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He found that, while some countries suffered long
periods
of decline, others were able to sustain rapid growth.
Some governments began to store oil in strategic petroleum reserves that could be used to for short
periods
in a crisis.
Nonetheless, the importance of remittances to households in poor countries, especially during
periods
of external shock, holds two lessons.
As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high-level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long
periods
in jail.
Again, it would have been ludicrously expensive – or simply impossible – to have achieved similar capabilities in earlier
periods
of history.
This means that, in addition to the agony of being killed, many of these highly social animals are, for long
periods
of time, in a state of terror, hearing the sounds of those being killed ahead of them, and seeing their family and pod members being brutally slaughtered.
Prolonged
periods
of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.
A cursory glance at most of the conflict-ridden countries in Africa shows that monopolization of political power over extended
periods
of time has not only helped institutionalize corruption, as leaders surround themselves with trusted relatives and cronies, but has also been a major cause of coups and conflict.
Thus, during
periods
of expansion, when banks are eager to fund ever more risky borrowers, the reserve ratio rises, curbing potentially disruptive asset bubbles or overinvestment.
Worse still, half the world’s young people will still be entering the workforce with no recognizable qualifications, and will probably suffer long
periods
of unemployment.
When some object to the budgetary costs of enlargement and others to transitional periods, the prospect of stimulating growth across Europe is the perspective to keep in mind.
Not many events remain in the collective memory as a watershed that divides two distinct
periods.
This is particularly important during
periods
of rapid structural change.
Driven by the momentum of trends in employment, industrial production, consumer sentiment, and corporate earnings, the case for sound fundamentals plays like a broken record during
periods
of financial market volatility.
Moreover, far longer maturities and grace periods, compared to market finance, would ease growing pressure on foreign-exchange reserves.
In fact, Greece's official creditors have granted it long enough grace
periods
and low enough interest rates that the burden is bearable.
Economist Emily Oster has argued that the biggest spikes in witch burnings in the Middle Ages, in which hundreds of thousands (mostly women) were killed, came during
periods
of economic deprivation and apparently weather-related food shortages.
And a new study by Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing, which analyzed the performance of 10,228 open-ended mutual funds and 2,874 separately managed accounts in the US, found that sustainable investments usually met – and often exceeded – the median returns of comparable traditional investments for the
periods
examined.
Transactional leadership is more effective in stable and predictable environments, whereas an inspirational style is more likely to appear in
periods
of rapid and discontinuous social and political change.
But, while turbulent times may set the stage for transformational leaders, it does not follow that bold and risk-loving leaders are always best suited to address the crises that define such
periods.
Over
periods
of several years, our models do better.
This flies in the face of much conventional thinking, which links mass revolts to economic hardship and assumes that
periods
of relative prosperity are correlated with mass political quiescence.
According to the American sociologist James C. Davies’s so-called J-curve theory, revolutions – such as the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Egypt’s revolution of 1952 – occur when
periods
of prolonged economic and social development are sharply and suddenly reversed.
Therefore it cannot be dull for long
periods
because people will then begin to doubt democracy itself.
Previous attempts at pension reform, for example, have been partial and indecisive, with exceptions and grace
periods
undermining their effectiveness.
In
periods
of relative calm, governments’ role in writing and upholding the rules by which markets function can become obscured.
But the rulebook was left unfinished, with dire consequences: if the euro survives the current crisis, it is destined to remain unstable, except in
periods
of exceptionally high economic growth – that is, unless Europe’s leaders finish writing the rules.
Historians can make a credible case that
periods
of maximalist over-commitment have done more damage to America’s place in the world than
periods
of retrenchment.
In such periods, interest in social problems peaks to make the state, which does not limit its presence in theeconomy, provide for exorbitant promises in the social sphere through releasing more money into circulation or building up its internal and external debt.
The Soviet and post-Soviet
periods
in Russian history gave rise to two extremes.
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