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Indeed, it is one of the primary reasons why eradicable infectious diseases persist today.
In return, developed countries were to make major concessions on agriculture – the livelihood of the vast majority of people in developing countries – and textile quotas, the only trade area (besides sugar) in which quantitative restrictions persist.
It is easy to understand why the authorities persist in favoring public debt: the rules are set by finance ministers, who are naturally inclined to give themselves a good deal.
As long as these distortions persist, new technologies will struggle to compete.
Surely, elements of corporatist thinking persist today.
More important, this inversion is likely to persist.
Differences persist over whether a security architecture or community should extend across Asia, or be confined to an ill-defined “East Asia.”
Sterilized intervention usually doesn’t work: if assets in advanced economies and emerging markets remain perfectly substitutable, inflows will continue as long as interest-rate differentials persist.
Over the last few years, Thailand has gone from flawed democracy to military rule, which could persist through 2018, or beyond.
Financial investors understand that adequate returns may persist for a while, but that imbalances and risks may necessitate a hasty exit at any moment.
As the Norwegian EEA Agreement puts it, “if serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties of a sectoral or regional nature liable to persist are arising,” limits on free movement may be applied.
Rather than persist in his undiplomatic and unilateral crusades, Trump would be wise to treat the EU as the friend it has always been to his country, and to grasp the promise of Europe’s collaborative approach to collective defense.
My grandmother from Marash would have said that Azerbaijan today believes that, with Turkey, it “has an uncle in the jury,” and thus that it can persist in its petulance and intransigence.
If America fails to solve its saving problem – a reasonable scenario in light of fiscal gridlock and persistently subpar personal saving – the current-account deficit will persist.
As Russia and Iran continue to send money and weapons, if not military advisers, to Syria, it is impossible to persist with hypocritical language that can be interpreted only as a formula for inaction.
A classic example is the way that “family” has replaced “marriage” in public discourse, with the implication that all “lifestyles” are equally valuable, despite the fact that most people persist in wanting to get married.
US firms, too, could find it necessary to relocate a greater share of their activities outside the US if restrictive immigration policies persist.
A second important factor has been slow growth in the advanced economies, a byproduct of the financial crisis that is likely to persist for some time to come.
The low interest rates, high commodity prices, rapid globalization, and post-Cold War stability that underpinned this extraordinary period are unlikely to persist.
The fact that so many problems persist despite tens of billions of dollars of assistance and years of effort is a sad reminder that aid can allow governments to undertake foolish investments that accomplish little, or can easily be siphoned off by corrupt officials.
While Saudi leaders have managed to buy middle-class support by allocating a significant proportion of oil revenues to targeted welfare and credit-support programs, widespread poverty and massive income inequality persist.
7.Policymakers are more stupid (stubborn) than you think - They persist in their mistakes.
The most regrettable aspect of Western executives’ misconceptions of the Chinese government is that they are likely to persist, at least among those who have no direct experience with the dark side of the Chinese state.
The Bush administration may be correct in arguing that the extremely high costs and risks of promoting democracy are less than the costs and risks of allowing the authoritarian status quo in the Middle east to persist indefinitely.
North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.
Regardless of the historical and cultural differences that persist among the economic systems of, say, Italy, France, Spain, and Germany, all of these countries agree on the fundamental principles of a market-based economy.
This system could persist only through sustained public borrowing.
Turmoil in Arab societies is bound to persist for years to come, and emerging regional and world powers can be expected to exploit the international order’s fragmentation to advance their interests in the region.
So did firms that provide complementary services – harvesting, transport, and storage, for example – which made investment decisions expecting high prices to persist.
This implies that the crisis is likely to persist much longer than in the US, because households in Spain and Ireland will labor for decades to service mortgages on houses that they can no longer afford.
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