This is a very high hurdle.

Affordability does not appear to be a big hurdle.

But, for both countries, economic growth is not hurdle free.

The Chinese could abolish capital controls and let the renminbi s exchange rate float.

And, to address volatile capital flows, countries should increase exchange rate flexibility, maintain adequate international reserves, and implement carefully designed capital controls.

Capital gains should be taxed at least at as high a rate as ordinary income.

The real hurdle is getting this message across to politicians and voters.

After this, the next hurdle to overcome is gaining trust from respondents.

An invasion of short term capital flows fleeing the slow growth, low interest rate advanced countries.

Passionate Pedagogue, in a comment to the above post, illustrates a major hurdle.

This vital source of capital is falling at an alarming rate 8.4 year on year in January.

And a lower growth rate implies that less investment is needed to maintain the capital output ratio.

The first hurdle has been overcome with the agreement on access to the enclave.

The accusations, he says, are just another hurdle in Russia's frequently changing legal landscape.

But when it comes to the proliferation of misinformation, this presents a significant hurdle.

In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.

Managing the exchange rate becomes much more difficult when capital is free to come and go as it pleases.

The saving rate is the lifeblood of any economy, because foreigners cannot be expected to finance capital investment forever.

As the only major economy with capital controls, China has created its own exorbitant privilege it can determine its exchange rate because no other big countries impose capital controls.

Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

She said, It was a big hurdle just to get farmers to touch underneath the vulva.

Thus, while liberalization of Japan's capital market in the early 1980s tied Japanese and US interest rate movements, Japanese interest rates were discounted by the expected rate of currency appreciation.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost. Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

Since the peak annual rate of capital inflow was 803 billion (in 2006), the increased household saving has the potential to eliminate almost all of America s dependence on foreign capital.

Nor has it liberalized labor and product markets, and it maintains strict control over the exchange rate and capital account.

First, they must accumulate capital, which implies a high savings rate that will help pay for new machines, equipment, and infrastructure.

The energy sector has a relatively slow rate of capital replacement because of the long lifetimes of much of its infrastructure.

To ratify a treaty requires the support of 67 of the Senate s 100 members, a nearly impossible hurdle.

Emerging market countries are turning to an array of techniques to discourage capital inflows or sterilize their effect on the exchange rate.

Other models have large quarterly shocks to the depreciation rate in the capital stock (in order to generate high asset price volatilities)...

For emerging markets, the best way forward is to correct the incentives for interest rate arbitrage at the source of capital flows.

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The birth rate and death rate were nearly equal.

The biggest remaining hurdle concerns the political will among today's EU members to set the actual dates for enlargement.

My support for capital punishment would weaken greatly if the rate of killing innocent people were as large as that claimed by many.

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Damming Capital

Capital flight

Along this path, many potential drugs are withdrawn, and even successfully tested drugs face the additional hurdle of regulatory approval.

Taken by itself, today s 750 billion annual rate of household saving could replace that amount in capital inflows from the rest of the world.

Any policy of intervening in the exchange rate, or imposing import tariffs or capital controls, tends to force other countries to make greater adjustments.

Capital fled from the countries that were not in a position to offer similar guarantees, but interest rate differentials within the eurozone remained minimal.

Indeed, because capital inflows often cause the domestic exchange rate to appreciate, they encourage further spending on foreign goods as domestic producers become uncompetitive.

Exchange Rate Disorder