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The insurrection, which continues to this day, and Indian security forces’ response to it have caused great loss of life and property, and have all but wrecked the state’s economy, which is largely dependent on tourism.
At a time when dam building has largely petered out in the West – and run into growing grassroots opposition in other democracies like Japan and India – China will remain the nucleus of the world’s mega-dam projects.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia’s last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project – the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet – to begin shortly.
This is largely, though not entirely, the fault of the European colonialists who, in the death throes of their own empires, created artificial states ripening for dissolution.
But America’s sporadic, erratic, and largely ineffective deployment of power is hardly of Martian quality.
The informal financial sector – which conducts 40% of India’s total lending, largely in rural areas – has all but collapsed.
More ominously, the PO’s leader, Grzegorz Schetyna, remains unpopular at a time when politics is driven largely by spectacle and the strength of individual personalities.
In the interim, the NTC has largely survived on international aid and from the unfreezing of Libyan assets by foreign governments.
Short on skilled experts, a post-Qaddafi Libya risks becoming dependent on foreign assistance, much like the Palestinians, who live largely from international aid rather than from their own economic activity.
ISIL explicitly directed the video to both Japan’s government and its citizens, evidently hoping that the largely pacifist Japanese would press their leaders to back down.
Furthermore, policymakers at the national and state levels must address India’s massive food waste – an issue that they have largely ignored.
Diseases that do not create potential growth markets are largely ignored.
In the 1990s, Italy’s largely bipartisan system disintegrated when Christian Democracy was engulfed by corruption scandals and the Communist Party was pulled apart by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Putin does not want to preside over a country with a declining population and a footprint that is largely Asian.
This phenomenon, too, can be blamed largely on distortionary policies.
In practice, this will mean choosing political figures who have credibility among both Syria’s Sunni majority and the Alawite and other minorities whose members have largely turned to Assad for protection.
The successes of populist/right wing parties can largely be attributed to the failures of left-leaning governments.
This, the official doctrine of most developed countries today, contains at least five major fallacies, which pass largely unnoticed, because the narrative is so plausible.
Those policies pushed up prices of assets – especially bonds and equities – that were held largely by wealthy households.
They have succeeded in setting up a largely informal learning environment, focusing mainly on truly interactive learning.
Coordination within the eurozone (for example, through the excessive-imbalance procedure, which might now be applied to Germany) seems largely insufficient if the aim is to help the peripheral countries.
Capital inflows – which will undoubtedly increase in the coming years – are driven largely by investors’ interest in diversification and high yield, rather than the country’s image as a refuge from troubled financial markets elsewhere, especially given that China’s financial markets are relatively underdeveloped and beset by considerable risks.
Nor, apart from a largely ignored National Human Rights Commission report in 2012, has there been any significant domestic truth-finding, let alone a reconciliation process or reparations.
These programs are largely benefits for middle-class seniors and not welfare programs targeted at the relatively poor.
A new public-opinion survey by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) reveals that anti-immigrant sentiment stems largely from misinformation, not entrenched animus.
The greatest chance for influence was missed in 1992, when the West failed to provide financial backing for the young and inexperienced but largely honest reformers led by Yegor Gaidar.
Northern Europe’s political elites, largely social or Christian democrats, have often been dismissive of such fears, and their paternalism and condescension may be why the backlash in those liberal countries has been particularly fierce.
The nineteenth-century European bourgeoisie was a largely rentier class, and few questioned their work effort.
And, though the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) lowered the reserve ratio in November 2011, and some fiscal stimulus was provided, the government largely refrained from more expansionary economic policies to boost growth.
While the April G-20 summit in London produced more economic-policy agreement than expected, this was largely because the most divisive issue – the US and British demand for more global stimulus spending – was removed from the table beforehand.
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