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Chinese reserves invested in these conservative financial instruments are relatively safe, but they yield little return.
Likewise, joining the IMF could yield tangible benefits for Cuba.
As a result, every dollar spent on mobile broadband in the developing world would yield an estimated gain of $17.
Such policies yield substantial political benefits: they help to win elections and attract the admiration and favor of the Bush administration.
With a yield of more than 4.6%, Greece’s bonds were enthusiastically snapped up by institutional investors.
To improve targeting to yield the largest possible reduction in poverty with the resources available, the IMF now expects all poor countries borrowing from the Fund to prepare comprehensive poverty reduction strategies.
But the yield curve in the major advanced economies is very flat, with both real and nominal longer-term rates at historic lows.
While such targets should be self-imposed by advanced countries, they should be allowed to fulfill their obligations, at least in part, by paying to reduce emissions in developing countries (where such efforts may yield greater benefits).
The president suggested it was simply recognition of reality and that his predecessors’ policy failure to do so had failed to yield any diplomatic benefits.
These benefits arise because capital and technology are so scarce in developing countries that they yield a higher return than in developed economies.
In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2% current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long-term bonds.
Once an entrepreneurial culture takes root, it typically spreads locally, as people learn about business and begin to feel attracted by it – even if it doesn’t yield an immediate or certain payoff.
Of course, negative returns make their balance sheets shakier: a defined-benefit pension plan needs positive returns to break even, and when most of its assets yield a negative nominal return, such results become increasingly difficult to achieve.
But it also requires fiscal stimulus, especially public investment in productive infrastructure projects, which yield higher returns than the bonds used to finance them.
But it defies credulity to think that a regime that is willing to starve millions to remain in power would yield that power in free elections.
But, measured in the tens of thousands of avoidable deaths and millions of additional Venezuelan refugees that will occur until the sanctions yield their intended effect, these measures are too slow at best.
Experience in Eastern Europe, where energy prices had to be increased substantially in the 1990’s, demonstrated that simple measures – such as better insulation, together with maintenance and repair of the region’s many long-neglected central heating systems – yield a quick and substantial payoff in reducing energy intensity.
Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap.
The yield curve flattens because owning a long-term term claim on a safe-haven asset is valuable insurance.
Under what circumstances would majority rule yield unambiguous and consistent decisions?
It will require a benchmark asset, a well-defined yield curve, and a critical mass of market participants.
North Korea is reneging on agreements to yield key nuclear materials.
When push comes to shove, they argue, the world’s major trade powers will avoid a mutually destructive approach, opting instead for negotiations that yield a still-free but fairer regime.
For starters, reducing them can yield economic benefits, owing to the significant energy-efficiency improvements afforded by newer air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.
The Kigali meeting is set to yield a strong HFCs amendment.
Achieving gender parity would yield an enormous payoff for scientific discovery.
Today genetic tests yield probabilities and uncertain, inadequate information.
The poor countries argue that broader liberalization in the EU, the US, and Japan alone would yield benefits worth up to $142 billion by 2015.
While it’s true that tax preferences might yield slightly higher private savings, the loss of tax revenues would more than offset the gains, thereby actually reducing national savings.
But it is easier because once those constraints are appropriately targeted, relatively simple policy changes can yield enormous economic payoffs and start a virtuous cycle of growth and institutional reform.
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