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No reasonable person expects Greece ever to be able to pay off its debts, but the country has become trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of payments and bailouts – making it dependent on its donors for its very survival.
He has always shown scant regard for his people’s plight, and he still expects to get two-thirds or more of the oil and food he needs from China.
She expects that €4.8 billion in EU grants would leverage at least €66 billion in investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America by financial institutions and private firms.
The International Monetary Fund expects output in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa to grow at a rate of close to 5% next year, but South Africa is projected to manage little more than 1% growth.
In 2018, the AfDB predicts, average growth will accelerate to 4.1%, while the World Bank expects Ghana to grow by 8.3%, Ethiopia by 8.2%, and Senegal by 6.9%, placing these countries among the world’s fastest-growing economies.
China expects other countries to fall into line when it makes such a demand, as the Philippines has done under President Rodrigo Duterte.
The French government expects budget revenues to match all spending except debt service by 2014.
The risk, however, is that if China fears that the US really aims at winning the rollback game, and expects the rest of the West to fall in line eventually, it will refuse to make meaningful concessions.
To improve targeting to yield the largest possible reduction in poverty with the resources available, the IMF now expects all poor countries borrowing from the Fund to prepare comprehensive poverty reduction strategies.
Not even the Bush administration expects these requirements to be met soon.
First, macroeconomic indicators will be worse than expected, with growth failing to recover as fast the consensus expects.
To be sure, no one expects that we can ever attract people like Mohammed Attta or Osama bin Laden.
Real economic growth in 2011 stood at 1.6%, and the IMF expects it to be 2.2% for 2014 as a whole.
The US share of global GDP, around 25% in 1980, declined to 19% in 2011, and is expected to slip to 18% in 2017, by which point the IMF expects that China will have overtaken the US economy in absolute size (adjusted for purchasing power).
Munich's Ifo Institute expects about 2.5--3.3 million migrants to Western Europe during the 15 years following EU enlargement.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the government expects to focus instead on “targeted interventions” designed to create positive incentives, correct market failures, and address social, geographical, and sectoral imbalances.
There is also a grain of truth in the connection between hurricanes and global warming: the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expects stronger but fewer hurricanes toward the end of this century.
No one expects China to line up in perfect formation with the US or the European Union on this and other issues.
It is not a trait one expects to find in educated, mature adults – and certainly not in the person who holds the highest office in the most powerful country in the world.
No one really expects political advertising to provide citizens with the information they need to assess the candidates’ merits properly.
But global warming will cause damage worth possibly 1-5% of GDP by the end of the century, when the UN expects developing-world incomes to have risen by 1,400-1,800%.
Whatever Trump expects from his trade bluster, the effect on American influence around the Pacific Rim – and beyond – should not be underestimated.
They will have to get used to the idea that the market already expects the decline, and that they can protect themselves only for that margin of possible future price declines that exceed this expectation.
Today, Asia's emerging markets are on the road to recovery, China is not devaluing its currency (and nobody now really expects it to), and Brazil has become the capital market's new best friend.
By phasing out old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs and introducing a new generation of lighting, China expects to cut national energy consumption by 8%.
No one expects China to resolve this problem by itself.
Of course, if anything goes wrong, everyone who is TBTF – and who has lent to TBTF firms – expects to receive government protection.
Everyone expects some inflation.
But Steinbrueck also made it clear that he expects any sanctions in response to Germany’s predicted 3.4%-of-GDP fiscal deficit to be largely symbolic, not penalties that would cost its government or economy anything of significance.
If and when wage pressure comes, the ECB, to remain true to its word, may be forced to increase interest rates much more than it now expects.
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