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A much better way of encouraging house-building would be to give local councils bigger incentives to allow it. NIMBYism is not always irrational. Housing developments spoil views; incomers fill ...

鼓励建房更好的方式就是刺激当地议会批准它。邻避主义者并不总是不理性的。楼市的发展会改变他们的观点；不断有移民者搭乘汽车上班、进入学校学习、去医院看病。然而尽管建筑许可证的颁发使房价翻了200番，议会却无法将增值的大部分用之于服务。 社...

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Britain's planning laws. An Englishman's home. The shortage of housing is a gathering national crisis. Rev up the bulldozers. NOW that the economy is at last growing again, the burning issue in B...

英国规划法 英国人之家 英国住房匮乏，危机重重，应大兴土木！ 既然英国最终恢复了经济增长，如今国民生活成本问题便成了燃眉之急。过去六年来，物价一直超过工资水平。 政治家们已适时地督促能源公司削减账单，辅以增加最低工资水平的...

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High minimum wages, however, particularly in rigid labour markets, do appear to hit employment. France has the rich world's highest wage floor, at more than 60% of the median for adults and a far b...

然而，如果最低工资标准较高，尤其是在那些管制较严的劳动力市场，就业似乎也会受到影响。法国的最低工资标准是发达国家中最高的，其中成年人的占中值工资的60%以上，年幼者的最低工资标准占中值工资的比例则更大。这也是为什么法国的失业率较高的原因——...

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Minimum wages. The logical floor. Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians. On both sides of the Atlantic politicians are warming to the id...

最低工资标准 多少才合理 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊，但是它们应该由技术专家而不是领导层来设定。 欧美各国领导人逐渐开始赞同提高工资水平可以帮助贫困人群这一观点。贝拉克·奥巴马[前总统]打算将联邦最低工资标准提高40%，时薪...

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At the other end of the social scale, however, things look grim. Manual work gets harder as people get older, and public pensions look more attractive to those on low wages and the unemployed. In the ...

然而，从社会的另一个层面来讲情形并非如此乐观。随着年龄增长，体力劳动将会显得力不从心，因此对于低收入者和失业者来说公共养老金会更有吸引力。最招人讨厌的公众形象可能会从“好吃懒做、靠纳税人供养的福利皇后”变成“欠债不还、当同龄人还在努力工作时...

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A billion shades of grey. An ageing economy will be a slower and more unequal one—unless policy starts changing now. Warren Buffett, who on May 3rd hosts the folksy extravaganza that is Berkshir...

十亿银发族 一个老龄化的经济体会发展地越来越缓慢，且社会不平等加剧—除非现在就开始政策改革 沃伦·巴菲特，这个美国资本主义的象征式人物，将于5月3号主持伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司一年一度的股东大会。83岁高龄的他也正代表了当前人口发展...

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Second, a destabilising cycle of stagflation must be broken. High public borrowing has fuelled inflation, which stands at 9%. To protect their savings, households have bought gold from abroad, blowing...

第二点，必须打破不稳定的滞涨循环。高公债刺激了通货膨胀，当前已经达到9%。家庭为了保护存款从国外购买黄金，这样就在收支平衡表上留下了一个漏洞。新政府必须削减不必要的食品和燃料补贴。但是印度自1947年独立以来就没有过预算盈余的主要原因在它薄...

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A new government will be formed in the coming days. Exit polls point to the Bharatiya Janata Party swooping back to power after a decade in opposition. Narendra Modi, its leader, is set to be prime mi...

在未来的日子里，印度将组建新的政府。出口民调显示，印度人民党在野十年后将重掌政权，人民党领袖纳伦德拉·莫迪将任总理。投资人深受这一消息的鼓舞。莫迪过去在管理古吉拉特邦时实行的商业友好策略以及在大选进程中发表的关于维卡斯公司发展的言论都受到投...