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Since the fourth quarter of 2008, America’s net national saving rate has been negative – in sharp contrast to the 6.4%-of-GDP averaged over the last three decades of the twentieth century.
Peru and Chile, by contrast, are natural-resource exporters that derived huge benefits from the China-driven commodity boom of the last decade.
In Ukraine, by contrast, under-five child mortality rates have fallen only slightly, from 25 per 10,000 live births to 24, while life expectancy has declined from 70 years to 68.
Naturally occurring outbreaks, by contrast, occur regularly and are far more costly, even if they lack the sensational “fear factor” of bioterrorism.
By contrast, successful democracies believe that nobody is irreplaceable.
By contrast, the Chinese markets are dominated by retail investors, who are more likely to pursue short-term gains and engage in momentum trading, thereby exacerbating volatility and creating a greater disconnect between equity prices and real economic growth.
The pro-EU camp, by contrast, has to sell the reality of the EU as it is, warts and all.
By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.
In contrast, GiveWell estimates that the cost of saving a life by distributing bed nets in regions where malaria is a major killer is $3,400.
Warren Buffett, by contrast, is 76, so he has missed his chance to apply his talents to running a charitable foundation.
In stark contrast to the “real world,” the two leading powers, the United States and China, played no role in the tournament.
By contrast, the US had its own currency and central bank, allowing it to make good on its debt under almost any circumstances.
Many Europeans feel all three candidates are superb, and that, contrast to previous elections, America is suffering from an embarrassment of riches.
By contrast, between 2002 and 2008, Spain’s population grew by 700,000 a year, driven largely by immigration.
Contrast all this to Zambia.
By contrast, if the Round is completed, aside from this generalized gain, specific and important improvements would benefit the world’s least developed countries.
France, by contrast, tends to support the idea that the state should be free to intervene when needed, running a deficit or even providing a bailout to prevent a crisis.
By contrast, other large Muslim countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have succeeded in establishing political orders that serve all segments of highly diverse populations reasonably well.
By contrast, Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna argue that in an economy with a large and inefficient government, debt-stabilization measures directed at reducing the size of government can actually be expansionary.
Contrast this with the United Nations’ approach to development.
This is in stark contrast to the Italian political tradition.
By contrast, in a pay-for-success model, the returns are based on the social benefits achieved or savings reaped by government.
Newspapers, by contrast, are not monopolists.
In Europe, by contrast, greater weight is placed on the avoidance of risk, which is undermining private-sector confidence in investing in innovation.
By contrast, Western governments were wary of this perspective, which they feared would hamper free-market practices, impose overly cumbersome financial obligations, or both.
By contrast, economic, social, and cultural rights were often left to linger at the bottom of the national and international “to do” lists.
And in foreign policy, they cannot ignore the contrast between Europe's abject failure to bring peace to Bosnia with America's dramatic success.
By contrast, Greece has been a NATO member state since 1952, yet it has maintained a positive relationship with Putin’s Russia, even watering down an EU statement against the country for its alleged nerve-agent attacks in the United Kingdom earlier this year.
By contrast, we in Latin America and Eastern Europe know that democracy has trouble surviving in times of crisis, poverty, and isolation.
Ahmadinejad, by contrast, has been loyal to Khamenei and has largely followed his policies over the past four years.
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