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The macroeconomic impact of micro-interventions is an important reason why poverty has persisted, despite well-meaning interventions to combat it.
This new pattern – which persisted through the 1980s and 1990s, and accelerated after 2000 – caused inequality to rise sharply, weakening the foundations of globalization.
But doubts about the benefits of such cooperation persisted.
For years, rumors had persisted about the failed state of Putin’s marriage.
The longer these disturbances persisted, the greater the threat to a global economy already challenged by structural weaknesses, income and wealth inequalities, pockets of excessive indebtedness, deficient aggregate demand, and insufficient policy coordination.
Anti-Semitism arrived with a whole package of European race theories that have persisted in Asia well after they fell out of fashion in the West.
But questions about such farms’ fundamental economics, especially for commodity crops, have persisted.
At last week’s NATO summit in Brussels, Trump not only persisted in demanding that all NATO member states immediately spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense; he also suggested that this spending should eventually reach 4% of GDP.
But, when it comes to understanding why the conflict between Ukraine's government and Russian-backed separatists has persisted – and why, after a year of increasingly brutal fighting, a resolution seems so remote – the differences are far more important.
However, the problem of drug resistance has persisted, and efforts to contain it globally have not been sufficient.
As the date drew near, I asked Summers why he persisted in offering Japan’s leaders this unwanted advice, given that they were clearly locked in politically.
These limits on American banking persisted until the 1990’s, when Congress repealed most of this regulatory structure.
Perhaps most convincingly, the Whitehall Studies of the British Civil Service in the United Kingdom revealed that even when health-care services were provided as a matter of right, and the cost of care was no longer a barrier to treatment, inequalities persisted; a substantial proportion of the population continued to fare poorly on health indicators.
And yet, throughout these centuries of treaty-making, violence between countries persisted.
The longer this pattern persisted, the more advanced economies’ future growth prospects suffered.
Thanks to the shale-energy revolution, American oil production has risen from five million barrels per day in 2008 to 9.3 million barrels in 2015, a supply boom that has so far persisted, despite the price collapse.
Accurate information was understandably difficult to obtain in the weeks immediately following the accident, but misinformation persisted even when scientific data on radiation levels and reactor stability had become more readily available.
On the contrary, Russia’s imperial ambitions persisted, and persistence has paid off.
A number of worrying factors about the US economy have been around for a long time:huge trade deficits have persisted since Ronald Reagan's misguided tax cuts of 1981 converted America from the world's largest creditor into the world's largest debtor.
Over the last decade, such regional competition has persisted, but has increasingly been led by major cities.
Since then, however, a long, stubborn “tail” of infection has persisted, mainly in remote, poor regions and conflict zones.
There can be no excuses for our failure to provide an education to children in the 19 global crisis zones that have suffered emergencies for five years or more, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan, and Somalia – where crises have persisted for over 20 years.
We should not mourn the Cold War's passing; but we should recognize the consequences of the vacuum that has persisted in its place for the last quarter-century.
Belief in this fundamental feature of America’s national identity has persisted, even though inequality has been gradually rising for decades.
Perhaps if Truman had not been president and Stalin had made major gains in Europe and the Middle East, the Soviet empire would have been stronger, and bipolarity might have persisted longer.
The monetary expansion has persisted since 2014, even as international reserves have diminished.
This indifference stems from the deadly delusion that TB is a disease of the past – a delusion that has persisted, even as 10.4 million people contracted TB in 2016.
But, while policies that reduced the atrocious poverty and narrowed the yawning income inequality that persisted throughout the 1990’s must surely be applauded, the welfare gains associated with this performance may prove to be weaker than hoped.
This support persisted despite difficult conditions for the Muslim minority, including blatant discrimination in employment and in the distribution of government largesse.
And yet Republican administrations have persisted in pursuing unsustainable and undesirable tax cuts benefiting primarily the rich, leading to ever-larger deficits and trillions of dollars of additional public debt.
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