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In fact, the initial increase in the number of reported deaths from these diseases most likely reflected better identification and diagnosis.
But, as Susan Bayley, a "Subaltern" convert, puts it, "the initial premise is that even in parts of the Hindu heartland of Gangetic upper India, the institutions and beliefs which are often described as the elements of traditional caste were only taking shape as recently as the early 18 th century."
But none of this will avert the need for public bailouts when the next crisis hits, out of fear that financial contagion will amplify the initial market reaction.
Eventually, America pays a thousand times more for its initial lack of interest than it would have paid had it become engaged at the outset of crisis or, better yet, even before.
For three decades, the dividends from Deng Xiaoping’s initial decision to open China’s economy to market forces, and to the world, have fueled rapid growth.
Today, however, the catalytic power of Deng’s initial changes has waned, with rising wages, weakening external demand, and increasing competition from other emerging economies indicating the exhaustion of a growth model premised on exports and investment.
As a result, Abdullah’s initial proposal has been diluted, so much so that, by the time of the Arab foreign ministers meeting held in Cairo on 8 March, the phrase “full normalisation” was watered down to the more amorphous phrase “full peace,” the meaning of which no one knows.
The initial proposal to impose a one-time tax on accounts holding less than €100,000 came not from the European Union or from Germany, but from the Cypriot government, which must have known that it was likely to generate outrage, and that the Cypriot parliament would never vote for it.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that in America people have to prove themselves continually, whereas in traditional Korean society people have only to prove themselves once, then they can be set for life due in large measure to the network of crony contacts that initial success will have provided.
Similarly, studies from other countries show that entrepreneurs often have lower initial earnings and earnings growth than they would have as employees.
In this scenario, as with 9/11, the initial market correction would end up being a buying opportunity.
The efficiency of the initial American military invasion of Iraq in 2003 created admiration in the eyes of some foreigners.
The Internet, by contrast, evolved in a bottom-up way, managing to escape the telecommunication giants’ initial appeals for regulation.
And, with benefits ten times greater than initial costs, investing in health first may ultimately pay for the rest of the new global development agenda.
His initial daytime job, after running Britain, was to bring peace to the Middle East by helping establish the governing institutions of a Palestinian state.
If their combined impact more than outweighs the initial contractionary effect of expenditure cuts, then the economy may well pick up after a round of fiscal tightening.
The entrepreneur who makes the initial "discovery" can capture only a small part of the social value that this knowledge generates, as other entrepreneurs will quickly emulate him.
Using an initial period of growth to experiment and innovate on these fronts can pay high dividends later on.
However sudden the initial displacement, the impact can last for generations, together with a long-term need for clean water, shelter, health care, and other basic services, as victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998 know from bitter experience.
The government’s initial policies aimed at raising aggregate demand focused on major infrastructure spending, including roads and mass transit.
Until recently, that might have been unthinkable, so the new borrowers’ initial bond issue should be viewed as a sign of great investor confidence.
Indeed, Jacques Chirac in 2002 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017 each received the support of practically everyone on the initial ballot, across the political spectrum, because none was willing to allow a xenophobic candidate to win the presidency.
But, despite this initial success, the GGE has limitations.
Despite initial denials by the Kremlin, China early this year did buy two modern destroyers along with anti-ship missiles from Russia.
Some claim that infrastructure spending creates a big Keynesian “multiplier,” a bigger increase in incomes than the initial spending (estimates range up to about 1.5 times the initial increase in spending).
It would not be a surprise if the US Securities and Exchange Commission determined that a great deal of recent money-raising activity (known as Initial Coin Offerings) in this industry actually amounts to the issuance of securities, which would trigger the application of various rules and requirements.
Bernanke, after an initial stumble—a rookie mistake as one commentator put it--appears to be following in his predecessor Alan Greenspan’s footsteps.
Saudi Arabia’s initial response to the fracturing of the regional order was to increase its support for those of its allies – Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain – that were still standing, and to turn the Egyptian army into its proxy, leading to the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s government.
Indeed, a major flaw in the initial European Stability and Growth Pact was that it did not include such corrections (I was among those advocating its reform in a 2003 report to the president of the European Commission).
While the initial public offering is expected to happen in 2018, the timing – not to mention the approach the government will take – remains far from certain.
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