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When I was growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s, world peace was based on the nuclear standoff between the US and the Soviet Union.
Given Asia’s growing influence, the world should pay attention – and may have much to gain.
In contrast to the Commission, the stated intention of a growing number of member states is to limit appropriation commitments to 1% of GDP.
Europe’s attention has been trained on three issues that pose a clear and imminent threat: Brexit, migration, and rising nationalism, which in countries like Poland is fueling growing resistance to the EU and the rule of law.
The Ethics of Fighting Drug ResistanceGOTHENBURG – In 2014, the World Health Organization reported that drug resistance – especially resistance to antibiotics – is a growing threat to human health, food security, and “the achievements of modern medicine.”
Drug resistance threatens the effective treatment of a growing list of communicable diseases – from bacterial infections to viral to and fungal diseases.
As these examples suggest, today's information age has been marked by the growing role of non-governmental organizations (NGO's) on the international stage.
A growing body of research suggests that services will provide new social- and economic-development pathways for Africa.
We have it in our power to eliminate the financial system’s rapidly growing debt and to create a new monetary order that corresponds to free-enterprise principles and the rule of law, without risking a breakdown of the entire payment system.
The first is alleviation of growing social tensions.
Indeed, the SPS electorate is growing faster than that of other parties.
The American Revolution can be traced directly to the growing sense among colonists that Parliament's rule in North America was illegitimate.
Surplus rural folk could find land to till in the New World's vast frontiers or industrial employment in its growing cities.
But Indonesia is currently growing at only about half that rate.
Given the rapid pace of urbanization, and the technology base that a well-resourced city requires, the risk of “synchronous failure” is growing constantly, as the Great East Japan Earthquake demonstrated.
Human happiness and economic well-being are also being affected by climate change, which may be contributing to what could turn out to be a third consecutive year of drought in sub-Saharan Africa – and this amid growing food-security concerns in a world with one billion underfed people.
Trump’s heightened erratic behavior in recent days has been attributed to his growing anxiety about Mueller’s investigation into his and his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia in the Kremlin’s effort to tilt the 2016 election in his direction – an investigation that could end in a charge of conspiracy.
Television coverage of athletes gasping for breath will hardly provide Beijing with the signature Olympic image it had in mind, and growing international anxiety over climate change and other environmental hazards will ensure that such issues receive considerable media coverage.
The Party leadership has grown more self-assured in its growing international role, but its ability to manage the pace of change at home has become more uncertain.
He and Premier Wen Jiabao have also championed a more “harmonious” society, because they understand that the growing wealth gap, social tensions, environmental and public health problems, and the Party’s tenuous relationship with China’s less advantaged people can no longer be neglected.
Today, China provides a large and rapidly growing market for a widening array of previously unaffordable goods, and will increasingly produce as well as absorb new technologies.
Dealing with the short- and medium-run deficit would be fairly straightforward: decide how large a share of GDP the federal government should take up, set spending at that level, and set taxes so that the budget is balanced (or so that the debt-to-GDP ratio is not growing) over the business cycle.
Despite the considerable progress that developing countries have made in integrating themselves into international trade and finance channels, there is still much work to be done to ensure that they share the burden of maintaining the global system in which they have a rapidly growing stake.
At the same time, it is critical that major developed countries craft policies that take into account their growing interdependency with developing countries.
But economic growth, even in traditionally export-led economies, is driven by productivity growth, not by the ability to capture a growing share of global markets.
But that is precisely what happens when governments believe that economic salvation lies in winning a growing share of export markets.
It proved impossible to make Central Asian nomads into productive farmers in a single growing season.
The UN includes organizations that cater to a wide range of jurisdictions but not to the growing community of science advisors.
In an era when the benefits of multilateralism are being questioned precisely as we draw closer to the planet’s ecological limits, income inequality is growing, and innovation and technology are transforming how people learn and work, the world needs a more equitable and cooperative approach to globalization.
The elevation of Kim’s inexperienced 27-year-old sister, Kim Yo-jong, to a senior post, is another indication of growing anxiety.
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