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Real disposable income per capita dropped precipitously in 2009-2012, and remains below pre-crisis levels, which were already below the prevailing levels prior to Italy’s adoption of the euro.
Reading between the lines, the authors think little of the sectoral model, but their anticlimactic conclusion is only that “it looks worthwhile to regularly conduct assessments of the functioning of the supervisory architecture in each jurisdiction in the light of prevailing objectives.”
Without foundation, President Bush seems to foresee a future with rates far lower than those prevailing now, thanks to productivity growth – a delight the present generation deserves to share.
It is because the prevailing story line of our time portrays markets as self-standing entities that run on their own fuel.
In China, this would represent a significant shift from prevailing conditions, in which the children of poor households, especially in rural areas, lag in terms of nutrition and school enrollment, despite significant progress in recent decades on lowering infant mortality and raising educational attainment.
Policies must fit within the prevailing narrative framework, while the great task of politics is to shape the narrative of tomorrow.
And prevailing ideology prevents us from thinking about alternative arrangements.
By humiliating, degrading, and outlawing any Islamic tendency that disagreed with the prevailing dogma, authoritarian regimes did not eliminate pluralism, but merely sent it underground.
Recovering the Promise of TechnocracySINGAPORE – The prevailing mood nowadays is one of pessimism.
National statistical offices should explore measurement issues that go beyond the prevailing standards, rather than use compliance as an excuse for their failure to innovate.
On the reasonable assumption that health conditions continue to improve at the rate prevailing for the last 170 years, most children born in Germany in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2100.
The broad Keynesian consensus that emerged immediately after the crisis has become today’s prevailing economic dogma: as long as growth remains substandard and annual inflation remains below 2%, more stimulus is deemed not just appropriate, but necessary.
Given the prevailing paranoia, fueled by propaganda and genuine ignorance, on both sides of the border, it is possible that our hosts were being excessively cautious.
The prevailing attitude in Taiwan toward reunification is highly skeptical; enactment of strict security laws in Hong Kong will hardly be seen as reassuring.
At the earliest opportunity, Nigeria's government should convene a conference of all national and regional leaders and secure agreement on a constitutional provision whereby each household would be guaranteed a share of oil revenues, with the amount determined by prevailing prices and quotas.
Another mark against the notion of Islam's overwhelming power to determine a society's prevailing conditions.
Third, and contrary to prevailing wisdom in the West, Wang Qishan, one of China’s savviest and most experienced senior officials, has not been relegated to obscurity in his new position overseeing “discipline” on the Standing Committee.
So, are China’s economic prospects as bad as prevailing wisdom seems to indicate?
On the Korean Peninsula and in the Persian Gulf, the central aim must be to prevent the nuclear armament of dictatorships that threaten regional stability and the prevailing balance of power.
But the prevailing domino theory is incomplete.
But instead of preparing for the accession of others to follow them, the prevailing view among Nato governments, not least in the United States, is now to widen the ditch in front of the entrance door, not to fill it.
The major problem in the Arab-Isreli conflict, as in many other intricate disputes, has always been the incapacity or unwillingness of leaders to conduct a peace policy that is not supported by their societies’ prevailing, and frequently paralyzing, consensus.
The anemic recovery in many advanced economies (even when compared to other severe crises) owes much to the prevailing “extend and pretend” approach to debt.
It is overly optimistic to pretend that today's EU institutions can implement such principles, because they do not represent the prevailing power realities.
Because policymakers operate in second-best environments, optimal reform trajectories - even in apparently straightforward cases such as price reform - cannot be designed without due regard to prevailing conditions and without weighing the consequences for multiple distorted margins.
Central banks’ fixation on positive but low inflation under today’s prevailing economic conditions is also increasingly dangerous.
Effective government investments and strong regulations are needed to ensure each of these outcomes, regardless of the prevailing political culture in Texas and elsewhere.
In the prevailing atmosphere of turmoil and confusion, the radical Islamists attack the Americans as barbarous Crusaders who have replaced the communists as the enemies of Islam.
It is important to recall that the peculiar arrangements prevailing today were designed to overcome the financial sector’s opposition to the establishment of a central bank when the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.
For the last few decades, the prevailing view guiding economic policy was that market forces should be left to operate undisturbed.
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