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The key has been its unique strategy of “crossing the river by feeling the stones,” whereby it has gradually tested, implemented, and adjusted reforms and growth-enhancing policies.
But median incomes have stagnated, which, combined with the impact of technology and insufficient policy attention to the potential distributional effects of unfettered globalization, has gradually hollowed out the middle class around the world.
Thinking about August 1914 should remind us that great catastrophes can materialize gradually.
Food manufacturers and retailers should gradually reduce the salt content in their products.
Good and Bad CapitalismPARIS – The reality of market exchange – direct transactions between merchants and customers – appeared gradually 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
As a result, the natural struggle of the legislature to join the ruling elite as an equal met with the unyielding stand of a president allergic to "the Reds", and this bickering gradually, out of sheer senselessness and futility, degenerated into a fight to change the state system.
Moreover, China is gradually coming to the view that its coziness with and excuse-making for North Korea, more than its endless maritime disputes with everyone else in the region, is emerging as the major factor in how the world regards its rise.
With respect to the first problem, journals are gradually replacing institutions as the arbiters of quality within academic communities.
As in Japan, all three arrows of Draghinomics must be launched to ensure that the eurozone gradually returns to competitiveness, growth, job creation, and medium-term debt sustainability in the private and public sectors.
He then underwent extensive rehabilitation, gradually regaining strength and confidence.
People gradually became accustomed to the expression “Palestinian state,” and those who embraced it received support and gained prestige on the international scene.
This imperative underpins the concept of “sustainable development,” which has gradually gained acceptance since its introduction in the mid-1980’s.
In mid-2013, when the Fed announced that it would gradually reduce its unconventional monetary-policy measures (for example, large-scale purchases of mortgage-backed securities), emerging markets suffered large capital outflows.
The computers gradually improved, but they still seemed far inferior to the top humans.
Grant-supported subsidies would remain in place for a finite period, and donors would gradually phase them out as aid programs expire.
What we do know is that China should have begun exiting gradually from US government securities long ago.
New projects are more market-driven, with donors’ focus gradually shifting to building the capacity of domestic regulatory and technical institutions, and to strengthening the position of existing private-sector firms to serve the market.
And, over the last few years, China’s authorities have gradually loosened their grip on the capital account, allowing the renminbi to become the fifth most popular currency for settling global payments.
Finally, Europe’s energy mix is gradually shifting from the one that it needs to reach its climate-change goals.
The US Congress responded in 1983 by gradually raising the age for full benefits from 65 to 67.
The obvious solution to the current and future Social Security financing problem is to reprise the 1983 legislation by gradually raising the age for full benefits from 67 to 70, with appropriate actuarial adjustments for earlier and later retirements.
The cap rate could be higher, or it could start higher and be gradually tightened, or it could vary with an individual’s income level.
Europe has been unifying gradually for 50 years now, and we can reasonably look forward to further inter-continental cooperation and integration, not least because of scientific and technological developments.
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
To put it bluntly, China’s authoritarian regime is subtly and gradually buying Latin America’s elites.
Gradually drawing down US troop levels makes more sense, because what unites the disparate elements of the Taliban syndicate is a common opposition to foreign military presence.
Needless to say, this will occur only gradually, particularly in the developed countries.
Moreover, they have two instruments to achieve these goals: the policy interest rate, which will be kept low for long and raised only gradually to boost growth; and macro-prudential regulation and supervision of the financial system (macro-pru for short), which will be used to control credit and prevent bubbles.
Belief in this fundamental feature of America’s national identity has persisted, even though inequality has been gradually rising for decades.
“We are growing free of imbalances and, in fact, gradually reducing our dependence on inflows of foreign exchange – that’s key.”
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