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So now rich countries want to feel magnanimous for “forgiving” debts that should have been given as outright grants in the first place.
The Bush administration has put outright grants at the center of its foreign-assistance policy, a commitment that is embodied in its new aid agency, the “Millennium Challenge Account.”
Rouhani was elected to a second term barely seven months ago, securing an outright majority of 57% of the vote amid high turnout.
The average Beijing resident would have to save all of his or her income for 34 years before to be able to purchase an apartment outright.
So the bookmakers have 2:5 odds on no party gaining an outright majority, and 10:11 on either Labour or the Conservatives winning the largest number of seats.
Conservatives will hammer away on the economy, as they did in 1992, the last time that they won an election outright.
The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.
This helped to advance development, though it also created space for local officials to take advantage of fringe benefits – a practice that later morphed into outright corruption.
Unlike in Hungary, with its Jobbik party, outright fascism has no standing in Poland.
Now, however, it may try to stop the European Central Bank’s so-called outright monetary transactions (OMT) program (the ECB’s pledge to buy, without limit, the government bonds of troubled eurozone countries that subject themselves to the ESM’s conditions).
Only a couple – notably governance-challenged Venezuela – are in outright collapse; but many are teetering on the brink of recession.
Finally, there is a similar risk that Asia’s terrestrial and maritime territorial disagreements (starting with the disputes between China and Japan) could escalate into outright military conflict.
Predictions of outright default are far-fetched.
I have long advocated shifting the Bank’s center of gravity from lending to outright grants, a policy that the Bush administration strongly endorses.
But some countries qualified only through temporary measures – or outright cheating.
First, preventing an Iranian nuclear breakout, though a worthy goal, is not what politicians and pundits would necessarily regard as an outright victory.
Now the US faces the uncertainty of a presidential election, weaker parts of the eurozone continue to struggle, and Japan is teetering on the edge of outright economic contraction.
If we focus on real GDP and define a double dip as a historical sequence in which a period long enough to be declared a recession is followed by a period of recovery, and then quickly followed by a second outright recession, the 1980-1982 period in the US is a classic example.
If the economy declines again – a highly plausible prospect – we would have a triple dip, although perhaps not an outright second recession.
Putinism’s Authoritarian AllurePARIS – A surprising phenomenon is increasingly apparent in Western Europe: far-right parties are moving away from their traditional anti-communist and anti-Russia ideologies, with many expressing admiration – and even outright support – for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Still others urge outright invasion to overthrow it.
Now Draghi has signaled that, with the eurozone one or two shocks away from deflation, the inflation outlook may soon justify quantitative easing (QE) like that conducted by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England: outright large-scale purchases of eurozone members’ sovereign bonds.
Instead, the Tories won an outright majority, confounding pollsters and Keynesians alike.
In Benghazi, there are already calls for autonomy, if not outright independence.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
Both Japan and Switzerland have engaged in outright currency intervention in recent years, and the US itself may well join their ranks, when the strong dollar’s impact on US export competitiveness becomes untenable.
These, however, were never allowed to degenerate into the outright communal slaughter that the war in Sri Lanka has often produced.
After all, when Cameron asked at the December 2011 European Council meeting that UK financial services be exempted from common rules in exchange for British support for the EU’s new “fiscal compact,” Britain’s European partners dismissed the notion outright, viewing it as blackmail.
The increasing influence of jihadists in the rebel ranks made support for an outright opposition victory increasingly untenable.
The fear is that once wages and incomes begin to fall, the EU will move from the doldrums of recent years into an outright depression that could take decades to escape.
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