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“Special and differential treatment” is the technical term used in trade negotiations to indicate that the balance must be tilted toward developing countries, with the
extent
of this treatment to be decided by the parties to the talks.
For example, one of the critical issues blocking progress on the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda of global free-trade talks centers on the
extent
to which major developing countries should open their markets.
The most recent analogy in the UK is the Suez Crisis of 1956, which turned into a debate about postwar Britain’s role in the world and the
extent
of its dependence on American goodwill.
The explanation is simple: the United States no longer dominates the world economy to the
extent
that it did in the past.
But these values are not mere ideological window dressing for Western interests; in fact, they are not that to any significant
extent.
China’s course as a world power will be determined to a significant
extent
by the way it confronts this question.
Instead, EU leaders should be considering to what
extent
they would be able to work around a Le Pen presidency.
Europe’s leaders must also begin thinking about how they should respond to Le Pen’s request to renegotiate the terms of France’s EU membership, and to what
extent
they should resist her efforts to remove France from the rest of Europe.
If the mere suggestion of monetary tightening roils international markets to such an extent, what would a US debt default do to the global economy?
Of course, the traditional center-right and center-left parties – which have lost a large share of the electorate over the last five years, particularly in Spain, Italy, France, and, to a lesser extent, Germany – will try to regain their own footing.
Many of us would resist such a world -- not because such a world would be unjust, or because it would lead to more pain and suffering, but because of the
extent
to which it has been planned and engineered.
The Americans, and to an
extent
the British, sometimes pay a different kind of tribute to famous artists.
Indeed, the
extent
of the task is reflected in a new McKinsey Global Institute report, “From Poverty to Empowerment,” which uses an innovative analytical framework, the “empowerment line,” to estimate the cost to the average citizen of fulfilling eight basic needs: food, energy, housing, potable water, sanitation, health care, education, and social security.
There are experimental designs, using twins, that can find out the
extent
to which intelligence and mortality are linked because they share environmental and genetic influences.
But the
extent
of that lending is largely unknown, because much of it came from development banks in China that are not included in the data collected by the Bank for International Settlements (the primary global source for such information).
In some regions of India and China where couples are anxious to have a son, selective abortion has been the ultimate form of sexism, and has been practiced to such an
extent
that a generation is coming of age in which males face a shortage of female partners.
(Bulgaria, for example, might not need compensation since to a great
extent
it has already eliminated tariffs).
In terms of GDP growth, employment, or innovation, other EU countries, on average, lag behind the UK (and, to an even greater extent, the United States).
There was always uncertainty over the
extent
to which central banks should attempt to correct or limit asset-price bubbles when there was no corresponding rise in the general level of inflation.
Most of today’s (and tomorrow’s) demographic growth is in Africa, where it doesn’t drive global productivity to the
extent
that it does elsewhere.
The deterioration in Ukraine’s position between the two ceasefire agreements – Minsk I, negotiated last September, and Minsk II, completed in February – shows the
extent
of Putin’s success.
After the most recent US downturn, however (and to a lesser
extent
after its two predecessors), things have been different.
To some extent, this is nothing new in South Korea.
The fourth uncertainty arises from voters’ concerns over immigration and the
extent
to which any new EU trading arrangement must be conditional on restricting the free movement of workers.
To some extent, Trump’s hostility toward Europe, not to mention the rising bellicosity of Russian President Vladimir Putin, could actually help the EU, by showing its members just how badly they need one another, particularly to ensure their defense and security.
If that is the
extent
of Trump’s protectionism, any resulting harm to the global economy will be slight.
But, while the French election’s outcome will hinge to a crucial
extent
on European crisis politics, Germany’s government acts as if this were none of its concern.
To the
extent
that there is a tradeoff, with more resources for the south meaning fewer resources for the east, differences among the threat perceptions of the NATO allies risk producing deadlock.
But to be accepted by other Lebanese, and to some
extent
even to retain the support of fellow Shia, Hezbollah had to agree to join the Lebanese consensus on the priority of reconstruction and economic recovery after years of civil war.
For most economists, the
extent
to which modern capitalism has been shaped by earlier cultural predispositions is a source of puzzlement at best, if not merely a factor to be dismissed.
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