French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

Although Africa is the world's poorest region on average, wages in the formal economy generally exceed those paid in China and India, where government keeps basic food, housing, and transport costs relatively low through subsidies and controls.

But this is a dangerous notion, one that entails not just massive risks, but also unacceptably high interim human costs.

But even if tariffs and quotas are progressively reduced, trade flows may remain low if other trade costs remain high.

Health costs can be very high, so health insurance schemes are a popular way reducing risk in the event of shock.

But what is clear is that the Obama strategy s current and future costs are very high and so far, it has not achieved its limited objective of restarting lending.

Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

Interest rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.

These increasingly involved developing countries, which were frequently ill equipped to deal with such matters and were often faced with the prospect of high costs.

One is that they are very costly or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.

When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological costs in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.

In fact, China, with its need for high growth to pay for social peace, may be the country most at risk from a severe global downturn.

Prices are high.

The cost of corruption has been particularly high in India and Indonesia, where policies created monopolies that earned scarcity rents, which were then allocated to officials family members.

The result, however, is that everybody loses. Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

Development costs have to be passed on in drug prices, which may be exceptionally high when a drug benefits only a relatively small number of patients.

High trade transaction costs due to their lack of access to the sea, isolation and remoteness from international markets remain the main factors responsible for the marginalization of landlocked developing countries in respect of international trade and for their poor economic performance.

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Spain, Italy, and the eurozone periphery face unprecedentedly high real borrowing costs, which are preventing a recovery in investment and hence economic growth.

The longer Italian and Spanish borrowing costs remain at such elevated levels, the greater the damage to those economies, and the harder it will become to marshal the necessary political support for further reforms.

For individuals with high monthly mortgage payments relative to their disposable income, the US government will share with the creditor bank the cost of reducing the monthly payment to 31 of disposable income.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

This is unlikely to change in the near future, as liquefaction and transport costs will keep LNG prices high even if the US issues more export permits.

These subsidies could start fairly high and decline gradually over time, as the tax on CO2 emissions rises and the costs of new energy technologies fall with more experience and innovation.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

In some countries the population density is quite high.

Infant mortality rates remain high.

Unemployment and household debt remain stubbornly high.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!

Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

The right hand of the LORD is exalted the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

Unemployment and underemployment remain high.

The country also enjoys quite high vaccination rates among children.

For all of their success, South Africa s mini taxis could not escape high accident rates, violent incidents over un commissioned routes and fare levels, and tax evasion, which imposed high costs on society, prompting the government to regulate the service.

The dangers of both action and inaction are very high.

Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high.

This indicates a high percentage of adherence to the law.

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

Maternal mortality, though declining, was still high.

Opponents of open ended ECB action argue that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs are not actually that high interest rates have merely returned to levels seen in the run up to the introduction of the euro, when investors distinguished properly between the countries that now share the euro.

Political sensitivities run especially high in Asia.

Even in Europe, the numbers confessing to a belief in God remain high.

Moreover, currency tensions will remain high.