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Roughly 80 clients were reported to have taken their own lives last year – an alarming figure, though tiny relative to the 26.7 million active borrowers from PMFIs in India.
Headlines about the launch were truly alarming: Over the next 18 years, global warming would kill 100 million people and cost the economy upwards of $6.7 trillion annually.
We have been brought to the brink of an alarming evolutionary transformation, not just of human capacities, but of the individual self.
The alarming tendencies we are seeing today may be short-lived and with no serious consequences.
Then there are the alarming human-rights violations.
Today, many blame today's alarming economic conditions in the world's industrial core--more than a decade of stagnation in Japan, deflation there and in Germany, recession in Germany--on other bad decisions.
The reason why this run was so alarming as to require unprecedented government support stems from the narratives underlying it.
A Boycott Against Reason“It could happen here” is the shorthand phrase frequently used for a variety of alarming hypothetical scenarios.
A Global Strategy for Disaster RiskSENDAI – Current disaster-risk levels are alarming.
It is in their power to avert more disappointments, tap into sources of sustainable growth, and tackle today’s alarming levels of inequality.
But few of these economies are prepared to embark on the type of internal reforms that promise sustained high growth rates and a substantial reduction in unemployment, which has been at alarming levels for young people and in terms of duration.
Deforestation is a challenge that has attracted alarming headlines, celebrity firepower, and widespread anxiety.
China’s growth slowdown is not in itself surprising or alarming.
The recent downward trend follows an alarming spike in recruitment by Daesh from the region.
Even more alarming, spurning multilateral cooperation means dooming the world to resignation in the face of existential issues such as climate change, a negligent stance that the Trump administration has adopted with relish.
In the process, critical wildlife habitats are being destroyed at an alarming rate.
The overall unemployment rate (12%) has yet to peak, led by an alarming lack of jobs among the young (24% joblessness in the eurozone as a whole, with highs of 59% and 56% in Greece and Spain, respectively).
The Fascism of the AffluentBERLIN – There is an alarming political shift to the right occurring on both sides of the Atlantic, linked to the growing force of openly chauvinist political parties and figures: Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France.
Currently, an alarming number of newborns die because of infection, mothers’ failure to breastfeed during the first days, or other preventable causes.
Instead, they are being murdered with impunity at an alarming rate, sometimes with the complicity of government authorities.
But that could take a long time – and come at an alarming cost.
The real-world implications are all too alarming.
The net result goes beyond the weak growth, worsening income inequality, high long-term unemployment, and alarming youth joblessness of the here and now.
To appreciate the extent of the problem, consider the repeated failure of the US Congress to pass an annual budget (let alone deliver medium-term reforms) or incomplete eurozone-wide initiatives at a time of alarming unemployment and residual threats of financial disruptions.
The second caveat about the post-crisis world is even more alarming.
Aggressive US trade sanctions against China would send equity prices plunging, alarming a US president who measures his economic policy success by the level of the stock market.
Ratios in the northern states are particularly alarming: only Himachal Pradesh now has a ratio of girls to boys above 900.
In Europe, the market for Greek debt has frozen, and interest-rate spreads between Irish and German euro-denominated debt recently reached alarming levels.
Conditions for children are particularly alarming.
There is an even more alarming prospect on the horizon: an alliance between authoritarian states and large, data-rich IT monopolies, bringing together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with already-developed systems of state-sponsored surveillance.
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