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What Corbyn and Livingstone represent is a sectarian hard left, driven largely by a fierce hostility to what they perceive as Western imperialism (or “neo-colonialism”), and racism against non-white people.
Speculation on Africa's basic products and raw materials, which has driven down prices for most commodities over the last four decades, might be addressed by creating a mechanism that ties, for an agreed time, the prices of these items to those of industrial goods and services.
Environmentalists are assessing the potential damage and developing strategies to avoid an onslaught driven by the most extreme anti-sustainability forces that have ever controlled Capitol Hill.
I was driven to delve deeper into Popper's philosophy, and to ask why no one has access to the ultimate truth.
There is a feedback mechanism similar to reflexivity in history, with the difference that in history the mechanism is driven not by mutation but by misconception.
With hindsight, it is clear that Britain’s participation in the Iraq war was driven solely by Blair’s determination to stick limpet-like to the US.Brown believes, and has said, that Britain must always be close friends with America; and obviously that is the right thing to believe and say.
The world is already undergoing the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, with some 60 million people having been driven from their homes.
China’s success has been driven by cheap exports based on cheap labor, infrastructure built by state enterprises with low-cost bank funding, and government budgets funded by land sales.
Services already account for more output and employment than industry – the Internet company Alibaba, for example, is empowering both consumers and smaller companies on a previously unimaginable scale – and recent growth has been driven by domestic demand rather than net exports.
As large emerging economies hit the skids, more people could be driven to seek a better future elsewhere.
Yet this year’s political upheavals have been driven by elderly voters, while young voters mostly supported the status quo.
Robust economic growth, driven by high international commodity prices, has underpinned record-high tax revenues and, after eight years of generally very prosperous trade, the country’s corporate sector is in better health than ever before.
In fact, Mubarak’s Libya policy was driven largely by economic and security concerns, and rarely took US interests into consideration.
Supermarkets in the surrounding towns have driven the smaller shops out of business.
Piketty's main assertion is that the leading driver of increased inequality in the developed world is the accumulation of wealth by those who are already wealthy, driven by a rate of return on capital that consistently exceeds the rate of GDP growth.
The change of heart was driven by four factors.
China’s investment appetite is unquestionably driven by huge intervention in the financial system: small savers receive only a paltry 1-2% on their deposits in an economy that until recently has been registering 10% annual growth.
Policy is driven by three “I’s”: ideas, institutions, and interests (i.e., lobbies).
At that time, financial-reform efforts were driven by the notion that building up financial buffers would make the world safe.
Indeed, intra-regional dynamics in the Middle East today are driven by three states, none of which is Arab: Israel, Iran, and, increasingly, Turkey.
Many traditional industries, such as textiles and steel, are likely to face shrinking global markets and over-capacity, driven by demand shifts and environmental concerns.
But we have learned time and again that stock markets are driven more by psychology than by reasoning about fundamentals.
Even in developed countries where relatively higher wages encourage the adoption of labor-saving technology, job losses will likely be offset by projected increases in demand for goods and services, driven by productivity and income gains, growing health-care needs, and investment in alternative energy and infrastructure.
Taken together, these factors enable low-cost automation of ever more economic activities, driven by the high skills of only a tiny minority of the workforce.
But where is the line between dangerous disagreement based on distortion and vigorous political debate driven by conflicting worldviews?
It can also avert the strategic gaming of investment decisions, driven by, say, competition between regions or among suppliers for taxpayer-funded projects.
The uprising of May 1968, it is worth recalling, was driven largely by a bored generation of students living at the peak of France’s post-war prosperity.
The Yellow Vest revolt has been driven in part by Macron’s mistakes.
The vast workforce has driven down the price of labor, impeding the transition to a high-income, domestic-consumption-driven growth model.
China’s leaders are already working to guide the transition to a growth model driven by domestic consumption and higher-value-added production.
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