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I am confident that the combined effect of these reforms will enable Japan to double its inward
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investment by 2020, rebooting the entire country and changing its economic landscape dramatically.
Brazil under Lula implemented Bolsa Familia, a system of
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cash payments to households that is credited with lifting millions out of poverty.
Serious
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negotiations are unlikely to begin without a freeze on settlement building, which Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to announce or implement, given resistance within his coalition government.
Badgett estimated that the Indian economy may have lost up to $23.1 billion in 2012 in
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health costs alone, owing to depression, suicide, and HIV treatment disparities caused by anti-gay stigma and discrimination.
Even in the absence of
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politicization, the Fed always faces a problem of “cognitive capture” by Wall Street.
It has a presence in more than 80 countries, and its regional teams provide technical support and strategic information, which helps the Global Fund
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its grants to the right programs, locations, and populations at sufficient scale.
Russia would interpret German steps toward a nuclear arsenal as a
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threat to its own national security and would likely adopt military countermeasures.
Ordinary Burmese well understand that their country’s democratic transition is the
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result of its recoil from China’s excessive demands on its natural resources.
Through legislation or
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voter initiatives, approximately eight million workers have already won minimum-wage increases in recent years, and an additional $5 billion has made it into workers’ pockets since 2017.
A new model has recently revived hope for effective drug control by moving testing and enforcement from the
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control of the International Olympic Committee and the national governing bodies to the World Anti-Doping Agency and similar organizations at the national level.
Phrased in the cold language of natural selection, blood relatives are worth helping in
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proportion to their genetic (blood) relatedness, weighted by how great a benefit they received.
It is China that has the most
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contact with North Korea, and that could best catalyze resumption of the six-party talks.
To boost their output and allow them
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access to European markets will require market-based incentives.
The report also casts doubt on Obama’s other claims, with evidence indicating that targets of drone strikes, though perhaps posing a threat to Yemen, may not have posed a
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threat to the US, and that their capture may have been possible.
Trump is taking
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aim at an essential concept: that the president can be held accountable to the citizens.
The Korean state's inability to supervise and manage the impact of financial globalization, made worse not better since the civilian Kim Young Sam assumed power in 1993, is the
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cause of crisis.
Tourism – which previously accounted for more than 10% of Turkey’s GDP – is withering, and foreign
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investment is set to slow considerably.
The US spends a much smaller share of GDP on family-assistance programs – including cash transfers, tax breaks, and
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government services – than its developed-country counterparts, where reliance on regressive consumption taxes to fund progressive transfer programs has kept income inequality significantly lower.
Having lost
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access to senior officials, they can now focus strictly on holding the administration to account.
In principle, there is little difference between monetary easing – lower policy rates or more QE – that leads to currency weakening and
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intervention in currency markets to achieve the same goal.
And, as a political outsider, he is in a unique position to
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Indonesia toward a more prosperous, united future – and vault himself into the country’s pantheon of great leaders.
The US and Europe are in
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competition with Brazil, China, India, and other emerging economies, where wage levels are sometimes one-quarter those in high-income countries (if not even lower).
As with any therapeutic intervention, the most convincing and
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proof of the preventive efficacy of antioxidant supplements requires randomized, controlled clinical trials.
As a result, they have little
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appreciation of the worst aspect of one-party rule: a rapacious, legally unrestrained elite.
The most regrettable aspect of Western executives’ misconceptions of the Chinese government is that they are likely to persist, at least among those who have no
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experience with the dark side of the Chinese state.
Even more importantly, its
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neighbors are either completely dependent on Russian gas supplies – Ukraine and Belarus – or, like Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, are dependent on Russia’s pipeline system to sell their gas output.
With the Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic and the exorbitantly expensive South Stream pipeline in the Black Sea, Russia is not just trying to create
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gas connections between Russia and the EU that bypass Ukraine and undermine Nabucco.
Russian activism in the CIS will also bring it into
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rivalry with the EU.
They realize that
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financial connections with the private sector can damage their reputation for independence and integrity.
In most fields of university research,
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external influences - military and political as well as commercial - are trivial.
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