Fears of deflation, a condition of falling prices, have increased amid persistently high unemployment and constrained government budgets, particularly in the Eurozone's periphery.
Because of this, the scientific and research community bear a particular responsibility to fill the gaps left by apathetic leadership and constrained government agencies and make the best research, science and solutions accessible to all.
The group said the algorithm, which could be implemented at virtually no cost, could help resource-constrained governments and resettlement agencies find the best places for refugees to relocate, researchers said.
Aggressive, militaristic rhetoric constrains governments (or supra-national organisations like the EU), forcing them to respond with aggressive, militaristic action.
"I'm just making the point that in our relationship with the European market, whatever form it is … we need to make sure we are not signing up to something that actually constrains governments in the future," he said.
While better than the status quo, in that it might constrain governments from going to bat for domestic tobacco producers, this suggestion would leave tobacco companies free to mount legal challenges to various nations' policies.
We live in an era in which globalisation expands the market for ultra-talented individuals but competes away the income of ordinary employees.Competition among countries for skilled individuals and profitable industries, in turn, constrains governments' abilities to maintain high tax rates on the wealthy.
"The key question that the paper tries to tackle is whether the checks and balances provided by democracy are able to constrain governments' desire to manipulate information or, more specifically, their desire to exaggerate how well the economy is doing," Martinez said via email.
'Regime shopping', by which multinational enterprises move to countries with less onerous regulatory regimes, increasingly constrains governments and national economic policy (Streeck, 1992).
Isn't it time we stopped corporations from pushing our governments to expand agreements that harm the environment, while constraining governments from implementing the solutions necessary to combat climate change and save life on the planet as we know it?
