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China recognizes that it no longer makes sense to stay with its current growth strategy – one that relies heavily on a combination of exports and a massive buffer of dollar-denominated foreign-exchange reserves.
Securing the Digital RevolutionBRUSSELS – Pity the person who invests heavily in canals right before the railways start operating.
Even the owner of the Bridgewater Canal eventually saw the way the wind was blowing – and invested heavily in the rival railway.
He has been a forthright spokesman for women’s rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.
China began investing heavily in Sri Lanka during the quasi-autocratic nine-year rule of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and China shielded Rajapaksa at the United Nations from allegations of war crimes.
In contrast to China, Russia’s economy depends heavily on its energy resources, leaving it vulnerable when global energy markets head south.
In the context of a $75 trillion global economy, Britain’s is a relatively small, open one that relies heavily on foreign trade – annual exports are typically in the range of 28%-30% of economic activity.
On a micro level, the masks commonly worn in heavily polluted cities, such as in China, are a visible sign of the need for change.
Still, the biggest risk is posed by fiscal authorities, who tend to be more heavily influenced by political considerations.
Botswana, among others, has invested heavily to offer universal treatment, and now is well on its way to ensuring that no baby is born with HIV – a reality in developed countries, but not so in Africa, where 400,000 children are born with the disease each year.
The EU Must Stop Funding IlliberalismBRUSSELS – Since 2004, when the European Union was enlarged to include many of the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, its regional funding mechanism has been heavily geared toward ameliorating economic inequalities between old and “new” member states.
And net budget contributors such as Germany, France, and the UK, it should be noted, heavily subsidize this largesse.
Beyond blame, populist ideology relies heavily on nostalgia.
In doing so, it provides an important bridge between our modern economy, which relies heavily on carbon-intensive fossil fuels, and a future in which CO 2 emissions are greatly reduced.
In contrast, other leaders with different objectives from their followers invest heavily in educating those who would oppose them to a different point of view.
But its success will depend heavily on how it is implemented, as well as on the extent to which the government pursues complementary reforms.
Indeed, to restore these economies to health, three distinct types of adjustment are needed: between the eurozone and the world, between the eurozone’s periphery and core, and between debt and income in the heavily indebted peripheral countries, particularly Greece.
Iran, however, wants to become a (non-military?) nuclear power and shape a region in which it is heavily involved militarily (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq).
The East Asian tigers invested heavily in education, and it paid off in terms of a capable and modern workforce.
Soon after the global financial crisis, the US relied heavily on expansionary monetary policy, characterized by near-zero interest rates and large-scale asset purchases, which weakened the dollar, thereby boosting exports.
America AdriftTOKYO – US President Barack Obama’s hesitations, ambivalence, U-turns, and political gamesmanship with the US Congress over punishing Syria for its use of chemical weapons has achieved only two things with certainty: it has raised Russia’s diplomatic profile for the first time in many years, and it has spooked those of America’s allies – from Saudi Arabia and Israel to Japan and South Korea – that rely heavily on US promises.
For the first few decades, this system leaned heavily toward “peg,” owing to the US dollar’s direct convertibility to gold.
In Myanmar, which also depends heavily on Chinese aid and trade, the fear of becoming a Chinese satellite was a key reason why the military junta ceded power to a civilian government in the early 2010s.
In the service sector, the decline is even worse than in manufacturing, because services are heavily regulated and partially closed to foreign competition.
A 401(k) is a heavily tax-favored account in which workers can save money for their retirement.
Until modern times, markets were largely local, and heavily protected against outsiders, even from neighboring towns.
With much of the country’s agriculture relying heavily on rainfall, owing to underdeveloped infrastructure, cereal yields are down 40% this year.
Similarly, after lending billions of dollars to heavily indebted Djibouti, China established its first overseas military base this year in that tiny but strategic state, just a few miles from a US naval base – the only permanent American military facility in Africa.
A third challenge is climate change, which weighs heavily on countries where agriculture is still the primary sector for employment.
The International Monetary Fund still awaits the doubling of its capital (another early vow), while its existing resources are heavily tied up in Europe and its governance reforms are stalled.
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