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Reimagining China’s Urban FutureBEIJING – Around 100 million Chinese live in extreme poverty, and roughly 275 million spend less than $2 a day.
Extreme anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism are actually merging.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance – multiplying probability by consequences – we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
Between the two extreme of the Balkans and China, the relationship between “Memory” and “History” knows so many shades of grey.
The risk can never be reduced to zero, but the stress testing carried out by regulators shows that most major banks can now survive very extreme economic shocks.
To be seen in today’s crowded media landscape, one must be provocative – an imperative that leads to increasingly extreme points of view, polarization, and the creation of alternate realities.
As the latest research shows, it would have a dramatic and measurable impact on extreme weather events, water availability, crop yields, coral-reef degradation, and sea-level rise.
A large part of the answer has to do with the Mexican economy’s extreme dualism – a problem that has been called the “two Mexicos.”
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is less extreme, but its leadership is weak, doesn’t control Gaza, and is still full of hard-line elements.
The setback to the fragile gains of recent years, particularly in Africa, threatens to return millions of people to the extreme poverty from which they had just managed to escape.
Indeed, the consequences of the fall-off in ODA are already dramatic; the number of people going hungry and in extreme poverty is now far greater than before, and the same is true of the unemployed, those who work in vulnerable jobs, or earn less than $1.25 a day.
When the MDGs were adopted in 2000, the sense of urgency was powered by the moral conviction that extreme poverty had become an unacceptable anachronism in our globally connected world.
Under more extreme circumstances, it could even sequester China’s dollar-denominated foreign assets.
Of course, Pakistan has endured periods of extreme political, economic, and social turmoil.
US aid also must be better targeted toward helping those living in extreme poverty.
European arrangements must not weaken countries’ incentives to address the challenges facing them – and that means exercising extreme caution when it comes to bailing out eurozone economies.
In the extreme, governments can appoint central bank leaders who have a long-standing record of stating a tolerance for moderate inflation – an exact parallel to the idea of appointing “conservative” central bankers as a means of combating high inflation.
Nevertheless, whichever direction the euro crisis takes, its ultimate resolution will end the extreme existential uncertainty that clouds the outlook today.
From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.
Other pockets of extreme poverty, in China and India, are on the path of amelioration due to these two giants' rapid economic growth.
The resulting ideological mix comprises three main components: virulent anti-immigrant animus, ignorant anti-trade rhetoric, and extreme anti-government sentiment.
The IPCC report did indeed state that global warming would mean more extreme warm temperatures, but it also pointed to fewer extreme cold temperatures.
Global warming will cause certain phenomena, such as heat waves and hurricane wind speeds, to become more extreme, while others, including cold waves and hurricane frequency, will become less so.
The conflicts from Chad to Darfur, Sudan, to the Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, to Somalia and its pirates, and across to Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, lie in a great arc of arid lands where water scarcity is leading to failed crops, dying livestock, extreme poverty, and desperation.
I have seen such solutions in the Millennium Villages in rural Africa, a project in which my colleagues and I are working with poor communities, governments, and businesses to find practical solutions to the challenges of extreme rural poverty.
Converging countries are closing the gap with the affluent OECD countries; struggling countries have failed to progress from middle-income status; and poor countries – most of them in Africa – are mired in extreme poverty.
Inequality almost everywhere, including China, has become so extreme that it must be reduced.
South Africa, another country that is proud of its exemplary transition to democracy, suffers from the same problem in an even more extreme version.
In recent years, a series of extreme weather events – including Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey, floods in China, and droughts in the American Midwest, Russia, and many developing countries – have caused immense damage.
These risks include natural disasters, more extreme weather, efforts by governments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and the knock-on effect of a technological revolution in renewables, energy efficiency, and alternative technologies.
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