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Major oil exporters could then seek to use their now less-valuable oil at home as cheap fuel for an expanded heavy industrial sector.
In other words, if China can hit its employment goal with 7.5% GDP growth, there is no reason for its policymakers to panic and roll out the heavy counter-cyclical artillery.
Parts of East and West Africa are expected to get wetter, with rain falling in heavy, intense storms that not only bring greater risks of erosion, flooding, and crop damage, but also leave people more exposed to malaria and cattle herds to decimation by outbreaks of diseases like Rift Valley fever.
In the meantime, the corporate sector will only gradually take on more of the heavy lifting.
In the case of the US, heavy dependence on imported oil has worsened the trade deficit and further weakened the dollar.
A 2005 report by Patrick Mazimhaka, a former AU deputy chairman, cast heavy doubt on the application of this rule in Somaliland.
And Hong Kong’s heavy economic dependence on China means that no regional government could afford to be wholly hostile toward the central authorities.
Many do not view it as a realistic scenario;Russia, after all, would find an alliance with China too heavy to bear, and, whatever their ideology or whoever their leaders, Russians remain European.
Revising the DSM’s diagnostic criteria for the upcoming fifth edition (“DSM-5”) is a heavy responsibility.
Kurdish forces recently succeeded, after months of heavy fighting, in expelling the Islamic State from the border town of Kobane.
Instead of requiring that any or all factions surrender or relinquish their weapons, it calls only for the cessation of heavy fighting, to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and prevent Aleppo's total collapse.
The problem is that many women have difficulty with breastfeeding, lack access to high-quality and timely lactation support, and face heavy demands, especially from work, that make lactation difficult to sustain.
Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina’s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.
When international funds are available, this produces short-lived booms and large current-account deficits, financed by heavy external borrowing.
Under heavy pressure from America, China's leaders have agreed in principle to float the renminbi, but refuse to say when.
The Greek economy was not “unfit” to join the euro in 1999, just as no one is too heavy to be weighed in kilograms.
Ryan’s plan focuses on integrating programs into an “opportunity grant,” expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC), and criminal justice reform – all while encouraging economic growth, so that job creation does the heavy lifting.
The adventure also took a heavy economic toll; by 1965, Egypt had run up a foreign debt of nearly $3 billion, forcing it to add a “defense tax” to finance the Yemen war.
Where bombs and timers were once heavy and expensive, plastic explosives and digital timers are light and cheap.
By this simple reasoning, legislators and judges must rein in monopolistic “despoilers” by imposing heavy fines, or by breaking them up, as has happened many times throughout history.
But their heavy reliance on international trade and capital flows means that they remain vulnerable to severe financial spillovers from the United States.
With neither the diplomatic weight nor the military heft to make an impression in the region, Europe had better leave the heavy lifting to the United States.
Russia’s future economic strength depends on its ability to upgrade technologies in key sectors, including aviation, high-speed rail, automobiles, machinery, and heavy industry.
Yes, Argentina’s debts will probably be paid in full, but Argentina’s taxpayers and workers will bear a heavy burden for years to come.
This progress was driven by several factors, including falling poverty and heavy investment in community-based health systems.
It is often said that a crisis should never be wasted: Politicians, policymakers, and regulators should embrace the moment of deep distress and take on the heavy burden of structural repair.
She recently suffered a heavy defeat in her Peronist party’s recent primaries, weakening its chances in the upcoming mid-term Congressional elections and undermining her authority during her remaining two years in office.
But the efforts of the Gulf states to arm the Syrian opposition are insufficient to set the conflict on a definitive course, especially given the heavy weapons that the Assad regime has at its disposal.
Stalin had created a command economy that emphasized heavy manufacturing and smokestack industries, making it highly inflexible – all thumbs and no fingers.
Economic globalization created turmoil throughout the world at the end of the twentieth century, but the Western market economies were able to re-allocate labor to services, restructure their heavy industries, and switch to computers.
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