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Japan’s economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the verge of breaking free from chronic deflation.
The International Monetary Fund’s Mission Report of March 2009, pointing to the country’s 30 years of chronic political tumult, concluded that “Lebanon will remain vulnerable to shocks for many years” to come.
Rather, the biggest concern is China’s chronic over-reliance on investment as a driver of growth.
These actions are facilitated by chronic failures of global governance; for example, one-fifth of all fish taken from the ocean is caught illegally.
In many countries with strong health systems, HIV is no longer a death sentence, but a chronic condition.
At the same time, the FAO estimates that 870 million people worldwide – 90% of them living in developing countries – suffer chronic undernourishment.
One is that the urban disease burden is shifting from infectious to chronic diseases – the so-called “diseases of affluence.”
While lucrative, this business model is closely linked to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
We would have to set the thresholds for psychiatric diagnosis a lot higher, resurrecting the distinction between chronic illness and mild suffering.
Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of chronic disease.
It also is unclear whether oxidative stress is a primary cause or a secondary phenomenon of chronic diseases, as well as of the aging process.
Such a revaluation would also discourage exports and encourage imports, thereby reducing China’s chronic trade surplus.
Worldwide, one in four children under the age of five is stunted, meaning that chronic under-nutrition has caused serious and often irreversible physical and cognitive damage.
Simply flooding markets with cheap high-calorie, low-nutrient grains will never solve chronic malnutrition.
Second, the factors slowing US growth are chronic.
This reflects the aftermath of wrenching balance-sheet recessions, in which aggregate demand, artificially propped up by asset-price bubbles, collapsed when the bubbles burst, leading to chronic impairment of overleveraged, asset-dependent consumers (America) and businesses (Japan).
Civilian leaders evaluate Pakistan’s national interests differently, but they, too, cannot be indifferent to Pakistan’s chronic sense of insecurity.
Because of these destructive incentives, Eastern Germany, Sinn argues, will remain a region of chronic unemployment, much like Italy's Mezzogiorno, which has been a drain on Italian finances for decades.
The current spotlight may be on Europe’s financial woes, but the bigger picture for China is that America’s chronic deficits and indebtedness epitomize its relative decline.
Of course, there are those in Beijing who worry day and night about North Korean refugees; but there are also many in Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere who worry about the chronic crisis that North Korea’s periodic outbursts cause in an otherwise stable region of the world.
The Congress party was expected to come to power in Punjab, where chronic “anti-incumbency” has traditionally precluded the re-election of any state government.
Powerful resistance to higher taxes, coupled with a growing list of urgent unmet needs, has led to chronic under-performance by the US government and an increasingly dangerous level of budget deficits and government debt.
Japan’s lost decades highlight the importance of treating economic ills with the right medicine, before they become chronic and difficult to cure.
Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.
If, in the meantime, the political system has not acquired more institutional cushioning, and the presidency’s unique legitimacy remains – like today – based merely on the public’s approval of an incumbent surrounded by shady and bickering Kremlin factions, there would be a high risk of chronic destabilisation.
Moreover, intrauterine malnutrition can increase the risk of chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease during adulthood.
In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic shortages of milk, sugar, and beef.
Most countries resolved their external-debt problems by the mid-1990s, but a substantial share of countries in the lowest-income group remain in chronic arrears with their official creditors.
But the failure of this administration runs deeper than its chronic and intentional diversion of resources away from the types of policies that keep people safe from disaster.
As for the private sector, pharmaceutical companies have been withdrawing from TB research, as part of a general trend away from anti-infective drugs toward the development of new drugs for chronic illnesses.
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