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At the same time, to restart an economy’s growth and employment engines, other measures are needed, and vary somewhat across countries, owing to different initial conditions.
All of the relevant players – including those, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that are not sitting at the table but whose presence is very much felt – are clinging to their initial positions.
The pound has since declined 20% from that initial peak, and it has declined similarly relative to the euro.
Despite initial progress, eradication programs crumbled as donors, governments, and populations grew tired and turned their attention elsewhere, allowing malaria to resurge to devastating levels.
A country with a large initial trade deficit would expect to see its currency decline relative to the euro, say, to 1.2 “new francs” per euro, which would make its products 20% cheaper than products in other euro countries and would make imports more expensive.
The initial phases of Turkey’s crisis were a replay of past emerging-market currency crises.
The CFTA will comprise a market of more than a billion people with an initial GDP above $3 trillion.
One thing we know from the Latin American episodes is that the answer depends, first of all, on initial conditions.
After initial uncertainties, there was soon a clear and widely recognised vision of where the country should go.
Hong Kong’s Independence TrapLONDON – Nearly 40 years ago, when I visited Moscow for the first time, my initial reaction was surprise.
Indeed, in the weeks that followed the initial announcement of the pivot (which came just as the 2012 US election campaign was getting under way), China-bashing by American officials got worse.
Based on these initial calculations, the additional lending capacity generated would be significantly larger than total disbursements currently made by existing multilateral development banks.
Amid Trump’s initial moves to “shake up” Washington, DC, including a five-year lobbying ban and approvals of pipelines that President Barack Obama had blocked, he has made some serious – and avoidable – mistakes.
In any case, Trump’s initial meetings with the leaders of the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Israel were positive.
His initial policy proposals and decisions may reflect his actual goals, but can also be presented in a particular way as a negotiating tactic or a media strategy.
In October, UN inspectors took initial steps to destroy Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpiles and facilities, with the government’s full cooperation.
But Germany’s reforms took place in a much healthier global economy, and, when the initial divergences are large, it may take too long to restore growth.
But the initial spurt in growth can be achieved with minimal changes in institutional arrangements.
But politicians may need two steps: an initial failure to agree, and then a quick deal in response to the resulting financial-market convulsions.
Ahtisaari’s bold proposal, which recommends Kosovo’s independence with initial supervision by a strong international civilian and military presence, is the only viable option for the international community, and for Europe in particular.
This transformation has become a virtuous circle where initial growth has spiraled into greater growth, leading to more growth.
Initial subsidies were required to drive the dramatic cost reductions now benefiting wind and solar power.
M.V. Lee Badgett, an economist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, presented the initial findings of a study of the economic implications of homophobia in India at a World Bank meeting in March 2014.
In hindsight, these exchange-rate swings mirrored the initial collapse and subsequent rebound in global trade, helping to mitigate the recession.
The government’s initial intention was to deflect radical demands for an extreme version of Islamic governance.
And tentative evidence suggests that they are delivering some initial tangible benefits to the euro area’s economy.
The envoy who had perhaps the greatest impact was former US Secretary of State James Baker, who ushered the process beyond discussion of a referendum on Western Saharan independence – the initial focus of the talks – toward broader, more flexible solutions.
He was not able to do as much damage to the US as he hoped, but he managed to dominate the world agenda for a decade, and the ineptness of the initial American reaction meant that he could impose larger costs on the US than were necessary.
The police dismissed an initial court order demanding that Biti be produced before the court.
Because there is no regulation requiring that initial sequencing of human genomes be performed to clinical standards, most sequencing does not meet laboratory-test criteria.
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