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With connectivity comes a national awareness of spending habits, tastes, and brands – essential characteristics of any consumer culture.
Improving the lot of the world’s poorest people as much as possible means navigating powerful forces, entrenched habits, and, most important, severe financial, temporal, and human-capital constraints.
But siphoning the habits of one culture into another during a rebuilding process can trigger societal changes that are almost as damaging as the disaster itself, as happened in a small fishing villages in the Philippines in the late 1970’s.
More recently, local managers who took on McDonald’s franchises transformed several aspects of the business to fit Chinese tastes and habits.
Better yet, these benefits will become greater over time, as the habits of eating a healthier diet become more engrained worldwide.
It is like sharing an apartment: you reduce your costs, but you have to adapt to your roommates’ habits.
But change in China takes time, and many old habits must be overcome.
Spending just $25 million annually to create stoves that better fit household cooking habits, and identifying how to maximize community-wide adoption of cleaner cooking solutions, would likely improve uptake of clean stoves by 10-20%, suggesting that approximately 60,000 to 120,000 lives could be saved every year.
But those initial demonstrations, often lacking identifiable leaders and programs, soon gave way to old habits.
Mocking the ways and beliefs of minorities is not quite the same thing as taking on the cherished habits and views of majorities.
It is perhaps true that unhealthy habits are more concentrated among poor Americans, a disproportionate number of whom are black.
But these habits themselves are a consequence of economic conditions, not to mention the stresses of racism.
Here a serious reassessment of our negotiating tactics and old habits is needed.
Perhaps the most worrying prospect is that Medvedev could learn all of Putin’s bad habits and none of his good ones.
Although economic progress is visible across Romania, and a gradual renewal of a civic conscience through the arrival of democracy has appeared, Romania’s burlesque of a political life – despite its European Union membership – shows how persistent its bad old habits of duplicity, inconsistency, fatalism, inertia, and corruption are.
But aristocratic habits do not die easily, even in Sarkozy’s overexposed regime.
Dismissing the risks that taxpayers incurred, financial institutions used the bailout to restore profitability and are now reverting to their old habits, which had worked so well for them and so badly for others.
Making matters worse, there is an even greater shortfall of specialists equipped to treat chronic diseases such as diabetes, which is spreading rapidly through the developing world, owing to changing diets and habits.
Thus, a pop star’s consumption of illegal drugs may be reported, but not his or her sexual habits (if they are legal).
Although the United States is at the forefront of the current information revolution, which is creating many similarities in social and cultural habits (such as television viewing or Internet use) that are attributed to Americanization, correlation is not causation.
Both of these factors incite sedentary behavior at home and at work, as well as profound alterations in dietary habits.
In the course of the crisis, these debt-ridden economies’ consumers abruptly changed their purchasing habits.
Breaking bad habits is hardly a painless experience for liquidity-addicted investors.
The corrupt enrichment of so many Russian elites mimics the disastrous habits of many of their African counterparts.
Individuals may need to change their consumption habits; labor may have to be reallocated across sectors; and some workers may have to adjust to lower wages, at least temporarily.
Instead, countries in the Pacific region are attempting to build the institutions and the habits of cooperation that will enable all of us to collaborate in addressing individual security challenges as they arise.
Commerce fosters the habits of trust and cooperation on which stable democracy depends.
Even though, like the majority of France’s political class, she was educated at Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), she spurns the language and habits of this elite factory.
But American spending habits have undermined the dollar’s reputation, with the excess supply of dollars on world markets depressing its price.
Payment habits melt at a glacier’s pace.
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