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China has made the most progress in absolute terms, having lifted some 680 million people out of poverty from 1981 to 2010, with the share of its population living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day) plummeting from around 84% to 10% over that period.
From China to Bangladesh, textile and apparel manufacturing has facilitated female empowerment and lifted entire generations out of poverty.
In Sweden, the decline in GDP lasted for three years, and the economy was then lifted by a dramatic increase in exports, owing to the sharp depreciation of the krona, with annual industrial output rising by around 10% on average over two years.
In any case, the time to act is now: once the ban is passed by Congress and signed by the president, it is unlikely to be lifted any time soon.
But the Trump administration, eager to generate manufacturing jobs, has lifted Obama-era restrictions, announcing that it will sell $5 billion worth of fighter jets to Bahrain.
Indeed, almost all of the Asian centers have lifted their ratings, with Beijing rising the fastest, moving from 26th to 16th place.
A more competitive currency would be welcome: just as the sterling’s collapse since 2008 has lifted UK exports, a weaker euro would help Mediterranean economies regain competitiveness for price-sensitive exports.
Conservatives used both social media and their control of Iranian radio and television to highlight the dire economic situation and Rouhani’s unfulfilled promises that all international sanctions would be lifted after Iran agreed in 2015 to the nuclear deal with the United Nations (and by extension, the United States).
As sanctions are lifted, Iran will become stronger, challenging the influence of the Gulf States.
The Japanese ExperimentNEWPORT BEACH – After years of tweaks, Japan has now initiated a major shift in its policy paradigm, with reactions ranging from great optimism that the country may finally be lifted out of a quarter-century of economic stagnation, to concerns that the authorities’ dramatic change of course may in fact end up making things worse.
But huge progress was made: hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty, maternal mortality has been reduced by almost half, and millions more children are now in school.
Their success lifted a significant share of poor Brazilians into the middle class and made Brazil an attractive destination for foreign investors.
His charisma has not lifted confidence; on the contrary, the latest consumer and business surveys indicate weakening sentiment.
With sanctions lifted, however, the IMF now expects GDP growth to reach roughly 5% next year – a rate that would make Iran the Middle East’s best-performing economy.
The Vatican, having prohibited Italian Catholics from participating in the political life of newly united Italy for almost sixty years, lifted its ban.
Previously, Russia’s admission to the WTO had been blocked by Georgia, which lifted its veto last year after a feat of elegant diplomacy that established a border-control mechanism without recognizing the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia either as part of Georgia or as independent countries.
Hastily held elections lifted Kurmanbek Bakiyev to the presidency.
Sanctions should be lifted only when a credible investigation into the last three months of violence is permitted and a technocratic government is in place (at which point the EU and its member states should offer concrete economic assistance).
The dominoes toppled;GDP rose; millions were lifted out of poverty; literacy rates soared; child mortality figures fell.
Many people have been lifted out of poverty, and those with the right political connections have become enormously rich.
When the embargo was lifted and trade tariffs were reduced, US manufacturing floundered – until 1828, when new British tariffs boosted US manufacturing again.
Iran wants to know which sanctions might be delayed, frozen, or lifted in exchange for current and future concessions, fearing that the US will continue to impose sanctions on human-rights, security, or other grounds.
Many examples exist of countries that lifted themselves out of poverty, from South Korea to Costa Rica to Botswana.
In Manipur in 2002, the 1991 ban was lifted in five hill districts, where alcohol consumption is a centuries-old local tradition.
It has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since 1990, but another 400 million live on less that $2 per day.
A historical wave beyond his control had lifted the former KGB lieutenant colonel from out of the shadows to the pinnacle of power.
Two years later, with the EU sanctions imposed after the government's formation now lifted, it is time to assess the impact of this government on Austria's economy, the field where the ruling coalition's pre-election rhetoric promised the biggest changes.
Greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to reach a record high of 36 billion tons this year.That figure is expected to grow dramatically, as the great emerging-market boom of recent decades, which has lifted billions out of poverty and raised living standards around the world, puts increasing strain on the world’s environment and resources.
Between January 2016 and June 2018, an estimated 83 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty.
Indeed, by creating space for individual creativity and entrepreneurship, they unleashed a historically unprecedented period of rapid growth that lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty.
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