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Donald Rumsfeld’s dogma of military “transformation” – the technological upgrading of an army’s capacity to enable decisive victory with fewer troops – failed resoundingly in Iraq.
This research shows that people of different races trust each other much less; whites are less willing to support welfare spending because it is perceived to favor minorities; more racially fragmented communities have less efficient governments, more corruption and patronage, more crime and fewer productive public goods per tax dollar.
Because these permits trade at a market price, companies have an incentive to reduce their emissions, thereby requiring them to buy fewer permits or enabling them to sell excess permits for a profit.
Despite this being an English-language school, it quickly became apparent that few teachers – and even fewer students – could speak much English at all.
Political leaders enjoy fewer degrees of freedom before they must respond to events, and must then communicate not only with other governments, but with civil society as well.
It is worth noting that in his address to the US Congress, Modi invoked the word “partner” or “partnership” no fewer than 15 times.
Fewer than half of Borno’s children make it through primary school.
In 2010, the incumbent prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was re-elected, though his State of Law Coalition had won fewer seats than the more moderate Iraqi National Movement, led by Ayad Allawi.
As I argue in my new book The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, the burden that these obligations will impose on Americans – in the form of higher taxes and fewer benefits – will weaken public support for the expansive international role that the United States has played since World War II.
As adults, they tend to have better diets, exercise more, gain less weight, have fewer hangovers, and so on.
This is where the US overtakes Europe: fewer people work in Europe than in the US, and those in Europe who do work don't work as much.
More than three quarters of sub-Saharan Africans have no access to electricity, compared to fewer than 14% of Latin Americans and East Asians.
While providing relatively fewer tangible public goods and services directly, the Chinese government will need to provide more intangible public goods and services like rules, standards, and policies.
Saudi Arabia also has a bilateral and multilateral surplus: Americans want its oil, and Saudis want fewer US products.
It is deregulation, of course, that financial firms want – fewer rules and less oversight of any kind.
That is hundreds fewer than in Japan, the United States, or Germany.
These methods are, essentially, labor-saving devices – they make management of the animals easier and enable units with thousands or tens of thousands of animals to employ fewer and less skilled workers.
To the extent that there is a tradeoff, with more resources for the south meaning fewer resources for the east, differences among the threat perceptions of the NATO allies risk producing deadlock.
Ordinary Russians, by contrast, are willing to pin their hopes on a single charismatic figure, not only because they have fewer promising alternatives, but also because they face fewer constraints in doing so.
A future majority in the Sejm (Parliament) can only be created by a coalition of no fewer than three parties.
As a result, fewer people will cross the poverty line, although more will see their daily earnings grow from two dollars to five, and from five dollars to ten.
Firm commitments at Riga of more allied troops and equipment for the ISAF and fewer national “caveats” must be part of the answer.
Inspectors and prosecutors can catch only some criminals;India needs to change the system so that fewer crimes are committed.
But fewer analysts have noted that illiberal democracy – or populism – is not the only political threat.
It is expected that there will be slightly fewer than 400 million poor in 2030, and income growth should almost completely eradicate poverty by 2060.
So, the New Economy did not abolish poverty amidst plenty, though there are now relatively fewer people in destitution in America (i.e. less than $17,000 for a family of 4).
India, for example, has 525 million mobile phone users and fewer than 150 million people with Internet access, so using mobile-phone technology as a tool of e-governance has become vital.
As a result, there is very little in the way of income gains to distribute – and even less in aging societies where fewer people are at work and those out of work live longer.
Making migration easier would not only open up opportunities in the cities; it would also accelerate agricultural transformation, as the fewer remaining agricultural workers would need to acquire new skills to raise productivity and wages.
And, though it is the largest party, it has relatively fewer government posts than the SPD, with no CDU cabinet minister hailing from eastern Germany, an AfD stronghold.
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