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Moreover, the macro tradition vacillates between specific recommendations (“set low and uniform tariffs,” “remove interest-rate ceilings on banks,” “improve your ‘doing business’ ranking”) that find limited support in cross-country evidence, and broad recommendations that lack operational content (“integrate into world economy,” “achieve macroeconomic stability,” “improve contract enforcement”).
For this reason, a wide range of economists favor a uniform (“harmonized”) global tax that would tax carbon emissions equally everywhere in the world, and from whatever source – whether coal, oil, or gas, and whether consumers or businesses.
“The sight of officers in uniform protesting in Tahrir Square and speaking on Al Jazeera really worries the Field Marshal,” a former officer told me.
The resulting tensions between national fiscal sovereignty and the borderless scope of today’s business activities can be resolved only through international dialogue and uniform global standards.
That is why we need to agree on uniform international standards in order to achieve fair international tax competition.
They should also address the lack of uniform standards across Europe’s internal borders; for example, there are 11 separate signaling systems for rail freight in the EU-15.
A year later, at a Cairo conference that negotiated borders in the region, he changed to a British officer’s uniform as he engaged in hard transactional bargaining.
One proposed solution is for these countries to engineer the equivalent of a devaluation – a uniform decrease in wages.
Nor will consumers find any uniform standards for loans or other financial guarantee agreements in the EU.
The payment products they use are based on uniform pan-European procedures.
After a long or short transitional period, during which the economies of would-be members adjust to EU membership, many strict environmental demands are likely to be imposed by the EU, regardless of the EU's own notion of "subsidiarity" -- which says that (where possible) decisions should be taken at the lowest possible political level rather than at the supra-national level -- and of the fact that a uniform standard, if it must exist, should take account of the interests of all members, rich or poor, new and old, alike.
The ostensible rationale for injecting uniform environmental standards into EU membership talks is that such rules are necessary if "fair competition" among new and old EU members is to take place "on a level playing field".
So the ECB should do more to unblock the transmission mechanism for monetary policy; the European Banking Authority should discourage excessive deleveraging by insisting that banks raise specific capital amounts rather than hit a uniform 9% ratio; and, where necessary, national governments should provide guarantees for bank lending to small and medium-size businesses.
Informed investment decisions will require sound, scientifically grounded data and uniform standards to assess these risks, and to quantify opportunities against them.
Juncker’s vision rejects a multi-speed Europe, in favor of uniform steps by all EU members.
Second, the willingness of policymakers worldwide to agree to uniform competition standards has declined; indeed some governments – perhaps believing that they must now fend for themselves – are even using competition policy as an instrument of industrial policy.
Indeed, the uniform prediction prior to the 2004 election was that, after having lost three elections in a row, the Congress was heading for its fourth defeat and eventual dissolution.
In fact, a few days after killing Heywood, Gu donned a major general’s uniform (which could have belonged to her father, General Gu Jingsheng), convened police officers in Chongqing, and falsely claimed that she had received a secret order from the Ministry of Public Security to protect Wang’s personal safety.
The uniform, perhaps, was intended to intimidate the Chongqing police.
That uniform individual cost incentive allows total CO2 to be reduced at a lower total cost than would be achieved by a variety of administrative requirements, such as automobile mileage standards, production technology standards (e.g., minimum renewable fuel inputs in electricity generation), etc.
Juncker sets out five possible paths: carrying on with the current agenda, focusing just on the single market, allowing some countries to move faster than others toward integration, narrowing down the agenda, and pushing ambitiously for uniform and more complete integration.
Competitiveness is not necessarily uniform across all industries (for example, an EME can be very competitive in agriculture but not in manufacturing), and large segments of EME populations are still living in poverty.
All these changes are essential if we want to prevent NATO from gradually deteriorating into some kind of “OSCE in uniform” and eventually ending up as just another talking shop for Western democracies and like-minded countries.
Moreover, the report assumes that monetary policy can offset part of the shock, which may not be true where near-zero interest rates already prevail – or in the euro area where the effort may vary across countries while monetary policy is uniform.
But while they were being sent to prison, their ideas, manners, and hatred of parliamentary democracy were in police uniform, terrorizing the streets.
But that look remains in the eyes of too many, not all of them in uniform.
I agree with Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff that a uniform global carbon-emissions tax is likely to be the best solution to the climate challenge, at least from an environmental perspective.
A uniform structure of tariffs on carbon-intensive imports and domestic taxes on CO2 emissions for Europe, North America, China, Japan, and like-minded countries would substantially raise the cost of emitting GHGs globally.
In France, decision-making is highly centralized, policies are uniform (despite some timid attempts by Macron’s government to promote flexibility), and civic participation is weak.
As of tonight, I have asked governors in each state to institute a uniform ‘shelter in place’ order for all citizens, except those required for essential services.
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