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All of these actions are welcome; but we view them as being only initial steps.
The post-revolutionary government’s initial narrative characterized Egypt’s economic malaise as temporary and self-correcting.
Controversy continues to this day as to who was actually responsible for the initial coup.
Even startups that make some initial headway struggle to scale up in the B2B sector.
And now China has doubled down on its effort to secure a controlling role in the new bank by increasing its initial investment from a planned $50 billion to $100 billion.
Indeed, even doubling its initial investment will not give China a majority stake in the world’s newest multilateral lender.
Even a partial reversal of this long regressive trend for wealth and income would fund a modest initial basic income.
But while donations may help stimulate initial demand, a more deliberate market approach will be needed to achieve price reductions.
For example, when initial reports surfaced about the first swine flu cases, it took three weeks for the information to reach federal health authorities, because state governments were reluctant to report cases quickly due to political and electoral considerations.
In that case, the trade balance would improve over time, following an initial deterioration.
On mainland China, Alibaba recently made history by raising $25 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering to date.
Moreover, the relative abundance of well-educated workers implies low initial wages and the ability to compete internationally in labor-intensive manufacturing activities – for example, in footwear, textiles and garments, and electronic assembly – which can form the basis for export-led industrialization.
Matters came to a head in August this year, when an initial public offering in India of SKS, a microfinance institution started by Vikram Akula, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, raised roughly $ 350 million.
IUWM efforts require a significant initial investment, and come with steep capital and operational costs.
In decades to come, China can no longer sustain the cost advantages that defined its initial period of export success.
Initial restructuring agreements tend to fall short of the magnitude needed to achieve debt sustainability.
NEW YORK – In recent days, the initial New Year optimism of many investors may have been jolted by fears of an economic slowdown resulting from interest-rate hikes.
Benazir Bhutto’s GambleAs the initial shock of the terrorist attacks against Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto fade, it is becoming clear that they were a political boon for her, triggering a wave of public sympathy that extends well beyond her local Sindh stronghold.
Though initial compensation is very modest (perhaps $100 per month), the experience and training can put these young workers on a path toward further education (such as nursing), rising skills, and higher incomes.
Needless to say, these efforts were ineffective, and European banks’ share prices have declined by 50%, on average, since the initial 2014 assessment.
For example, one of the studies that we reviewed found that no standard therapy in the initial or secondary phase of treatment was associated with an unsuccessful outcome or death.
Patients who feel better after the initial treatment may also fail to complete therapy.
Many revolutions have passed through an initial “quiet” period after an early phase of radicalism, only to experience a resurgence of radicalism 15-25 years later.
This is because the initial quiet period is often marked by corruption and a retreat from revolutionary goals, leading idealists to feel that the revolution is losing its way.
China’s initial globalization “dividend,” accrued through low factor costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era – characterized by reliance on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high-level factors of production, such as technology and human capital – is just beginning.
Work to clarify certain aspects of the government’s initial declaration about its weapons program is ongoing; but 1,300 metric tons of chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard and precursors for deadly nerve agents, have been accounted for and destroyed under the watchful eyes of OPCW inspectors.
Indeed, despite the magnitude of the initial shock, capital flows and risk margins had essentially normalized by 2009, when bond financing in Latin America began to surge, soon reaching triple the pre-2008 average.
The response to Hezbollah’s initial aggression, as well as Israel’s military response in Gaza, is disproportionate.
After a very slow initial recovery, real GDP began growing at annual rates of more than 4% in the second half of 2013.
The increase in profits leads to more investment, which will increase demand for labor, thereby reversing the initial fall in wages.
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