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The main risk
factors
for developing these conditions – smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, being overweight, and insufficient physical exercise – reflect deeply ingrained unhealthy behaviors.
I’m not sure that these
factors
apply to oil in the same way, especially at a time when energy markets are on the cusp of big changes in supply and demand.
As I explained in January 2015, the Brent crude oil spot price is less subject to speculative fluctuations, and is thus a purer approximation of underlying commercial supply and demand
factors.
Sedgwick also asked me how oil companies might be able to make their investment and operational decision-making less beholden to cyclical
factors.
In the process, China will need to take into account local factors, such as population trends, natural resources, and regions’ appeal to middle-income domestic tourists.
The specific triggers, objectives, and battle lines of such conflicts are likely to be determined, to varying degrees, by five factors: creed, clan, culture, climate, and currency.
Indeed, these
factors
are already fueling conflicts around the world.
Together, these parties should take a binary approach, addressing both “hardware”
factors
(which remain constant, such as physical distance to treatment centers and elongated supply chains) and “software”
factors
(the intangibles that vary greatly in each region, such as the role of family and cultural beliefs).
The proposed Global Compact for Migration goes beyond these factors, and notes that climate change is among the “adverse drivers and structural
factors
that compel people to leave their country of origin.”
As I have argued elsewhere, American presidential candidate Donald Trump owes his rise to many of the same
factors
that are driving Le Pen’s growing popularity.
Several
factors
appear to explain the Nordic countries’ economic success.
Looking at recent history, one can identify four
factors
that will continue to drive oil prices higher unless a major earthquake brings the market to its knees.
This imperative is one of the
factors
linking India and Japan.
And if animal spirits are indeed fundamental, it becomes important to understand the
factors
that determine swings in confidence.
But both responses are fragile, and can be quelled or reversed by a large number of
factors
– including the degree to which we identify with the person who is suffering.
For the first time in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, the main
factors
determining the stability of its systems are no longer the planet’s distance from the sun or the strength or frequency of its volcanic eruptions; they are economics, politics, and technology.
A DIT framework would affirm the commitment to disinflation and price stability as the euro candidates struggle with pro-inflationary
factors.
Given structural factors, however, the main outcome of this second round of stimulus was fiscal deterioration.
Such peer networks may elevate content based on
factors
like clicks or engagement among friends, rather than accuracy or importance.
One of the
factors
driving the UK’s sense of unease in its relations with an increasingly bureaucratized Europe is the belief that its values and institutions are closer to those of the US, or of other English-speaking former colonies.
To avoid possible confounding factors, such as greater risk-taking by those who know they have been vaccinated, or the desire of those conducting the trial to show that the vaccine works, the study is “double blind”: Neither the subjects nor those administering the trial and collecting the data know who got the vaccine and who got the placebo.
Without such a trial, the appearance of efficacy may be an illusion, because other
factors
would have led to a lower rate of infection anyway.
Even before the recent Middle East political shocks, oil prices had risen above $80-$90 a barrel, an increase driven not only by energy-thirsty emerging-market economies, but also by non-fundamental factors: a wall of liquidity chasing assets and commodities in emerging markets, owing to near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing in advanced economies; momentum and herding behavior; and limited and inelastic oil supplies.
Longer-term
factors
like weak investment, decelerating labor-force growth, and a sharp slowdown in productivity growth have reduced income growth for the median household in most advanced countries relative to the 1993-2005 period.
McKinsey’s research confirms the role of such long-term
factors
in undermining incomes for the majority of households.
Conversely, portraying Putin as “a man from the past,” and Medvedev as “a hope for the future,” exaggerates the differences between them and omits the more important
factors
that unite them.
Given the weight of geopolitical
factors
in Russian decision-making, it is difficult to foretell which path they will choose.
There are three fundamental
factors
that determine the evolution of a country’s sovereign debt: its rate of economic growth; its borrowing costs; and its primary budget position (the budget balance net of interest payments).
The tax rate required to fund social-welfare benefits depends on three factors: the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers); the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages); and the economic-growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).
I believe that the key
factors
now are somewhat different from those that drove up food prices in 2008.
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