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Mass advertising is contributing to many other consumer addictions that imply
large
public-health costs, including excessive TV watching, gambling, drug use, cigarette smoking, and alcoholism.
Then came the age of the orator, when figures like David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald spoke directly to
large
crowds.
That, however, was out of the question: the AKP benefited from the rules put in place for the 2002 and 2007 general elections, in both cases converting pluralities of the popular vote into
large
parliamentary majorities.
A year later, China began to construct
large
artificial islands in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
Two wars and
large
defense budgets have given the Pentagon cash and clout to do things traditionally done by diplomats.
Clearly, plants located near tsunami-prone areas need to be reconsidered, and some countries have power plants in disturbingly close proximity to seismic faults – and to
large
cities.
School-age children form a
large
share of the world’s displaced population.
For a decade now, the world economy has suffered from tremendous global imbalances: massive external surpluses in countries like China, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and the oil producers, matched by equally
large
external deficits in the US, the United Kingdom, Spain, and others.
Even countries that practice inflation targeting and have otherwise vowed to let their exchange rates float – Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, for example – have done it, and in
large
quantities.
While
large
developing countries – such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China – can avoid such impositions from developed economies, most others cannot.
The challenge here lies in the fact that common deposit insurance is incompatible with banks’ current practice of holding very
large
amounts of their own government’s debt.
The threat of a
large
stick is the only language that the natives understand.
But do they know that Bo’s administration borrowed the equivalent of more than 50% of local GDP to finance the construction binge, and that a
large
portion of the debt will go unpaid?
One sure way of doing so is to use financial leverage, typically by selling land or using land as collateral to borrow
large
sums of money from often-obliging state-owned banks, to finance massive infrastructure projects, as Bo did in Chongqing.
It possesses a
large
arsenal of nuclear weapons, a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, enormous reserves of oil and other minerals, a recent record of robust economic growth, and more territory than any other country despite being only three-fourths the size of the former Soviet Union.
The country’s population now numbers less than Pakistan’s and is declining by 500,000 people per year, leaving
large
portions of its vast landmass mostly uninhabited.
The second paradox is that monetary expansion may be largely ineffective in the country that undertakes it, but can generate
large
negative externalities on others.
Similar processes are playing out in other
large
countries in the western part of the Islamic world.
By contrast, other
large
Muslim countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have succeeded in establishing political orders that serve all segments of highly diverse populations reasonably well.
The
large
countries in this part of the Islamic world – most notably Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey – are attempting to address four problems, the most challenging of which is to define Islam’s role in the political system.
If Sunnis triumph there, they may become more assertive in countries that have
large
Shia populations.
Although there are many explanations for the eurozone’s lagging recovery, it is clear that the overhang of both public and private debt looms
large.
By contrast, Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna argue that in an economy with a
large
and inefficient government, debt-stabilization measures directed at reducing the size of government can actually be expansionary.
Because many banks hold a
large
volume of eurozone government debt, the results will depend very much on how the ECB assesses sovereign risk.
As a result,
large
– and potentially unsustainable – stocks of private and public debt remain.
Their “state capitalism” – a
large
role for state-owned companies; an even larger role for state-owned banks; resource nationalism; import-substitution industrialization; and financial protectionism and controls on foreign direct investment – is the heart of the problem.
Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom
large.
But why would others seek to emulate an economic model by which a
large
proportion – even a majority – of the population has seen their income stagnate while incomes at the top have soared?
When economic inequality translates into political inequality – as it has in
large
parts of the US – governments pay little attention to the needs of those at the bottom.
And policies, like austerity, that increase insecurity and lead to lower incomes and standards of living for
large
proportions of the population are, in a fundamental sense, flawed policies.
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