If political pressure became strong enough, rich countries might decide to squeeze foreign labour whatever the economic price.
The European Union says that it can reduce its emissions 15% from 1990 levels without paying an economic price.
It was a political decision made in the interest of stability, but the government has paid a heavy economic price.
Malaria exacts a heavy economic price, in lost productivity, and it means sure death for several million children every year.
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All Americans pay an economic price for this lazy form of teaching because our students are not as ready for the world economy as a result.
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It used to be impossible economically to break down the inedible part of a plant, like a used corncob and other parts of a plant, into cheap, usable sugars to get ethanol at an economic price.
Further, if there are markets with insufficient pipeline capacity (such as New England and parts of New York), Skipping Stone suggests that by syncing the two markets, economic price signals become more transparent and should stimulate provision of services or construction of additional pipeline capacity.
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In a semiannual report to Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told politicians that commodity-price inflation, and oil prices more specifically, could pose a threat to economic growth and price stability if sustained at high levels, while at the same time reassuring markets and politicians that inflation remained low and expectations stable.
The Committee will monitor economic and financial developments carefully and will act as needed to promote sustainable economic growth and price stability.
In other words, Mr da Silva must realise how enormous would be the economic and political price of letting Brazil slide into default.
At some point our society is going to be forced to choose between allowing this ongoing abuse of the ESA and paying the ever-increasing economic and societal price, or modifying the process of nominating species in a way that requires the employment of sound science, the consideration of economic and other societal impacts, and returns the law to its original, balanced intent.
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The oil in the portfolio can also hedge against the other economic effects of oil price shocks.
Traders are once again looking to a fresh batch of U.S. economic data Thursday for price direction.
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Raising the price makes economic sense but is the last thing a populist government wants to do.
But inflation also throws sand into the economic gears by distorting price signals and causing a misallocation of resources.
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This share price results in a price to economic book value ratio of 1.0, implying no future growth in NOPAT.
"To decide whether to take such steps, we would like to watch price and economic conditions for a while, " Mr Hayami said.
Reflecting the economic confidence, the price of copper, an industrial metal closely tied to global growth prospects, gained 1.4% to a three-month high.
Third, Mr Lukashenka's old-fashioned economic policies price controls, the uninhibited printing of money and manipulation of the banking system no longer look hugely different from Russia's.
What apparently escapes those locked in economic debate: Commodity price surges, a mere 13 years into this century, have far exceeded gains in typical American family income.
The report's author Professor Michael Ball said that in the UK and other high-value housing markets such as Ireland and Spain, sound economic fundamentals had prevented price falls.
That price translates into a price to economic book value ratio of 0.5, which means the market is predicting a permanent 50% decline in its profitability, an awfully pessimistic assumption.
People tolerated it: they considered it the price of economic growth, the cost of doing business, the quickest way to win a contract (or just get a telephone line), a perk of political power.
So far, eco-friendly car buying in America has been driven not by any revolution of taste but by necessity either legislation mandating that cars reduce or eliminate emissions, or external economic factors like the price of petrol.
This valuation gives it a 0.8 price to economic book value ratio, implying that the market expects a permanent 20% decline in NOPAT for SNDK. In the short term it is possible that SNDK might experience a decline in NOPAT, but over the long term it is hard to imagine this company experiencing the kind of permanent decline that its share price implies.
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