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Firms can make incremental changes to existing products, thereby becoming more competitive in an existing market segment; they can introduce products, like Sony’s iconic Walkman or Apple’s iPhone, that create new market segments; or they can develop a product – such as electricity, the car, or an Internet search engine – that is so disruptive that it renders an entire sector or way of doing business almost obsolete.
With the advent of global pollutions and technologies, remedying this is becoming an increasingly urgent problem.
Central banks, in an effort to keep capital away and hold down the exchange rate, risk becoming locked into a cycle of competitive easing aimed at maximizing their countries’ share of scarce existing world demand.
Last, but certainly not least, climate change is already causing significant damage, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and lethal.
Populist parties of the left and right – with their shared hostility to free trade, migration, Muslims, and globalization – are becoming more popular throughout Europe.
Virulent anti-migrant, anti-Muslim parties are becoming more popular in Europe’s core, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.
It may not work to keep an ignorant and dangerous buffoon – silly hairstyle and all – from becoming President of the US.
What China regards as Hong Kong's comedy of deference is quickly becoming a tragedy of errors for Hong Kong's citizens.
The next US administration will only prove successful if it grasps that Latin America is living through a moment that combines the best and worst aspects of its history: the fastest economic growth since the 1970’s, with poverty and inequality diminishing, and more democratic and respectful of human rights than ever before, but becoming more politically polarized.
Innovative financing is also becoming more important, especially in developing countries.
Foreign visitors to the US often comment that Americans are probably among the most patriotic people in the world, and are becoming much more so.
Stock exchanges are placing greater pressure on listed companies to disclose “non-financial” risks, while rules for corporate governance, especially in accounting and reporting, are becoming more demanding.
If Syria in turn accepts Lebanon’s sovereignty, and if it helps force Hezbollah into becoming a political force shorn of its military power, Israel and America ought to persuade Lebanon’s government to accept that Syria and Lebanon need to consult each other in security matters.
Since becoming prime minister in 2014, he has led an enthusiastic campaign to expand digital governance, hailing its efficiency and extolling its capacity to transform the country.
Similarly, Giora Eliraz of Hebrew University argues that the Islamic ideas that arrived in Indonesia from the Middle East changed, becoming more inclusive and pluralist in character, owing to the influence of the great nineteenth-century Egyptian reformer Muhammad Abduh.
These measures persuaded Indonesia’s Muslims that they could live in accord with Islamic teaching without Indonesia becoming an Islamic state.
While some aspects of culture are becoming globalized, variation across borders in Europe is far greater than it is between US states.
Standing silent as democracy atrophies in Venezuela is now not only immoral, but is becoming increasingly dangerous for all of Venezuela’s people.
This damage will become worse, with risks becoming unmanageable if emissions of greenhouse gases are not reduced to net zero levels between 2055 and 2070.
In 2012, bloody clashes broke out between the Rohingya and the ethnic Rakhines, who feared becoming a minority in their home state.
Before 2004 (when China’s burgeoning current-account surplus became an international issue), the West believed that China was moving in the right direction – becoming “more like us.”
Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers’ stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting – though they will not solve the aggregate-demand problem.
But Asia’s other rising power, India, is also becoming more active on this front, as its economic links are moving beyond its traditional partners in the British Commonwealth.
Instead, it is becoming apparent that, after a period of epic profits and growth, the financial industry now needs to undergo a period of consolidation and pruning.
Paris, although undeniably more beautiful, was in danger of becoming a new Rome, a prisoner of its past glory, at best a place to visit, but not a place to be.
Seen from Wall Street, the euro was moving closer to becoming a normal currency.
Its leaders need to simplify and clarify an agenda that risks becoming too complex to manage.
The emerging currency crises in Argentina and Turkey are linked to rapid exchange-rate depreciation and loans in foreign currencies that are becoming increasingly difficult to service – just like in 1982, when both countries also encountered serious difficulties.
(The UN, the European Union, and the Union of South American Nations, focusing on other priorities, have avoided becoming collectively involved.)
First, technology is fast becoming a game changer, especially in developing countries, where the gap in access to health care is the widest.
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