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Once formulated through negotiations conducted at the political center, where Western democracies have long been anchored, policymaking is increasingly shaped by stubborn forces on the extreme left and right.
Europe's Divided Racial HouseA common feature of Europe's extreme right is its racism and use of the immigration issue as a political wedge.
Those who do vote increasingly choose anti-establishment parties that often espouse extreme views.
If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega-storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.
Japan and Germany are among the countries with extreme generational imbalances, along with Italy, Brazil and the Netherlands.
Educating IndiaNEW DELHI – Three years ago, as I walked through the densely populated slums of Mumbai toward my new teaching job at a low-income school, India’s extreme educational inequities were starkly on display.
Consider an (admittedly extreme) illustration.
Some will confront risks from extreme weather, including stifling heat, intense rains, and powerful storm surges.
That would be an enlightening result particularly when public debates are dominated by extreme positions – the clash between Ehrlich and Simon being a classic illustration.
Since implementing this approach, Rwanda has managed to decrease the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from 40% of the population in 2000 to 16.3% in 2015Aside from the obvious benefits, these gains matter because, as UNICEF recently noteda country’s potential return on investment in social services for vulnerable children is two times greater when the benefits reach the most vulnerable.
Very few of Mélenchon’s leftist voters will cross over to the extreme right.
Creditors, asserting their right to be repaid in full, historically have created as many legal and political obstacles to default as possible, insisting on harsh sanctions – garnishment of income, for example, and, at the extreme, imprisonment or even slavery – for borrowers’ failure to honor their debt obligations.
The benefit, equivalent to 40% of the minimum wage, has almost wiped out extreme poverty for children in Poland, reducing it by an estimated 70-80%.
How to Target IraqIn the current debate about policy towards Iraq, two extreme alternatives are usually presented: either extend the military campaign against terrorism to Iraq, or maintain the current uneasy status quo with that country.
Extreme poverty rates will be reduced by one-third.
Indeed, it led to a period of extreme economic weakness – a key factor in the Soviet Union’s dissolution just three years after its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The most extreme response to the Depression came from Hitler’s Germany.
Even if urbanization did continue at a high rate, many workers would not migrate to the second- and third-tier cities where overcapacity is most extreme, but to the major coastal cities.
His routine capitulation to the demands of the most extreme elements of a manifestly dysfunctional Knesset, and his continuing support of his impossibly divisive and pugnacious foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, have earned him little praise at home or abroad.
China provides the other extreme, postponing SOE reform for as long as possible even though the economy was growing fast, with the market taking root in most parts of Chinese life.
One extreme is the simplistic Keynesian remedy that assumes that government deficits don’t matter when the economy is in deep recession; indeed, the bigger the better.
At the opposite extreme are the debt-ceiling absolutists who want governments to start balancing their budgets tomorrow (if not yesterday).
The most extreme real-estate inflation in the world between 2005 and 2007 was on NATO’s Eastern frontier in the Baltics.
Extreme parties also benefited from the elections, as well as some “eurosceptic” parties.
But, before millions of people are submerged, many will be struck by extreme weather events.
The latest IPCC report describes our current predicament with disturbing clarity: global temperatures are climbing, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe.
In December's parliamentary election in Serbia, the extreme nationalist Radical Party achieved the greatest success, and people being tried before the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, such as Vojislav Seslj, the Radicals' founder and long-time leader, and Slobodan Milosevic, were elected to parliament.
From Poverty to EmpowermentMUMBAI – As India gears up for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is finally in retreat.
Even more striking is that the “empowerment gap” – that is, the additional consumption required to bring these 680 million people to the empowerment line – is seven times larger than the cost of eliminating extreme poverty.
If economic growth remains on its current trajectory, with no major reforms, more than one-third of the population will remain below the empowerment line in 2022, with 12% still trapped in extreme poverty.
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