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Under such a system of ECB guarantees, there would still be an important role for traditional stabilization programs, like those now in place for Ireland, Portugal, and Greece – particularly while countries still run
primary
deficits.
The world would halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger and living in extreme poverty, achieve universal
primary
education, and dramatically reduce child mortality by 2015.
Second, the service sector has been the
primary
driver of economic growth in the last few decades.
The farm bill in the United States – the federal government’s
primary
agricultural and food policy tool – is similarly wasteful.
And, though Germany shares the UK’s belief that NATO bears
primary
responsibility for protecting Europe, its view of European engagement is even more restrictive.
But this will not be enough: even if Puerto Rico makes no debt payments in the short term, its
primary
deficit implies that it will still need to take steps that would depress economic activity.
During the Republican primary, he linked his opponent Senator Ted Cruz’s father to John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Not because we lack alternatives: the US has ample wind, solar, hydro, and other sources of
primary
energy that don’t cause global warming.
With anti-Israeli hate serving as the
primary
unifying factor, this alliance has grown into a new and dangerous force for intolerance within Swedish society.
None of this repression was implemented with the
primary
intention of giving legal expression to organic mid-Victorian homophobia.
Since 1970, scientists have learned not only that human activity is the
primary
driver of environmental change on Earth, but also that it is pushing the planet beyond its natural limits.
The share of non-fossil fuels in
primary
energy consumption is expected to increase to 20% by 2030.
In the run-up to its debt crisis in 2010, the government’s
primary
budget deficit (the amount by which government expenditure on goods and services exceeds revenues, excluding interest payments on its debt) was equivalent to an astonishing 10% of national income.
But even if Greece’s debt had been completely wiped out, going from a
primary
deficit of 10% of GDP to a balanced budget requires massive belt tightening – and, inevitably, recession.
In other words, at the
primary
level, Tanzania now boasts near-full enrollment.
As a result, promises to achieve universal
primary
education are consistently deferred.
But with a strong and sustained commitment to fulfill the promise of universal
primary
and secondary education – and a little international support – governments can ensure happier, more prosperous lives for their countries’ young people.
In the past three years, we have doubled
primary
school enrollment nationwide, refurbished hundreds of health facilities, begun rebuilding roads and restoring electricity.
The
primary
culprits are productivity growth and limited demand, which cut the share of nonfarm employees in manufacturing from 30% in the 1960s to 12% a generation later.
With a small but highly competent professional staff, the IEA has also become the
primary
source for the world’s energy statistics and is playing a key role in the climate debate.
While the “Leave” camp certainly included many hard Brexiteers whose
primary
motivation was to end free movement, it also comprised people who believed Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and current foreign secretary, when he promised (as he still does) that the UK could have its cake and eat it.
Current negotiations seem to envisage a modest
primary
budget surplus of 0.8-1% of GDP for 2015.
But the best feasible target would be a tiny symbolic surplus for the
primary
balance (which excludes interest payments on debt) this year, and a gradual increase thereafter to a realistic 1.5-2% of GDP.
The news from Greece these days has been dominated by the announcement that the government achieved a
primary
budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt service) in 2013.
While the
primary
deficit (before interest payments) in 2002 was similar among countries with and without important natural resources, in 2007, the former showed a surplus equivalent to 3.8% of GDP – compared to 1.6% of GDP for non-commodity-exporting countries.
Nationalism could become the
primary
source of legitimacy for a ruling party that can no longer point to a rapidly rising standard of living.
The eight original MDGs, which include reducing child mortality and achieving universal
primary
education, are lauded for their simplicity and measurability.
Revenue distribution is one
primary
reason for European banks’ capital shortfalls.
Moreover, China’s banking system remains the
primary
channel for the deployment of the household sector’s savings, meaning that those savings fund corporate investment through bank lending, rather than equity financing (which accounts for only about 5% of net investment).
But this would be ethically wrong, because developed nations have largely destroyed their own
primary
forests and ecosystems on the path to industrial development, and continue to import large quantities of raw material extracted in developing countries.
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