The High Cost of Feeling Low

The Global Cost of Turkey s Crisis

The cost and damage is significant.

The benefits of driving moderately fast vastly outweigh the costs.

Consider the enormous opportunity cost of huge military budgets.

But they too easily forget the costs of high inflation, and how difficult it is to squeeze it out of the system.

Costs incurred in relation to this exercise are to be borne by the entity whose accreditation has been suspended or withdrawn.

Our sense of entitlement has run far ahead of our ability to pay for it.

Of course, the brunt of the costs of injury and death is borne by soldiers and their families.

The benefits of fossil fuels must be weighed against the costs of global warming.

To change the Israeli Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by lowering the political cost of peace and raising the cost of occupation . Any meaningful Arab Israeli peace depends on Israel s return of Palestinian territories, with certain conditions, but no Israeli government will be willing or even able to do so unless the political calculus inside Israel changes.

The political costs for the ECB of making this type of mistake could be exorbitant.

But we must not forget that the cost of insecurity is unacceptable.

Only swift and sustained recovery can stem the rise in the human cost of economic stagnation.

(e) Costs required for legal or expert assistance, medicine and medical services, and psychological and social services.

(e) Costs required for legal or expert assistance, medicine and medical services, and psychological and social services.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

In these circumstances, the risk entailed by doing nothing far outweighs the costs of referring Iran to the Security Council.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

But that decision, and its moral costs, remains in the hands of the Palestinians alone.

But such systems are burdened by large administration and compliance costs.

(There are also all the separate costs of bad health, which are much harder to count or capture.)

Tell your family and friends about your resolution, thus both gaining support and increasing the personal cost of failure

The eventual costs of any of these actions are severe.

Recosting of outstanding statements of programme budget implications and revised estimates

The benefits of higher recycling rates would surely offset the associated administrative costs.

A quicker and more concerted response might have limited the fall out from the crisis, and thus its cost.

Even in larger countries, the costs and benefits of membership in a currency union are under renewed consideration.

We do no such thing, because we recognize that the costs of high speed cars must be weighed against the benefits of a mobile society.

Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.

It is easy to be swayed by arguments about how costly such market fragmentation would be.

But neither citizens nor policymakers appear willing to bear its social and political costs.

Critics who worry about the cost of the energy tax have not thought about tax substitutions.

The better question is how can we afford not to?

Yet the benefits of a successful Doha round are between 45 and 440 times higher than these costs.

Japan s lost decades provide a grim lesson of the economic cost of neglecting such reform.

Fifteen years later, Jensen wrote a paper about the costs of excessive sensitivity of pay to performance.

Deficits are convenient for politicians as they hide and delay the true tax cost of spending.

It could even pay for a substantial share of the cost for a war like that in Iraq!

But the costs and risks of its alternatives never get the attention they deserve.

In the public s eyes, the focus on such institutions appears justified by the huge costs of financial rescue.

The cost of such events in terms of destroyed property and economic disruption has been rising steadily.

Fiscal expansion is always risky, as it adds to debt and raises dangers later. But, given where we are, the benefits exceed the costs in countries with sustainable debt.

We accept paying a high and inefficient cost for national defense against what are often unknown enemies.

Yet the cost of the Kyoto Protocol would be a staggering 180 billion a year.