But the absence of crowding-out at the moment is hardly a matter for rejoicing.
Family preferences account for two-thirds of all legal immigrants, crowding out work-based immigration and placing increased pressure on social services.
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Ghana set out from the start to execute a well-organised game-plan of crowding out the Egyptians in midfield and defence, while looking to feed their front men quickly.
Yet if the bank wants to stay, it must guard increasingly against crowding out private-sector finance.
Casey's has also reconfigured cigarette racks, making room for cheaper names like Liggett and Kentucky's Best and crowding out less-popular products like menthol cigarettes.
Indeed, the bank's loans may actually do harm by crowding out private-sector lenders and delaying the day when mismanaged companies must face up to the demands of the capital markets.
It does not mean that app-based gaming is crowding out other gaming, however.
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Investment is low because of a lack of confidence in the recovery - not because government borrowing is crowding them out.
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Leopoldville engages in an all-out fight against infantile paralysis, crowding every clinic with mothers and their children, the latter to receive orally administered shots of a new vaccine against the scourge of childhood.
In Brazil, where it is often said that an activist industrial policy helps to explain why the economy has been thriving, a surging state-owned development bank, BNDES, is probably crowding out other sources of finance (see article).
This is not because the government has reduced spending by 1-2% in a year, but because the government is crowding out the private sector and small business by becoming a bigger part of the economy each and every year.
The evidence has yet to be examined, but the public sector could be crowding out the private sector in that way, and holding back the private sector-led recovery that the economy needs.
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Perhaps economics graduates, as rational decision-makers, are crowding into financial journalism, where they only have to leave the bar long enough to peck out 1, 000 words a week.
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