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Many of the elected Islamist regimes will fail, as many poorly performing governments do.
Yet by historical standards, China’s economy is still performing well – at near 7% annual GDP growth, some might say very well – but success on the scale that China has seen over the past three decades breeds high expectations.
By contrast, the world’s other major economies will probably not begin performing up to potential in the next twelve months.
In this early example of mass production, the process of bronze casting required intricate planning and the coordination of large groups of workers, each performing a separate task in precisely the right order.
With the country performing well below its considerable potential, “black economic empowerment” efforts that are meant to reduce historical inequalities have suffered.
In 50 years, computers might be doing everything from driving taxis to performing routine surgery.
Such accounts would work something like a savings account, with their owners augmenting a substantial public contribution to them by working, studying, or performing certain types of national service.
The US economy is performing far better these days, and the moment for raising rates further is likely near.
By contrast, the latest data suggest that the US economy is performing as sluggishly now as it was in the first half of the year.
In fact, the free answers are a way for the “workers” to establish a reputation, and they make more money actually performing services, whether helping someone book a complicated flight route or get a new loan officer.
A local rock band named Plastic People of the Universe, performing in English, was arrested in the late 1970s for “organized disturbance of the peace.”
But it comes at the cost of undermining an economy that could – and therefore should – be performing much better.
The rest received their doctorates (mostly in economics, management, law, and industrial engineering) through part-time programs while performing their duties as busy government officials.
The report by the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (which I chaired) emphasized that GDP is not a good measure of how well an economy is performing.
From their unique lifestyle to their still efficient public services, the French know that their country is not performing so badly.
Led by China and India, developing countries were prominent among the best performing economies, expanding by 6.5% on average in 2006.
The forum’s theme was undoubtedly selected partly in response to fears that technological advances will lead to widespread unemployment, as machines become advanced enough to replace humans in performing an increasing number of tasks.
And German officials also regularly suggest that their economy is already performing at close to its supply-determined limits.
In general, it is fair to say that these activities are performed more efficiently as a result: People whose skills are worth, say, $50 per hour spend more of their time earning $50, rather than performing chores “worth” $10 or $20 per hour.
Most emerging economies may be returning to growth, but they are performing well below their potential.
America’s crisis at home is now preventing it from performing its traditional international role as both a source of institutional reassurance and an agent of change.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will amount to a major test for a Japanese education system focused on reciting facts and performing formulaic calculations – precisely the areas where humans cannot compete with intelligent machines.
A monkey's mirror neurons are activated both when he himself is acting, say, taking a raisin from a tray, and when he is viewing another monkey (or the human experimenter) performing the same act.
When Putin welcomes Hamas’s leaders without consulting the other members of the “Quartet” – the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States – charged with shepherding peace talks between Israel and Palestine, is Russia testing its “nuisance value” or simply performing an “avant-garde” role for the other Quartet members?
The lesson for Europe is clear: the EU should redefine its Stability Pact in terms of the structural or full employment deficit--what the fiscal deficit would be if the economy were performing at full employment.
China’s government may struggle at first; after all, performing surgery on oneself is difficult to initiate and even more difficult to get right.
Those who summarily dismiss the loss of jobs miss a key points: America's economy has not been performing well.
“To get apes to do anything you want them to do, you have to dominate them; you have to manipulate them into performing.
Indeed, none of Russia's power structures, including the military, the FSB, and the MVD, are capable of performing effective anti-terrorist operations.
The Martyrdom of Jamal KhashoggiAMMAN – The London-based daily Al-Araby Al-Jadeed recently published a cartoon, by the Jordanian artist Emad Hajjaj, depicting a faceless man wearing a red and white keffiyeh and sweeping his brown thawb in such a way that it looks almost like he is performing a magic trick.
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