The lost opportunities are enormous.

Their loss is our gain.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.

The economic benefits, estimated to be between five and nineteen times higher than the costs, are dramatic.

It makes good political sense it could make good business sense as well.

The real economic benefit, however, is in the cost savings thereafter.

It is doubtful that there is a positive benefit net of future cost from jiggling tax rates to stabilise employment.

For many poor countries, wealth in natural resources is a curse rather than a benefit.

If they succeed, the rewards for the world s poor will be immense.

Over the coming decades, the total benefit would reach about 22 trillion.

Today, the risks are seen to be much greater, and the benefits are seen to be less.

Ideas matter, as much or perhaps even more than self interest.

So, it is not joining NATO the military alliance that will benefit Romania. What matters is Romania's integration into a strong international organisation, which will curb its sovereignty.

Are state controlled investors now aiming primarily for strategic rather than purely financial returns?

The net effect for Denmark was found to be a small cost , not benefit.

And then they benefit through the exposure, advertising and linked sales.

So, it is not joining NATO the military alliance that will benefit Romania.

With that third option, though, there s no state requirement that the environmental benefit be in California.

By 2020, the benefits would be almost 500 billion annually, and would continue to rise each year.

In other words, the benefit of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions can be represented as the increase in the annual growth rate from today to 2200 from 1.2 to 1.3 .

That experience showed that countries default when the costs are lower than the benefits.

The biggest improvements for consumers, though, come not from privatization, but from competition.

Given Europe s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize.

Whether or not developing countries benefited was of little concern.

Otherwise, the competitiveness gains would be offset by rising inflation.

Motorists would be attracted to participate because of the value of the benefits it offers to them, says a city planning document.

It was specially annoying to Levin to be quite unable to understand with whom he was contending, and whom the delay in his business could profit.

And there are all these animals, and all these people happy, and there's this economic value.

The economic benefits of rebalancing the global labor market are compelling the human costs of failing to do so are enormous.

Nevertheless, what benefit does China gain by continuing to raise these issues 60 years later?

While the economic benefits we get from biodiversity might seem intangible, they are real and quantifiable.

The one advantage of this town life was that here they never quarrelled.

How amazing! Experts have been saying for two years on television that these sanctions have only been beneficial.

The benefits of default are the savings on future payments by the government especially payments to non residents, who cannot vote.

Benefits would appear almost immediately, but would dissipate over time as economies developed.

Why are cable TV personalities so eager to overstate how quickly central banks change their view of the likely future? Why do participants in financial markets trade on the advice of cable TV personalities when a small amount of number crunching reveals that the benefits must be lower than the transactions costs incurred by over frequent trading?

Why do participants in financial markets trade on the advice of cable TV personalities when a small amount of number crunching reveals that the benefits must be lower than the transactions costs incurred by over frequent trading?

The costs would also come much sooner than the benefits and persist much longer.

The benefits of tax evasion may far outweigh the risk of getting caught, but imagine if everyone decided to evade taxes at the same time.

Executives interests were tied to the value of their firms common shares or even to the value of options on such shares.

The benefits would be extraordinary, for both Africa and the rich countries, which would be putting their businesses and skilled workers back to work.

The total cost would be about 9 billion, and the benefits of preventing the temperature increase would add up to about 20 trillion.

While such benefits may not appear to be stimulus, their mounting effect better serves the objective of raising expectations of future demand and growth.

For example, factors like highly qualified labor, or the benefits of being integrated into well functioning clusters, probably play a more important role.