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But the current wave of efforts, despite being far from optimal, can persist for a while, so long as at least two conditions are met.
Rather than pursuing internal convergence, this important part of the world is now following at least three paths, characterized by large divergences that will persist – and likely grow – for years to come.
Tragically, tremendous human suffering will likely persist, and the waves of human migration that this induces will place significant pressure on adjacent countries, particularly Jordan and Lebanon.
Moreover, rapid economic and population growth in emerging markets is already putting strong upward pressure on the prices of food, water, and commodities, while limits to supply persist.
Most national research organizations and the European Commission support the idea, but questions persist: who will provide the budget (at least €2 billion is needed, which is roughly half of the increase promised by EU governments to raise R&D to 3% of the GNP in 2010)?
But these trends tended to persist within occupations, industries, and educational attainment levels, thus providing little guidance concerning what occupation to choose or how much education to pursue.
Blanchard should know better than to persist with this fiasco.
Why, then, do gender differences in economic outcomes persist?
But, while this disconnect could continue for some time if no alternative program emerges, the huge gap between financial markets’ performance and most people’s well-being is unlikely to persist in the longer term.
If these pressures are allowed to persist, many migrants will ultimately make it to the developed world, one way or another.
If water shortages persist, migration is certain to follow.
Meanwhile, not only is fiscal austerity pushing the eurozone periphery into economic free-fall, but the loss of competitiveness there will persist as relief at the waning prospect of disorderly defaults strengthens the euro’s value.
No matter what we do or fail to do, the risk of unacceptable disasters will persist.
The ESM is a sure way to bring Europe to its knees, because the longer bailout loans continue, the longer the GIPS’ current-account deficits will persist, and the more their external debts will grow.
However, even after taking such characteristics as education, gender, and community size into account, the same conclusions persist.
Bubbles can persist for decades (think of real-estate prices in fashionable cities) or just minutes (as in hard-to-justify intraday fluctuations).
For example, the 2007-2009 global financial crisis is called the “Great Recession” because the traumatic tales of the Great Depression persist in our collective memory.
And, if this were to persist and spread, even the US – a relatively healthy economy – could be forced to revise downward its expectations for economic growth and corporate earnings.
But if Guatemala is to truly enjoy the fruits of a new era, global efforts must persist in helping our country develop the legal, judicial and political courage to confront its past.
Still, we persist.
But the roadblocks are many so international pressure on Guatemala must persist to lift these obstacles.
Is it benefiting all EU countries, and will it persist as EU enlargement proceeds?
Recognizing that some “frictional” poverty will inevitably persist over the next two decades, the World Bank’s formal target is to reduce the percentage of people living below the poverty line – defined as daily consumption of less than $1.25 (in purchasing-power-parity terms) per person – to less than 3%.
In short, the factors that dragged down the global economy in 2015 will persist – and in some cases even intensify – in the new year.
As a result, America’s cold war with Iran is likely to persist.
So the deep economic and social divide that has emerged within the eurozone is expected to persist.
State capitalism will persist so long as existing elites are able to maintain it and benefit from it – even if economic growth ultimately stalls.
If current policies persist, they are bound to lead to the disorderly disintegration of the EU.
Around 30 million people around the world live with HIV, and another 30 million are likely to become infected in the next decade if current trends persist.
First, the problems in advanced countries – from slow economic growth to political uncertainty – are likely to persist, reducing potential growth everywhere for an extended period.
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