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Most important, they should agree on
indicative
target dates – from five to 15 years – for achieving all of these initial objectives.
The 2.1% consumption growth trend realized during the anemic recovery of the past two years could well be
indicative
of what lies ahead for years to come.
It is also
indicative
of the need for new relationships based on understanding, tolerance, and respect for cultural diversity.
It may be
indicative
that on March 1, when Trump announced his steel and aluminum tariffs and the stock market tanked, the dollar strengthened.
Several ayatollahs opined that such talk about the Mahdi is unbecoming of a president or, worse,
indicative
of an unstable leader.
These suggestions are all
indicative
of central bankers’ instinctual desire to reduce complex decision-making to simple rules.
In early 2012, in his speech to the annual People’s Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao, explaining why the government’s
indicative
target for economic growth in 2012 was 7.5%, pointed out that the purpose was “to guide people in all sectors to focus their work on accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient.”
In fact, in order to create adequate space for changing the GDP-centered growth pattern, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan set an
indicative
target of 7% annual average GDP growth in 2010-2015.
The government has already issued a statement that Obama’s visit will not yield progress on the TPP,
indicative
of the prevailing lack of confidence in the measure.
It is
indicative
that the latest Pew Research Survey in late May reveals unanimity about who the least hardworking Europeans are: southerners, especially Greeks.
If fashioning such a path sounds difficult, it is
indicative
of the magnitude of the challenge these politicians face.
The Kremlin’s handling of the affair is
indicative
of the tense state of US-Russia relations.
For example, they track only those enterprises with more than ten employees, which represent less than 2% of the national total –
indicative
of the low quality of work in which the vast majority of Indians are engaged.
This voting geography is
indicative
of a deep economic, social, and educational divide.
The convergence is
indicative
of the growing sense of the need for fiscal and eventual political union if the euro is to be maintained without damage to economic performance or democratic values.
They are much more
indicative
of the final result than national polls.
These two factors justify Bernanke’s reappointment, but the faintness of praise is
indicative
of the deeper problems that his leadership has exposed.
The glaring discrepancy between the cost of treating illness and preventing death in Uganda and the US makes Trump’s proposed reduction in aid spending – especially on global health programs –
indicative
of deep disregard for the lives and wellbeing of people beyond the borders of the US.
The question is whether this proposal is
indicative
of a new regulatory race to the bottom – and, if so, what consequences investors might face.
The US effort to create two mega-regional free-trade zones – the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, neither of which includes China – is
indicative
of America’s priorities.
Its economy ruined by nearly 50 years of economic mismanagement under military rule, the only international rankings that it tops are those for most corrupt nation, world’s worst health system, and lowest spending on education – “accolades” that are sadly
indicative
of its people’s suffering.
The recent drop in prices is
indicative
of an unprecedented structural change in the energy sector – one that will have significant political implications for oil-producing countries.
The success of Christopher Caldwell’s recent essay “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” is
indicative
of this growing fear of “Islamization” – a fear heightened by the destabilizing impact of economic hard times.
Why not vote for the “real thing” if you can?But, beyond short-term and potentially counterproductive electoral politics, the debate about national identity is
indicative
of a state of mind that goes well beyond France.
The fact that Draghi chose to confront the orthodoxy at a moment when the ECB needs support for its own initiatives is
indicative
of his concern over the economic situation in the eurozone.
Another idea, put forward in a recent paper by Michel Aglietta and his colleagues, is to map out a path for an
indicative
price of carbon called its “social value” and provide green project developers a government-guaranteed carbon certificate representing the value of the corresponding emissions reduction.
In fact, a contemporary Chinese joke is very
indicative
of how the country perceives its role in today’s world.
To determine whether this event was
indicative
of a deeper pattern, Philip Hans Franses and I have studied how stock markets worldwide responded to preliminary estimates of quarterly GDP data from China (released first), the United States (released two weeks later), and Germany (released two weeks after that) in 2006-2009.
That includes the US, where I have found the Institute of Supply Management’s manufacturing index to be consistently accurate and
indicative
of underlying realities.
So taxes have to be related to some activity
indicative
of ability to pay taxes, and whatever activity it is will be discouraged as a result.
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