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There is talk of moving resources from investment to consumption, from heavy industry to “services,” and from private sector to public sector.
Still, Carney has been doing his best to drop heavy hints about his own intentions.
Ironically, the heavy reliance on the private sector in the US system is so inefficient that Americans pay a larger share of GNP for health (14%) than do the Nordic countries (11%), but get less.
Russia’s reversal on the Afghan Taliban reflects a larger strategy linked to its clash with the US and its European allies – a clash that has intensified considerably since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea spurred the US and Europe to impose heavy economic sanctions.
Beyond supplying the separatist groups with heavy and advanced weapons, and deploying special units and forces to support them, Russia now appears to be sending in “volunteers" to train a separatist army that could ultimately go on the offensive.
Despite a global economy plagued by weak growth, persistently high unemployment, and heavy debt loads, the region’s emerging and developing economies grew at an average annual rate of 6.8% from 2000-2010, propping up global output and buttressing recovery efforts.
The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.
While there is a laudable international effort to help Africa grow out of heavy donor dependency in the next decade, the equally momentous economic-development and human-security challenges facing Central Asia is generally not fully understood.
We restrict access to most drugs, impose heavy taxes and marketing constraints on tobacco, and control gun circulation and ownership.
In Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil and Colombia, voracious Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials and food boosted foreign reserves, enabled heavy government spending, and sustained high levels of imports.
But the total disregard for the wishes of Hong Kong residents leaves a heavy blot on the entire process.
In the race for votes, Ghana’s current-account deficit increased, owing to heavy fuel subsidies and a 47% increase in payouts to public-sector workers.
Armenian forces are well dug in and have received a significant boost from Russia’s diversion of heavy weaponry to Armenia from some recently closed Georgian military bases.
Attempts to shift too much wealth from productive to non-productive sectors led to stagnation in both countries, with growing budget deficits, debt, and heavy unemployment.
Desirable as these provisions seem, they could impose a heavy cost on German companies.
For starters, China’s shift from heavy industry to services implies less output per worker and less control by the central government.
There is excess capacity in some heavy industries and in residential real-estate markets in some second- and third-tier cities.Local governments have significant debts that were incurred at the request of the central government in 2007 and 2008 in order to avoid a serious economic downturn.
Domestic terrorism in Pakistan has taken a heavy human and economic toll.
For its part, France has been reluctant to build an interconnected European grid, owing to its heavy reliance on nuclear energy.
But it seems clear that the UK will incur some heavy costs during the Brexit process.
Not only does excess capacity have a negative impact on growth; perhaps more important, sharply declining growth also contributes to massive redundancy in some industries (especially resources and the heavy and chemical industries).
Targeted policies have promoted the emergence of a diversified economy based on processed natural resources, high-value manufacturing industries – such as consumer electronics, industrial automation, and heavy industries – and services.
In the ten years before the MDGs, economic growth in the region was slow, the poverty rate was high (and rising), and there was an increasingly heavy disease burden, including HIV/AIDS and malaria.
Conceptually, the eurozone must include solidarity with countries facing hardship, because this is what unites and gives strength to the whole – but without the heavy machinery of a federal budget or a permanent increase in transfers.
Of course, Netanyahu is not doing all of the heavy lifting in pushing Israel toward illiberalism, and censorship and harassment are not reserved exclusively for the media.
Russia and Iran have kept the Syrian government supplied with heavy weapons and other military assistance, including a Russian shipment of sophisticated anti-ship missiles with advanced radar systems.
This is over and above the heavy losses that banks incurred from bad lending and overambitious financial engineering.
Japan was never formally colonized, but it, too, felt the West’s dominance, at least since the 1850’s, when American ships laden with heavy guns forced the country to open its borders on Western terms.
Where malaria transmission is less intense and immunities are not developed, epidemics occasionally sweep through the local population, taking a heavy toll of lives in all age-groups.
But it has also dealt Japan a heavy macroeconomic blow.
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