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Under plausible assumptions – namely that the wealthy save enough – the ratio of inherited wealth to income (or wages) continues to increase as long as r, the average rate of return to capital, exceeds g, the growth rate of the economy as a whole.
Germany succeeded -- to greater and lesser degrees -- in managing the transformation of the SOEs it inherited because of the wealth of West Germany.
As soon as these elites gained power, they became unwilling to surrender any of the state authority they inherited.
The opposition inherited a bankrupt country whose institutions are in ruins.
When sub-Saharan African countries gained independence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, their leaders inherited bankrupt states with no access to international capital markets.
Georgia Splits the KremlinMOSCOW – Dmitry Medvedev inherited the post of President of the Russian Federation from Vladimir Putin, and while Putin moved down the pecking order to become Prime Minister, speculation has abounded from the start of Medvedev’s presidency about an eventual split between Russia’s two highest leaders.
Mindful of a long history of failed attempts at economic “shock therapy,” Macri decided to fix the fiscal mess he inherited only gradually.
Why India Should Scrap Parliamentary DemocracyNEW DELHI – India’s parliamentary system, inherited from the British, is rife with ineffiencies.
Whatever his motivation, Trump has now inherited the perennial North Korea problem – a recurring global crisis that has been on every US president’s list of foreign-policy concerns since the 1980s.
Beyond North Korea, Trump has also inherited difficult challenges elsewhere in East Asia.
As the cleavages inherited from the military years fade and the ideological ocean that once separated left and right becomes a navigable river, there is potential for coalition reshuffling.
Genes are the basic unit of heredity, and, unless you are an identical twin, the combination of genes inherited from your parents is unique to you.
Such a hybrid, tradition-bound system may function well enough in Asian societies like Japan or South Korea, but not in countries like Poland, which must modernize and demystify their state in order to throw off the inherited inertia of the socialist era.
We need to know how organisms develop and reproduce, what is inherited and how it is inherited, and how heritable variations are generated.
Moreover, the cells’ features are inherited in their respective cell lineages, even though the stimuli that triggered the differences between them during embryonic development are long gone.
The work of Michael Skinner and his colleagues provides a good example of this: they found that injecting pregnant rats with a chemical that suppresses androgens (male sex hormones) causes their descendants to have diseases that are inherited for several generations.
President Mohamed Morsi’s government struggled to address Egypt’s inherited economic and social crises in the face of the enormous public expectations created by the 2011 revolution, whose protagonists sought not only freedom, but also economic development and social justice.
Obama inherited messy and expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and an economy in meltdown.
And it is still common to hear autocratic leaders who inherited parts of the Western empires claim that democracy is all well and good, but the people are not yet ready for it.
In fact, in all of the strategic challenges to US security that Obama inherited – Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – he has made virtually no significant political gains.
By contrast, when President Barack Obama took over in 2009, he inherited from George W. Bush an economy sinking into a deep recession.
China is now at the same point as its Southeast Asian neighbors 20 years ago: like them, it has outgrown its inherited growth model.
To put it simply, President Barack Obama’s administration has inherited the neoconservative philosophy of regime change in the Middle East.
The value of inherited government debts remains intact, and, aside from a handful of obligations to so-called junior creditors, bank debts also remain untouched.
This simple fact creates a fundamental contradiction for the internal devaluation strategy: the more that countries reduce wages and costs, the heavier their inherited debt loads become.
By then, Obama would have almost doubled the government debt-to-GDP ratio from an inherited safety zone of 40% to a danger zone of almost 80%, a level not seen since the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Lula did not invent conditional cash transfers: he just expanded and changed the name of a program that he inherited.
He inherited a financial system on the verge of collapse.
From its Communist ancestor, the PD inherited a deep-seated credo as “a party both of struggle and government.”
The first and formal answer is that China inherited historical territorial claims, including a map from the Nationalist period that sketches a “nine-dotted line” encompassing virtually the entire South China Sea.
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