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Even today, many mistaken notions about leprosy persist.
By 2030, if current trends persist, only one in ten young people will be on track to gain basic secondary-level skills in low-income countries, the majority of which are in Africa.
And yet, as long as the country remains locked in a cycle of codependence with its creditors, the state of perpetual crisis is likely to persist.
What’s special about the threats emanating from Russia, China, the Middle East, and cyberspace is that they will persist and threaten our economic future for years to come.
Whether Latin America can continue to avoid sudden stops in the face of new shocks depends on whether these conditions persist.
Furthermore, while Russia has finally joined the World Trade Organization, doubts about the country’s human-rights record persist.
They also explained why shocks to the economy might be amplified, and their effects persist, well after the original disturbance disappeared.
Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Most seriously, doubts persist about his commitment to democracy, with critics arguing he’s an old-style African “big man” ready to bully opponents and ravage the public coffers with his cronies.
So the budget deficit will persist, and more retrenchment will be required.
Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving – namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving – multilateral trade deficits will persist.
Does this kind of ignorance and contempt for the Jewish people persist among Iran’s current leadership, coloring their approach to Israel?
Unprecedented shifts and growing imbalances – between consumption and production, savings and investment, economy and ecology, social inclusion and marginalization, and equality and disparity – persist and incubate within a complex global system in which there is no “risk-off” switch.
Cities (and their imperfections) persist in a way that large political entities, even those of which they are a part, do not.
At the same time, the cost of financing excessive expenditure must also be increased; otherwise, the current-account deficit will persist.
During the 1990s and 2000s, I repeatedly asked senior Japanese finance ministry officials why they allowed the yen’s real appreciation to persist, thereby shutting down export growth.
But dramatic gender inequities persist in South Asia, more so than in other low-income countries.
Tribal and militia leaders in oil-rich eastern Libya declared autonomy in March, and violent clashes between armed groups persist.
Conflicts are much more likely to arise or persist when those with the means to prevent or end them cannot or will not do so.
This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.
To this, the movement’s defenders ask: “Why persist with NATO and expand it ever eastward, until its troops now sit almost on the banks of the Indus, and in the foothills of the Hindu Kush?”
Instead, very low interest rates will likely persist at least until the end of the decade.
And, given China’s economic structure, under-developed financial market, and weak welfare state, high levels of precautionary saving will persist for the foreseeable future.
To the Jobless EconomySUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA – Nearly all economic forecasts agree that high unemployment in much of the developed world will most likely persist for years to come.
So long as the incentives to enslave persist, the effort to end slavery – by whatever name – will have to continue.
Male mosquitoes do not bite, so their release presents no health risk, and, because their progeny die, no genetically engineered mosquitoes persist in the environment.
Traditions are jealously guarded, like precious heirlooms, to be passed on as long as those dreams persist.
It also accounts for why important institutional differences persist among the advanced countries of North America, Western Europe, and Japan in areas such as the role of the public sector, the legal system, corporate governance, financial markets, labor markets, and social insurance.
So why does China persist in the tortured fiction that there is some kind of future for a reformed North Korea?
Nevertheless, in the short run, very aggressive monetary and fiscal policy actions – both traditional and non-traditional – must be undertaken to ensure that the inevitable stag-deflation of 2009 does not persist into 2010 and beyond.
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