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For instance, in December 1998, the Russian utility giant Unified Energy System (now headed by the former privatization czar Anatoli Chubais) collected 20% of all payments in cash, but in May, this share had risen to 32%.
The question, then, is whether we are headed toward a jobless future, in which technology leaves many unemployed, or a “good-jobless future,” in which a growing number of workers can no longer earn a middle-class income, regardless of their education and skills.
The US is now headed towards recession, regardless of what the Fed does.
Indeed, far from being an electoral revolution, only two of those elected – Barghouti and Muhammad Shtayyeh, who has headed PECDAR, the Palestinian agency that promotes transparency and economic development – can be considered at all critical of the Fatah establishment.
Moreover, quiet efforts were made in the Arab world to curtail the recruitment and funding of suicide bombers headed to Iraq.
Are we headed for an era of more paranoia about secrets, including less sharing of useful information?
They still remember the suffering of the Mao years, when China headed in the wrong direction – and tried to do too much too quickly – and they vividly recall how the Tiananmen protests brought the regime to its knees, and how urban labor unrest erupted when centrally managed state businesses were merged or closed down in the 1990’s.
In pumping up football-induced hysteria, Russian politicians – headed by then-President Vladimir Putin – took the lead.
In Japan’s case, for example, the negotiators, headed by Akira Amari, then the minister of state for economic and fiscal policy, worked day and night to assuage opposition by various sectors of the domestic economy (say, rice growers) and to secure favorable outcomes.
With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, a lack of computers, large class sizes, and no electricity, many parts of the world are headed for massive instability, joblessness, and poverty.
Several recent international reports, including two this month by UNESCO and the International Commission on Financing Global Education, headed by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, show that annual global development assistance for primary and secondary education needs to rise from around $4 billion to around $40 billion.
Indeed, its neighbor and historical rival, South Korea, is headed down a similar path.
Having helped to draft Taiwan’s special state-to-state act that regulates relations with China, and then having headed the country’s Ministry for Mainland Affairs Council, she is well positioned to manage the thorniest issue any Taiwanese leader will face: the relationship with China.
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On balance, Argentina’s political economy appears headed in the right direction.
Indeed, if the US never acknowledges the specific strikes, how can ordinary Americans possibly know that Rasilah al-Faqih, a pregnant Yemeni woman, was killed in Walad Rabei’, along with her husband and ten-year-old daughter, as they headed home from a visit to the doctor?
The criteria for that loyalty will be fairly simple - participating in the security framework headed by Russia and eliminating the "excessive" influence of third parties (the US, EU, China, or Turkey) within CIS nations.
He has appointed Anand Panyarachun, a former Thai prime minister who recently headed a United Nations reform panel, to select and direct a blue-ribbon national commission to seek reconciliation with the southern separatists.
In the several years before that crisis hit, China had been combating inflation, and appeared to be headed for a soft landing.
Political interference in the private sector throughout the region means that most large business projects are carried out as joint-ventures with state-controlled companies (sometimes covertly headed by members of the ruling elites).
As new research for the Club of Rome shows – and the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterates – the world may well be headed toward disaster.
The Politics of a Slowing ChinaSINGAPORE – The recent financial turmoil in China, with interbank loan rates spiking to double digits within days, provides further confirmation that the world’s second-largest economy is headed for a hard landing.
Great Britain may be headed for a referendum on EU membership in 2017 unless certain terms of its membership are revised.
Italy and Germany are headed toward a ratio of one retiree per worker; without more rapid GDP growth, new immigration policies, higher retirement ages, and efforts to stem the increase in welfare spending, taxes will inexorably rise from already damaging levels.
More significant, an engaged Japan that is willing to reach a deal will be a useful ally in pushing a forward-thinking and balanced trade agenda, particularly as the TTIP and the TPP appear headed for difficult waters.
Fifty-eight percent of Democrats thought the country was headed in the right direction, compared with 9% of Republicans.
The Senate appointed a special select committee, headed by Democrat Sam Ervin and Republican Howard Baker, which heard testimony and gathered official evidence that led to the indictment of 40 administration officials and the conviction of several top White House aides, as well as to Nixon’s resignation.
Brazilian gross public debt is headed toward 80% of GDP, and real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates are among the world’s highest.
This has many wondering whether South Korea is headed for the kind of protracted deflation and stagnation that characterized Japan’s so-called “lost decades,” from which it is just beginning to emerge.
And, in terms of reform, President Jacob Zuma is not headed in the right direction.
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