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The advanced countries are facing an immediate “aging” problem, but most of the emerging economies are also in the
midst
of a demographic transition that will result in an age structure similar to that of the advanced economies – that is, an inverted pyramid – in just two or three decades.
When a new center-left government took office in the
midst
of a recession in 1999, there was hope it would correct the excesses of the Menem years.
It remains to be seen whether the Bush administration, in the
midst
of an election, can be called to reason and persuaded that only a policy along the lines I have outlined stands a chance of stabilizing Iraq.
Bonds, stocks, and even dairy plants are highly liquid when everyone wants to buy them; the opposite is true when they are being dumped in the
midst
of a fire sale.
Reform cannot succeed in the
midst
of a conflict that bolsters extremists and hatred.
In the
midst
of a foreign-capital bonanza, stagnant levels of private investment in tradable goods are a particularly powerful danger signal that no amount of government mythmaking should be allowed to override.
The picture is clear: we are in the
midst
of a fight for freedom that has gone global.
The Global Economy in 2014GENEVA – At the dawn of a new year, the world is in the
midst
of several epic transitions.
France has not endured such political turmoil since 1958, when, in the
midst
of the Algerian War, General Charles de Gaulle came to power and crafted the Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
But errors in the
midst
of a vast and complex report by the IPCC point to the inevitability of human shortcomings, not to any fundamental flaws in climate science.
Debeaking the VulturesNEW YORK – In the
midst
of the ongoing dispute between Argentina and the “vulture funds” that hold its bonds, a broad consensus has emerged concerning the need for sovereign-debt restructuring mechanisms (SDRMs).
PRINCETON – In the
midst
of my Practical Ethics class last month, several students stood up and walked out.
The bank’s risk-management team, reputedly the best in the world, failed to identify a rogue trader in their
midst
until it was too late.
In the
midst
of World War II and the fight against fascism, Popper offered an alternative to the neo-tribalism of historicism: science and rationalist philosophy, or “the tradition of challenging theories and myths and of critically discussing them.”
Recall former UK justice minister Michael Gove’s remark in the
midst
of the Brexit debate: “people in this country have had enough of experts.”
In the
midst
of a financial crisis, it seems unbelievable that European citizens will bear the financial burden of paying off China and India.
For example, to make his threats of an interest-rate hike in the
midst
of a global slowdown credible, the ECB president is using his press conferences to tell the world how strong European growth is.
The Pig, the Wolf, and the DragonHONG KONG – Political mayhem has broken out in Hong Kong, and has caught China’s government, already in the
midst
of a delicate political transition of its own, completely unprepared.
At the end of February in Niamey, Niger’s capital, armed troops surrounded the presidential palace and arrested President Mamadou Tandja in the
midst
of a cabinet meeting.
We could also be in 1991, in the
midst
of Yugoslavia’s implosion, watching a multi-ethnic society divide into warring camps.
It was in the
midst
of this militarization of Ivorian politics that Laurent Gbagbo emerged as the main opposition leader.
Such monitoring has usually takes place on the ground, in the
midst
of depredations, and it can be very dangerous.
A superpower that has earned only frustration in its abortive efforts – whether war or regional diplomacy – in the dysfunctional Middle East, the US faces the Iran crisis in the
midst
of its epochal strategic shift to Asia and the Pacific.
China and the Global Financial CrisisGENEVA – Is China an island of stability in the
midst
of the gathering global financial storm, or will it, too, soon be sucked into the vortex?
But to decrease health expenditures on grounds of “cost-effectiveness” makes little sense in the
midst
of an epidemic.
NEWPORT BEACH – In a four-day period in mid-December, three seemingly unrelated developments suggested that modern central banking is in the
midst
of an historic change.
Freedom, Security, and TerrorismAmerica currently finds itself in the
midst
of a confused search for a central principle around which to organize its foreign and defense policies.
The Politics of Financial VolatilityLONDON – Twenty-four years ago, in the
midst
of an ugly US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s campaign manager neatly summed up his candidate’s message: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
In the
midst
of a crisis, no one knows how far an economy will drop or for how long.
In the
midst
of the 1997 crisis, a consensus developed that there was a need for a change in the global financial architecture: the world needed to do better in preventing crises and dealing with them when they occur.
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