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In an interview in the London Sunday Times , he was quoted as saying that he was gloomy about Africa’s prospects, because “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really.”
This statement reflects and reinforces the gloomy view that we are not making any progress in reducing poverty.
Other indicators of human wellbeing debunk the gloomy view.
With economic prospects in China and Brazil looking distinctly gloomy, the world economy is at risk of flat-lining – or worse.
Today’s talk about identity and sovereignty is often rather gloomy.
As a result, while sliding equity markets and a further decline in oil (and other commodity) prices have sparked much talk of another global recession, dire predictions are likely to prove overly gloomy and misdirected.
Perhaps there is a tiny ray of hope in this gloomy prospect.
Still, however gloomy the outlook, we do stagger on – the flowers still bloom, the breeze stirs the trees, the birds sing, and children laugh.
If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.
Are there exceptions to the gloomy outlook?
Banking on the UnbankedTORONTO – In a sea of gloomy news, one bright headline appears on the horizon.
In short, the outlook for Egypt’s economy is not as gloomy as many believe.
But in Tokyo, Taipei, Bangkok and Seoul, stock markets are gloomy.
Here is one message from the markets worth pondering, even for non-investors: political confidence may be at a low ebb in Europe; businesses and consumers may be shell-shocked by the last recession and gloomy about the future; but judging by the market's behavior the years ahead are more likely to resemble the stable and prosperous 1950s and 1960s than the crisis-ridden decades from 1973 to 1989.
But the long-term economic prospects of the global economy as a whole look gloomy.
It is time to redress that balance, or Soros’s gloomy prognosis may become reality.
But now that British Prime Minister Theresa May has implied that she prefers a “hard” Brexit, a gloomy long-term prognosis is probably correct.
So bright is Tokyo’s gleam – which is sure to impress visitors at the 2020 Olympic Games – that the city might seem like an anomaly, given gloomy reports that, after decades of stagnation, Japan’s GDP growth remains anemic.
Libya, of course, can survive the gloomy prospect of post-authoritarian civil war.
Studies in the 1990's seemed to bear out this gloomy scenario: inequality of per capita output between India's states was increasing as they moved further apart in their performance.
Two days after making that gloomy assessment, the French chief of the defense staff, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, followed suit.
Another gloomy take on future growth, advanced by former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers after the global economic crisis, has a decidedly more Keynesian or “demand-side” flavor.
In the old model returns come quicker, but the long-term implications are gloomy, because the economy would remain saddled with the same problems it has confronted for decades.
Yet instead of thinking that the momentum building in 2006 will carry forward and make 2007 an even better year, Europe’s gloomy experts are predicting a significant slowdown.
Winning the TransitionWASHINGTON, DC – Is the Arab Spring turning into a gloomy autumn?
In each case, careful examination of the data established that the gloomy scenarios prevailing at the time were exaggerated.
The IMF’s gloomy growth forecasts attest to that.
The verdict disproved gloomy predictions of a hung parliament and the further strengthening of regional parties.
But that sounds like “expert” talk, and the former Leave campaigners have a response to it: economists are talking down the UK to prove that their gloomy forecasts were correct.
Industrial leaders and ordinary citizens alike want to be told that the EU is working on a policy approach that looks farther ahead than the gloomy present.
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