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The most important indication of this is the participation of Alexei Navalny – by far the Kremlin’s most persistent political opponent.
Indeed, Navalny has been a persistent and effective critic of corruption in both the Russian government and state-owned companies.
Even if the US dollar appreciated less than the BAT, the pass-through from the tax on imports to domestic prices would imply a temporary but persistent rise in the inflation rate.
Trump plays to America’s persistent veins of racism and nativism: he vows somehow to round up and deport some 11 million undocumented aliens and fortify America’s border with Mexico by building a wall – paid for by Mexico.
Thus, it is not a good idea to run persistent current-account deficits and become dependent on (temporarily) low-cost foreign capital.
Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy’s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.
If America’s Democrats lose in the mid-term elections this November, there is a risk of persistent fiscal deficits as Republicans veto tax increases while Democrats veto spending cuts.
As we face the new challenges of our time, let us not forget the old ones, especially the persistent horror of underdevelopment.
The result is “information fatigue” – a palpable sense of exhaustion, coupled with persistent anxiety about coping with the sheer volume of material to be digested, compounded by an ever-shortening attention span in the face of the ceaseless barrage of data.
Darwin’s vision of the world deeply influenced biology in the twentieth century, despite persistent questions posed by factors such as lateral gene transfer, neutral evolution, and chaotic bottlenecks in natural selection.
Those disagreements – amplified by persistent differences on basic facts – impeded progress in other areas where greater consensus might have been possible, including Iran, some other Middle East issues, North Korea, migration, and refugee relief.
There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.
The study concludes that the benefits from transfers are “much less persistent, and much smaller overall, than those of tax changes.”
Will it lead to a persistent increase in risky assets, especially in US and other global equity markets?
After all, while the previous rounds of US monetary easing have been associated with a persistent increase in equity prices, the size and duration of QE3 are more substantial.
The only other significant channel to transmit QE to the real economy is the wealth effect of an equity-market increase, but there is some circularity in the argument that QE3 will lead to a persistent rise in equity prices.
If persistent asset reflation requires a significant GDP growth recovery, it is tautological to say that if equity prices rise enough following QE, the resulting increase in GDP from a wealth effect justifies the rise in asset prices.
Nerve damage resulting from diabetes (diabetic neuropathy) and persistent pain after shingles (postherpetic neuralgia) are among the most common causes.
Media reports highlight the industry’s ongoing transgressions in Bangladesh, in particular the persistent reliance on child labor.
In a context of weak institutions, persistent inequalities, and high levels of marginalization and exclusion, new growth opportunities for organized crime have emerged.
Thanks to persistent current-account and capital-account surpluses for two decades, China has accumulated $3.2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves.
His gradual yet persistent efforts have succeeded in mobilizing his conservative supporters to back progressive change.
State and local governments, acting as “laboratories of democracy,” can pursue innovative solutions to persistent problems in impoverished communities.
The US economy, on the other hand, is bogging down in its policymakers’ persistent emphasis on consumption and tax cuts (most notably for the super-rich) over investment.
There are, then, three paths for Iraq: evolution of a more serious insurgency, persistent violence at current levels, or resolution of the insurgency.
Less dramatic perhaps, yet persistent nonetheless, are the peace talks between Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority.
After all, the report is much more than a scorecard on America’s performance in confronting a persistent economic, political, and social challenge; it is also an urgent call for a more focused corrective effort involving both government and business.
It is hard to argue that the RMB is not undervalued, given China’s large and persistent current-account and capital-account surpluses.
The persistent weakening of the eurozone economy – even in Germany, GDP contracted in the third quarter of 2018 – does not bode well for the EU, which could be facing twin political and economic crises.
Pressure would be simultaneously placed on creditor and debtor countries to balance their accounts, by charging rising interest rates on persistent imbalances.
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