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However, from a long-term perspective, Africa should be
optimistic.
Indeed, ensuring universal access to pre-primary, primary, and secondary school in low-income and lower-middle-income countries will cost roughly $210 billion by 2020 – a figure that does not fall by much, even according to the most
optimistic
estimates.
But counting on this investment may be excessively
optimistic.
Young people were far more
optimistic
about the future, their personal prospects, and technology’s potential – and far more empathetic toward marginalized groups.
Despite their legitimate fears of military escalation in the South China Sea, Southeast Asia’s citizens remain
optimistic
that a peaceful, diplomatic resolution will be achieved, and that China will fulfill its commitment to forge a code of conduct for activities in ASEAN’s maritime heartland.
Of course, not everyone would share this
optimistic
vision.
Recent progress shows that we should be
optimistic
about achieving these targets.
The first possibility is rather optimistic: financial markets don’t think there could be another financial crisis during the life of the existing debt.
That is why I remain
optimistic
about the future of the US-Japan alliance.
Moreover, this estimate is undoubtedly too
optimistic.
The McKinsey Global Institute’s latest research is
optimistic
that China’s strategy will succeed.
As such, this “what if” is a cautiously
optimistic
assessment of the downside risks stemming from weak external demand.
Brexit voters are so
optimistic
because they were told (most prominently by current Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson) that Britain could “have our cake and eat it” – a new deal that would preserve all of the economic benefits of EU membership with none of the obligations or costs.
Obama’s aides have confessed that he modeled his own election program on the sunny and
optimistic
decency of the Republican actor.
My trip took place in April 2002, a somewhat
optimistic
time.
Why an American Recovery MattersMILAN – It is hard to be
optimistic
about America at present.
Under the assumption that the incoming Trump administration will ultimately refrain from triggering a trade war, they moved fast to price in
optimistic
prospects for higher real growth, higher inflation, and more money entering the financial markets.
Unfortunately, the Board’s already-deep projected fall in real GNP is highly optimistic, because it relies on a number of implausible and/or controversial assumptions.
A proper assessment of the consequences of the fiscal policies demanded by the plan should focus not on a single value, but on a range of values based on plausible scenarios from an
optimistic
to a pessimistic bound.
But the forecast proved to be far too
optimistic.
Ukraine’s recent successes mirror a more
optimistic
mood in the EU.
Perhaps we will eventually see the emergence of a rival Fed Subway blog, though I am not
optimistic
about the prospects for an ECB U-Bahn blog anytime soon.
The belief that the fiscal multiplier is usually low may have contributed to underestimation of the short-run economic costs of austerity policies – and thus to persistently
optimistic
forecasts of growth and employment.
Such rhetoric makes it hard to be
optimistic
about the outcome of the summit.
Fortunately, the cost of doing nothing is too high for any business—and economies as a whole—to bear, which is why we are
optimistic
that eliminating gender bias at work is possible.
Even the most
optimistic
among us did not predict that the old fossil-fuel paradigm would change so quickly.
Perhaps the most
optimistic
note came from the emerging markets: while the risk of globalization was that it implied a new interdependence, so that flawed economic policies in the US and Europe could torpedo developing countries’ economies, the more successful emerging markets have managed globalization well enough to sustain growth in the face of failures in the West.
The
optimistic
(and I believe realistic) view is that the Chinese people, through a variety of channels, including social media, will weigh in, empowering reformers to push through a progressive agenda.
One such bias is the “optimism gap”: people tend to be more
optimistic
about their own circumstances than they are about those of others, or of society in general.
Thus, the consensus view that the global economy will soon bottom out has proven – once again – to be overly
optimistic.
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