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There is a growing recognition within the scientific community that no single organization or group has the know-how or resources to tackle malaria alone.
Second, we must actively confront the growing anti-vaccine lobby, which threatens to undo the gains made in recent years.
It must cope with entrenched territorial and maritime disputes, such as in the South China Sea; harmful historical legacies that weigh down its most important interstate relationships; increasingly fervent nationalism; growing religious extremism; and sharpening competition over water and energy.
This history helps to explain why China’s rapidly growing military power raises important concerns in Asia today.
In addition to its growing political and natural-resource challenges, Asia has made the mistake of overemphasizing GDP growth to the exclusion of other indices of development.
But they did not have the resources to keep up with their own growing populations.
And we are seeing a growing appetite for this kind of expertise, from within governments and the private sector.
A growing number of businesses recognize that today’s formula for success includes a focus on pressing societal needs.
Russia is also thought to no longer need help because its economy and public finances are much improved, thanks to rising oil prices and a GDP growing at 6.5% per annum.
Debt relief is being raised simultaneously with a growing debate about “Who lost Russia?”in western capitals.
With prices and earnings moving together on a nearly one-for-one basis, one might conclude that the US stock market is behaving sensibly, simply reflecting the US economy’s growing strength.
Such peaceful assurances, against the backdrop of growing tensions in East Asia, may or may not be enough to persuade Japanese voters that it is time to expand their country’s armed forces – 75 years after their great but fateful triumph in Pearl Harbor.
The key lesson from Chile is that a defined-contribution, funded system with individual accounts has some advantages: it can stimulate savings, provide a large and growing stock of investible funds (over $170 billion in Chile), and spur economic growth.
Even among Putin’s kleptocracy of ex-KGB men, as among the communist apparatchiks in the dying days of Gorbachev’s rule, there is a growing realization that the jig is nearly up, and that it is time to look after oneself.
Unfortunately, it confirms a pattern that has boon woven for some time: the growing conviction among a majority of Americans that they owe nothing to the world and that they can pursue their interests as if the outside world does not exist.
If troubled eurozone countries, especially Spain, start growing rapidly again, there is still a “muddle-through” outcome that might work.
However, to provide enough food and energy for a growing global population – which the UN forecasts to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 – while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, eliminating poverty, and improving human and environmental well-being, we need ideas.
Not only has the number of nuclear states increased, but the so-called “nuclear renaissance” – the revival of nuclear power, owing to rising oil prices and environmental concerns – has put nuclear technologies into growing use.
The discovery could also work to prevent hereditary breast cancer cells from growing into tumors.
Even if the starting point is a high debt-to-GDP ratio, it can be a long time before growing debt triggers an emergency.
This declaration of a “return to Asia” marked the start of the famous “pivot” to the Pacific in US foreign policy – a shift away from the Middle East that was intended to meet the challenges posed by China’s growing geopolitical ambitions.
That may not have been a problem when China’s economy was growing, but it represents a serious economic risk today, which is why the government has set deleveraging as one of its major tasks for this year.
Unless we confront the inequality challenge head on, social cohesion and democracy itself will come under growing threat.
The good news is that services are now growing faster than any other sector, having reached 48% of GDP in 2014 (thus surpassing the end-2015 target of 47% well ahead of schedule).
In the meantime, China faces another, equally daunting challenge: the United States’ growing determination to contain its growing influence.
In Syria, the ground is being prepared for a similar outcome, with a growing number of radical Islamists crossing into Syria and joining the opposition.
To respond to the growing calls to help tackle regional and global security challenges, the EU must improve the efficiency and coherence of its external action still further.
While there was concern in Europe about the growing strength of armies, the view that the war was precipitated directly by the arms race is facile.
To be sure, nationalism is growing in China today, while the US launched two wars after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Demand for these products is growing, though not as fast as demand for newspaper print falls as a result of computerization.
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