadow banking, cross-border capital flows, and debt and securities markets.
In recent years, the central government has tightened its control over the banking sector, undermining the financial system’s development, not least by impeding banks’ ability to assess credit risk.
As a result of the academies’ recommendations, the IPCC tightened its review methods, created a new process for correcting possible mistakes in future reports, and introduced a more explicit policy for dealing with potential conflicts of interest among authors.
At the insistence of the Germans, this criterion has been tightened, turned into a more austere target of zero deficits, on average, over the economic cycle.
Since then, Europeans and Americans have slowly but steadily tightened the economic screws on Russia.
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