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In recent years, tight monetary policy and increasingly strict controls on the real-estate sector have caused the growth rate of fixed-asset investment to fall, from more than 25% annually before 2008 to around 20% today.
But, over the last decade, structural changes to China’s economy have caused unemployment pressure to decline significantly – a trend that can be corroborated by across-the-board wage increases.
Scientists now estimate that somewhere close to 50% of climate change is being caused by gases and pollutants other than CO2, including nitrogen compounds, low-level ozone formed by pollution, and black carbon.
Their broadcasts caused a public outcry, which forced our parliament to organize a public hearing.
The failure was caused by the absence of appropriate international institutions that would be alert to the broad spectrum of potential disasters.
If we calculate the time and energy lost in developing nations to gathering, treating, and storing water, and the health burden caused by a lack of decent drinking water and sanitation, the costs of creating a typical water and sewer network can remain higher than the benefits.
Just as the North called the recent missile a “satellite,” an underground explosion caused by conventional explosives cannot be used as a bargaining chip unless it is called a “nuclear test.”
One major roadblock that Leung fails to appreciate is caused by an obscure 1981 UK Privy Council ruling, Hang Wah Chong Investment Co.Ltd v. Attorney General of Hong Kong, which gave the government unlimited authority to behave as a revenue-maximizing private monopolist.
Although this is how governments calculate real exchange-rate changes, it no doubt overstates the relative change in the prices of the goods that Americans buy from China, because much of China’s inflation was caused by rising prices for housing, local vegetables, and other non-tradables.
When Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka went to China in 1974, he bowed deeply to the Chairman, apologizing for the suffering that invading Japanese had caused.
Add to this the inconvenience of travel and the potential problems caused by being far from home in case of a family emergency.
Everything good that happens reflects their exceptional talents and efforts; everything bad is caused by someone or something else.
Consider, similarly, the death and illness caused by malaria, which can be reduced very sharply through the use of mosquito nets for beds and anti-malaria medicines.
The same can be said of various forms of hunting in other countries, not to mention the vast amount of animal suffering caused by factory farms.
But, faced with the possibility that today’s low inflation may be caused by permanent supply shocks, they are also unwilling to ease more now.
The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.
While the recession of 2007-2008 caused higher-income groups to suffer more than lower-income groups (because the former tend to derive relatively more of their income from more volatile sources of capital income, as opposed to labor income), the opposite has been true since 2009.
It was also caused by the auto industry’s geographic spread into other regions of the US, out of the clusters in which it had originally been concentrated.
The disruption can be caused not only by an industrial closure.
This is also why we are unlikely to see the return of military regimes in southern Europe or anywhere else; the suffering that they caused is too vivid in the collective memory.
Indeed, the political turmoil caused by the crisis has broken the back of the old two-party system.
Asia’s ongoing transformation – rooted in the long-term conviction that more equitable, inclusive, and increasingly knowledge-led growth will help to reduce poverty and offer greater prosperity to its citizens – requires a short-term commitment to mitigating any global economic slowdown caused by new shocks.
Many of these deaths are caused by the estimated five million unsafe abortions carried out annually in Sub-Saharan Africa.
While the euro has not caused France’s economic problems, its politicians’ commitment to the single currency represents an insurmountable barrier to solving them.
In a domestic legal system, an entity whose land was, say, flooded would have a claim to compensation from the entity that had caused the damage.
Stunting starts before birth and is caused by poor maternal nutrition and food quality, along with frequent infections.
Perhaps the focus on the disruptions caused by the global financial crisis is obscuring a natural shift in developed economies to a lower gear following years of pumped-up growth.
The richest countries caused the problem, but it is the world’s poorest who are already suffering from its effects.
This was accomplished through the near-elimination of property rights, which caused a massive exodus of those who could organize production.
Looking at the environment, one of the biggest killers is indoor air pollution caused by poor people using dung and wood to cook and keep warm.
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