Financial globalisation sped up partly because governments did not listen to the academic sceptics.
Mr. Greiner: I think there is more of a role now because governments are constrained.
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Because governments are limited in their ability to tax the mobile, they will tax the static.
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Partly because governments pulled back from running steelworks and factories, they spent more on education and health.
Left-wing MEPs argue that, because governments are proving such callous cutters, it is up to Europe to save jobs.
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This is partly because governments have learnt from their mistakes by restricting disability benefits and closing loopholes in the early-retirement rules.
They are particularly tricky, not least because governments are reluctant to compromise their ability to pursue other aims as well as free trade.
If many Latin American companies are inefficient, it is partly because governments have allowed them to be so by not doing enough to stimulate competition.
And this is chiefly because governments have arranged things that way.
That is partly because governments have failed to communicate its benefits.
Governments took over note issuance from commercial banks not because the private sector was doing a bad job, but because governments wanted the profits for themselves.
Deficits tend to scare bond investors because governments can be tempted to inflate their way out of debt, which means that bonds lose value in real terms.
Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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In the past few years, the World Bank, the IDB and the IMF have had little work to do in Latin America because governments could raise money in the capital markets.
The result is important because governments were encouraged by the original paper to take drastic steps, such as severe austerity measures, to avoid borrowing any more money once their borrowing reached 90% of annual output.
Resolution of this issue is important because commercial speech receives a lesser degree of constitutional protection than many other forms of expression, and because governments may entirely prohibit commercial speech that is false or misleading.
Stefano Scarpetta, head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development employment analysis and policy division, says unemployment in Europe has persisted for long periods of time in previous recessions, partly because governments don't spend enough on getting people back into work.
Officials say this is needed because regional governments will have far more money because of the gas nationalisation.
Not because national governments are keen to adopt good policy, but because nations at least have to compete against each other.
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That is not because of governments, but the result of the hard work of the residents.
That is possible because many governments mandate cheaper prices for drugs imported from the United States.
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This is because most governments agree that money-laundering and financial meltdowns are best avoided.
Because their governments spread the healthcare cost across an entire population and ours is, largely, paid for by business.
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Sales tax rates can differ within a state because local governments often impose an additional sales tax within their jurisdictions.
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Over the past three years, the implementation of VAT has been postponed no fewer than five times because state governments have said they were not prepared.
"Russia was not informed also because the governments of Europe were not informed -- let's be completely open and honest about that issue, " Mr Barroso said.
It succeeded because Asian governments made sure their farmers, big and small, were able and willing to avail themselves of fertiliser, irrigation and connections to markets.
The list can seem endless because the governments in this region are on aggressive privatization plans, which include health spas, pottery manufacturers and, in Poland, even an animal-breeding station.
Within the U.S. Medicaid system, 70% of enrollees are now in private health plans because state governments have discovered that these plans deliver higher quality, lower cost and better access than government-run Medicaid.
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