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This is the paradox of power in the era of Xi.
Indeed, the great paradox of this cycle is that more settlements are built during times of negotiations than during times of conflict.
What explains the paradox of low unemployment despite low inflation (or vice versa)?
The injuries proved minor, but the incident embodies the paradox of China’s legal system: over the past two decades, China has enacted hundreds of laws and elevated “ruling the country according to law” to ideological and constitutional prominence.
As a result of this “productivity paradox” (sometimes called the “great decoupling”), jobless growth is here to stay.
Or can we beat the productivity paradox by harnessing the power of machines to support development in ways that benefit more than the bottom line?
The paradox of the situation, however, is that, in political terms, the very holding of a vote of censure will be more important than whether it was successful or not.
The paradox here is double.
The apparent paradox is resolved by noting that rapid productivity growth in the pockets of innovation has been undone by workers moving from the more productive to the less productive parts of the economy – a phenomenon that my co-authors and I have called “growth-reducing structural change.”
In this, he personifies the paradox that is Christianity: unbreakable and lasting principles joined by understanding and tolerance.
The gap between what IT promised and what it delivered in the early days was so stark that experts called it the “IT productivity paradox.”
Hence, the paradox: though the source of the problem was the US, money went rushing to the US, strengthening the dollar.
America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the collapse of its core values.
The second paradox is that monetary expansion may be largely ineffective in the country that undertakes it, but can generate large negative externalities on others.
This is the paradox of NCDs: objective measures of poor health (severe symptoms, disability, premature death) are declining, even as the prevalence of these diseases is increasing.
And, while this paradox is no excuse for complacency in responding to what the United Nations has rightly called a global NCD crisis, it does have practical implications for that response.
It is a bitter paradox, indeed, that the developed democracies use the power of globalization to punish us commercially by discriminating against our citizens and exports.
The paradox is that Iran's potential is embedded in its ideology as an Islamic state.
The paradox is that the Berlusconi government’s inaction did prevent a major deterioration in the public deficit.
Indeed, the paradox of America’s pernicious policies in Iraq is that they have created favorable conditions for an Arab-Israeli peace, as the emergence of Iran and the threat of a fundamentalist tsunami have focused Arab minds on the urgency of a settlement with Israel.
Voters there may also extend a disturbing paradox that has emerged in the region: the more "vigorous" Asian democracy becomes, the more dysfunctional it is.
Herein lies Asia’s specific paradox: a high level of economic integration has not given rise to regional institutions that can support the stability required for sustained prosperity.
The paradox of the Irish position is that opinion polls continue to demonstrate strong popular attachment to the EU.
What is the cause of this seeming paradox?
In a way, this reveals a paradox of Latin American democracy: exclusive, minority governments that devalue and weaken the state are no longer acceptable, while the rise of personalismo – a concentration of power and coupled with refractory political tactics – are bringing about fragmentation and unruly governance.
It is a paradox, indeed, that all candidates in Bolivia promise social and economic change when they all are basically looking at the past for inspiration and are in thrall to the same model of development.
Morales’s success rests largely on the paradox of populism.
This is the paradox of twenty-first-century socialism: economic liberalism is the foundation for a policy that aspires to replace it.
What accounts for this paradox?
The Protocols of Donald J. TrumpLONDON – It is an odd quirk in the history of logic that the blameless Cretans should have given their name to the famous “liar paradox.”
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