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Japan’s stock market soared nearly 10%, though it has fallen a bit since.
Japan’s Government has been rather ineffective in cleaning up the mess, for example by delaying for nearly a decade the re-capitalization of Japanese banks.
The QE PlaceboBRUSSELS – It has now been nearly half a year since the European Central Bank declared its intention to buy some €1.1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) worth of eurozone bonds.
With such coincidences and contradictions arising in nearly every aspect of the QE debate, it seems that evaluating the policy’s effectiveness is more of an art than a science.
And combining that with the CBO estimate of a gain of about 50% would imply that the real income of the median household is up nearly 2.5% a year over the past 30 years.
Liberals are most needed when compromises have to be made, but not nearly as useful when faced with brute force.
Today, nearly a quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa’s lawmakers are women, up from just 10% in 1997.
The adverse economic impact implied by such efforts is not nearly as large as one might expect; in many cases, it could be more than offset by other kinds of commercial activities that take advantage of live sharks.
In nearly all strategic aspects of EU crisis management, Germany and France are blocking each other – although ironically, both are doing virtually the same thing.
Such was the scale of the necessary transition that neither modern macroeconomics, nor the International Monetary Fund’s nearly 50 years of experience, offered much guidance.
While the value-added tax will rise by three percentage points in 2007, economic growth will remain healthy, at nearly 2%.
Nearly one year ago, President George W. Bush declared his goal of bringing about a democratic Palestinian state, one prepared to live in peace beside Israel.
Over the past two decades, nearly 700 institutions of higher education on every continent have signed it.
Nearly 50 years ago, a statistically minded historian of science, Derek de Solla Price, observed that the best indicator of academic research production is a nation’s energy consumption per capita: both grow together.
With the US government’s access to global debt markets reducing the need to raise taxes, foreign governments now own nearly one-third of the US government’s $14 trillion debt.
This September, we have the potential to enroll nearly half the refugee children in our country in the public-school system.
The net result of these economic and demographic shifts is that a growing share of national income is now being directed to provide health, pensions, and other forms of basic support, while a declining percentage of citizens in nearly every society is now working to support a growing number of fellow citizens.
Despite the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami of last February, Chile’s economy is already growing at close to 6%, and we have created nearly 300,000 new jobs in the first nine months of my administration – the highest in our country’s history.
After all, with three countries, there are three bilateral relationships; with ten, there are 45; and with 100 players, there are nearly 5,000.
Readers will detect here echoes of the “savings glut” argument popularized nearly a decade ago by the likes of former US Federal Reserve Board Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke.
According to one estimate, nearly half of all prescriptions for antibiotics in the United States are inappropriate or unneeded.
The decision, taken after nearly two years of highly technical and sometimes arcane negotiations, involved a set of measures that change the way quotas (which determine voting power in the IMF) are distributed.
But what is truly shocking is that nearly one billion people – including more than 80% of the populations of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Liberia, and Burundi – live below it.
Financial institutions chose to keep their money with the Fed instead of lending to the real economy, earning nearly $30 billion – completely risk-free – during the last five years.
But the balance sheet with respect to strengthening democracy isn’t nearly as favorable.
Outside of developed democracies, persistent lapses in inclusiveness are nearly always devastating for long-term growth and development, and often lead to violence and civil strife – a tendency that the Growth Report of the Commission on Growth and Development highlighted several years ago.
But this year’s 7% growth rate, which puts Brazil nearly on par with China and India, cannot be sustained, as it exceeds potential growth by a wide margin.
The refugee population alone now numbers in the millions, and is straining health-care systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey nearly to the breaking point.
Training programs in GCC national health systems today do not focus nearly enough on innovation or systems thinking to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands.
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