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Even if technological change causes that market – and Chile’s share of it – to grow,
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lithium production will not provide the revenues needed to fund Chile’s social programs.
He underestimated both Ukraine’s leverage as the
primary
conduit for Russian gas exports to Europe and Europe’s influence as the major consumer of Russian gas.
But that a third of all children in a member country of the European Union live on one meal a day is a source of shame – and thus should also be a
primary
political issue.
The Internet’s creators, part of a small, enclosed community, were very comfortable with an open system in which security was not a
primary
concern.
So the
primary
question that we need to ask is not whether we can reduce emissions, but how public policy can help to achieve these core goals while reducing emissions and building a more climate-resilient economy.
Reforms that cost little or no money, such as improving the quality of
primary
and secondary education, have been shown to encourage growth while ameliorating inequality.
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and an early frontrunner in the Republican primary, called it just a “theory out there,” while Romney himself has had to argue that it is consistent with creationism – the idea that an intelligent force designed the universe and brought it into being.
But the crushing defeat of Senator Richard Lugar in the recent Indiana Republican primary, in a Tea Party-supported campaign of shocking mindlessness, has reverberated in capitals around the world, including my own.
But none of this was persuasive enough for Indiana
primary
voters, who backed his rival, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, by an astonishing 20-point margin.
State and local reform movements are focused on four structural threats to democracy: gerrymandering; poorly designed
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processes; money in politics; and legislative procedures that impede compromise.
To address this, the political scientists T. Anthony Quinn and R. Michael Alvarez recommend reforming the
primary
process to “give voters more choices, which in turn can stimulate increased voter turnout.”
Not only will politicians’ influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose
primary
mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.
Assuming that Greece could borrow at a real interest rate of only 3% (the current level is 17%), the government would need to run an annual 2.6%-of-GDP
primary
budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt-service costs) for the next 30 years just to keep the debt burden stable.
To put that task in perspective, in the last 25 years, Greece ran an average
primary
deficit of 2% per year.
To reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to 70%, Greece would have to maintain an average
primary
surplus of 4% for the next 30 years, a level that it has temporarily achieved in only four of the last 25 years.
Simply put, these institutions’
primary
objective was to minimize the repercussions that a Greek default would have on the international financial system.
This emphasis on anti-worker, pro-rich policies as the recession’s
primary
cause fits less well with events in Europe.
Still, in time, the
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determinant of GDP growth – and the inclusivity of growth patterns – will be gains in productivity.
Indeed, we are seeing how strong immunization systems protect our gains against polio and provide a platform for reaching the world’s most vulnerable mothers and children with new vaccines and
primary
health care.
The sharp decline in energy prices is the
primary
reason for the recent drop in the inflation rate.
By selecting his
primary
opponent, Hillary Clinton, as his Secretary of State, and reaching across party lines to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, he showed openness to strong subordinates.
Its policymakers deny the eurozone’s crisis-ridden countries a more active fiscal policy; refuse to support a European investment agenda to generate demand and growth; have declared a fiscal surplus, rather than faster potential growth, as their
primary
domestic goal; and have begun turning against the European Central Bank (ECB) in the struggle against deflation and a credit crunch.
First, banks were the
primary
creditors, and the large losses that they would face in any restructuring was bound to trigger a domino effect, with waves of pessimism driving up interest rates and ruining other borrowers’ prospects.
The proposed solution: a commission to recommend a path to balance the
primary
deficit (the deficit excluding interest payments) in 2015.
Moreover, the goal of balancing the
primary
budget in 2015 is hardly encouraging.
It its absolutely essential that these relationships, and particularly the first
primary
set, be handled responsibly and involve increasing cooperation and interdependence.
With this commitment, Ghana is making a bold statement: telemedicine holds the key to expanding universal health coverage, a
primary
objective of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that Ghana hopes to meet by 2020, ten years ahead of the target date.
By intervening in Syria – a conflict of
primary
concern to Europe and the US – the Kremlin feels it has acquired leverage over Ukraine’s Western partners.
Examples of this new approach include technology companies such as Omada Health, which delivers customized online health coaching at home for people at risk of diabetes; social enterprises, such as the Grameen Bank, which is building low-cost
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care systems on the back of its microlending networks; and the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign, which teaches ordinary citizens how to provide care in their own communities, based on lessons learned from similar models in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Their
primary
concern was the government’s interference in the legal process in its pursuit of the case.
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