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Surveys of public opinion all over the world find that most people believe that emotional problems, including those deemed severe, such as hearing voices, are primarily caused by bad things happening to us rather than by faulty brains or genes.
India’s financial system suffers from few of the creative and risky derivative instruments that caused such problems in the West.
But can science and technology really solve problems that are not caused by China alone?
More and more scientists are beginning to suspect that global warming has caused the radically changed patterns of precipitation now seen across China.
Indonesia and Ecuador, among other countries, succumbed to financial crises in 1997-98 that were linked (in part) to agricultural crises caused by the severe El Nino.
Man-made global warming, caused mainly by fossil-fuel burning in rich countries, may well be a factor in the frequency and severity of major droughts, floods, and tropical storms.
China's heavy floods in recent years are partly the result, it seems, of the excessive melting of mountain snows on the Tibetan Plateau, which was caused by higher temperatures.
The country’s largest such crisis, in 2001, brought down the local banking system and caused the Argentine government to default on its debts.
And Rousseff’s use of revenues from the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras to fund domestic social programs has caused the firm’s share price to halve – alienating oil investors.
Out-of-pocket costs skyrocketed, infant mortality rates stopped declining, and the disease surveillance system was weakened, which may have contributed to the SARS epidemic in 2002-2003, which took more than 900 lives worldwide and caused economic losses worth an estimated $60 billion.
Indeed, when the Chinese military secretly and recklessly fired a land-based missile into outer space in mid-January and shattered one of China’s aging satellites, the government caused outrage from London to Tokyo to Washington.
In short, the isolation of the export sector from the rest of China’s economy, caused by the dominance of FDI, accounts for the illusion of an undervalued renminbi.
The lack of sex education has caused severe harm to Ghana’s youth.
Mian and Sufi show that the recession was caused by a collapse of household consumption, and that consumption fell most in those counties where pre-crisis borrowing and post-crisis real-estate prices left households facing the largest relative losses in net wealth.
Meanwhile, asset purchases have caused the balance sheets of major central banks to swell to unprecedented levels.
However the Chinese leadership responds, future generations may remember 2009 less for its global economic and financial crisis than for the momentous transformation that it caused in China.
This makes it the best investment the world could make, reaping social benefits that outweigh the costs by 40 to 1.Similarly, providing micronutrients missing from more than half the world’s diet would reduce diseases caused by deficiencies of iron, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin A with an exceptionally high ratio of benefits to cost.
The Trovan trial nonetheless caused a storm of controversy, for two reasons.
One additional step, for example, would be to describe the events that caused the Armenians’ suffering and to acknowledge who caused it.
The incident caused an uproar that compelled the authorities to arrest, interrogate, and try the Egyptian police officers in charge.
World leaders were slow to react to the crisis – and the delay caused tremendous suffering and loss of life.
After all, Greece’s Great Depression had caused the share of non-performing loans (NPLs) to rise to 40%.
With two bilateral meetings – between the two countries’ foreign secretaries, and then between Modi and Sharif – scheduled to take place this month, we will not have to wait long to find out how much political damage the attack has caused.
Lehman Brothers, of course, went bankrupt – and it was the spreading effects of that failure that caused so much damage in September 2008 and subsequently.
The perceived threat posed by the Islamic State has also caused the US to drop ousting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s main regional ally, from its agenda.
But the vicious civil war that followed – and has still not entirely concluded – caused the violent deaths of up to 200,000 people.
But economic problems such as weak growth or high unemployment are not caused by a lack of total demand.
Triffin issued his warning more than 50 years ago, but it has recently gained traction, as China’s rise has made the world increasingly disinclined to tolerate the instability caused by a dollar-denominated system.
This time, the damage caused by the Great Recession is subjecting most advanced economies to secular stagnation and creating major structural growth challenges for emerging markets.
Consider Germany, where the dreadful performance of Merkel’s Christian Democrats in a string of regional elections, including in her home state of Mecklenberg-West Pomerania, has caused many to question the country’s trajectory.
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