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But such episodes often play out according to distinct
patterns
– though usually after the events that comprise them have faded from our collective memory.
In some areas, modestly warmer temperatures could produce higher crop yields if associated changes in precipitation
patterns
are not adverse and/or irrigation remains viable.
The first step is to identify its main causes which, in my opinion, reside in a society's shared values and
patterns
of behaviour, its so-called informal rules.
Patterns
from that seesawing past inevitably influence the present.
By examining the voting
patterns
of people in individual regions of Slovakia in the 1918-1939 and 1990-1998 periods, the Slovak sociologist Vladimir Krivy revealed that municipalities and regions that inclined towards liberal parties in the inter-war period continued to be so disposed when freedom was restored after 1989-1998.
They never did, but we are now seeing a globalization of solidarity, of support for cooperative regional
patterns
and the need to rethink international agencies, and the impracticality of isolation.
Energy subsidies – so ingrained in the GCC economies – distort consumption and production patterns; defeat government attempts at economic diversification; and increase vulnerability to volatile international energy prices.
The relationship between the unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate is consistent with
patterns
in previous recoveries.
Indeed, similar
patterns
are characteristic of most post-modern societies.
Historical knowledge can help people to recognize certain
patterns
of behavior – attacks on an independent judiciary, for example – that have led to tyranny in the past.
And the massive prosperity gap between “old” and “new” EU member states continues to determine voting
patterns.
However, we cannot simply look to past climate events to predict future
patterns.
But, with some 70 developing countries still lacking the means to provide their citizens with basic information, such as how climate change can affect agriculture and local weather patterns, there is plenty more that we can do to reduce the risks.
After ruling out a number of possible explanations, they concluded that poorer households imitated the consumption
patterns
of richer households in their area.
Demographic trends, shifting
patterns
of disease, and strained public funding are placing new burdens on health-care systems.
This goal should be achieved by “radical economic transformation,” which means, according to Zuma, “fundamental change in the structure, systems, institutions, and
patterns
of ownership, management, and control of the economy in favor of all South Africans, especially the poor, the majority of whom are African and female.”
Manufacturing is already an intensive user of “big data” – the use of massive data sets to discover new patterns, perform simulations, and manage complex systems in real-time.
Such a financial "hit" may affect their consumption patterns, complicate their retirement plans, and even bring them to the brink of indigence.
Technology has trouble diffusing because much of it requires knowhow, which is an ability to recognize
patterns
and respond with effective actions.
The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect existing settlement
patterns.
The specific
patterns
of change are not known precisely, but the risks of continuing on our current global course are widely appreciated.
Weather
patterns
are changing; the rains, in certain areas, have been failing; and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.
It will also mobilize support for African parliamentarians, enabling them to work with their constituents in raising awareness, at a local level, of new sustainable agricultural policies that respond to changes in weather
patterns
and other consequences of climate change.
These activities raise the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn has many effects: a rise in average temperature, a rise in the water level of the oceans, significant changes in the global
patterns
of rainfall, and an increase in "extreme weather events" such as hurricanes and droughts.
On the other hand, the effects on temperature, rainfall, ocean levels, flooding and droughts, and other climate patterns, will hurt some regions, while even helping some others.
Unless these studies are done, poor countries might find themselves continuing victims of worsening climatic shocks, such as severe hurricanes, droughts, and flooding, without realizing that the events are not accidental, but the result of long-term
patterns
of global energy use.
The current state of affairs fails to meet their expectations, especially when contrasted with an idealized version of the past or the new
patterns
of consumption portrayed in the media.
My discussions of secular stagnation have all emphasized a variety of structural factors, including inequality, high profit shares, changes in relative prices, and global saving
patterns.
Rebalancing the US-China Economic RelationshipCAMBRIDGE – As the global economy stabilizes, there is a growing danger that the United States and China will slip back into their pre-crisis economic patterns, placing themselves and the rest of the world at risk.
In his opinion, the underlying “old”
patterns
of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the collapse of communism in the region.
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