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Two recent studies offer different answers, but both predict that at least some of the slowdown will persist even after the economy recovers.
If an increase in the short-term rate were expected to persist or to be an indicator of further increases in the future, the long-term rate would also rise.
This deadlock cannot persist.
Yet the problems of usability and interoperability persist.
Ukraine’s citizens can become more like their Central European neighbors, or they can allow the economy’s many distortions from past bad policies to persist, in which case they will fall further behind.
But, because antibodies persist in the blood even after recovery, this method falsely identifies healthy, non-contagious patients as needing treatment.
If high commodity prices are expected to persist, then some strengthening of currencies is both desirable and inevitable.
As a result, speculatively driven high prices can persist for a considerable time before economic fundamentals bring them down, as finally seems to be happening.
That is the nature of the behavioral response to crisis and why a bad status quo can persist.
On the contrary, not only did slow growth and high unemployment persist for years, but the inequality trifecta (income, wealth, and opportunity) worsened as well.
Inequality and Its DiscontentsLeaders around the world seem to be convinced that inequality and lack of broad participation in economic growth, if allowed to persist, will lead to social discord and even violence.
These are still not “normal” times, and the “vicious cycles” persist.
If current trends persist, the BLS’s report will continue to evolve from a snapshot of the past and present to a preview of the future.
All of these negative trends will persist, even if the pace of decline is debatable.
Strains in the Turkey-EU relationship may persist until peace is restored in Syria; but they are not necessarily irreversible.
So regional disparities may persist or even grow, posing a challenge for policymakers concerned with stimulating economic growth and regional cohesion.
Furthermore, it seems likely that many of the short-term effects of the demonetization could persist – and intensify – in the longer term, with closed businesses unable to reopen.
But would such indiscriminate largesse persist if middle-income countries knew that their votes really counted, and that they were spending their own money?
Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist.
But it is at least as likely that some transmission will persist, or that the virus will be reintroduced into human populations from animals.
How can such a differential persist in what is supposed to be a single, integrated financial market?
To persist in the belief that reformists and hardliners are just masks of the same enemy, and to take pleasure in the victory of the latter, is not merely cynical, but is an added insult to a people that has already been humiliated enough.
Even in countries with well-developed systems of corporate governance, arrangements that are excessively lax on corporate insiders persist.
As a result, no domestic retreat by SWFs can be expected to persist.
Even more important, inflation expectations have started to de-anchor: forecasters and investors expect the undershooting of the target to persist over the medium term.
With these initiatives, Brazil’s government has sought to ensure that annual growth remains above 4% for many years, regardless of the challenges – which will certainly persist in 2013 – posed by the international environment.
So, if ideas are easy to copy and devices are easy to ship, why do differences in “technology” persist between countries?
Should this popular and judicial pressure persist, as seems likely, it could create the conditions in which many other reforms can succeed.
And, while a long-term strategic alliance between Russia and China may not be in the offing, tactical cooperation to stop the West from imposing its values on the global community is likely to persist, so long as Vladimir Putin retains power in Russia.
But their promises are modest, relative to what is actually needed, and doubts about whether they will be fulfilled persist.
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