Congenital malformation.

Distortions will begin to unwind.

Raging inflation causes all kinds of distortions and inefficiencies.

But policy induced distortions also play an enormous role.

Flawed regulations further distort weak banks behavior for example, by biasing them in favor of making loans to governments or investing in marketable securities over lending to businesses.

Choking off the flow of information leads to distortion, not confidence.

But these distortions did not prevent unbalanced systems from enduring for long periods.

These distortions have to be addressed first for any trade regime to have an impact.

In some cases, grid expansion makes sense after removing these distortions.

And they must offset the distortions created by intervention in other ways.

Hollande s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy s structural distortions.

After all, savings and investment must be in balance globally, and if policy distortions cause savings in one country to rise faster than investment, the reverse must occur elsewhere in the world.

Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.

In the absence of such coordination, the unilateral approaches now in place could generate further distortions.

This is a common characteristic in the speech and language profile because 69 of children have palatal abnormalities.

And the great distortions from being too big to fail loom large over many economies.

The third ranked organization was Interplast, which is more narrowly focused on correcting deformities like cleft palate.

Like all imbalanced systems, it will have its distortions, but the arrangement could last for many years.

And in Europe, there's certain parts of Europe, where we're seeing a four fold increase in certain genital birth defects.

Thus, the money we are getting from aid is much, much less than we would earn from the removal of trade distortions.

In 2009, these distortions led Ferguson and Schularick to forecast Chimerica s collapse a prediction that seems to be coming true.

While his delegation was opposed to arbitrary adjustments to the scale methodology, it would support the restoration of the ceiling to its previous level as a means of correcting the resulting distortions.

The Government would be following up on the implementation of the recommendations of the IPR, which related to modernizing the FDI entry regime, strengthening Board of Investment (BOI) core functions and reforming the tax regime on investment.

Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern sector activities in low income environments.

The fundamental factors on the Chinese side are high corporate and household savings, together with some distortion of resource utility prices.

The good news is that the economies of the Arab Awakening countries do not suffer from the deep distortions that characterized post communist Europe.

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Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.

Distortions in the real estate market are a powerful motivation for saving, particularly among young people who struggle to meet the high down payment needed to buy a first home.

In Europe, efficiency would be enhanced by a unified VAT rate, instead of creating distortions by charging different rates for different goods.

In other words, savings rates in Spain and other deficit countries in Europe had to drop once policy distortions forced up Germany s savings rate.

True, the US is not the worst offender in the world when it comes to farm protectionism the European Union s trade distortions are significantly more pervasive.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Investment policies should extend to both domestic and foreign direct investment.

Mr. Darmawan Djajusman, Director of Investment Deregulation, Investment Coordinating Board, Indonesia

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

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