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There was a need for such terms back then, because their crackpot counterparts held much greater sway in general discourse.

Whether or not the US can be called “innocent,” there is no denying that the US president, unlike his Russian or Chinese counterparts, has to operate within a set of constitutional arrangements and a particular value system.

In this respect, British journalists have much to learn from their US counterparts.

But even then, India’s print media will enjoy a healthy stream of advertising revenue that their Western counterparts can only dream about.

Too-big-to-fail banks enjoy lower interest rates on debt than their mid-size counterparts, because lenders know that the bonds or trading contracts that such banks issue will be paid, even if the bank itself fails.

Western students should think occasionally about their counterparts in Hong Kong and China who must fight for freedoms that they take for granted – and too often abuse.

In that sense, although China, with its $3.5 trillion stock of foreign-exchange reserves, may seem to exemplify emerging economies’ tendency to be over-insured against external risks, it actually faces the same credit risks as its counterparts.

We hope that our counterparts, too, are ready to take advantage of this window of opportunity.

(Some creditors feel that they are the true victims, exploited by Greek counterparts who never intended to fulfill their promises.)

And while one cannot doubt the democratic and pro-Western credentials of most UK Euroskeptics (though one can doubt their wisdom and strategic sense), the same cannot be said of many of their counterparts on the continent.

Sadly, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, forced his president and foreign minister to avoid the planned handshakes with their American counterparts.

But, instead of supporting Asian financial institutions’ capacity to take over the intermediation of the region’s savings, Asian financial regulators are focused on adopting the new global financial regulatory standards being pushed by their American and European counterparts – standards that American and European politicians are threatening to unwind.

It also explains what World Bank economists Xavier Cirera and William Maloney have called the “innovation paradox”: despite the vast potential returns to investment in innovation in developing countries, those countries pursue far less of it than their advanced counterparts.

I would probably divide the fourth wave further into two distinct categories: highly educated Indians, often staying on after studies abroad in places like the US; and more modestly qualified (but often harder-working) migrants, from taxi drivers to shop assistants, who generally see their migration as temporary and who remit a larger share of their income to India than their higher-earning counterparts do.

In business, too, an environment in which mid-size firms flourished was viewed as desirable, because it reconciled small firms’ lack of balance-sheet strength with their larger counterparts’ tendency to slip into oligopolistic complacency.

In sector after sector, mid-size companies face greater competition from small disruptors and/or their large counterparts.

The US and the UK, which presumably hold the vast majority of Russian offshore wealth, must also catch up with their counterparts in most of Europe by prohibiting the anonymity of beneficiary owners.

This transfer is alleged to take place within the structure of joint-venture arrangements – partnerships with domestic counterparts which China and other countries have long established as models for the growth and expansion of new businesses.

In that case, the young would most likely take to the streets once again, but this time inspired by the same revolutionary aims as their North African counterparts.

As a result, many of the dilemmas that confronted nineteenth-century policymakers are confronting their counterparts today.

Libyan civil society is not as developed as its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts, which further suggests that Qaddafi’s downfall could result in tribal warfare.

In fact, these cities’ competition to generate stronger growth than their counterparts – a contest sustained by the political incentives the central government has long provided to local officials – has played a driving role in China’s rapid industrialization and ongoing structural transformation.

But central banks’ successes fueled excessively high expectations, which encouraged most policymakers to leave their monetary counterparts largely responsible for macroeconomic management.

Governments, too, should collaborate with their developing-country counterparts to provide much-needed leadership in the climate-change debate.

Moreover, big European companies’ profits have grown 50% more rapidly than those of their American counterparts.

Indeed, given that Kenya’s lawmakers are some of the world’s highest-paid politicians, earning many times the salary of counterparts in much wealthier countries, they are willing to do anything – even incite violence – to be elected.

The ECB is now capable of lender-of-last resort operations, like its counterparts in the US and UK.

Although labeled as “Islamist” by its opponents, the AKP has been much more willing to liberalize Turkey than its secular counterparts, most of which are zealously nationalist.

Religious and sociopolitical associations fear that their global ties will be severed and their existence threatened if their counterparts abroad are declared subversive in mainland China.

Today factories are as modern, sophisticated, and automated as their Japanese counterparts, and their managers are mastering the skills needed to compete globally faster than in any other nation I have studied.

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