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While the crisis clearly slowed the pace of new reforms, it has led to far fewer reform reversals than in 1998-1999, for example, following the crisis in Russia.
The Dominican Republic’s constitution says explicitly that anyone born on the country’s territory, except infants born to parents who happen to be diplomats or foreigners “in transit” – understood for decades to mean in the country for fewer than 10 days – is a Dominican citizen.
The IMF had learned from East Asia, posing fewer conditions and offering more budget financing, because the problems were temporary and not structural.
But if finance continues to take a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest, there could be little British manufacturing left by 2050, and even fewer hi-tech firms than today.
Far fewer working-age persons--not only women; men too--belong to the labor force in most Continental nations than in the US..Middle-aged retirees and idle youth speak volumes.
But warming will also decrease other extremes, for example, leading to fewer deaths from cold and less water scarcity.
The good news is that fewer and fewer economists question the need to shift to a green economy, though this emerging consensus is not yet reflected in the pro-growth rhetoric of economics or in politics and public policy outside of China and exotic outliers like Bhutan.
As the international division of labor proceeds further, the import content of German products will continue to increase, which means that rising exports will lead to fewer domestic jobs and less income growth.
The US has far fewer Russia experts in politics today than it did two decades ago, because most American foreign policymakers have been paying far more attention to China, India, and the Middle East.
Indeed, one could argue that such symbolic acts may even create a blind euphoria that obscures the fact that, as a result of less education and lower pay, young females in India continue to have far fewer resources than their male counterparts.
The world’s six wealthiest countries – the US, China, Japan, Germany, France, and the UK – account for 60% of global GDP, but they hosted fewer than 9% of all refugees last year.
Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems for both the scientific community in developing countries and for development itself.
Given the stakes, continuing to rely on proven approaches, even while trying to promote a world with fewer and safer nuclear weapons, is a judicious strategy.
Even in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the rate is highest, the share of the population living in extreme poverty dropped from 47% in 1990 (more than two billion people) to 24% in 2008 (fewer than 1.4 billion).
The effects of a shrinking labor force will be compounded by rising educational attainment in developed countries, which will leave fewer people interested in taking on low-skilled service jobs or in working in the trades and construction.
Fewer than 20 new cases were reported globally, a 99% reduction since 1988.
The European Union should stop trying to do everything and concentrate on doing fewer things more effectively.
But these reforms went in precisely the opposite direction from today's proposed changes: fewer limits on policy makers' discretion, more power to the Board, and a larger role for the New York Fed, all to enable the Federal Reserve System to react more quickly and robustly in a crisis.
We have already opened 19 chapters – fewer than we would like.
In small firms with ten or fewer employees, by contrast, labor productivity growth had declined at an annual rate of 6.5%.
If the EU is going to quell the revolt against globalization, free trade, and open societies, it will need more leaders and fewer managers.
According to the Cost of Hunger in Africa studies, stunted children across the continent receive up to 3.6 fewer years of schooling than well-nourished children.
Rail is critical to this effort, as it can ease stress on overextended and uncertain sea-lanes and provide faster connections, with fewer environmental repercussions.
This imbalance is reflected in the content newsrooms produce, with fewer written words and broadcast seconds dedicated to telling women’s stories.
In digital newsrooms, which often have fewer of the inherent inequities of legacy media, the number of women in leadership positions appears to be growing faster.
A decade ago, fewer than 10,000 people were taking the new generation of antiretroviral drugs that suppress the disease and offer the promise of a normal life.
An estimated 6% of all employees are working fewer hours per week than they would like, and about 2% of potential employees are not counted as unemployed because they have not looked for work in the past few weeks, even though they would like to work.
The Consulta de San Jose may be able to help it construct a future with fewer limitations.
A better approach might be for the government to create fewer jobs in the public sector and work harder to encourage private companies to hire more young people, such as by providing financial incentives.
If the US Treasury sold more short-term – rather than longer-term – obligations, fewer lenders would turn to mortgage pools.
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