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Καλημέρα! "According to the UN’s latest biennial population forecast, the median age for all countries is due to rise from 29 now to 38 by 2050. " Είναι "διάμεση ηλικία" (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/median+age); Σκέφτηκα και τον "μέσο όρο ηλικίας", όμως απ' ό,τι βλέπω...

Και η δεύτερη: Research led by [...] found that in recent years disability above the age of 65 in America has been falling significantly. In other rich countries the picture is more mixed. When the OECD recently looked at 12 member countries, it found clear signs of a recent decline in...

Καλησπέρα! Δύο μάλλον εύκολες ερωτήσεις (ωστόσο έχω κολλήσει). Η πρώτη: (Για το κατά πόσο η μακροζωία πρέπει να αποτιμάται ως κάτι θετικό ή αρνητικό:) Clearly it depends on whether they become old and frail at the same age as before and just limp on for much longer, or if the extra years are...

Καλημέρα! Σημαίνει "κάνω αιματηρές οικονομίες" (to be very thrifty; to live on very little money, often in order to save up for something). Είναι τίτλος δημοσιογραφικού κειμένου για τις περικοπές στις συντάξεις. Σκέφτηκα κάποιες λύσεις (όπως "Πολιτικές λιτότητας", "Λιτότητα και αποταμίευση"...

Καλησπέρα, "Extensive research in 16 OECD countries has shown that there is a strong correlation between high female employment rates and large government cash transfers to families, generous replacement pay during parental leave, the availability of plenty of part-time work and lots of formal...

Καλημέρα! "By and now, people do seem to remain in good shape for longer. Moreover, the period of ill health that usually precedes the final goodbye has got shorter in the past few decades, which demographers call "compression of morbidity" (as a rule of thumb, the bulk of spending on an...

Καλησπέρα, η πρόταση έχει ως εξής: "Private defined-benefit final-salary schemes [Τα ιδιωτικά συνταξιοδοτικά συστήματα/ προγράμματα καθορισμένων παροχών] also encouraged early retirement because they did not impοse an actuarial penalty on people leaving before the due date." Τι προτείνετε για...

Καλησπέρα! Γνωρίζει κανείς πώς έχουν αποδοθεί στα ελληνικά οι τρισάθλιοι γέροι Struldbruggs που συναντά ο Γκιούλιβερ στα ταξίδια του; Σας ευχαριστώ.

Καλημέρα! "Extensive research in 16 OECD countries has shown that there is a strong correlation between high female employment rates and large government cash transfers to families, generous replacement pay during parental leave, the availability of plenty of part-time work and lots of formal...

Ακόμη μία ερώτηση: As the IMF puts it, “the fiscal impact of the financial crisis reinforces the urgency of entitlement reform.” People in rich countries will have to be weaned off the expectation that pensions will become ever more generous and health care ever more all-encompassing. Since...

Καλησπέρα! Η πρόταση έχει ως εξής: "Ageing will affect financial markets too. According to Modigliani’s and Brumberg’s life-cycle theory of savings, people try to smooth out their consumption over the course of their lives, spending more in their youth and old age and saving more in their...

Καλημέρα! "The case against subsidies includes capture, which occurs when the government regulatory agency does not pursue the public interest but rather accommodates public policy to the interest of the natural monopoly. Being “captured” is here voluntary. The capture is ostensibly also in...

Ο συγγραφέας αναφέρει σχετικά με τις κομουνιστικές κοινωνίες ότι: "With prices set low because of social need, there were systematic shortages of goods. The communist economy was therefore known as shortage economy." Είναι μήπως "ελλειμματική οικονομία" ή "οικονομία ελλείμματος"; Και εδώ...

"Political and bureaucratical principal-agent problems are maximal when government is maximal. Maximal government exists when private property is banned or limited and property is instead communal or collective, as under communism". Συμφωνείτε με την απόδοση "μέγιστο κράτος";

"Government departments and agencies do not confront the discipline of ultimately facing a cash constraint or of reporting profits and losses, and stock prices do not exist to fall to indicate insolvency due to indiscretion or incompetence. The departments and agencies are funded from government...

Σας παραθέτω το σχετικό απόσπασμα: "When rent-seeking contests have small numbers of participants, behavior is strategic, as in the prisoners’ dilemma: the resources used in rent seeking by one rent seeker depend on the resources that others use. The Nash equilibrium of a rent-seeking...

Καλημέρα! Στο κείμενό μου, και συγκεκριμένα σε ένα κεφάλαιο αναφορικά με την οικονομική διαφθορά στην πολιτική, επαναλαμβάνονται οι όροι: rent-seeking, rent-seeking contest, rent dissipation και rent extraction. Για το rent-seeking, βρήκα την απόδοση «προσοδοθηρία». Σκέφτηκα να γράψω το...

Καλησπέρα! Γνωρίζετε αν αποδίδεται κάπως στα ελληνικά το "milker bill"; Από εδώ: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/milker_bill_1/ Quotation: politicians routinely submit legislative bills that would take money from various persons or groups, and then withdraw them once...

Καλημέρα και καλό μήνα :) Στο κείμενό μου συνάντησα την πρόταση: "Matching public finance for privately given campaign contributions benefits special-interest groups relative to voters." Ίσως είναι πιο κατανοητό εδώ...

Άλλη μια ερώτηση: "Another source of revenue is fees and user prices such as for passports, and drivers' licenses and for tolls paid for use of roads and bridges." Είναι "τιμές χρήσης", "τιμές που πληρώνουν οι χρήστες"; Ευχαριστώ και πάλι.