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Unemployment has nearly doubled in Tunisia and Egypt, and foreign direct investment has dried up across the Arab world.
The Japanese government simply got rid of its Iranian guest workers when jobs dried up.
Services and construction – two main pillars of Lebanon’s economy – have suffered badly, and tourism has all but dried up.
Supplying reliable electricity permits grains to be dried and vegetables to be kept cool.
In fact, Greece was running very large current-account deficits – exceeding 10% of GDP – when external financing dried up suddenly in 2008-2009, forcing an adjustment in domestic spending.
The global financial crisis in 2008, which began on Wall Street and was quickly transmitted throughout the world as interbank liquidity dried up, again nudged the world away from the dollar and toward competing currencies.
And these strategic retail banks stayed put during the crisis when other capital flows dried up.
Many have high levels of public debt and limited domestic savings, and private external financing options have dried up just when they would have helped the most.
As a result, high-wage jobs have dried up, wages have stopped growing, and a larger share of prime-age adults have dropped out of the labor force.
Loans have dried up, owing to banks’ leeriness of piling up more NPAs; investment has slowed to a trickle as a result.
It accounts for about one-quarter of greenhouse-gas emissions and is the biggest cause of land-use change, biodiversity loss, and water extraction, leaving rivers dried out.
Then came the Wall Street crash and the Great Depression, and foreign loans to Germany dried up.
In Central Asia, the Aral Sea has all but dried up in less than 40 years, owing to the Soviet Union’s introduction of cotton cultivation, for which water was siphoned from the sea’s principal sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.
When New York tried similar measures in the twentieth century, the open market dried up, and property was hoarded or traded at a premium on the black market.
Then Venezuela’s economy collapsed, funding dried up, and Nicaragua’s economy began to suffer, stoking the discontent that led to last year’s protests.
In an effort to salvage some of his produce, he often dried his tomatoes on the sand.
The unfolding Sino-American cool war is far less cut and dried than the Cold War was.
Capital flows to these economies dried up in the second half of last year as the US Federal Reserve raised its policy rate for five consecutive quarters and shrank its balance sheet.
The reserve purchasing power of US households is vast; if they decide suddenly to stockpile dried and canned foods, paper towels, batteries, aspirin, and other basics, these mundane items could run short.
External funding dried up, and governments pursued austerity, which they presented as necessary to restore business confidence.
Without the agency’s subsidies, investment in eastern Germany dried up, and the region’s convergence toward western German per capita income levels stalled.
Yet around the world, soils are being eroded, dried out, and degraded, owing to poor land use and intensive agricultural practices that deplete soil nutrients.
The answer is not cut and dried.
And as investment dried up, the east’s convergence process came to a standstill.
But as local reporting has dried up, the vacuum has been filled by national news, which tends to be geared toward zero-sum culture wars and partisan flame-throwing.
Those who push for a stronger international role for the euro should take note: while such a shift might be desirable from a geopolitical point of view, the economic implications are less cut and dried.
I know there are nineteen,' said Levin, for a second time counting his snipe and double-snipe, which no longer had the important appearance they bore when on the wing but were twisted, dried up, smeared with congealed blood, and had heads bent to one side.
She heard Vronsky's vehement ring at the front door and quickly dried her eyes.
The nurse lifted the baby out of the bath with one hand and poured fresh water over him, then he was wrapped up and dried, and after a penetrating yell he was given to his mother.
The eternal black mud had dried, a black dust was rising and floating about like a storm-cloud.
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