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Unless the West acts quickly, Bin Laden’s death is likely to result in a major realignment of world politics, driven in part by Pakistan’s shift from America’s strategic orbit to that of China.
Their initiative is essentially driven by the fear that once Haiti’s immediate humanitarian crisis is addressed, the country’s underlying problems could be left at the door of the “prosperous” neighbors across the border.
In 2003, Russia’s wealthiest oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky – a vocal advocate of democratization and tireless critic of Putin – was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of fraud and tax evasion, and his Yukos Oil Company was driven to bankruptcy, broken up, and sold off to Kremlin cronies.
And much of the additional spending needs be made by households, driven by a profound change in social attitudes to energy efficiency.
Developing countries have learned over time that real income growth and employment expansion are driven by productivity gains, not exchange-rate movements.
Historically, agriculture has driven economic performance in many countries, generating growth that has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.
This is crucial for rural employment, without which poor rural young people will be driven away from their communities in search of work in the cities.
Growing demand for energy, metals, and minerals – particularly in China – has driven unprecedented levels of foreign investment.
Sometimes history is driven by deep forces beyond our control, and sometimes by sheer chance.
EU enlargement is an organic process, driven by shared economic and political interests, rather that by strategic considerations: thus it is not a "hot button" issue in Russia.
Making NATO membership an EU-dependent variable should draw less of a reaction than a stand-alone NATO expansion driven by strategic considerations.
Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China - a country with only one-thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!From a broader geopolitical perspective, the situation becomes alarming.
Those in the Muslim world who want to embrace reform must be driven by the conviction that theocracy has never served as a vehicle for human progress.
If it is driven by a Western guilt complex that assumes that the solution simply lies in greater empathy for the Muslim predicament, then the skeptics are bound to be vindicated.
Read More from "Zone Defense"Breaking the Middle East’s Cycle of TerrorFEZ – In July, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been driven out of Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, which it captured three years ago.
China has been focused on these objectives for five years – seeking to transform a powerful yet unbalanced growth model based largely on exports and investment into one driven increasingly by its consumers.
This has occurred despite a significant increase in the personal income share of the Chinese economy, driven by services-led employment growth and the income leverage of urbanization.
The difference seems to be explained by the fact that the expansion of urban, modern sectors in recent high-growth episodes is driven by domestic demand rather than export-oriented industrialization.
But non-agricultural labor productivity is driven down as a by-product, as returns to capital diminish and less productive firms are drawn in.
Foshan’s rapid GDP growth – among the fastest in China – was driven by the private sector, with appropriate local-government support, and therefore depended largely on self-financing, not debt.
The local government has also driven Foshan’s private enterprises largely to complete a difficult process of restructuring since 2008.
Whereas China’s growth is fueled by low-cost labor as millions of peasants enter the industrial economy, this is not the South Korean recipe for success, which has been driven by private entrepreneurship, innovation, and quality products: Samsung and Hyundai, not cheap wages, are South Korea’s growth engines.
This point was driven home in a recent New York Times article, which cited a European Commission survey indicating that 80% of Swedes “express positive views about robots and artificial intelligence.”
This fall in income has been magnified by rising household savings rates, driven by insufficient insurance for health care and old age, the high cost of education, growing income inequality, and demographic trends.
The writer recalled seeing: “the heartrending fate of 51 human beings driven from one frontier to the other.
His quest for eternal rule is driven not so much by a thirst for power as by a fear that he will one day be held accountable for his actions.
Russia's wary military involvement in Tadjikistan's civil war is driven by a simple consideration: the desire to prevent the spread of an Afghanlike chaos decease and thus the destabilization of the whole area.
Throughout 2011, the Arab uprisings were driven by each country’s internal dynamics.
The anomaly of rising consumption driven only by tax rebates and social-welfare payments ended in March, when consumer spending declined in response to lower employment and falling labor incomes.
Those conduits are now showing gigantic losses that have to be covered by the parent banks, some of which are being driven to the brink of bankruptcy.
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