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The government allowed employment discrimination to go unchecked, leaving the majority of Roma without jobs, and communities were plunged deeper into poverty.
The GDP share of after-tax corporate profits is at a record high, whereas labor compensation has plunged to its lowest share since 1950.
SINGAPORE – Luxury-brand companies’ stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower sales in emerging markets, especially in China.
And yet in the final years of his rule, his reputation plunged.
After the Yanukovych government was forced to float the exchange rate in November 2013, the hryvnia plunged to one-third of its previous value against the dollar, energy prices increased, and inflation skyrocketed, peaking at an annualized rate of 61% by April 2015.
During the four sanction years from 2014 to 2017, real disposable incomes plunged by 17%, and investment slumped by 12%, though GDP fell by only 0.5% in this period.
The price of oil, from which the government obtains one-third of its revenue, has plunged 40% in six months.
Their crimes included, indirectly, the deaths of three of our colleagues – Bob Frasure, Joe Kruzel, and Nelson Drew, who had died when the armored personnel carrier they were in plunged down a ravine as we attempted to reach Sarajevo by the only route available, a dangerous dirt road that went through sniper-filled, Serbian-controlled territory.
As Zimbabwe plunged into economic chaos and Mugabe stepped up his repression, circulation, once around 100,000 a day, fell by roughly a third.
Death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, and in Africa, which bears the brunt of the malaria burden, deaths have nearly halved, from 764,000 in 2000 to 395,000 in 2015.
Those front-loaded tax increases and government-spending cuts plunged the economy deeper into recession, making a farce of claims that the public debt was sustainable – and forcing the inevitable debt restructuring after two more agonizing years.
(Launched at $1.18, it plunged to almost $0.80 early on, then rose, peaking at nearly $1.60 in 2007-2008, before falling back to around $1.30.)
As advertising revenue has been vacuumed up by the Internet giants Facebook and Google, newspaper profits have plunged.
Ireland’s Lessons for GreeceMUNICH – Greece’s government, led by the left-wing Syriza party, is demanding a new deal from its European creditors, claiming that the bailout program provided by the “troika” (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission) has plunged their country into a spiral of deflation and austerity.
This process explains why, at the moment, Yuri Luzhkov and Evgeny Primakov, Boris Yeltsin's most influential opponents, are top presidential contenders, but strictly within the system of power, which has already plunged the country into a political crisis.
Austerity policies have plunged most European economies (including Britain’s) into double-dip recessions.”
Their failure plunged the country into its deepest political and financial crisis in decades.
Last month’s election plunged Italy into political deadlock.
As US pressure for a strong yen resumed, Japan's economy plunged into its second endaka fukyo of the 1990s, from which it has yet to emerge.
It has plunged to $1.1 trillion.
Since the end of August, when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argued for another round of QE, the dollar has plunged more than 7% against a basket of half a dozen major currencies.
Moreover, HIV/AIDS among intravenous drug users plunged from 52% of all new cases in 2000 to 16% in 2009.
China’s Abnormal Stock MarketLONDON – China’s stock market has plunged yet again, this time by 8.5% – the market’s second-largest fall in a single day, and the largest since the global financial crisis.
Even in Chile – perhaps the best-run economy in the region, but still highly dependent on copper exports – Bachelet’s approval rating has plunged to unprecedented lows, threatening her ambitious agenda of constitutional and educational reforms.
Russia and Brazil have plunged into severe crises, with double-digit inflation accompanying a 4% contraction in GDP last year.
The trouble, of course, is that as oil prices have plunged, those barrels buy ever fewer imports.
Instead, the personal saving rate plunged to 1%, and the bottom 80% of Americans were spending, every year, roughly 110% of their income.
In Soviet fashion, the Moscow stock exchanges closed for four days in a row in the week of September 15, because stocks plunged too fast.
Those sources of distrust in Asian economic and financial prospects, some fundamental and some speculative, that triggered the Asian crises would likewise have pushed down the exchange rates had they been floating, but surely not nearly as far as they plunged in the free fall following the collapse of fixed rates.
Once the music stopped, the assets plunged in value.
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