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Africa has long suffered under the belief that passionate tribal attachments are inefficient, irresponsible, and inhumane.
Such thinking contributed to neglect of asset and credit markets, promoted intellectual disregard for regulation, and fostered laissez-faire excess, because macroeconomic belief in the sufficiency of inflation targeting paired logically with microeconomic belief that credit markets would take care of themselves.
The 5% Agenda campaign, launched in New York last month, underscores the belief that only a collaborative public-private approach can redress Africa’s infrastructure shortfall.
At the other extreme is the Gaullist belief that the EU is nothing more than a “power multiplier” for France to defend its own national interests.
As in the time of the Decembrists, anyone in Russia can suffer from overweening government power, regardless of political belief.
The conscious expression of this dream is an obsessive response to the certainty of biological death: the belief that a big enough win in the game of science will beat death itself by conferring a form of immortality on the winner.
“To profess” has a spectrum of meanings: to affirm openly; declare or claim; to make a pretense of; pretend; to claim skill in or knowledge of; to affirm belief in; to receive into a religious order or congregation; to make an open affirmation; or to take the vows of a religious order or congregation.
Whereas modernization entails a change in belief about the way the material world operates, Westernization entails a change in cosmological beliefs about the way that one should live.
Given the widespread belief in Chinese policy circles that the US secretly hopes to re-fight the Korean war and establish a single US-allied Korea on China’s border, the potency of this concern should not be underestimated.
Recent US monetary-policy measures and statements have reflected the belief that America’s stake in EMDCs’ financial stability is limited to the extent to which volatility poses a risk to the near-term US economic outlook.
We should not become so enthralled by the explanatory power of the behavioral sciences that we succumb to the belief that moral progress is predetermined.
But Trump’s evident belief in the chaos theory of government is, overall, probably not good for Russia, especially at a time when its economy, after three years of sanctions and low oil prices, is gasping for air.
It remains true that religion is an important factor for Egyptian voters, as 66% of those surveyed “strongly agree” or “agree” that it would be better if people with strong religious belief held public office; and 57% consider a government’s implementation of sharia “very important” or “important.”
Nobody worried about foreign ownership of US ports as long as the owner was a British company; the new fears reflect the belief that Dubai might be a channel for Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
Many died in the service of that belief; all of us alive today reap the benefits of their faith in the power of truth in action.
Another powerful impediment to the victory of an establishment candidate is the weakness of party machines and the almost religious belief in the powers of the media to deliver votes.
Finally, the central bank’s belief that a higher interest rate will translate immediately into lower inflation is misguided; the mechanism is indirect and not guaranteed.
But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the damage inflicted by the current rulers.
The basic belief that underpins “economic patriotism” is that of an alignment of interests between companies considered “national” (most prominently the largest ones or so-called “champions”), their national employees, and the national community.
Indeed, it rests quite explicitly on the belief that in some circumstances increases in the monetary base per se will be wholly ineffective in stimulating nominal demand because of liquidity-trap effects.
Does that mean that I could be barred from the US?Would that be consistent with belief in freedom of thought?
Italians shared the same belief after the disillusion of 1848.
It beggars belief that China and India are not members of the G-7.
That, in turn, strengthened its two-fold belief – that its brand of state-steered capitalism offers a credible alternative, and that its global ascendance is inevitable.
The decisions to build an interstate highway system (and to spend most of that money on suburban commuter roads) and to jump-start the long-term mortgage market – reflecting the widespread belief that General Motors’ interests were identical with America’s – literally reconfigured the landscape.
But his belief in the absolute sanctity of the early embryo is not shared by a majority of Americans.
Lists have been drawn up of people who played a significant role in the Japanese colonial regime, ranging from university professors to police chiefs – and extending even to their children, reflecting the Confucian belief that families are responsible for the behavior of their individual members.
One subject China should address is freedom of belief.
The crisis has shattered the belief that well designed microprudential rules alone are sufficient.
The belief that the fiscal multiplier is usually low may have contributed to underestimation of the short-run economic costs of austerity policies – and thus to persistently optimistic forecasts of growth and employment.
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