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The EU and NATO are unable to expand farther, even though they may want to maintain post-Soviet countries’ interest in membership in order to prevent their possible return to Russia’s orbit.
Instead, he worked tirelessly to expand the identity of his followers both by words and deeds.
And, unlike US President Barack Obama in Syria and Iran, Putin respects his own red lines: the former Soviet republics are not for the West to grab, and NATO will not be allowed to expand eastward.
During this time, the Liberals will set their patronage machine in motion and attempt to expand their voter base enough to win an outright majority.
Today’s efforts to expand regional infrastructure projects are all the more remarkable for linking even countries locked in diplomatic, and sometimes open, conflict.
Trump’s tax and spending plans will sharply reverse the budget consolidation enforced by Congress on Barack Obama’s administration, and household borrowing will expand dramatically if Trump fulfills his promise to reverse the bank regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crisis.
The policy also helped to expand China’s foreign trade and boost its external financial strength (with a robust balance-of-payments position, large international reserves, and a stable currency), thereby creating space for Li to carry out his ambitious reform agenda.
Policymakers should remember that the housing boom was fueled by easy monetary policy, which sought to expand job growth as the US recovered from the last recession.
Aided by structural reforms, China’s economy could expand even faster, achieving 7-8% annual growth over the next ten years.
Thanks partly to Englishnization, Rakuten has been able to expand outside Japan, buying e-commerce sites like Ebates in the United States and PriceMinister in France.
But, most exciting of all, Ghana’s program offers a blueprint for how other developing countries can expand their own health-care access.
Eventually, the new program could expand beyond basic triage support to offer consultations in disease management, mental health, and other services.
But, if we increasingly associate ourselves with the world at large, our loyalties will expand, too.
Last year, researchers at Harvard University found that in Massachusetts, which has expanded its Medicaid coverage in recent years, 868 opioid-related deaths were averted in 2016, whereas only 11 opioid-related deaths were averted in Tennessee, which did not expand its Medicaid program.
Finally, the team will need local “service providers” with technical knowledge of specific clusters to support foreign investors once they have located in the country, thereby ensuring that they remain and expand.
But it also represents an important opportunity to expand the labor pool and capitalize on older workers’ existing skills.
What most people think of as the Cold War began nearly a century later, after World War II, when the Soviet Union, seeking to expand its sphere of influence, installed communist governments from Poland to Bulgaria.
As a result, municipal governments may be unwilling to grant permits to expand supply.
For example, we will double the installed capacity of wind energy and expand our biomass exchange this year.
Beginning in the middle of that decade, however, the trade surplus for services increased significantly, while the deficit for goods started to expand.
The Inclusive Road to GrowthGENEVA – There is no bigger policy challenge preoccupying leaders around the world than meeting the need to expand participation in the benefits of economic growth and globalization.
Ironically, the best way to insulate central banks from political pressure would be to expand their toolkit to allow for effective negative-interest-rate policy, though this will take time (as I also discuss in my book).
They will expand their pool of thinkers to include scientists from necessarily innovative regions.
Revaluation of the renminbi would make it more expensive for foreign firms to establish themselves (or expand) in China – the world’s most dynamic market – and would render exports of foreign affiliates, which account for 54% of total exports, less competitive internationally.
The first is to expand the ECFA, so that more Taiwanese companies feel its benefits.
Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so-called “freeze” comes into effect.
But the two countries have conflicting interests in Central Asia, where China is pursuing major investments to expand its influence in countries that Russia views as its “near abroad.”
In conjunction with its “one belt, one road” strategy and its creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s influence in the region will expand significantly as a result.
Whatever happens in the US, Muslim immigration into Europe will continue and even expand in the next few years.
That initiative, funded by Novartis, is viewed as a pilot program that could expand to other regional countries.
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