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And despite the boost from the ECB’s QE program, a weak euro, and the looser fiscal policies of recent years, output is growing at an annual rate of less than 1%.
Italy’s political situation – marked by a sense of never-ending misery and growing resentment against the EU and Germany – is equally unsustainable.
When hit by them, vigorously growing economies have cushions to withstand the blows and the resilience to shrug them off.
In Taiwan itself, there is a growing sense of national identity, but a sharp division between pragmatists of the “pan-blue alliance,” who realize that geography will require them to find a compromise with the mainland, and the ruling “pan-green alliance,” which aspires in varying degrees to achieve independence.
With increasing change in China and growing economic and social contacts across the strait, it should be possible to find a formula that allows the Taiwanese to maintain their market economy and democratic system without a placard at the UN.
But, given the danger of incidents that could grow out of political competition in Taiwan or growing impatience in the Peoples’ Liberation Army on the mainland, the US would be wise to encourage more active contacts and negotiations by the two sides.
Even so, one lesson I learned growing up was that any person born in the Dominican Republic is a Dominican citizen.
LONDON – The referendum on Scottish independence, due on September 18, comes at a time of growing opposition in the United Kingdom to remaining in the European Union.
But there is a growing sense in the European Council that Cameron is abusing this goodwill.
In effect, the resolution envisaged reversing Hezbollah’s gains and ignores the deep changes that have occurred in Lebanese society, most importantly the Shia community’s growing self-confidence.
And, even if the court refrains from setting limits, the underlying problem – growing German aversion to all things European – will not go away.
Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the ethics of the way meat and eggs are produced.
Defenders of these production methods argue that they are a regrettable but necessary response to a growing population’s demand for food.
It is tragic that countries like China and India, as they become more prosperous, are copying Western methods and putting animals in huge industrial farms to supply more meat and eggs for their growing middle classes.
With the forces destabilizing the Middle East unconfined by national borders, India simply cannot risk having the growing Sunni-Shia civil war spread to its population.
Indeed, given China’s growing influence in Pakistan and Afghanistan, this act of diplomatic creation could prove to be a key test of how China views its relations with India.
The Chinese can decide to cooperate with India and others to forge a new structure of peace for the greater Middle East or, instead, to use the growing risks that India and its neighbors face to pursue small tactical advantages.
And, while he was technically the commander-in-chief of the Palestinian forces, these forces lacked the will to stand up to Hamas’s growing power.
For starters, world trade is growing at an anemic annual rate of 2%, compared to 8% from 2003 to 2007.
The volume of trade is growing rapidly.
In this view, if the government stays the course and the economy keeps growing, the malaise will pass.
And many poorer citizens report growing satisfaction with the health care and pensions to which they have access.
Many Chilean parents send their children to private schools, but polls report a growing demand for better public schools, which they value as a place where common values are forged among children of different backgrounds.
Many are happy about growing home ownership, but are unhappy about the scarcity of public spaces – safe streets, parks, arts facilities, and community centers – where they can come into contact with their fellow citizens.
Indeed, with the growing possibility that former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s peace plan for Syria might fail, and that civil war might erupt, Russia could be the international community’s only effective interlocutor left.
Shareholder pressure tends to be greater in older firms, and in the US over the last few decades, the proportion of older firms has been growing as the startup rate for new businesses has fallen.
Moreover, as the economist Timothy Taylor recently pointed out, the rate of change of the occupational structure, defined as the absolute value of jobs added in growing occupations and jobs lost in declining occupations, has been slowing, not accelerating, since the 1980s.
The US – growing at a snail’s pace since 2010 – faces considerable downside risks from the eurozone crisis.
The urgency of the climate threat is growing quickly.
This shift is linked to a third, broader development: the world’s growing understanding of where the planet is headed environmentally, especially in terms of climate change.
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