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Four out of five child deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, regions where there are few doctors and even fewer pathologists.
The GTA’s latest report identifies no fewer than 192 separate protectionist actions since November 2008, with China as the most common target.
Indeed, for all the characterization of China as a despotic state that one hears from the political right in the United States, its president enjoys fewer powers than his American counterpart.
In my research on the history of international financial crisis with Professor Carmen Reinhart, we find that eras of heavy financial regulation tend to have significantly fewer financial crises than lightly regulated free-wheeling eras, such as those associated with the recent period of financial triumphalism.
It would be far better, in my view, to leave the Fed with an overall systemic role, which raises fewer new accountability issues.
Just one-third of US billionaires inherited their wealth, and fewer than 10% of these fortunes date back more than three generations.
Moreover, while research shows a clear link between a company’s gender balance and its financial health, women occupy fewer than 20% of governing board seats in the world’s largest companies.
Yet these five industries combined employ only 14 million people out of a total labor force of 770 million and fewer people than they did a decade ago.
More than 60% of banking assets in Europe are now in the hands of fewer than 50 multi-national European banks.
In 2005, the 17 countries of the Arab world together produced 13,444 scientific publications, fewer than the 15,455 achieved by Harvard University alone.
In fact, Europe’s Trump-supporting nationalists, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen in France, attracted far fewer votes than opinion polls anticipated.
And when there are fewer assets to be held, their prices rise, too.
Fewer hours worked, longer vacations, and a declining population (since 2005) have, predictably, undermined Japanese growth.
And, as if the old sin of turning a blind eye to Russian oligarchs laundering money through the UK were not problematic enough, the suicidal act of quitting the EU leaves Britain with fewer tools to combat Russian meddling in its affairs.
Over the years, Costa Rica, a country of fewer than five million people, has gained attention worldwide for its progressive leadership.
For example, Italy, which liberalized its retail sector only in 1998, has far fewer grocery chains today than France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Israel must learn to speak in fewer political tongues.
Fewer choices are sometimes the hallmark of maturity, and not only in politics.
Examples from around the world show that poor, single mothers who receive frequent visits from nurses before and after they give birth provide better prenatal care, have fewer subsequent pregnancies, and increase their educational attainment and workforce participation.
Why, then, has rising monopoly power in the IT sector caused income and wealth to concentrate in fewer hands, leading to an increase in personal income and wealth inequality?
As a result, successful IT innovations have concentrated wealth in fewer – and often younger – hands.
Prior to this year, Ebola had killed fewer than 2,000 people, all in Central Africa, since it was first identified in 1976.
The result has been the proliferation of settlements of a million people or fewer living with limited public-health infrastructure.
According to Johns Hopkins University virologist Donald S. Burke, “it may be possible to identify a human outbreak at the earliest stage, while there are fewer than 100 cases, and deploy international resources – such as a WHO stockpile of antiviral drugs – to rapidly quench it.
Because they avoid over-simplification, foxes make fewer mistakes.
And, with fewer than a thousand French citizens still living in Mali, even its pragmatic interest is relatively slight.
If bankers know in advance that insolvent banks will be closed, and that lobbying to keep them open will not work, they will take fewer risks and the likelihood of their activities giving rise to a full-blown banking crisis will be reduced.
But even if Trump stops short of neo-fascism, he could create an America that works for fewer and fewer people, while voters, so busy sharing cat pics and fake news on social media, gradually lose their remaining capacity to distinguish between lived reality and its virtual shadow.
In fact, there are fewer constraints imposed on public discussion of liberal-democratic institutions precisely because few Chinese are inspired by Western-style liberal democracy.
If China bought fewer dollars, the renminbi’s exchange rate – up 35% against the dollar since mid-2005 – would strengthen more sharply than it already has, jeopardizing competiveness and export-led growth.
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