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But it could also close off existing markets.
When the Cold War was drawing to a close, anti-Communism no longer guaranteed US protection.
India, considerably poorer on average than China, will also close the wealth gap.
The Saver’s DilemmaBRUSSELS – Interest rates are now close to zero throughout the developed world (the United States, Europe, and Japan).
Meanwhile, the European Union and China are pressing to close their own deals in Asia and elsewhere.
Despite decades of close interaction, with millions of Americans, Europeans, and Japanese visiting China every year and similar numbers of Chinese now visiting the US and other advanced countries, both sides see each other through a glass darkly.
Moreover, the rate of China’s population growth is close to zero, and will turn negative before 2025.
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham – threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
America’s Election and the Global EconomySTANFORD – As America’s elections approach, with President Barack Obama slightly in front of his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pollsters still rate the races for control of the presidency and the United States Senate too close to call, with the House of Representatives likely to remain in Republican hands.
This division is complicating matters enormously, because close international cooperation is needed to correct the global imbalances that remain at the root of the crisis.
He persuaded the European Union and the United States to allow continued UN oversight in Kosovo while gradually permitting self-governance – all without triggering dangerous confrontations with the two states which oppose its breakaway, Serbia and its close ally, Russia.
For the moment, most Americans seem to be going along with Republican arguments that it is better to close the budget deficit through spending cuts rather than tax increases.
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore, Pakistan, on Christmas Day brought his hyperkinetic year of global diplomacy to a headline-grabbing close.
That is what has happened in the UK, with progress in England’s north spurring some to argue for, say, a “Midlands engine,” covering the other major urban-based UK area outside of London, with many cities in close proximity to one another.
If there are two levels of circuit breaker – a short-term and a long-term suspension of trading – and they are set too close to each other, once the first is triggered, market participants, realizing the second is likely to kick in as well, could stampede out of the market.
The theory grew out of the experience of the southern United States, where many jurisdictions required stores to close on Sunday, thus preventing the sale of alcohol.
This time, too, in the wake of Khashoggi’s disappearance, common interests and mutual dependence will almost certainly prevail over the desire to hold the Saudis to the standards expected of other close US allies.
Projections by the UN suggest that a coordinated economic-recovery agenda centered around such policies would boost annual global output growth to an average rate of 4%, and close the jobs deficit, by 2016 – a far better outlook than that implied by the current approach.
Among Americans, feelings toward Russia verge on something close to hatred, and many in Russia now regard Americans with ill-concealed disdain.
Moreover, important figures in or close to the ruling Justice and Development Party expressed their willingness to hold a dialogue with the protesters.
Trump’s Climate ScapegoatNEW DELHI – By accusing India of demanding “billions and billions and billions of dollars” as a condition for its participation in the Paris climate agreement, US President Donald Trump has ruffled what promised to be a close relationship between the world’s two largest democracies.
The era of US diplomatic hegemony has drawn to a close.
The study provided valuable insights into homegrown terrorism, for it revealed a consistently close link between radicalization and “vicarious” experiences of marginalization and discrimination.
Key decisions need to be made in close consultation with the country’s emerging leadership about which international institutions, civilian and military, should be present on the ground.
The curtain will rise on a set of false promises, and it will close with policies that can lead only to mayhem – unless the audience gets into the act.
Many close to Putin have acquired great fortunes through their connections to state companies.
More broadly, such a strategy could also start to close the deepening transatlantic divide that Trump’s presidency has opened up.
Japan’s governments have been fragile and short-lived for close to a decade, and the current debate over raising the value-added tax could cause another change of administration.
The average citizen has grown poorer, even as those close to the junta become ostentatiously rich.
The second lesson is that countries need to pay close attention to how social insurance policies affect the behavior of firms and workers.
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