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Mao Zedong’s rash decree in 1958 to eliminate China’s “pestilent” sparrows led to the proliferation of grain-eating locusts, diminishing yields and contributing to a famine that led to more than 20 million deaths.
Besides, thanks to governmental control of public broadcasters and generous public subsidies to private media outlets, both sides can deploy a reliable army of fiercely motivated journalists and intellectuals whose incendiary comments are contributing to the conflict’s escalation.
Moreover, consumer spending fell by a record amount, contributing to a total real (inflation-adjusted) decline of 5.9% from last July.
Is it about sharing them or about contributing to them?
Beyond contributing to host economies as workers, entrepreneurs, investors, and taxpayers, migrants (and refugees) support development in their countries of origin through remittances.
Using online tools like Google Map Maker, they are contributing to the shared goal of building a digital map of the world.
One contributing factor to this poverty is the inability of people to feed themselves effectively.
In that case, the country will continue to be the world’s primary economic engine, contributing about 30% of global growth until at least 2020.
While expectations of faster earnings growth may well be contributing to elevated P/E levels, the current situation is complicated, to say the least.
The growing concentration of wealth, together with highly uneven educational quality, is contributing to declines in intergenerational economic mobility, in turn threatening social and political cohesion.
The fund is expected to leverage this to acquire roughly €63 billion in loans, with private investors subsequently contributing some €5 for every euro lent – bringing total investment to the €315 billion target.
But, by exploiting the same popular sentiments, they are contributing to a poisonous climate, which could bring political violence into the mainstream once again.
First, there is the open channel, which gives a larger share of votes to the nations contributing more to organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank.
Powerful nations, by virtue of contributing senior personnel and money, gain greater access.
China’s Corporate-Debt ChallengeWASHINGTON, DC – The Chinese economy has slowed in recent years, but it is still a strong performer, contributing about one-third of total economic growth worldwide.
Many are essentially on life support, contributing only one-fifth of total industrial output but accounting for about half of all corporate debt.
Banking supervision was not included among the ECB’s objectives, though one article of the treaty gives the system of European central banks as a whole the task of contributing to effective supervision.
Previous techniques left traces in the modified genomes, contributing, for example, to antibiotic resistance.
The idea is to keep expenditure below what the government can raise in taxes in the long run (thereby ensuring sustainability), while allowing deficits whenever the economy is operating below potential and tax revenue is abnormally low (thereby guaranteeing flexibility and contributing to macroeconomic stabilization).
They complain that the undervalued renminbi represents unfair competition, destroying American jobs, and contributing to the United States’ trade deficit.
This prevents monetary and credit growth, but, by keeping interest-rate differentials high, sterilized intervention feeds carry-trade inflows, thus contributing to the problem that it was supposed to solve.
A good starting point is to consider how the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is contributing to nuclear security.
All need to galvanize Americans’ support for protecting local environments and contributing to global solutions.
Given its long history of contributing to global security through civilian and military missions, the EU has much to offer NATO.
Less noticed is a key factor contributing to this malaise: the inability of the Maghreb countries – Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia – to increase their economic cooperation.
Europe’s financial crisis has led to a re-nationalization of banking systems across the EU, with bailout policies in countries like Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and now Spain contributing to the trend.
In fact, there is a sense that Abe's policies are contributing to rising inequality.
Instead, it should be an occasion for reflection on the role of ideological groupthink among economists, including Bernanke, in contributing to the global economic and financial crisis.
America has already financed two wars on credit, contributing to a significant fiscal deficit.
Meanwhile, the political situation in Palestine – characterized by the erosion of President Mahmoud Abbas’s legitimacy – and the region’s overall instability are contributing further to the decay of the peace process.
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