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The United States and Europe’s mature democracies may function well enough with the “checks and balances” of divided government (though the Republicans’ bid to impeach President Clinton
eight
years ago might suggest otherwise), but in Asia the failure to bestow executive and legislative powers on a single institution is usually a terrible drawback.
The late American sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod identified
eight
overlapping “circuits of trade” between northwest Europe and China that, under the aegis of a Pax Mongolica, flourished between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
By the early 1840’s,
eight
of the 26 US states then in existence (along with the territory of Florida) had gone bankrupt as a result, while several others teetered on the brink.
During the 130 years from 1868 until 1999-2000, per capita income more than tripled, as national income increased by a factor of
eight
while the population grew nearly five-fold.
The Obama EffectLONDON – In the last two months, I have been in
eight
American cities – Boston, New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Roughly
eight
million are working part-time, because they cannot find a full-time position.
President Clinton presided over
eight
years of successful fiscal management and prosperity, so George W. Bush could not claim this middle ground.
Ultimately, Abdulaziz bin Saud’s unification of the Kingdom in the late 1920’s could even be reversed, making the last
eight
decades an anomaly in the Arabian Peninsula’s long history of fragmentation.
The European Central Bank has lowered its main refinancing rate
eight
times, by a total of 325 basis points, to 0.75%.
Industrial-Strength AfricaVIENNA – In less than
eight
months, close to a quarter-million migrants, many from Africa, have arrived in Europe by sea – more than in all of 2014 – and the tide shows no signs of stopping.
Just
eight
years after Kennedy’s announcement, astronaut Neil Armstrong pressed his footprint into the lunar dust.
From 2007 to October 2009, the United States lost nearly
eight
million jobs, which reduced the employment-population ratio from 63% to 58.5%.
Last year, the government merged 12 universities into
eight
in order to achieve substantial economies of scale, and the Danish parliament approved a nearly 50% increase in government spending on research by 2010.
The failure to integrate measures to tackle child marriage into development programs hindered progress on six of the
eight
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which guided global development efforts from 2000 to 2015.
Fortunately, from an economist’s perspective, it is not difficult to think of proposals in
eight
critical policy areas that would simultaneously expand the economic pie and share the slices more equitably.
We did this in Chile during the copper price boom of 2006-2008, running budget surpluses of up to
eight
percentage points of GDP.
For example, in Gujarat, India, the government has reduced groundwater pumping by offering power for just
eight
hours per day.
But the administrative borders of these districts were never fully established, and they have changed at least
eight
times since 1951.
Instead, the administration faced issues that were completely unforeseen, including Afghanistan and Iraq, and that consumed it for the next
eight
years.
It should take about
eight
hours for two workers in a professional garage to install such a kit, or less than a week for the car-owner himself/herself (or, as they say, two weeks if the owner’s spouse “helps”).
The MDGs comprised
eight
sweeping statements of ambition: the world decided to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality rates; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
Not surprisingly,
eight
of the ten states with the highest rate of homelessness also had the highest median housing costs.
Since 2010,
eight
times as many jobs as housing units have been added in San Francisco, where the average cost of building “affordable apartments” has jumped to $425,000.
Europe was divided into
eight
broad zones, comprising individual countries like Germany, France, and Italy, or groupings of smaller countries such as Benelux and the Nordic area.
Eight
days after Trump took office, the first identifiable victims of his presidency were on all the major news outlets.
Indeed, no economy is immune to financial crises, no matter how much investors and leaders try to convince themselves otherwise, as Carmen Reinhart and I show in our new book, ironically entitled This Time is Different:
Eight
Centuries of Financial Folly .
The good news is that the incoming administration can draw on measures that were formulated during Obama’s tenure, but which gained little traction because of the highly polarized and dysfunctional congressional politics that characterized most of Obama’s
eight
years in office.
The study compared two sets of disadvantaged children, with one set receiving excellent nutrition and high-quality, stimulating care for
eight
hours a day from birth to age five, and the other receiving ordinary formula and care.
Advocates of this position see EU voters as terrified by the consequences of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU, when
eight
formerly communist states joined, and angry that they were not consulted about it.
Liu’s husband, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died of liver cancer last year, nearly
eight
years into an 11-year prison sentence in China for drafting a petition demanding democracy and respect for human rights.
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