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This pullback in cross-border activity has been accompanied by muted growth in global financial assets (despite the recent rallies in stock markets around the world).
Meanwhile, the adjustment costs in troubled countries have ballooned in response to rising interest rates and falling economic activity.
Second, we should concentrate less on improving health care and more on strengthening disease prevention, for example by driving down tobacco use, expanding opportunities for physical activity, and increasing the availability and affordability of a healthy diet.
In Europe, researchers have found that youth recreation centers where activities are not structured sometimes become gathering places for kids involved in high-risk behavior such as gang activity.
Chinese officials see little difference between the cyber threat posed by the NSA and that posed by the PLA, especially given that America’s cyber intrusions have also been aimed at foreign companies, trade negotiators, and international leaders – all of whom are directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activity.
Unfortunately, these corrections are not based on increased exports, but on declining imports, owing to depressed levels of economic activity.
But the effects of quantitative easing on economic activity are uncertain, and such an inflationary policy might well invite retaliation from Europe’s trading partners.
The pick-up in economic activity in Japan and the US bodes well for the global economy in 2004, as does China's continued strength.
The high point of its activity on this front was the special United Nations meeting in 2011 devoted to NCDs.
And, in a country where any political activity was considered treasonous, many expected the neophyte NTC to stumble early and often.
Second, the US should establish a credible enforcement mechanism to ensure that the parties comply with their respective obligations, particularly an immediate freeze on Israeli settlement activity throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
Not only has Israel failed to halt its settlement activity since Annapolis – in violation of international law and its renewed road map commitments – but it has actually accelerated such activity.
A target of zero emissions tells policymakers and the public precisely what must be done, and it directly addresses human activity.
The geopolitical implications of these land reclamation efforts are well documented: The majority of the activity has taken place on the Spratly Islands, an archipelago in the waters between Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines, all of which – along with China, Taiwan, and Brunei – have competing claims to the region.
Such worries undermine confidence and make it harder to boost economic activity.
One critical test of its trajectory will be how investment activity develops over the next few quarters.
Yet economists view FTTs as particularly troublesome because they distort intermediate activity, which amplifies their effects.
In recent years, much political activity has been directly or indirectly focused on exchange rates in ways that imply new economic and political divisions.
A 2002 study indicated that three-quarters of Americans feel connected to their communities, and consider their quality of life to be excellent or good, with nearly half of adults participating in a civic group or activity.
The fact that the quake hit the capital, and demolished every center of social activity, destroyed the systems upon which daily urban life depends.
In fact, we calculate that up to one-fifth of the AfDB’s jobs commitment could be met by economic activity linked to the off-grid solar industry alone – through direct and indirect employment.
To increase competitiveness, improvements were made to the process of issuing permits for economic activity.
This heightened uncertainty could spill over to economic activity in the rest of the European Union through adverse feedback loops between sovereign risk and the banking system.
But there has since been very little activity on the political front.
Short on skilled experts, a post-Qaddafi Libya risks becoming dependent on foreign assistance, much like the Palestinians, who live largely from international aid rather than from their own economic activity.
This is the main reason why economic activity in 2009 and 2010 was so much lower than had been forecast – and why unemployment was so much higher.
This will, it is thought, enable the government to borrow money more cheaply than it would otherwise be able to do, in turn lowering interest rates for private borrowers, which should boost economic activity.
Despite all the drama on Wall Street in 1987, the impact on economic activity was muted.
This additional economic activity will boost overall GDP growth, yielding significant new fiscal revenues.
The US market’s share of global equity valuations is the highest it has ever been – a remarkable statistic given the declining US share of global economic activity.
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