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When Ghebreyesus was Ethiopia’s foreign minister from 2012 to 2016, he gained extensive diplomatic experience, not least by leading negotiations for the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the international community’s plan to finance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Indeed, the IMF’s outstanding general resource account (GRA) credits to middle-income developing countries fell by an unprecedented 91% from 2002 to 2007, as richer developing countries gained access to sources of financing that were free of the Fund’s conditionality.
For example, Chinese state-owned enterprises that gained access to huge amounts of easy money and credit are buying equities and stockpiling commodities well beyond their productive needs.
New World, Less OrderLooking back to the revolutions that shook Europe and the world 15 years ago this month, we should rejoice in what has been gained - freedom, democracy, and transcendence of Europe's 40-year division.
The US and its European allies have suddenly gained a great deal of leverage over the Kremlin, and they should not be shy about using it.
The incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, gained 45.9%.
Perhaps the best place to start is the moment the world first gained a glimpse of Ahmadinejad’s character and hardline program.
Among crisis countries, Greece turned to Alexis Tsipras’s far-left Syriza coalition, while the former dominant parties, New Democracy and Pasok, jointly gained less than one-third of the popular vote.
Though the political conversation about Europe has gained in importance everywhere in recent years, the truth is that Europeans are not having the same conversation.
With 60 projects completed since its establishment, this initiative has gained wide recognition as an incubator for new ideas and a valuable model for R&D into treatments for other major health challenges.
And the institutions behind the project have gained access to a much deeper pool of consumers than they would have if each had developed a separate digital platform.
Almost overnight, the humble bibliographic reference acquired symbolic significance, and science gained a scorecard.
By modernizing and democratizing at home, Turkey’s politicians gained self-confidence in their ability to conduct a successful regional policy.
However, unlike fully developed tumors, they are not likely to have acquired many genetic changes and are therefore unlikely to have gained resistance to PARP inhibitors.
It is among these groups that radical Islamists have gained a foothold.
As soon as those activists begin demanding independence, however, they risk splintering their support and losing the moral high ground that they gained with their campaign in 2014.
In fact, this contest dates back to 1947, when India gained independence and democracy became the country’s defining feature, while China turned to Communism with the success of Mao Zedong after the Long March.
Less than 1% of twentieth-century rulers were women who gained power on their own.
Poor sanitation is a major development challenge: though two billion people have gained access to basic, safe sanitation over the past 25 years, 2.5 billion people – half of the developing world – still lack it.
The explanation was highly abstract and philosophical, and the term "open society" never gained wide recognition.
Like the UN report, there was not a shred of material evidence to back up the Rwandan conspiracy – it relied on anonymous witness testimony and nothing else – but it gained a good deal of coverage anyway.
With the QPC, the entire process of assessing the constitutionality of legislation has gained greater acceptance in French legal practice.
The attacks were largely conducted by a small set of young men who are receptive to the kind of radical, simplistic ideologies that have gained traction in the region, owing to dire political and socioeconomic circumstances.
But, for decades, workers gained few of the benefits of rising productivity.
The redistribution has been away from low-paid young workers, whose jobs and wages are genuinely threatened by trade and immigration, and toward the managerial and financial elites, who have gained the most from globalization, and elderly retirees, whose guaranteed pensions protect them from economic disruptions.
While the most effective sanctions had already been lifted, and are unlikely to be re-imposed, Iran’s conservatives have gained political points that they can use against their opponents at home.
In the end, United Russia secured 37% of the vote, with the additional seats it gained in the single-seat constituencies assuring it an overwhelming parliamentary majority.
Though they had to be increasingly aware of their country’s growing impact on the global economy, they had no strategy to ensure that China’s neighbors gained from its economic transformation.
This party, now using the presumptuous name “The Left,” has gained a foothold in West Germany with its impossible promises of higher pensions, a minimum hourly wage of €10, huge public investment schemes, and zero unemployment – in short, exactly the kind of socialist paradise that failed in East Germany.
But it has gained a new impetus in a world where climate change is already a reality, commodity prices are rising, and basic resources such as clean air, arable land, and fresh water are increasingly scarce.
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