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Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Ghost Financing Towns Occasion Causing Which Conversion Urban Land Waste

In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Property Business Women Example Own Married Husbands Laws Disadvantage Countries For Example Obtain Permission Still Register Requiring Many

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women Agriculture Drive Holding Prohibit Sector Jobs Russian Federation Trucks Industries Often Cannot Certain Regulations

Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments often must face tough choices in order to protect the poor and vulnerable. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Success Face Tough Accountability Must Tough Choices Economic New Protect Vulnerable Without Governments Often Order Sustainable Social Poor Choices Inclusion

Between 1995 and 2009, Western Europe's entrepreneurs created jobs faster than the U.S. did, and European economies exported more than the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Eastern Europe's productivity increased more rapidly than East Asia's. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Brazil Faster Increased East Jobs Rapidly Eastern India Russia More Entrepreneurs Between Countries Economies Western Than Did China Asia Created Productivity Europe European

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Best Business Better Made Hong Kong Easier Could Red Red Tape Singapore Learn Trade Kong Korea Reducing Doing Tape South Conditions South Korea Than Improved Done Regard Asia Much Europe

Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Time Age Old Old Age Enterprise Facets Rely Over Come Look Protect Private Private Enterprise Governments After Them Europeans

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Together People Wealth Prosperity Will Living More Longer Longevity Hours Greater Arrive Years Same Fewer May Cannot While Asia Means Many Now Treated

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock

Death Day Some Shall Detest Argue Always Die Which Agents

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. Stephen Leacock

Angular Equal Anything Cannot Which Landlady Figure

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. Stephen Leacock

Born Said Lord Wheat

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock

Work Great Luck Great Believer Find More Am Believer Harder Chance

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock

Music Class Medicine Machinery Classics Only Primitive Same Literature Belong

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock

Own Way Section Laughing Except Wales Which Each British

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. Stephen Leacock

Same Thing Side Charges Same Should Bill Thing Two

Although floating and fixed rates appear dissimilar, they are members of the same freemarket family. Both operate without exchange controls and are free-market mechanisms for balance-of-payment adjustments. Steve Hanke

Family Dissimilar Members Adjustment Rates Both Exchange Operate Although Without Fixed Same Controls Appear Mechanisms Floating

There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in foreign reserves and changes in the money supply. Steve Hanke

Money Changes Potential Supply Between Policy Always Foreign Link Discretionary Bank Break Central Central Bank Engage Reserves Monetary Monetary Policy

In Argentina, if the weather is bad, critics will blame it on the currency board. Steve Hanke

Blame Will Weather Bad Critics Argentina Currency Board

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world. Steve Hanke

You Natural World Lose Down Through Allow Iranians Sell Squeeze Any Oil Natural Gas Then Strait Gas Shutting

High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When it comes to welfare payments, they obey the laws of economics, too. Indeed, if something - like unemployment - is subsidized, more of it will be produced. Steve Hanke

Work People Benefits Obey Welfare Will Economics Too Indeed Out Minimum High Cases Something Laws More Onto Throw Like Wages Exist Unemployment Unemployment Benefits Subsidized Rolls Where Produced Payments

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration. Steve Hanke

Control State Spent Finances Recognition Administration Following Put Most French Were Greece Pattern Century Default Creditors Started Consequence

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