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Such initiatives foster the flow of resources into agriculture – both for the agribusinesses needed to feed Africa’s growing cities, and for smallholders who need better seeds, fertilizer, and market roads.
The army is losing dozens of men every week and facing growing disciplinary problems from its Pashtun ethnic soldiers, who hail from the border region.
And, perhaps most important to a company, a growing body of evidence suggests that the presence of women in executive and board positions can increase corporate returns.
And numerous studies document continued implicit biases against women in hiring and promotion processes, triggering growing interest in Silicon Valley startups that use technology to mitigate such biases throughout their human-resources operations.
They can now finance themselves in the market, and their economies seem to have started growing again.
This implies that there cannot be any hope for a sustained recovery unless exports start growing.
The continent’s aggregate growth, at 4.5%, is expected to lag behind the world average of 5% in 2007, but only because the largest countries, Mexico and Brazil, are growing more slowly.
Latin America will finish 2007 with a current account surplus and growing foreign-currency reserves, insulating them from financial crisis.
On the one hand, world trade is growing, and so are Latin America’s exports.
Structural deflationary pressures in the developed countries – such as highly debated increments of productivity in the United States – help the central banks to maintain price stability, which means that growing exports and high terms of trade have been accompanied by reasonably low interest rates.
They have a following, which might be growing, fueled by the widespread anxiety about terrorism spilling over from the Middle East.
Climate change, deforestation, growing populations, and other ecological strains will challenge the very survival of hundreds of millions of people around the world in the coming decades.
China’s economy was growing at an astounding average annual rate of 10% or higher for more than three decades.
Beyond the data, there is no greater symbol of the world’s growing interdependence than the movement of people.
But migration is here to stay, and it is growing.
Beyond such general skepticism, there is a clear and growing gap between the views of ordinary citizens and the government’s policy approach – the so-called “Berlin consensus.”
In his election campaign, and since coming to power, Abe has advocated a radical revitalization of the Japanese economy that would end two decades of deflation and growing political and strategic uncertainty.
With Europe’s economy showing no sign of recovery and growing concern about a Chinese slowdown, Japan cannot afford to continue to tread water.
The Chinese public is growing restive and increasingly questioning the system’s ability to deliver on official promises that the country’s economic “miracle” will continue.
During that audacious upswing, when even Greece was growing at 5% per year, a euro-denominated UK would have proceeded more or less as it did under the pound all the way to the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
It has also been a major factor behind the emergence of large and growing differences in the wages of workers with a college education or higher and those of workers with lower levels of educational attainment.
Skill-biased technological change has propelled growing inequality in labor incomes both within and across occupations, in turn fueling the marked increase in overall income inequality.
Ever-smarter machines and ever-tighter global connections are likely to aggravate adverse labor-market trends and growing income inequality, as technology displaces more and more workers.
Russia’s economic influence in Afghanistan is far less robust, but it is growing.
Yet there is remarkably little reflection taking place about the state of science today, despite significant challenges, rooted in globalization, the digitization of knowledge, and the growing number of scientists.
After all, he reacted to China’s growing activities in Africa – which his officials maintained was “reminiscent of imperialism” – by receiving an official visit in 2006 from Taiwan’s then-President Chen Shui-bian.
They have enabled – indeed, fueled – the rise of the Islamic State, and with it a growing threat to the global order, as the successive terrorist attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Beirut, and Paris tragically have shown.
As rising affluence and falling technology prices make online shopping accessible to a growing pool of customers, more products will follow.
In short, the growing, bloody challenges of the twenty-first century are to be confronted by a toothless UN, a morally weakened US, and a Europe well on the path toward disarmament.
China has the savings to address its growing debt burden.
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