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This is wrong on all counts: Africa is trapped in poverty, many countries are well poised to use aid effectively, and America’s contribution is tiny relative to Africa’s needs, America’s promises, and America’s wealth.
Europe appears poised to do more, while the US appears to be the main obstacle.
But one industry is poised to fill the jobs gap: the renewable energy industry.
We know how that movie ended, and we may be poised for a sequel.
Spotting this reversal, the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has argued that the world is poised for The Next Convergence.
For the first time, the number of deaths caused by cervical cancer every year is poised to outstrip the total caused by childbirth.
Souq.com, a 3,000-employee company founded in 2005, is poised to be the region’s first “unicorn,” with a valuation above $1 billion.
Honesty is the Best Policy in RussiaCAMBRIDGE: If opinion polls are right, Russia's people are poised to deliver Russia's government a stinging rebuke in December's Duma elections.
The key remaining questions concern whether or not the RMB will become an important international currency anytime soon, and whether it is poised to pose a serious challenge to the US dollar’s domination of the international monetary system.
From here it is but a short step to proclaiming that the American model cannot work in Europe because it is socially reprehensible and, in any case, poised to crash any day now.
Even Germany's rock solid Christian Democrats are poised over an abyss of scandal.
Indeed, the "creative destruction" that generates unacceptable risk to individuals is poised to deliver the means for tempering these same risks.
The China DebateCAMBRIDGE: The growls between China and Taiwan have grabbed the world's attention recently, but China's economy is poised to retake center stage.
A second cause for worry is that the world is poised to enter a new nuclear age that threatens to be even more dangerous and expensive than the Cold War era of mutually assured destruction (MAD).
In the US, the unemployment rate, currently at 9.5%, is poised to rise above 10% by the fall.
Greeks look poised to elect on January 25 a government dominated by the far-left Syriza party, which once stood for repudiation of the euro but now pledges to negotiate a restructuring of Greece’s debts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to visit Pyongyang in July in search of support for his objections to America's proposed anti-missile shield.
Is Hungary's slick young prime minister, Viktor Orban, poised to end all that?
Now, it is poised to take over as the economic powerhouse of East Africa.
Mexico now seems poised to join this dubious club.
With Trump poised to make such imprudent decisions, will US voters hold him accountable?
Russia is poised somewhere between authoritarianism and totalitarianism; and, for all of China’s recent economic progress, the rising Asian power remains squarely in the same camp.
The good news is that the advanced economies of the G7 seem poised to begin – or perhaps have already begun – to rely more on fiscal policy to bolster sagging economic growth, even as they maintain the rhetoric of austerity.
Yet the country that the PRI is now poised to govern again has changed, slowly but surely.
And, thanks to the discovery of vast offshore oil reserves, Brazil not only has become energy-sufficient, but is poised to become a major oil exporter.
The UK is poised to take similar action, “allowing” local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects.
The saddest part of this rhetoric of hate is not that pogroms are poised to be unleashed, but that so little has changed for so many in their mindsets.
Under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, it gave up its beloved Deutsche Mark for the sake of deepening European integration, but also to sooth French fears that Germany was poised to establish monetary hegemony over the continent.
As a result, India, where population growth is projected to remain positive for the foreseeable future, is poised to become the world’s most populous country.
While you were dreaming of real-estate riches, the United States and Europe were hit by the most crippling financial crisis in almost 80 years, and China’s statist economy swiftly overtook Germany and Japan to become the world’s second largest (and, despite its recent slowdown, is poised to surpass the US).
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