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The impact of exchange-rate movements on inflation in most countries is thus 3-4 times larger than in the US.
For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.
Analysts who focused only on those elements of China's or South Korea's experience that fit their beliefs missed the larger story that these countries were undergoing massively heterodox experiments.
For example, federal spending relative to GDP fell by five percentage points from the mid-1980’s to the late 1990’s in the US, and by an even larger margin in recent decades in Canada – that is, through periods of strong economic growth.
Obama, by contrast, would run larger deficits – his spending increase is much larger than his tax increase – which imply large tax hikes in the future.
Moreover, he would run far larger debt ratios than Romney, because the main driver of the debt is entitlement spending.
With larger deficits under Obama than under Romney, America would need more capital from Europe, Latin America, and Asia, while higher taxes and debt would impede US growth and thus undermine these regions’ exports.
The convergence of interest rates was broken when a newly elected government in Greece revealed that the deficit incurred by the previous government was much larger than had been reported.
The problem for Ban is his diffident manner, which stands in stark contrast with that of his predecessor, Kofi Annan, a larger than life secretary-general who dominated the scene through his flair, eloquence, and star power.
So the Red Army invaded Hungary – on a scale larger than the Allies’ D-Day invasion of Europe in 1944.
Of course, the US is much larger than England, and its old industrial cities are much farther apart.
Ideological sloganeering allowed him to kill in larger numbers than any serial killer could imagine, and all in the name of justice.
Cyprus has long been divided between the Greek Cypriot majority in the south and the Turkish Cypriot minority in the north; it is thus in some sense a miniature of the larger and long-standing conflict between Greece and Turkey.
Indeed, the Turks have made clear that the Cyprus question is really a sub-plot of the much larger question of the whole relationship between Turkey and Europe.
No amount of finessing of the Cyprus question will dispose of the much larger question of Turkey's relationship to Europe.
"Free" education is not really free, because a university student from out of town must pay for accommodation, food, and other services -- in Poland these costs are equal to a sum larger than half of the average salary.
In any case, it only ever worked for the larger states.
To address developing countries’ high currency demands, while enhancing their role in the creation of international money, a formula could be created to give them a larger share in SDR allocations than they now receive.
Without the development of reserves, countries will need to revert to liquid fuels, at higher cost and larger carbon dioxide emissions.
Despite the European Commission’s good intentions, the EU’s larger members continue to resist submitting to a common EU energy policy.
Moreover, it is highly unlikely that Italy, for example, would pay a lower risk premium if it ran larger deficits.
As a result, we have achieved a larger reduction in the structural deficit than any other major advanced economy.
The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains.
As they come out of their cyclical recessions, incomes will rise, leading to increased imports and even larger current-account deficits.
At the same time, India has long advocated for the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility,” which holds that the industrialized countries that have contributed the most to global warming have a larger obligation to address it.
By this reasoning, Putin could drive an even larger wedge between Britain and Europe, thus advancing his longstanding goal of undermining European solidarity.
These trends point to an even larger danger: a loss of trust in the system.
German wavering on Kohl’s legacy is a trend that is larger than any single issue.
The Spanish case is symptomatic of a larger problem.
After all, the country is surrounded by larger, supposedly hostile states, and it has no allies on which it can rely to come to its defense.
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