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A second reason for confidence is that the financial impact of zero interest rates and the vast expansion of central bank money known as “quantitative easing” (QE) are now much better understood than they were when introduced following the 2008 crisis.
As a result, following the rapid decline in oil prices of recent years, companies could lay off thousands of workers without having to worry about raising the unemployment rate or putting a substantial burden on government coffers.
Hence, the European Council’s Lisbon Strategy of 2000, which centered around a pledge to increase general research-and-development spending by 50% over the following decade.
Following recent revisions to its GDP figures, India's economy has recently grown – in real terms – slightly faster than China's.
But Washington, in turn, was wise to decline authoritarian powers following independence – and again when he resigned after eight years as the new country’s first president.
Following World Wars I and II, the European powers and the United States sat around distant tables and fabricated frontiers, giving birth to Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia – and thus to most of the of the Middle East’s current ills.
Following the path of least resistance will lead to the gradual disintegration of the international financial system.
It is thus ironic that four of Macron’s 15 initially selected cabinet members – including one of the president’s closest advisers – have been forced to resign following reports of alleged misconduct or misuse of public funds, even before any judicial ruling.
In the United States, 95 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas added jobs and increased their economic output in the five years following the Great Recession, but only 20 experienced median-wage growth.
Some timid measures have been implemented, but the general feeling among Germans is best described by the following answer to a survey conducted two months ago by the newspaper Die Welt : “47% of those interviewed plan to cut consumption due to the uncertainty about pensions and health reform.”
But that was due largely to an aggressive easing of monetary policy following the Federal Reserve’s successful assault on double-digit US inflation.
In Defense of Non-VisionariesOXFORD – Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her death celebrated her as a “transformational” leader who brought about great changes.
Although projections by the IMF and others have been persistently optimistic, each setback has been treated as a temporary deviation, associated with its own unique cause: the Greek bailout, the tragic tsunami in Japan, the spike in volatility following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US debt, and so on.
I have experienced the limitations of India’s media firsthand, having been treated to repeated doses of speculation, gossip, accusation, and worse over the course of the last four years, following the tragic death of my wife.
Munich's Ifo Institute expects about 2.5--3.3 million migrants to Western Europe during the 15 years following EU enlargement.
They may be down following their presidential candidates’ defeat in the first round of the presidential election, but they most definitely are not out.
But, following the US-led invasion in 2003, southern Iraq was opened to forces known as Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) – militant gangs and individuals committed to archaic Islamic rule and suppression of women’s rights.
And, following a long and difficult struggle, Christian leaders ultimately acknowledged the need for reform.
Finland tightened its immigration regulations in 2004, following closely the restrictive stance taken by Denmark in 2002.
This race to restrict pervaded decision-making on transitional arrangements following accession of 10 new members – eight of them postcommunist countries – to the EU last May.
North Korea is a fragile state, even more so following Kim Jong-il’s death.
Following the path of the steam engine long ago, progress is not “doomed to be rare and erratic.”
The United Nations is starting to map out new goals for the years following the 2015 expiration of the current Millennium Development Goals.
America and Europe are not only following divergent economic policies, but their currencies are also diverging because the world is going through a major exchange-rate realignment.
Such might have been the case, four years earlier, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, had Kennedy not died from his wounds.
Think of the 15 million Chinese displaced following the Sichuan earthquake, the more than two million Iraqis uprooted within their country’s borders by sectarian and other violence, the 2.4 million displaced in Darfur, or the hundreds of thousands who have fled Mogadishu in the last year.
Following a natural disaster, he says, the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder is about 3%.
BRUSSELS – At high-level gatherings of the European Union elite, one often hears the following type of statement: “Europe must integrate and centralize economic governance in order to defend its social model in an age of globalization.”
Evoking the self-righteous outrage of guochi , three young Chinese males engaged in the following exchange of messages on the internet:Righteous Eagle : The US uttered a few shameful words of apology and our government released 24 pigs....On the surface it appears that the United States apologized to China, but what commitments did the US assume, really?
Indeed, fearful of popular backlash against its decision to release the crew of the US spyplane without securing either a meaningful American apology or adequate financial compensation, China's government quietly shut down several popular internet sites in the weeks following the spy plane incident - including the chatroom that posted the above-cited messages.
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