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In 2010, these four conditions caused 47% of all deaths, including nine million deaths in people under 60 years of age.
Likewise, following the 2008 global economic crisis, food-price spikes and recession caused the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to revise its hunger estimates upward, to more than one billion people.
But it also caused serious problems – such as environmental damage, inequality, excessive debts, overcapacity, and corruption – to flourish.
The WHO estimates that while outdoor air pollution in developing-country cities may be ten times higher than in advanced-country cities, average indoor air pollution, caused by burning wood and dung, is a hundred times higher.
When things go wrong – as is likely, given mounting social strains caused by rising inequality, environmental degradation, and deteriorating public services – China’s alienated masses could become politically radicalized.
Since the global economic crisis, the expansionary monetary policies that advanced-economy central banks have pursued have caused large-scale, volatile capital flows across emerging-economy borders, generating significant instability for these countries and fueling accusations of “currency wars.”
The “availability heuristic” – a pervasive cognitive bias caused by people’s tendency to estimate the likelihood of a phenomenon by how easily an example of it comes to mind – routinely clouds the issue.
The health ministry cited a 9.5% increase in deaths caused by infectious diseases from 2011 to 2012.
The leadership vacuum caused by America’s unwillingness to cooperate and Britain’s sudden inability to lead resulted in the failure of the London Conference of 1933, which is often seen as opening the way to the Great Depression and the catastrophe of World War II.
The sub-prime market seems too small to have caused such a broad-based change in risk preference.
The Future of American GrowthCAMBRIDGE – The near-term outlook for the US economy has improved, owing to the sharp increase in household wealth in 2013, together with the end of the fiscal drag caused by the increase in tax rates in 2012.
Now that debate is once again heating up in France, as the planned introduction of “ethnic statistics” has caused a fierce dispute that touches the very heart of French republicanism.
With charm and unassuming clear-headedness, she wrought a compromise from the G8 countries that may help save the world from the most severe devastations caused by global warming.
As Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, I have seen firsthand the devastation and heartbreak caused by disasters around the world.
At the time of the September 11-12, 1986, event, I thought very hard about what could have caused it.
Eliminating genetically caused conditions in future children might seem a welcome goal, particularly to couples with a family history of such diseases.
Similarly, “At no point after May 2010 did [confidence] sink back to where it had been throughout the last two years of Gordon Brown’s catastrophic premiership” – as though the Brown government’s performance caused business confidence to collapse.
It was Serbia, Yugoslavia’s largest federal unit, which, led by Slobodan Milosevic, triggered the great Balkans crisis and caused numerous wars and “ethnic cleansings” as the federation collapsed at the start of the 1990’s.
Vietnam, for example, has reported that natural disasters, some of them exacerbated by climate change, have caused annual losses equivalent to 2% of its GDP.
Nor was it caused by falling oil prices or US President Ronald Reagan’s military build-up.
While the first, justified round of expansionary policies caused GDP to increase by more than 7% in 2010, growth quickly returned to lower levels.
A financial crisis is caused by a country’s excessive indebtedness, which generally reflects a combination of mismanagement by the debtor country, over-optimism, corruption, and the poor judgment and weak incentives of creditor banks.
The two accidents and the spills they caused have a number of similar features, although marine oil spills in general have profoundly changed in character in the three decades between the two events.
The damage caused by the Ixtoc spill was huge.
In theory, the People’s Bank of China can sterilize any amount of money supply caused by foreign-capital inflows simply by issuing the requisite amount of bonds.
The Bank sterilizes the money supply caused by today’s trade surplus, but in the meantime causes further current-account surpluses in the future.
Immovable adjustment constraints have caused eight countries to experience nominal wage deflation in at least two years since 2008.
The 1980’s Latin American crisis was caused by excessive borrowing; but that could not explain Mexico’s 1994 crisis, so it was attributed to under-saving.
Even though the Fed has not yet started raising interest rates, the well-established US economic recovery and the prospect of monetary tightening have, over the last year, caused the dollar to appreciate sharply against most currencies, those of emerging markets and advanced countries alike.
The Yom Kippur War in 1973 caused a sharp increase in oil prices, leading to the global stagflation of 1974-1975.
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