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Without the belief that hard work begets opportunity, people are less likely to invest in education, undermining labor-market development; they may even be driven to protest.
Having been refused permission to transfer out of the clandestine nuclear weapons program, Dr. Ibrahim Bawi had put his family in his government-supplied car and driven north.
From the start, the focus has been on the transitional imperatives of the modern Chinese economy – namely, the shift from a long-successful producer model to one driven increasingly by household consumption.
Today’s Dark Lords of FinanceLONDON – In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamad tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression.
Once returns on commercial paper had been driven to all-time lows, investors continued to push into equities.
In fact, growth in mobile sales has been driven by lower-income consumers, particularly in rural areas, where more than 81% of Internet use occurs via mobile devices.
Absent such a debate, Mattarella reasoned, the president’s duty is to preserve the status quo and to prevent a consequential choice from being driven by self-fulfilling market expectations.
But at least that mistake had an unintended benefit: as costs of communication were driven down, India and China became more integrated into the global economy.
So even those who have been model citizens, borrowing prudently and maintaining their homes, now find that markets have driven down the value of their homes beyond their worst nightmares.
The pattern is familiar: Europe has a turbulent 12 months, driven by events for which it was not prepared, jerry-rigs a response, and resolves to address the deeper structural issues.
Government investors are not necessarily driven by the return-maximizing calculus that motivates private investors.
Altogether, the labor market reform is intended to reconcile more flexibility for firms to hire and shed workers – which is needed in an economy where growth is driven by innovation and creative destruction – with more income security and more training for the unemployed.
Perhaps if Eisenhower or Bush had not been president and a different leader had been less successful in avoiding war, the American ascendency would have been driven off track (as it was for a time by US intervention in Vietnam).
Moreover, its democracy has matured, and its economy is advancing toward modernity, driven by an economic bonanza of mineral resources, mainly oil, coal, and gold.
Evolution - whether of microbes or humans - involves pushing at the margins, going a little bit further than yesterday or last year, driven by the need to find additional sources of food.
In fact, the decreased cost of manufacturing in America, combined with the country’s business-friendly regulations, strong rule of law, and political stability, will eliminate the competitive advantage that has driven China’s rapid economic growth over the last several decades.
These Davids depend on Western technologies to overcome imbalances of power, and are driven by a sense of real or imagined humiliation.
The ruble’s free fall has been driven mainly by capital outflows.
Even more than current economic struggles, which are driven largely by global forces, peace in Colombia will reinforce for Latin American voters the benefits of pragmatism over ideology – something that even FARC has recognized.
Traditionally, this has driven US firms to compete aggressively, often relying on innovation.
Perhaps the world economy is at a turning point, just ahead of the American bubble bursting at last, so that it is even now possible to put the US success in perspective as something that "obviously could not last", not with America's big external deficits, scant household savings, and prosperity driven by paper wealth.
Last year, US official statistics reported a 43% decrease in childhood obesity since 2004, mainly during the second half of the decade – a shift that may have been driven, at least partly, by targeted interventions.
The behavior of a currency can be driven by one powerful and preeminent sector of the economy; in the pound’s case, it is the financial sector.
As less competitive industries were driven into loss and insolvency, economic activity would become even more concentrated and specialized.Learn
As less competitive industries were driven into loss and insolvency, economic activity would become even more concentrated and specialized.
But while these regimes make populist appeals, they are not driven by ideology.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
Some have argued instead that gold’s long upward march has been partly driven by the development of new financial instruments that make it easier to trade and speculate in gold.
In recent years, mounting domestic political pressure has driven Western governments to adopt increasingly insular policies.
Illegal immigration has been low overall in recent years, though in both 2014 and recently, it has surged, driven often by a combination of motives.
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