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Does it matter so much that a few Chinese and Indians have become billionaires, if in the process hundreds of millions escaped extreme poverty?
Millions of people who have recently escaped poverty could be pushed back into it as a result.
The other 134 million workers who escaped poverty did so earlier, in 2000-2007.
But, partly because several African countries have escaped the hang-over from the global credit crisis, more investors are focusing on business opportunities there.
Billions escaped poverty.
Economies, it seems, have escaped from the grasp of those supposed to manage them, with politics in hot pursuit.
To work properly, a commitment strategy should also be costly in case of failure: had Cortés lost, no Spanish soldier would have escaped alive.
My family escaped the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975, the day they claimed victory.
He escaped and survived, all the while continuing to believe in Germany’s defeat and in Franco-German reconciliation.
Despite these positive steps, however, the US has not fully escaped the legacy of Cold War coercive democracy.
Unemployment has remained too high for too long, and while France has largely escaped the spike in income inequality seen in other countries, such as the US, systemic inequalities are pervasive.
Many refugees escaped into the mountains, where they are trapped in shrinking enclaves.
Indeed, three million Zimbabweans have escaped into neighboring countries, fuelling increased poverty, crime, and xenophobia.
Other reports have mentioned wildlife that escaped the destruction, as some sort of instinct seemed to tell them to seek higher ground prior to the arrival of the tsunami waves.
My parents escaped Austria in time, but my grandparents did not.
A key Boko Haram member, suspected of masterminding the Madalla bombing, then escaped from police custody, suggesting collaboration between security officials and sect members.
But the growing belief that the global financial system has escaped collapse, and that we are slowly returning to business as usual, is a grave misinterpretation of the current situation.
The overarching fact in Deaton’s book is that over the last few decades, several billion people in the developing world, particularly in Asia, have escaped truly desperate levels of poverty.
The Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler, a former Communist who knew all about European political catastrophes, and was almost executed by Spanish fascists, escaped to Britain in 1940.
Japan escaped contagion, even serving as a haven from financial turmoil elsewhere in Asia, owing to its large reserves and stable currency.
The tremendous economic success of countries like China, where hundreds of millions of people have escaped abject poverty in a single generation, has reinforced support for state-led systems.
Italy, its foreign trade peremptorily suppressed, escaped the trade wars of the Great Depression.
It’s no credit to us that we escaped – Khrushchev and Kennedy were lucky as well as wise.”
And in 2008, the party narrowly escaped being shut down by the country’s top court for “anti-secular activities.”
Many escaped, but 219 remain in captivity, their whereabouts still unknown.
While we cannot know the future for the girls still in captivity, 15 of the 57 girls who escaped their kidnappers are now back at school, braving Boko Haram’s threats to return and abduct more students.
Indeed, France and Germany barely escaped financial sanctions in November 2003 for their violations of the Pact.
It wouldn't have escaped the Fund's attention that the Swedish public sector plays a significant role in the economic life of the country: taxes are high, public employment is large, and government spending is close to half of GDP.
Economics has an important quantitative side, which cannot be escaped.
Indeed, reducing corruption is essential if China is to join the small list of developing economies – Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – that have escaped the “middle-income trap” that ensnares most developing countries and prevents them from attaining advanced-economy status.
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