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China is therefore caught in a currency trap, owing to its own saving surplus (and America’s saving deficiency) and near-zero interest rates on dollar assets.
Over those 12 years, about eight million children worldwide died from vitamin A
deficiency.
Three billion people depend on rice as their staple food, with 10% at risk for vitamin A deficiency, which, according to the World Health Organization, causes 250,000-500,000 children to go blind each year.
A study from the British medical journal The Lancet estimates that, in total, vitamin A
deficiency
kills 668,000 children under the age of five each year.
Yet, despite the cost in human lives, anti-GM campaigners – from Greenpeace to Naomi Klein – have derided efforts to use golden rice to avoid vitamin A
deficiency.
Opponents maintain that there are better ways to deal with vitamin A
deficiency.
But it is not a sustainable solution to vitamin A
deficiency.
But golden rice would cost just $100 for every life saved from vitamin A
deficiency.
Greenpeace calls golden rice a “failure,” because it “has been in development for almost 20 years and has still not made any impact on the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency.”But, as Ingo Potrykus, the scientist who developed golden rice, has made clear, that failure is due almost entirely to relentless opposition to GM foods – often by rich, well-meaning Westerners far removed from the risks of actual vitamin A
deficiency.
The 4.4 million Filipino kids with vitamin A
deficiency
might not mind so much.
The pattern of Republican
deficiency
holds up when the span of historical analysis is extended by using stock returns to measure economic performance.
I advocate this for the old-fashioned Keynesian reason that we are suffering from a
deficiency
of aggregate demand, that the multiplier is positive, and that the most effective way to reduce the private and public debts a year or two down the line is by taking steps to boost growth in national income now.
For example, recent data show that even a moderate
deficiency
of Vitamin A results in higher mortality.
Economies running current-account deficits tend to suffer from a
deficiency
of domestic saving.
Yet America’s trade gaps have, in fact, been spawned by a chronic
deficiency
of domestic US saving.
Measures to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency, anemia, and vitamin A, iodine, and zinc deficiencies – which remain significant in some countries of the region – would have a positive impact.
Yale University's Robert Shiller has suggested that I believe that Europeans lack dynamism owing to a
deficiency
of entrepreneurial "spirit."
Unless, that is, we take EPO to make up for our genetic
deficiency.
One measure of this
deficiency
is rates of borrowing; in East Africa, where my organization works, women borrow 13% less money for farm-related activities than men do.
In the end, the report never makes up its mind about whether flexible forms of work in the “gig economy” represent Keynesian demand deficiency, voluntary choices for part-time work and self-employment, or the involuntary encroachment of automation.
The authors, primarily a French group headed by Olivier Cases, described mouse pups showing “trembling, difficulty in righting, and fearfulness...frantic running and falling over..(disturbed) sleep...propensity to bite the experimenter...hunched posture...”Of all these features of disturbed development the authors chose only to highlight aggression in their paper’s title, and to conclude their account by claiming that these results “support the idea that the particularly aggressive behavior of the few known human males lacking MAOA ...is a more direct consequence of MAO deficiency.”
Looking at Greece, these economists argue that a shift in fiscal policy to “austerity” – a smaller public sector – has brought an acute
deficiency
of demand and thus a depression.
And rickets is far from the only disease to which vitamin D
deficiency
may contribute.
Even obesity may have connections to vitamin D. A clinical study found that providing supplements to obese and overweight people with vitamin D
deficiency
aids weight loss and enhances the benefits of a reduced-calorie diet.
And Australia gets a red on the “End Hunger” SDG, not because of significant starvation or micronutrient deficiency, but because its obesity rates are too high and its extensive agriculture has lower yields.
It is this
deficiency
in his emotional intelligence that has cost Trump the support of some of the most distinguished foreign policy experts in his party and in the country.
A slump, after all, is defined by a
deficiency
in total spending.
Scientific breakthroughs also play a key role in fighting specific nutritional challenges such as vitamin A deficiency, the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness.
Structural factors go a long way to explain this
deficiency.
As it stands, ASEAN has no mechanism to expedite decision-making in crisis situations or, more important, to enforce compliance with collective decisions – a
deficiency
highlighted by disputes over the proposed code of conduct for the South China Sea.
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