Magnitude
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Fortunately, such efforts have usually been too small in
magnitude
to do significant economic destruction.
The
magnitude
of this agenda must be seen against the region’s depressing legacy.
The world’s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and
magnitude
of the likely global slump becomes clear.
When a potential or actual loss of confidence in the currency threatens to bring about large capital outflows, intervention usually takes the form of sales of foreign-exchange reserves to mitigate the
magnitude
or speed of depreciation.
If policymakers are not careful – and lucky – the
magnitude
of this risk will increase significantly in the years ahead.
Nevertheless, despite these signs of progress, we are failing to confront the
magnitude
of the challenge, particularly in the translation of global agreements into legislation and action at the national and regional levels.
The IPCC report makes it clear that exaggerations of this
magnitude
have no basis in science – though clearly they frightened people and perhaps will win Gore an Academy Award.
Poverty, combined with higher birth rates, means that the
magnitude
of Roma hardship will grow in coming years.
Each has played a key role in pushing the reform agenda forward, working for salaries that are orders of
magnitude
smaller than what they earned before.
The lesson is that the
magnitude
of transaction costs and contracting costs ultimately determine much of an economy's structure.
Thus, the
magnitude
of subsidies needed in a decade or two will be lower than they are today.
It is impossible to overstate the
magnitude
of the challenges Rwanda confronted in the aftermath of the genocide.
The same angst that Americans and Europeans have about the future of jobs is an order of
magnitude
higher in Asia.
The
magnitude
of the fiscal adjustment effort being demanded of Greece is now well known.
And the
magnitude
of the impact they assess is considerable.
They have overstated the
magnitude
of aggregate gains from trade deals, though such gains have been relatively small since at least the 1990s.
The lack of consensus on the
magnitude
of the problem, and gaps in legislative coverage, only serves to deepen the holes into which vulnerable populations stumble while attempting to make a living through artisanal e-waste mining.
No other country had a stock market panic of similar magnitude, in large part because no other country had experienced the euphoric run-up of stock prices that sucked large numbers of Americans, from very different backgrounds, into financial speculation.
But, as with any change of such magnitude, there are holdouts.
The stunning
magnitude
of recent declines cannot be dismissed as a one-day anomaly caused by a technical trading glitch.
This conservation of the protein fold across species makes the origin of our complexity even more puzzling, as it is well known that the number of human genes is deceptively small, merely one order of
magnitude
larger than that of, say, rice.
Thus, humans (or mammals) have significantly smaller (ten or more orders of magnitude) populations than bacteria.
The fault was not only in the
magnitude
of the tax cut, but also in its design; by directing the cuts at upper-income Americans, it provided little economic stimulus.
It then cites “global current account imbalances,” particularly “the US external deficit,” describing it as “unprecedented for a reserve currency country to have a current account deficit of such magnitude.”
The BIS hints at the possibility of a financial crisis that, with the US at its center, would dwarf by at least an order of
magnitude
all crises that have occurred since 1933.
But this historical pattern is more a statement about the
magnitude
of the initial decline and the time needed to recover fully than a prediction about the annual rate of growth during the recovery phase.
I served on the International Panel for Climate Change in the mid-1990’s, reviewing the scientific evidence concerning the
magnitude
of increases in greenhouse gasses and their economic and social consequences.
The consequences could be similar in
magnitude
to a large-scale terrorist attack.
Of course, excuses are at hand: the
magnitude
of the economic downturn was not anticipated and the increased expenditures to fight terrorism could not be foretold.
Without a vast, highly coordinated global effort, how could we possibly cope with sea-level rises on that order of
magnitude?
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