Transmission
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Private electricity producers, for example, will not invest in large-scale renewable energy generation if the government does not have long-term climate and energy policies or plans for spurring construction of long-distance
transmission
lines to carry new low-carbon energy sources to population centers.
But the creation of this demand will be very gradual, especially given all the leakages in the
transmission
of lower energy-input costs to consumer fuel prices.
Guns require just a little training to operate, whereas an electrical utility requires a large team of people with varied expertise to run the generators, install and service the
transmission
lines and sub-stations, limit theft, and compel customers to pay their bills on time.
Given that roughly one billion people are infected with NTDs, compared to 40 million with HIV, and that the drugs targeting them are donated and actually prevent disease and stop transmission, treating NTDs is a major opportunity to lift populations out of poverty.
As matters stand, central banks in developed countries find all sorts of ways to justify their policies, without acknowledging the unmentionable – that the exchange rate may be the primary channel of
transmission.
As health workers labor tirelessly to care for those who have been infected, monitor those who may have come in contact with the virus, and prevent further transmission, researchers have a limited window of opportunity to learn how to treat and prevent the disease.
They must share with those at the front lines of the battle information about diseases’ natural history, modes of transmission, and risk factors, as well as preclinical data on – and clinical responses to – experimental treatments.
Spain, for example, can currently transmit only 1.5% of its electricity-generating capacity to the rest of Europe, owing to a lack of
transmission
infrastructure in the Pyrenees and France’s reluctance to open its energy market to competition from the Iberian Peninsula.
It should focus, for example, on creating a Europe-wide
transmission
grid for low-carbon energy, and on a massive increase in renewable-power generation.
Already, spillover effects from trade and financial
transmission
channels are beginning to take their toll: China’s GDP growth rate in the second quarter of 2012 averaged 7.6%, reflecting a significant slowdown, and India’s growth rate is expected to decline to roughly 6% this year.
Already, motor-vehicle manufacturers ship an automotive
transmission
back and forth across the US-Mexican border several times in the course of production.
In my view, there are three important
transmission
mechanisms.
The second plausible
transmission
mechanism is asset prices.
The third
transmission
channel is public debt.
In doing so, the Fed is relying on the “wealth effect” – brought about largely by increasing equity and home prices – as its principal
transmission
mechanism for stabilization policy.
This underscores yet another of QE’s inherent contradictions: its
transmission
effects are narrow, while the problems it is supposed to address are broad.
The international auctioning of emissions allowances and allowances in domestic emissions-trading schemes, a carbon tax, revenues from international transport, a surcharge on electricity transmission, and financial transaction taxes could generate as much as $220 billion per year in additional revenues.
The goal is to restore a degree of homogeneity within the euro area in terms of the
transmission
of monetary policy.
Unsustainable production systems, combined with wasteful and excessive consumption in some regions of the world, have had serious consequences in terms of climate change, disease transmission, and nutritional balance.
If IDUs inject heroin or related opiates – as is primarily the case in Eastern Europe – establishing opiate substitution programs with methadone or buprenorphine can dramatically slow HIV
transmission.
Responses to a survey that my colleague Karl Case and I conducted in 1988 during the US boom revealed that casual word-of-mouth
transmission
of emotional excitement played a big role in purchasing decisions.
Indeed, word-of-mouth
transmission
of excitement about real estate prices is nearly as prevalent now as in 1988.
Malaria's economic impact is more insidious, particularly where
transmission
is most intense.
Where malaria
transmission
is less intense and immunities are not developed, epidemics occasionally sweep through the local population, taking a heavy toll of lives in all age-groups.
In countries where
transmission
is intense, incomes tend to be a third less than in other countries.
These kinds of interventions, seeking to reduce the force of transmission, aim at the creation of an environment that is likely to serve as an "engine of economic growth."
Leaders wishing to mold a society around a new and different set of ideas, loyalties, and forms of behavior first need to destroy adults’ existing identities and prevent the
transmission
of these identities to children.
Experts agree that it will require a national plan for locating generators across Chile’s mountainous territory, a revamped regime for the
transmission
of power, more intensive use of natural gas, and a concerted effort to promote renewables, particularly wind and solar.
China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
Furthermore, estimated malaria incidence has declined by 17% worldwide; malaria mortality rates have decreased by one-quarter since 2000; and reported malaria cases fell by more than half from 2000 to 2010 in 43 of 99 countries with ongoing malaria
transmission.
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