Yasheng Huang Does democracy stifle economic growth?

This would undermine other economic sectors competitiveness and stifle export oriented manufacturing growth, thereby stalling these economies structural transformation.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself.

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

What are being sold as free trade agreements include IP provisions that could stifle access to affordable medicines, with a potentially significant impact on economic growth and development.

However, in some countries, employers may be hindered by unnecessary reporting and excessively detailed regulations that stifle the growth of private businesses and, by association, new job creation.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself. If not addressed through direct measures, all of Asia will suffer.

His goal? To stifle the independent judiciary and free media.

But the bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers.

Recent studies by the IMF and others suggest that raising taxes, cutting subsidies, and reducing government spending even inefficient spending would stifle growth in the short term, exacerbating the underlying debt problem.

Curtailing prices, they say, would choke off R D and stifle innovation.

But it is the agenda of pending reforms that should stifle excessive complacency.

Such a blatant attempt to curtail scientific inquiry and stifle free speech seems inexcusable.

She tried to stifle a sneeze during the concert but she couldn't hold it back.

But knee jerk reaction to stifle the exchange rate appreciation that should follow from strong productivity growth only stokes more inflows. Ultimately, it is indeed good policies and stronger financial markets and other institutions that will help stabilize and manage inflows.

Erdoğan has also misused the legal system to stifle the media and repress citizens freedom of expression.

Ms. Hart (Canada) expressed opposition to procedural motions used to stifle debate on serious human rights concerns.

If both sides can stifle their murderous deviances, the hope of cultural and political reconciliation will be reborn.

But it is also important not to do it too soon, which might stifle today s nascent and very fragile recovery.

Continuing discrimination against women in access to education, health care, land, credits and productive means stifle reconstruction and development efforts.

The case highlights the growing land disputes in the country and the use of violence by government forces to stifle dissent

However, such standards can sometimes become over stringent for instance, in some countries, employers may be hindered by unnecessary reporting and excessively detailed rules that do not achieve their intended effect and really serve only to stifle the growth of private businesses and, by association, new job creation.

A global economy that recognizes the need for and value of institutional diversity would foster rather than stifle such experimentation and evolution.

But the public often views interest rate increases as negative events that increase unemployment and stifle growth. Blame game politicians like Berlusconi, who have failed to put bread on the table, their minions in the media, and Keynesian economic professors who don t understand and misrepresent Keynes sustain this distorted view.

Rather, he embodies a new version of an old breed of Latin American populist presidents, notoriously impatient with dissent and quick to stifle criticism.

And all else being equal, there is no guarantee that blocking the service will help to stifle communication among violent extremist and organized crime groups.

But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.

Reporters without Borders lists Saudi Arabia as an Enemy of the Internet in its 2012 list of countries that censor the Internet and stifle free speech.

And so the debates about copyright, digital rights, so on and so forth these are all about trying to stifle, in my view, these kinds of organizations.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention is part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

According to the European Parliament, his detention was part of Syrian government efforts to restrict access to online communities and stifle freedom of expression in the country.

And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February s rigged elections demonstrate.

An agenda that powerful corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.

Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community or, worse, it may stifle efforts to promote financial inclusion.

For example, we know that we should lower interest rates and inject liquidity to fight stagnation, and that we should raise policy rates and banks cash reserve ratios to stifle inflation.

Frankly, when I think of stagnating innovation as an economist, I worry about how overweening monopolies stifle ideas, and how recent changes extending the validity of patents have exacerbated this problem.

It is depressing to see a scientist even a highly politicized one calling for a latter day Inquisition. Such a blatant attempt to curtail scientific inquiry and stifle free speech seems inexcusable.

In addition, Member States must act swiftly and effectively to eliminate sources of financing for terrorists, dismantle their logistic support networks, stifle their propaganda apparatuses and stop them from recruiting new terrorists.

TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls iPod liberalism the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.

But when we stifle, step by step, all that remains of a free press, when even small television channels that provide uncensored information seem dangerous, we are keeping the lid firmly on the pot.

Intertribal fighting in Western Equatoria led to the evacuation of United Nations and NGO staff in November and could stifle plans for refugee repatriation from the Central African Republic for the rest of 2005.

Slow growth is manageable. Negative growth is not.

In other words, economic growth should be viewed as growth in wealth, not growth in GNP.