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Climate change is making such investments even more urgent, as extreme weather events – both flooding and droughts – are becoming more common throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
On becoming President, Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.
The challenge is no less than to prevent the life sciences from becoming the death sciences.
At the heart of the House Republican strategy is a simple idea: all financial firms should be able to go bankrupt without damaging the rest of the economy and without the government becoming involved.
As a result, instruments that make their adoption more affordable are becoming some of the most important weapons we have in the fight against climate change.
Their reaction was understandable: even entertaining the possibility of the US becoming “number two” amounts to career suicide for an American politician.
On the other hand, we hear the defiant suggestion that Trump’s decision might not be so important, because renewable energy is already becoming so cheap that a future without fossil fuels has nearly arrived.
Unfortunately, it is now becoming clear that the hard lessons of recent financial crises have been lost on China.
Can the BoE – and the UK Treasury – really provide downside insurance for this full amount, or are the UK authorities set on the path to becoming another Iceland (where the value of bank assets peaked at more than 11 times the country’s GDP)?
In fact, China probably limited the increase this year after recognizing that the international community is becoming alarmed by the steep upward trajectory of its military build-up.
Blue Moon built a billion-dollar business from scratch in five years, becoming the dominant player in the liquid-detergent segment, with a brand that is viewed more positively than its multinational competitors.
The basic story of human-caused climate change is becoming clearer to the global public.
Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, widespread popular movements against rising inequality and elite greed are becoming highly salient issues in looming national elections.
Since becoming Supreme Leader 22 years ago, Khamenei has been relatively weak, but has adapted by seeking to encourage weakness in the Islamic Republic’s other high offices.
When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.
But, for some, the dream is on the verge of becoming a nightmare.
Most people are becoming better off, if unevenly.
Moreover, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are moving toward becoming an integrated bloc.
The appalling state of India’s education system – in which 31% of students do not make it past primary school, and a mere 9% complete secondary school – seriously undermines the country’s hopes of becoming a global superpower.
If something like this under-reporting of reinvested earnings or other balance-of-payments credits has gone on in the past, it may still be going on today – especially with US firms becoming aggressive about arbitraging corporate income tax.
Only a dramatic move by external powers can still save Gaza from becoming a second Mogadishu and both Palestinians and Israelis from a total war that would only breed more rage and desperation.
Unfortunately, one consequence of these multiple layers of dissonance is becoming all too clear.
In fact, with the global economy becoming increasingly knowledge-based, the education and skills of a country’s people are more important than ever in securing its future.
In an efficient system, this should reduce the price of US goods relative to those of the rest of the world, with US exports becoming cheaper than imports.
And, indeed, as that stimulus wanes, the impact of inadequate advanced-country demand on Chinese growth is becoming increasingly apparent.
Russia’s stance changed gradually during the early 2000s, as world oil prices – and Russian output – recovered, reinvigorating the country’s economic base at a time when its leadership was becoming increasingly autocratic.
It is now in real danger of becoming an irreconcilably divided and increasingly stalemated society.
It makes sense that the international monetary system should follow the global economy in becoming more multipolar.
With the participation of the US and Russia in the expanded East Asia Summit, the regional architecture is, indeed, becoming more dynamic.
Of course, America still wants to contain China and prevent it from becoming a major regional and world power.
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