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Only 2-3% of North African countries’ modest foreign trade occurs within the region, so they have missed out on the surge in international business that over the last two decades has lifted billions of people out of backwardness and misery in Asia, Latin America, and even sub-Saharan Africa.
Consider this: in August 2014, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola crisis in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC); it lifted that status in March 2016.
For many years now, they have increased global security and certainly global prosperity, with hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty, both in the developed and the developing world.
When lifted out of poverty, most people can afford to avoid infectious diseases.
Throughout your trip, and in the years afterward, the mists that had obscured some incredibly simple yet powerful natural explanations lifted.
The hundreds of millions of Chinese who have been lifted out of poverty as a result of Deng’s reforms will in time regard him as a greater hero than Mao.
Images of dead, injured, and distraught young children filled the media on an almost daily basis: a small boy sitting stunned and bleeding after his home was bombed; small bodies being lifted out of rubble; and small graves on the Mediterranean shoreline that mark the deaths of unknown children.
For example, Turkey has lifted its objections to a role for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in negotiations to end the civil war in Syria.
How could they anticipate the Industrial Revolution, which lifted average annual global growth to 2.25% from 1820 to 2003?
This success lifted 800 million people out of poverty, and the mortality rate of children under five years old was halved between 2006 and 2015.
Then the Iron Curtain was lifted, and Albanians realized that the outside world had not spent decades plotting to invade their country.
But Deng also unleashed the market, setting the country on the path toward unprecedented growth and prosperity that ultimately lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty.
Rapid industrialization and development have lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty, but often at the cost of great human suffering.
An additional credit of roughly $10 billion is needed to raise Ukraine’s international reserves and stabilize its currency so that controls can be lifted.
Hu's move lifted bilateral relations out of the deep freeze, where China's previous leadership had consigned them following Koizumi's repeated visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, where the spirits of Japan's war dead, including Class A war criminals, are enshrined.
Our alien guest would most likely land in East Asia’s largest country, China, where three decades of phenomenal economic growth have lifted millions out of poverty and transformed Chinese society.
In exchange, international economic sanctions on Iran are to be lifted.
In the developed world, capitalism did transform almost everyone into a wage laborer, but it also lifted them out of poverty and made them more prosperous than Marx could have imagined.
In order to counteract suspicious behavior – such as traders requesting permission to invest amounts that are above their speculative-position limits – the Commission lifted exemptions for two firms trading in maize, wheat, and soybean futures.
South Korea, which has lifted itself up from the ranks of the world’s poorest countries to among its richest in just two generations, is living proof that education pays off.
And, having lifted some 470 million of its own citizens out of extreme poverty between 1990 and 2005, it also has the experience.
To be sure, pro-active anti-poverty programs, loose credit, a commodity-export boom, and heavy government spending (financed by an equally heavy tax burden) lifted millions out of poverty.
In particular, the same forces of globalization that have contributed to stagnant middle-class wages in rich countries have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty elsewhere.
Deng’s reforms eventually lifted 800 million people out of extreme poverty, but also created a society with greater income inequality than any European country (and much greater than the United States).
For starters, this is not the end of the American trade embargo, which can be lifted only by the US Congress.
Overcapacity vanished, constraints on consumption were lifted, and a dramatic increase in household demand followed.
By organising production efficiently, and directing it to the pursuit of welfare rather than power, it has lifted a large part of the world out of poverty.
But hundreds of millions of Africans have yet to be lifted out of poverty in the manner China has accomplished – a path that other Asian countries, such as India and Vietnam, are following as well.
Every village is to be lifted up in the next few years, empowered with the basic tools to become economically productive.
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