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A confrontational US approach toward China, moreover, would imply an additional destabilizing factor: Japan might become much bolder than necessary in its foreign policy.
One
factor
fueling voter unrest is evident: many ordinary Americans think that the deck is stacked against them.
Alcohol is a
factor
in many assaults, and controlling its availability could have a significant part to play, as the findings in Bogota suggest.
But another
factor
arguably offers a more proximate explanation for what went wrong.
The problem is that production requires not just capital and labor, but also knowhow – a
factor
of production ignored by Marx and his acolytes.
Another contributing
factor
may be a basic difference in mentality: many Europeans tend to over-emphasize risk when assessing opportunities.
In fact, growth in total
factor
productivity has been slow since the early 1970s.
A third
factor
that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the impunity long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
The critical
factor
is not the size of the state, but rather its organization and sense of purpose.
The answer explains the unusual consensus among economists, for “technology” is measured as a kind of “none of the above” category, a residual – Nobel laureate Robert Solow called it “total
factor
productivity” – that remains unexplained after accounting for other production inputs, such as physical and human capital.
With anti-Israeli hate serving as the primary unifying factor, this alliance has grown into a new and dangerous force for intolerance within Swedish society.
New Delhi is ranked as the most polluted city on earth, with air pollution exceeding safe levels by a
factor
of 60.
The key
factor
is that, for the first time since Putin came to power, the Kremlin perceives a genuine threat.
The renminbi’s exchange rate, then, is really a secondary
factor
in China’s external account.
Her presumptive candidacy’s trump card is supposed to be her advantage among critically important women voters – the deciding
factor
for Democrats in national elections.
Confidence is important, but it is only one
factor.
Even if "confidence" were the single most important factor, deficits are not the only, or even the most important
factor
determining investor confidence.
A crucial
factor
in ensuring Pax Asia-Pacifica is the synergistic relationship between China and Japan.
It has also been a major
factor
behind the emergence of large and growing differences in the wages of workers with a college education or higher and those of workers with lower levels of educational attainment.
The key will be to encourage the reduction of bad debts and increases in the stock of safe assets, while taxing excess capacity and encouraging innovation, thereby improving total
factor
productivity.
The dismal failure of Middle Eastern and North African economies to deliver the prosperity that their people desperately want is a constant
factor
pushing people into the streets.
It is not the only factor, but rising food prices helped to spread revolutionary fervor from a small group of activists to much of Egypt’s population in 2011, and again this year in June, when the most frequent grievance against former President Mohamed Morsi concerned not his ideology but his indifference to ordinary Egyptians’ needs.
The European Commission’s failure to champion the $50 billion merger of the Franco-German European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), owner of Airbus, and the United Kingdom’s BAE Systems is being seen as a crucial
factor
in the deal’s collapse.
In Spain, homelessness was a risk
factor
for interruption and HIV positivity, and intravenous drug use was a risk
factor
for unsuccessful treatment.
China’s initial globalization “dividend,” accrued through low
factor
costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era – characterized by reliance on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high-level factors of production, such as technology and human capital – is just beginning.
Yet were we to take intergenerational equity seriously, the leading
factor
to consider is that future generations will have better technologies than what we have today.
The perception that Obama can transform the view that the US and the West have of themselves is an important
factor
in the emotional gap that may exist between Asia and Europe on the eve of America's presidential election.
And a major
factor
now holding back development is terrorism.
The second
factor
is global.
After all, huge US foreign borrowing was clearly a key
factor
in creating the recent financial mess, while China’s excessive reliance on export-driven growth has made it extraordinarily vulnerable to a sudden drop in global demand.
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