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Even with a balanced budget, there is still the issue of the effectiveness and efficiency of spending, as each dollar of government revenue costs the economy about $1.30, given the distortions to private decisions caused by taxes.
And yet the clear failure of austerity to restart the economy in Greece or the rest of the eurozone has not caused policymakers to rethink their approach.
Global warming, caused by our greenhouse-gas emissions, is thus far continuing unabated.
Most economists go a step further, asserting that the US deficit is caused by a savings shortage.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
And, while the Chinese yuan has remained more or less unchanged relative to the US dollar in the past year, the dollar’s sharp appreciation relative to the euro and other currencies caused the overall trade-weighted value of the yuan to rise.
The resulting layoffs of Chinese factory workers has caused second-round declines in local demand for Chinese goods and services, as Chinese households cut back on their spending.
The salient feature of the crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil.ampnbsp;
This fact – a defect inherent in the system – contradicts the generally accepted theory that financial markets tend towards equilibrium and deviations from the equilibrium occur either in a random manner or are caused by some sudden external event to which markets have difficulty in adjusting.ampnbsp;
Cycles of economic fashion are as old as business cycles, and are usually caused by deep business disturbances.
That was the case in Russia in 1998 and in Argentina in 2000: in both cases, public opinion largely blamed previous reforms for the crisis, even though both crises were caused by fiscal irresponsibility and insufficient reform.
Again, the misery caused by these infections exceeds the burden of tuberculosis or malaria.
The Battle of the TemplesBANGKOK – The military skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that have claimed more than two dozen lives, caused scores of injuries, and displaced tens of thousands of people since February are primarily attributable to domestic politics in both countries.
Stalin’s decision in 1932 to force independent farmers – the kulaks – into large collectivized farms caused 3.3 million Ukrainians and ethnic Poles to starve to death the following year.
Alongside targets like eliminating poverty and measures to protect the environment is a commitment to reducing mortality caused by NCDs – the first time the UN’s official development agenda has taken direct aim at the problem.
Many people have died in the unrest Nkurunziza caused, giving him and other officials an incentive to withdraw from the ICC.
Khamenei, concerned with repairing the damage caused by his acceptance of the fraudulent reelection in 2009 of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was willing to accept the victory in June of Rouhani, a conservative reformist whom he trusted.
Ultimately, we may not be able to prevent deaths caused by certain illnesses.
But with more information, it is within our power to prevent those deaths that are caused by our own complacency or incompetence.
The circumstances behind his killing remain unclear, but his death caused a government reshuffle, with finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni and foreign minister Ali al-Issawi ousted.
Both the Ukrainian revolution and high economic growth have been caused by President Leonid Kuchma’s patent habit of playing everybody against everybody, while abstaining from fair play.
Everyone understands that the Iraqi government's improved attitude is caused by the Bush administration's sabre-rattling, but no one can tell whether this is a prelude to an inevitable war or a stratagem to make Iraq cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.
This new pattern – which persisted through the 1980s and 1990s, and accelerated after 2000 – caused inequality to rise sharply, weakening the foundations of globalization.
This has caused havoc in the payment system and in the functioning of banks and ATMs – a source of untold nuisances to the public.
So, too, was that of the American companies that caused the chemical disaster at Union Carbide’s plant in Bhopal, India (which killed 3,000 initially and perhaps another 15,000 in later years), and of those that caused the Piper Alpha oil-rig accident, which killed 167 people in the North Sea in 1988.
This was the first time that China had included the map in an official communication to the UN, and it caused great concern among some ASEAN members.
Money was flowing to those who had caused the problem, rather than to the victims.
For example, damage to ecosystems and biodiversity caused by current practices in the food and agriculture sector alone could cost the equivalent of 18% of global economic output by 2050, up from around 3% in 2008.
Earmarking of taxes caused current expenditures (especially on social-security benefits) to increase along with revenues, reducing the scope for a higher public-sector contribution to domestic savings.
Health experts have traditionally lumped diseases into two categories: communicable diseases, which are caused predominantly by infection, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – that is, everything else.
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