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Forest products were heavily subsidized by none other than General Augusto Pinochet.
Elsewhere, however, the effects were catastrophic – nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union, whose economy was heavily dependent on petroleum exports.
The real risk lies in countries that are heavily dependent on oil.
These countries are not only dependent on oil exports; they also rely heavily on imports.
In the run-up to the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, many emerging economies kept their currencies rigidly pegged to the dollar, and governments tended to borrow heavily in dollars, despite generating most of their revenues in the domestic currency (what economists labeled “original sin”).
And, in 1969, America’s heavily polluted Cuyahoga River caught on fire.
Implementing that system has depended heavily on a supportive America.
However hegemonic Hezbollah may now seem, its power in Lebanon depends heavily on the support of the Assad regime.
In addition to individual businesses, entire value chains that contribute heavily to the country’s GDP have suffered a sudden operational and financial freeze.
Four years later, that heavily prophesied "race to the bottom" is scarcely to be sniffed.
China’s GDP growth, which relies heavily on credit, will take a hit.
If there is one exception, it is the automobile industry, which is heavily dependent on open borders with the US.
Brazil’s currency, the Real, is heavily overvalued, perhaps by 30 to 40 percent.
Likewise, the eurozone’s heavily indebted economies (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) have performed considerably worse than projected, owing to significant spending cuts and tax hikes.
The painting has been heavily retouched, and some experts have even questioned whether it really is by Leonardo.
The Bretton Woods organizations – the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO – remain heavily Western in structure, leadership, and mentality.
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: we are much better off reducing CO2 emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
This evolution has freed Western women from the tyranny of a fashion industry that in the bad old days would dictate a style, compelling women to invest heavily in updating their wardrobes, and then blithely declare their entire closets obsolete – again and again, with no end in sight.
Meanwhile, the two parties found themselves neck-and-neck in the hill state of Uttarakhand, with neither claiming a majority, though Congress had been heavily favored in the polls.
The most important instrument driving this surge was margin trading, which enabled investors to borrow heavily to purchase shares.
In a heavily indebted country like Brazil, fiscal consolidation can have an unconventional effect on the exchange rate: to the extent that a smaller deficit assuages fears that the government will try to inflate away its debt burden, the currency strengthens.
Already heavily burdened taxpayers saw their money – intended to help banks lend so that the economy could be revived – go to pay outsized bonuses and dividends.
Rich countries should fund these efforts heavily, and they should be carried out in collaboration with poor countries and the private sector.
That all changed when Al Qaeda, a Sunni terrorist force that draws heavily on Saudi Wahabbi ideology and personnel, launched its attacks on America in September 2001.
For example, Taiwan’s use of administrative measures that rely heavily on close monitoring of flows may be inappropriate in settings where bureaucratic capacity is more limited.
Architectural and institutional reform has to be complemented by a third achievement: agreement on a timetable for tackling the variety of biased trade rules, bloated subsidy regimes, intellectual property rules and other forms of market distortion which heavily disadvantage the developing world.
Nevertheless, all citizens have access to high-quality health coverage and schooling, and many are also eligible for heavily subsidized housing.
Moreover, the eurozone itself is a mini-gold standard, with heavily indebted members unable to devalue their currencies, because they have no currencies to devalue.
For example, Apple’s iPhone and Boeing’s latest airplane rely heavily on Japanese-patented innovations.
Now those deaths are themselves heavily outnumbered by the toll of the widespread famine engulfing Yemen.
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