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In fact, the relationship between growth and inequality over time has followed a peculiar pattern: China’s Gini coefficient has increased with growth, and decreased when growth has slowed.
To outsiders, the most peculiar thing about America's rising inequality is that so few Americans object.
Of course, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one: the prize is temporary monopoly power, implying high prices and restricted access to the benefits that can be derived from the new knowledge.
Involving the people and providing for peaceful conflict resolution may require institutions peculiar to the region and its history.
In that case, it is a peculiar peacemaking strategy that puts pressure on only one of the belligerents, and that, instead of strengthening the hand of the many Israelis who favor negotiation, imposes collective punishment in the form of exclusion from the community of nations.
A tweed jacket is a wonderful but peculiar costume.
Deterrence - which works by basic human nature, not through some arcane construct peculiar to the Cold War - can be brought to bear here.
The impact of the ECB’s €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which loaned money to commercial banks to buy sovereign bonds (a bootstrap operation that seemed as peculiar as the ECB’s financing of sovereigns to shore up the banks), was impressively short-lived.
The violence of British football hooligans, for example, reflects a peculiar nostalgia for war.
This peculiar arrangement has generated an important result: if migrant workers lose their urban jobs, they retain some income from their land lease and can return to their village and reclaim the land (normally within one year).
India’s Prohibition HypocrisyNEW DELHI – Last month, 18 people in the Gopalganj district of India’s Bihar state died after consuming illicit alcohol, highlighting – once again – the peculiar relationship between morality and tragedy in India.
The modern welfare state has a peculiar patron: Germany’s “Iron Chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck, who pushed through the big reforms of the 1880’s on sickness, accident, and old-age insurance against liberal parliamentary opponents.
One is Trump’s peculiar obsession with bilateral trade balances.
The main problem is that these examples are peculiar to the software industry, which provides a woefully insufficient blueprint for the rest of the economy.
Europe is a peculiar combination of geography and history, but the EU’s boundaries – and thus the prospects for its further enlargement – are determined as much by its capacity to integrate candidate countries as by these countries’ own adaptive abilities.
But Griesa's ruling, based on a peculiar – and in our view, indefensible – interpretation of certain terms in Argentina's contract, showed that US commercial interests can dominate its courts' decisions.
This peculiar spectacle of national suicide, while unusual, is not entirely unprecedented.
But it comes with a new, peculiar limitation: the sugar fairy only sprinkles her magic dust on countries that pledge to remain within the circle.
Trump’s behavior has been at its most peculiar since he took office, undoubtedly partly owing to panic over the 2020 election.
Policing these boundaries is always difficult, but it is especially problematic within the EU’s peculiar multilayered governance regime.
In fact, Mueller clearly indicated that he thought Congress should act where he was prevented from doing so by a peculiar Justice Department rule, and that Trump should be prosecuted after he leaves office.
The ECB’s New Stealth MandateSTANFORD – The European Central Bank’s monetary policy has undergone a peculiar change during the pandemic.
LONDON – In two of my previous commentaries on the peculiar world of equity markets in 2020, I offered a bullish outlook for how events would unfold as the year progressed (with all due caveats for the market’s overall unpredictability).
It was a historically significant moment, marking a subtle but discernible transition from capitalism to a peculiar type of post-capitalism.
In some respects, this competition evokes similar episodes in the past, but in many others, it has evolved in a peculiar way.
German savers blame the ECB for their difficulties, but the source of the problem seems to be their peculiar balance sheets.
All that time they were conscious of peculiar strain, as if the chain that bound them were being pulled first one way and then the other.
'Everything is possible,' she added with the peculiar and rather cunning expression which always appeared on her face when she spoke of religious matters.
'What a beautiful day it is,' he added, laying, as was his wont, peculiar stress on the word 'beautiful.'
Then he would see her whole face, she would smile, embrace him, and he would smell her peculiar scent, feel the tenderness of her touch, and cry with joy as he had done one evening when he lay at her feet and she tickled him, while he shook with laughter and bit her white hand with the rings on the fingers.
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