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Yet, over the last decade, that expectation has been called into question.
Such an effort must be based on a comprehensive approach to assessing water quality that covers a wide range of pollutants – far more than the 10-40 that most African utilities now monitor – with the expectation that new pollutants will be added as they emerge.
Employers foot the bill, with the expectation that LearnUp will help them recruit higher-quality applicants.
And since then Binyamin Netanyahu has lived down to every expectation of his statesmanship.
This is the narrative being promoted by America’s new president, Donald Trump, who has declared his support for the British and his expectation that more countries will follow suit.
There are many reasons for these gyrations, but the expectation that the Fed will start to raise interest rates – perhaps as early as September – is clearly one of them.
The turning point came in 2013, when the expectation of rising interest rates in the United States and falling global commodity prices brought an end to a multi-year capital-inflow bonanza that had been supporting emerging economies’ growth.
Markets can be effective at disciplining companies, but they operate best where there is competition, an expectation of repeat encounters, and a free flow of information.
The expectation was that import compression would permit them to accumulate sufficient dollars to purchase capital imports from the US.
What is worse, the argument goes, the expectation of monetary financing would drive governments to borrow excessively.
That – not the Western expectation of what a governance system should look like – is the standard by which we should be assessing political developments in China.
An expectation that interest rates will be high sometime in the next decade should mean high interest rates on long-term bonds today.
This would eliminate the offsetting negative expectation of higher taxes.
Today, that first lesson appears to have been learned: various bailout and stimulus packages have stimulated depressed economies sufficiently for us to have a reasonable expectation that the worst of the slump is over.
The expectation was that Russia would join the United States in putting pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
The expectation that these policies will increase aggregate demand has pushed up long-term interest rates by 50 basis points.
Fischer appears to prefer to rely on the resolution powers of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is empowered to takeover failing financial institutions, with the expectation that it will impose losses on creditors in such a way that will not cause global panic.
The Oslo agreement in 1993 and the ensuing peace process embodied that expectation.
As Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik reported in 2007, the expectation that trade would reduce inequality in the countries with the most unskilled workers, because their services are in greater demand in an integrated world market, has not been borne out.
The rule that the speed and number of transistors double every 18 months is now more than matched by the expectation that total bandwidth of the world’s communication systems will triple every 12 months.
Although the Fed traditionally controlled only the short-term federal funds rate, investors’ response to a change in that rate depended on their expectation of how long the rate change would last.
Growing confidence in economic expansion and falling unemployment has raised investors’ expectation of future inflation, pulling up the nominal interest rate on ten-year bonds.
Looking beyond policy solutions, we also need to establish a cultural expectation that immigrants will not just bring diverse perspectives, but also join their new country as citizens.
With the expectation of a V-shape recovery increasingly difficult to justify, the “new normal” finally gained widespread acceptance.
When the country’s political leadership does not meet that expectation, a leader like Peres assumes the role – and gains the glory.
Though the sanctions are not backed by China, they are already having a powerful effect, and the expectation that they will be tightened further is a huge concern for investors and the Russian government.
Deflation is potentially a very serious problem, because falling prices – and the expectation that prices will continue to fall – would make the current economic downturn worse in three distinct ways.
Brexit and Trump created an expectation that Europe would be the next domino to fall to populism in the looming Dutch, French, and German elections.
And, to some extent, their expectation was met; some opposition members of Japan’s Diet tweeted that Abe should cancel the promised aid.
But this role has atrophied with the rising expectation that they should be “normal,” representing their populations’ habits and tastes as closely as possible.
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