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The DPJ claimed that these candidates were too closely tied to the finance ministry, owing to long careers there, to act independently of it.
Indeed, it has simply taken new forms, partly owing to economic and technical progress - and with it an increase in available wealth - and partly owing to efforts aimed at allaying it.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, but was slow to act, owing to its desire in the 1980s for Pakistani support in fighting the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan.
Prices of both COFINA and general obligation bonds have steadily recovered, owing to a political game over disaster relief funds that has been playing out among the oversight board, the US Congress, and bondholders – a game that Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives joined a few days ago when it passed a bill to allow for the COFINA deal.
Indeed, China has blithely entered into business with African countries that Europe and America refuse to engage with, owing to sanctions.
While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.
The events were momentous, owing both to large and actively engaged audiences (more than a thousand in Yangon), and to the thoughtful and moving presentations by two world-famous Burmese economists who had left the country in the 1960’s and were back for their first visit in more than four decades.
But, when over-used by systemically vital firms, they can blow up the financial system, owing to its design defects.
Indeed, Germany’s economy is out-competing and out-growing the rest of Europe, largely owing to labor-market reforms and deregulation.
Sri Lanka has had to turn to the IMF for help, owing to the impact of excessive Chinese imports on its external accounts.
Advocates of this view argue that Iran is well positioned to make rebuilding easier, owing to its well-established infrastructure of personal and institutional ties in Iraq.
After all, when the euro was born, global financial markets were in turmoil, owing to the Asian crisis of 1997 and the Russian default of 1998.
The DOTS strategy is not implemented in all European countries, owing in part to disagreement about whether treatment is a duty or a right.
So far, enforcement has failed, owing to flaws in the eurozone’s foundations.
Unfortunately, progress has since stalled, owing to the vehement risk-aversion of regulators.
Nuclear energy presents a number of disadvantages, owing to concerns about safety and disposal of radioactive waste.
But, while Romney may summon bravado and strong rhetoric, other world leaders would be unlikely to follow him, owing to the belief (correct in my judgment) that he would take the US – and them – in the wrong direction.
The opposition Republican People’s Party has not won an election in four decades, owing largely to its failure to extend its voter base beyond its secular core.
If anything, they could operate even less democratically than traditional parties, owing to their strong plebiscitary forms of leadership.
Even without hot-money inflows, the renminbi’s exchange rate would face upward pressure, owing to the absence of corresponding outflows to finance the trade (saving) surplus.
China is therefore caught in a currency trap, owing to its own saving surplus (and America’s saving deficiency) and near-zero interest rates on dollar assets.
Private-sector flows have been much larger throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well, owing to attractive conditions for foreign direct investment – much of it comprising long-term projects with associated benefits like knowledge transfer and the introduction of international best practices.
Owing to their substantial market power and lobbying prowess, they now regularly engage in the kind of rent-seeking activities that were once the exclusive preserve of the financial industry.
But America’s favorable employment trend is accompanied by a substantial increase in financial-sector risks, owing to the excessively easy monetary policy that was used to achieve the current economic recovery.
Consumer spending and business investment continued at that rate in 2014 (except for the first quarter, owing to the weather-related effects of an exceptionally harsh winter).
The UK population is projected to surpass 70 million before the end of the next decade, an increase of 3.6 million, or 5.5%, owing to net immigration and a surplus of births over deaths among the newcomers.
But the demand side was heavily regulated, owing to a rule that clubs could field no more than two foreign players in any single game.
Yet this has arguably been accompanied by improved quality in the game itself, owing to what economists call “increasing returns to scale.”
What if the bargain struck between the Chinese middle classes and the one-party state were to fall apart, owing to a pause, or even a setback, in the race for material wealth?
In Germany, the survival of Merkel’s governing coalition is now in jeopardy, owing to a standoff over migration between her Christian Democratic Union and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, led by Horst Seehofer, the interior minister.
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