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A multiplier of two would generate $480 billion of extra spending, compared to a multiplier of one, which would generate just the initial $240 billion.
Northeast Asia’s Home Fires BurningTOKYO – Successful diplomatic summits are almost always pre-cooked affairs, with every aspect of the meeting, from the initial handshakes to the final communiqué, minutely choreographed.
So, either the initial 2.5% forecast was too high or the increase of one percentage point is too large.
Initial research efforts will focus on increasing the country’s tax collection, improving its education system, and boosting its renewable-energy sector.
With initial capital of just $100 billion, it is too small to make a major contribution to global infrastructure needs.
Shevardnadze's initial term did bring a liberal foreign investment code and the foundation of a state based on the rule of law.
In order to shift firms’ emphasis from minimizing initial costs to maximizing total value, while ensuring the protection of people’s health and well-being, governments should change their tendering processes by implementing requirements for circularity, thereby helping to drive demand for new solutions.
But even with such favorable initial conditions in “stocks,” the combination of record or near-record twin deficits financed through reserve losses and US dollar-denominated debt has led to a spate of credit-rating downgrades, with the most recent coming from Fitch last week.
And some initial coordinated action has been taken in the WHO global action plan.
African policymakers will need to go beyond the initial framework that has already been agreed under the CFTA, to identify sectors that can be brought into the fold of a wider, integrated services market.
Many rebel commanders take issue with the Kurds’ attempt to exploit the Syrian uprising, whose initial goal was to end nearly five decades of oppression, to advance their own interests.
I predict that EMU will be launched with an initial success that will confound its worst critics, but that the success will be followed by years of difficult challenges that will confound EMU’s most optimistic supporters.
Making large initial investments would help tip the economic, political, and social dynamics away from xenophobia and disaffection, and toward constructive outcomes that benefit refugees and the recipient countries alike.
ECOM manages the farms for three years, giving a share of the profits back to the farmers while recouping initial start-up costs.
But China has attained much higher GDP growth than the OECD economies, driven largely by the rapid productivity gains that characterize the initial “catch up” phase of emerging-market development.
Foreign governments and domestic businesses objected to the initial across-the-board tariff, and so did the stock market, through its negative reaction.
His initial commitment to “zero conflicts with neighbors” has led, instead, to deteriorating relations with Armenia, Russia, Israel, and Egypt – not to mention significant domestic blowback, including a wave of terrorist attacks, from involvement in Syria’s civil war.
But Egypt’s revolution is one whose initial stage ended with power fully in the hands of the old regime’s repressive apparatus.
The authorities have taken initial steps to tighten fiscal policy by announcing significant cuts in the approved budget, but it is estimated that even then, central-government spending will rise by about 4% in real terms in 2011 from its historically high level in 2010.
The initial success of revolutions is determined less by the strength of the protesters than by the will and cohesion of the regime.
When their initial gathering ends, they will host their counterparts from across the region, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
There are encouraging initial signs that Sarkozy is ignoring calls from the neo- liberal camp for revolutionary change.
Initial damage to the confidence of the business class caused by higher taxes on the wealthy would be balanced by the prospect of higher overall consumption.
This committee will use the background paper prepared by the IMF to determine Cuba’s initial quota, as well as the other terms and conditions of membership.
The initial discovery arose from the assumption that chimpanzees, so close in evolution to humans, could not be as "individualistic" as Western science supposed.
The same initial assumption led Imanishi in 1952 to suggest that animals might have culture, which he reduced to its lowest common denominator: the social rather than genetic transmission of behavior.
After the war, under America’s protection and initial guidance, Japan emerged as a champion of a rule-based international system.
Initial reactions to North Korea’s nuclear test were uniformly critical, culminating (thus far) in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which condemns the test, demands that North Korea resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and imposes a range of military, political, and economic sanctions.
The initial approach was to link policy improvements in the borrowing countries not only with help from international institutions, but also with additional lending from the banks – which seemed to defy the most elementary canons of sensible bank behavior.
Three years after the outbreak of the Latin American crisis, United States Treasury Secretary James Baker announced a systematization of the initial response.
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