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In December, the World Bank downgraded its growth estimates for the formerly fast-growing economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, which are now expected to lose $1.6 billion in income in 2015.
Asia’s formerly huge external surpluses have declined astonishingly fast, and Japan’s trade balance has even slipped into deficit.
The rise to power of her National League for Democracy in 2015 marked the end of 50 years of military rule in the country formerly known as Burma, and seemed to herald a new era, in which the human rights of all inhabitants would be respected and protected.
The formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe that have adopted a flat tax – including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine, among others – sorely lack investment capital.
Putin’s Illusion of ReformMOSCOW – Last November, when the performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the central door of Moscow’s Lubyanka – the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and formerly of the Soviet Union’s security service, the KGB – the state accused him of destroying its “cultural heritage.”
Dependence on automobiles is growing in parts of the world that formerly got by without them.
German productivity continued to rise, and the German model became an inspiration for other European countries (including, after 1989, formerly communist countries).
More recently, it developed a new system that allows surfers to access some sections of formerly banned sites, but deploys packet-sniffing technology to deny access to other sections.
Newly privatized companies and entrants into formerly closed industries have frequently remarkably improved technologies and service while making good profits, whereas the state monopolies they replaced were often a serious drain on the public treasury.
A recent paper by New York University’s Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran argues that it is rational to harbor such fears, because once a formerly unthinkable event actually occurs, one is justified in not forgetting it.
One formerly state-run enterprise was being operated under a 2001 lease specifying that no workers could be laid off for the next ten years.
For example, Europe of Nations and Freedom, the far-right parliamentary group comprising France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front), Italy’s League party, the Freedom Party of Austria, and the Dutch Party for Freedom, is alleged to have received €427,000 ($493,000) in compensation for “unreasonable” and “noncompliant” expenses in 2016.
Vincent Reinhart, formerly of the US Federal Reserve and now at Morgan Stanley, has argued that the Lehman decision was correct (the error came earlier, with the bailout of Bear Stearns, which created an expectation that all banks would be bailed out).
A disease formerly considered more pervasive in affluent countries now places its heaviest burden on poor and disadvantaged populations.
America’s president-elect may even understand that his choice for secretary of state learned to look at statecraft and global policy in that way by sitting with and listening to a formerly dirt-poor woman in a sari in a dusty village commons – a woman who has now become a small-scale microcredit entrepreneur, and is helping to educate and feed her family.
Making matters worse, the cause of cow protection has now been linked to another persistent and destructive custom in Indian society: violence against Muslims and Dalits (formerly called “untouchables”).
Formerly limited to wealthy individuals and established firms, credit has become pervasive – especially in the US, where nearly all consumers have credit cards, venture capital funds vie to sponsor innovation, and robust securities markets allocate savings to new projects.
The US would then presumably export more soybeans to markets formerly served by Brazilian producers, including in Europe.
And with Dalits (formerly called “untouchables”) being such a powerful voting group, no political party or leader dares to suggest the abolition of these set-asides.
Alexievich now says that she “doesn’t recognize” her formerly acquiescent fellow citizens who have taken to the streets.
As mainstream politicians leaned toward protectionism, the extreme economic nationalism espoused by the likes of France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front) – whose leaders favor putting “France and French people first” – seemed increasingly reasonable.
The four largest producers – BASF and Bayer in Germany, the Swiss-based but Chinese-owned firm Syngenta, and Corteva Agriscience, formerly the agriculture division of DowDuPont – together account for two-thirds of the global pesticides market, and are seeking new revenue sources.
Over the past decade, the WCF – founded by the International Organization for the Family (formerly the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society), which is based in Rockford, Illinois – has hosted at least seven major meetings in Europe.
And, though a loyal segment of society approves, others – including formerly loyal constituencies – are pushing back.
Donald Tusk, the outgoing European Parliament president who formerly served as Poland’s prime minister, has been all but forgotten, judging by his weak showing in opinion polls.
For that reason, the US took the lead in establishing institutions such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (formerly the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade).
Harvard’s Jason Furman, formerly chair of US President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has warned Democrats – eager to defeat President Donald Trump in the November election – that “the best economic data ... in the history of this country” will emerge just before voters head to the polls.
Yet these parties’ combined share of the popular vote was under 15%, whereas Macron’s La République en Marche ! won 22.4%, and the far-right National Rally (formerly the National Front) picked up 23.3%.
In 2018, the American private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater), which agreed in 2010 to pay a $42 million fine for violating US export rules, identified Cambodia as a target for BRI-related investment.
Whereas Eribon’s mother once supported the Communists, she now votes for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (formerly the National Front) as a protest against today’s socialists-turned-neoliberals.
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