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Indeed, even if there were no legal obstacles, it would be difficult to imagine voters in a democracy installing a foreigner in their government’s
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job.
This represents a major departure from the tradition of filling central banks’
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leadership positions with people who have spent most of their careers there – a tradition that, over time, allowed central banks to be taken over by “groupthink.”
For example, CNN covered the story by referring to Barra’s “knack for climbing the corporate ladder” – a phrase with some suggestive undertones, and one that would never be used with a man at the top, for whom, presumably, hard work, talent, ambition, and dedication constitute more than a “knack.”
For most Americans, there is no recovery, with 95% of the gains going to the
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1%.
So, with Europe’s Great Malaise continuing in 2014 and the US recovery excluding all but those at the top, count me dismal.
Various blogs tell him that Russia’s parliament is just a place for rubber-stamping decisions already taken at the
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For one thing, nuclear proliferation remains at the
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of the agenda on the Korean Peninsula.
Let’s then imagine what Europe needs to do to confront its most pressing challenges, especially if it were able to do so without the political constraints of 50 years of EU deal-making and ramshackle institution-building.On
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of that, let us make a major leap of imagination and suppose that even though this scenario of the EU at “Year Zero” means we would not have a half-century of intra-European cooperation to draw on, the nations that today make up the EU would nevertheless be keen to adopt far-reaching joint policies.
For more than a decade, the Ethiopian government has made agricultural development a
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priority.
The Japanese work ethic would persist, the reasoning went, and Japan’s high savings rate and slow population growth would give it a substantial edge in capital intensity – and thus in labor productivity – on
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of whatever economy-wide advantage it might develop in total factor productivity.
Despite Singh’s academic abilities, his potential as India’s
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politician was severely limited.
Meanwhile, excessive income concentration at the
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– a situation that inadequate technological diffusion may exacerbate – contributes to excess savings.
The way home ownership is taxed and subsidized could be reformed more significantly, especially at the
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price levels.
Sometimes I half-joke that the primary metric that I monitor is my email inbox count: When it’s high, I’m too busy and stretched thin; when it’s low, I’m on
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of things and able to concentrate on more important matters.
Although Trump expressed disdain for NATO during the 2016 campaign, he appears to have been reined in by the many generals he has installed in
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positions.
That debate has gone on, right to a recent conference in Singapore which gave the Mahatir/Stiglitz team a resounding victory capped by a standing ovation from a crowd of
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Asian
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businessmen.
Population Services International, which promotes and sells items like condoms, to prevent HIV infection, and bed nets, to prevent malaria, came out on top, followed by Partners in Health, an organization that provides health care to poor rural populations.
One of China’s
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television hosts, Cui Yongyuan, began a documentary project on Communist wartime veterans, only to become distracted by his frequent encounters with Nationalist veterans who had fought the Japanese, but whose contributions had been airbrushed out of history after Mao’s victory in 1949.
Reagan’s tax policies reduced the
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income-tax rate from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1986.
Although the
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rate has climbed back to near 40%, no one proposes a return to pre-Reagan levels.
The
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tax rate on wage income was cut in half during her tenure as prime minister, falling from over 80% when she took office to 40%.
Additional taxes on investment income meant the
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tax rate before Thatcher came to power was initially above 95%.
Although the
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rate of income tax in Britain was recently raised to 50%, there is no thought of going back to pre-Thatcher taxes.
What is fairly new, at least for Russians, is that these "technologies" are efficiently coordinated from the
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of the presidential administration.
Then the going will be much rougher; first interest rates will rise a lot and then, on top, the stock market will tumble.
With financial vulnerability everywhere, how can we be confident that the US, and the whole world, will not end up like Japan - one day on
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of the world, the next day in the gutter.
But Trump’s proposals would do the opposite: depending on which plan you look at, 80-90% of the benefits would go to the
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10% of the income distribution.
The “black” economy has, by some estimates, reached 10% of GDP in advanced countries and can
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70% in developing countries.
In working toward health equity, Rwanda has made accessibility a
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priority.
At the
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were 25% who had a police record for exceptionally good behavior, like refusing to pay bribes or to overlook corruption.
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