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Japan’s woes are rooted in real-estate and equity bubbles, which were fueled by monetary expansion aimed at stimulating domestic demand after the 1985 Plaza Accord
drove
up the yen’s value and hurt Japan’s exports.
Europe’s Refugee Problem, Then and NowNEW YORK – Earlier this spring, I
drove
to a beautiful spot on the southern bank of Lake Geneva.
Old development verities that savings drive growth had to be re-assessed, because, to some extent, emerging-market growth
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savings.
According to Summers, high savings caused weak growth; under the alternative explanation offered here, it was primarily rapid growth – and its distinctive features – that
drove
high savings.
On December 4, he
drove
350 miles from his home in North Carolina to Comet Ping Pong, armed with an assault rifle, a revolver, and a knife.
During the last two decades, consumption
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these countries’ economic growth, reaching historically high GDP shares.
Deadly floods have become a yearly occurrence; in 2010, record-breaking rains killed nearly 2,000 people and
drove
millions from their homes.
The aftermath of the 1907 crash
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the hegemonic power of the time – Great Britain – to reflect on how it could use its financial clout to enhance its overall strategic capacity.
Despite some notable successes, such as the aircraft manufacturer Embraer in Brazil and salmon farming in Chile, governments largely picked losers – not least because political pressure, not firms’ competitive potential,
drove
the selection process.
The Enlightenment ideals that inspired the French to rise up against Louis XVI also
drove
the American Revolution.
Then, in 2011, Western-backed regime change in Libya toppled Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi and
drove
more fundamentalists to flee into the desert – but not before they had gotten their hands on a significant part of Qaddafi’s heavy weaponry, as well as many vehicles.
In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a colonel from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that
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the legally elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to collapse and straining relations with France.
Nativist movements that insist on the special privileges of blood and soil have invariably been bad for minorities, especially Jews, leading to the kind of violence that
drove
Miller’s great-grandparents out of their country.
It is now clear that the ECB itself has caused a large part of the capital flight from countries like Spain and Italy, because the cheap credit that it offered
drove
away private capital.
With Japanese voters becoming supportive of new parties after decades of LDP rule, Shinsei gained tremendous traction and
drove
forward the creation of the first non-LDP coalition government since the mid-1950’s.
This pressure is precisely what
drove
oil prices so low in December and January.
The embargo
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up prices and unleashed a period of inflation and stagnation worldwide.
Critics assert that Zhu’s 1994 tax reform led to the current real-estate bubble, because it
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local governments to use land sales to boost their incomes.
Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmytro Shymkiv, who
drove
the National Reform Council, was CEO of Microsoft Ukraine.
The report also highlights the importance of unlocking capital for “Main Street” entrepreneurs, who struggle to find the funding they need to launch, sustain, or scale up their operations, particularly as the recent recession
drove
out many of the community banks on which they had traditionally relied for credit.
In the early nineteenth century, fear of such dislocation
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textile workers in Yorkshire and Lancashire – the “Luddites” – to smash new machines like automated looms and knitting frames.
In Asia, South Korea experienced a similar progression, with rapid economic growth spurring the rise of a large middle class, which in turn
drove
democratization in the 1980s.
Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly
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the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.
As Hyun Shin and other economists at the Bank for International Settlements have argued, low developed-country interest rates and a weak dollar
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financial markets, led by the New York and London hubs, to borrow money in low-interest-rate currencies and invest in higher-interest-rate currencies.
In 2008, when severe weather cut into the world’s grain supply and
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up food prices, countries ranging from Morocco to Indonesia experienced social and political upheavals.
High salaries
drove
growth but reduced earnings.
One example is Cali, Colombia, which
drove
down homicide rates in the 1990s after the city’s mayor, Rodrigo Guerrero, tightened alcohol restrictions, introduced community-development programs in the most impoverished neighborhoods, and imposed temporary gun bans in public places.
Interest payments
drove
up the deficit, which spooked investors who demanded even higher spreads, enlarging the deficit even more.
The Resilience of Spanish DemocracyMADRID – The idea that “Spain is different”
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generations of romantic travelers across the Pyrenees to see for themselves, their imaginations stirred by visions of vibrant women and charming bandits.
Likewise, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States
drove
a series of changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans, not to mention the Global War on Terror, which continues to wreak havoc in the Middle East.
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