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Canada has staged a substantial retreat from the welfare state’s worst excesses, as center-left and center-right governments alike reduced the share of government spending as a proportion of GDP by
eight
percentage points in recent years.
But, in Brazil, lending by state-owned banks has outpaced that of private banks significantly since 2008, meaning that lending at deeply subsidized rates has largely driven the increase in bank credit, to 58% of GDP (roughly double the rate
eight
years ago).
A recent McKinsey survey of over 1,000 firms in
eight
African countries found that almost 90% of their employees were locals.
It showed that persistent pressure works better than the “constructive engagement” that it had pursued, to no avail, for the
eight
years since Burma joined the organization.
Central banks have kept interest rates low for the better part of
eight
years.
An even more startling fact emerges from a review of the last
eight
times an incumbent from one party was succeeded by a president from the other party.
That is as unlikely as getting heads on
eight
coin tosses in a row – a one-in-256 shot.
It began to increase later that decade, and grew rapidly after
eight
formerly communist countries joined the EU in 2004, when Britain – unlike, for instance, France and Germany – waived its right to impose a seven-year delay before allowing free movement of people from the new member states.
Brazil's Watershed ElectionOn October 6th, Brazil will hold its first round presidential elections in a vote that is seen as a referendum on President Fernando H. Cardoso's
eight
years in power.
Second, it identifies
eight
key areas of reform: governance, competition policy, land, finance, public finance, state assets, innovation, and liberalization of international trade and finance.
The
eight
(and now nine or more) governments that signed the Aznar/Berlusconi/Blair statement supporting the US realized this.
Indeed, the risk for the world economy is actually tilted toward deflation for the 23 advanced economies in the sample, even
eight
years after the onset of the global financial crisis.
In the last two years, at least six of the advanced economies – and as many as
eight
– have been coping with deflation.
Before it was all over, at least
eight
of the then 27 EU member states required IMF financing and restructuring programs.
Obasanjo’s
eight
years in office did not resolve Nigeria’s economic and political problems – key among them a new political framework to fit the country’s social diversity.
In particular,
eight
men “living in different parts of the country at different times across three generations showed an ‘abnormal behavioural phenotype.’”
After
eight
years of media monopolization, in the last month and a half two new TV channels have been launched.
Moldova’s reemergence from authoritarian rule after
eight
years is the result of elections and parliamentary procedures.
Egypt’s voters overwhelmingly chose the revolution over the old regime, and shattered the myth that the push for change is an urban, middle-class, Cairo-based phenomenon: the
eight
revolutionary candidates received more than 16.4 million votes.
In the course of the next
eight
and a half years, her administration imported much more rice than was needed, resulting in 177 billion pesos in debt by the time she stepped down.
We need to make the most of it – not only to help save up to
eight
million more lives, but also to support health systems in low-income countries and thereby reduce the risk of future health crises.
Warren Buffett’s daughter, Susan Buffett, created the Alliance for Early Success, which brings together various stakeholders to encourage investments and policies that lead to improved health, learning, and economic outcomes for children in the first
eight
years of life.
This system enables the UAE to give nearly
eight
million people the opportunity to raise their living standards, while avoiding a backlash from the indigenous population.
By modifying these accounts within the public-sector balance sheet, expected pensions will be unchanged, while the public debt/GDP ratio will fall by
eight
percentage points.
A worker in Myanmar added only $1,500 of economic value, on average, in 2010 – around 30% of the average of
eight
Asian peers.
Neither will end soon, mind you, perhaps not for another seven or
eight
months, if not longer.
Indonesia is seeking to form an air-defense squadron of 12 jets, with
eight
Russian fighters to complement the two Russian Su-27SK’s and Su-30MKM’s that it has already bought.
It also would have enabled him to avoid
eight
frustrating years at loggerheads with President Barack Obama.
Eight
years ago the remains of the Romanov family were publicly buried in the Peter-Paul castle in Saint Petersburg.
In the
eight
years prior to 2004, only six companies went public; in the
eight
years since, 138 have.
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