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Plummeting oil prices followed the 2011-2012 Arab Spring, which brought down rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and seriously challenged the al-Assad family’s rule in Syria.
These investigations need to be followed up with judicial action.
NEW HAVEN – Those labels that you see on packaged foods listing their ingredients and nutritional values had their beginnings in an international scandal and in the efforts by governments to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed.
For example, in Egypt in 1994, when the education minister banned primary school girls from wearing headscarfs, a strong backlash resulted and there followed a marked retrogression in women’s rights generally.
On all recent occasions when the price of oil was halved – 1982-1983, 1985-1986, 1992-1993, 1997-1998, and 2001-2002 – faster global growth followed.
This was followed by his lying about his role in the cover-up of the break-in at the Democratic Party’s headquarters, which had been carried out at the behest of his administration.
Whereas one- and two-decade lulls in defaults are not uncommon, each quiet spell has invariably been followed by a new wave of defaults.
Ukraine followed, but, owing to internal discord, Kremlin pressure, and the European Union’s indifference, the Orange Revolution was unable to deliver on the promise of democracy.
The massacre of at least 7,000 Bosnian boys and men followed.
This was followed by the advent of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in 2004.
This was the model followed in the case of US Army Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 fellow soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, and by Roshonara Choudhary, who stabbed the British MP Stephen Timms in 2010.
The aim is to fix Europe’s long-term fiscal problem, which has been exacerbated by three factors: the failure, since the euro’s inception, of the eurozone-wide Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) to enforce deficit and debt limits; the crisis that erupted in Greece and other countries on the eurozone periphery in 2010; and the various bailouts that have followed.
Indeed, in a new paper, co-authored with Jesse Schreger, we show that eurozone members’ bias in official forecasts can be neatly characterized as responding to the SGP’s 3%-of-GDP limit on budget deficits in 1999-2011: each time governments exceeded the limit, over-optimistic forecasts followed.
Deng explicitly ruled out a broader international agenda for China – a dictate that China’s policymakers followed for more than three decades.
These capital flows created a boom – and a loss of long-term competitiveness – in some regions, which was followed by an all-too-predictable bust.
ATHENS – The International Monetary Fund’s belated admission that it significantly underestimated the damage that austerity would do to European Union growth rates highlights the self-defeating character of “orthodox” recipes to address the causes of the debt crisis that followed the financial crash of 2008-2009.
The World Forum on Democracy, held in Warsaw June 25 – 27 made a start, but it must be followed up.
If correct patent policies are followed, business-method patents have the potential to boost dramatically business creativity--and the economic growth that goes with it.
The prices of traded mortgage-backed securities have followed house prices down.
The Polish Solidarity revolution followed an unusual course.
Solidarity veterans believed that the dictatorship’s demise would be followed by their own reign.
In April 2010, the leader of this school, Harvard University’s Alberto Alesina, assured European finance ministers that “even sharp reductions of budget deficits have been accompanied and immediately followed by sustained growth rather than recessions even in the very short run.”
Their piece was a story in itself, but what followed was even more interesting.
According to the professor, a series of questions followed, with the White House official keeping a running score.
Pfizer exited TB research in 2012, followed by AstraZeneca in 2013 and Novartis last year.
The release of the Gulag prisoners that followed his speech continued, but it was done in silence.
The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to Al Qaeda – as much as Bush tried to establish a link.
A relic of the bust that followed Japan’s real-estate boom two decades ago, it became known as the Tower of Bubble.
The second is that invading Iraq would have succeeded but for a lack of post-invasion planning, which allowed for the mayhem that followed.
The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank have followed suit, each with its own version of so-called “quantitative easing” (QE).
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