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Globally, more than 30 million tons of oil equivalent are consumed in the form of
primary
energy every day, equivalent to 55 kilowatt hours per person per day, with rich countries, on average, consuming more than twice that figure.
Declining house prices are key to the financial crisis and the outlook for the economy, because mortgage-backed securities, and the derivatives based on them, are the
primary
assets that are weakening financial institutions.
Third, the World Bank’s
primary
responsibility is to fight poverty, which means that when it confronts a poor country plagued with corruption, its challenge is to figure out how to ensure that its own money is not tainted and gets to projects and people that need it.
The reduction in income levels at international prices means that many more people in China and India are now classified as poor – an automatic boon for the World Bank, whose
primary
business is to end poverty.
In rich countries, where the
primary
producing sector usually has political power, stockpiles of food products are used as a means of keeping prices high rather than low.
Among Arab allies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, the prospect of US-Iranian diplomatic accommodation – in which the US changes its approach toward Iran, and Iran changes its approach toward Israel – could mean an end to their chief ideological patron and
primary
source of funding.
At the same time, the top 10% also owned nonfinancial assets (including
primary
residences) with a median value of $756,400 – nearly six times the value held by the other 90%.
But the
primary
importance of the election result is the left’s return to power for only the second time in 31 years.
So a powerful combination of social and economic anger emerged, particularly given the perception that the excessive greed of financiers and bankers was the
primary
cause of the crisis that erupted in 2008, and that still menaces us today.
With Germany as the
primary
exponent of orthodoxy, the debate has raged on.
The euro itself would be finished; after all, its
primary
task was to break the Bundesbank’s dominance in monetary policy.
Yellen brings to bear an understanding not just of financial markets and monetary policy, but also of labor markets – which is essential in an era when unemployment and wage stagnation are
primary
concerns.
In the World Economic Forum’s latest report on global competitiveness, Egypt was ranked 139th out of 140 countries for quality of
primary
education.
Light-water reactors (LWRs) like those at Fukushima, which use water as a
primary
coolant, produce most of the world’s nuclear power.
But the increasing digitization of the labor market also has at least one very worrying drawback: it is undermining the traditional employer-employee relationships that have been the
primary
channel through which worker benefits and protections have been provided.
One contender is the centrist Emmanuel Macron, who says he will run but refuses to stand in the Socialist Party
primary
this January.
Leftist voters would have preferred Juppé, and will likely tolerate Fillon, but they comprised only 15% of total voters in the first round of the Republican primary, so they may not have the same impact in 2017 as they did in 2002.
Fillon, for his part, can probably muster the same level of support, and he may even be able to skim votes from Le Pen, given that around 8% of
primary
voters described themselves as National Front backers.
Likewise, Peretz, a rabble-rousing but effective trade unionist, surprised all when he won the Labor Party’s leadership
primary
and then chose the defense portfolio over the treasury.
In his 2016 Democratic
primary
campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, condemned America’s rising inequality and actually came closer to being elected president than many had expected.
Fillon, once the clear frontrunner, the choice of four million
primary
voters, has now brought forth the spectacle of a party of mutineers trying to nudge him out of the race.
But shrinking snow and ice cover is itself a result of warming, so reduced reflection of solar rays is not the
primary
cause of warming.
But Africa’s export trade is still dominated by
primary
commodities.
While France is not alone – manifestations of support have come from its Western and African partners, as well as from the Middle East – it will bear the
primary
responsibility and the risks.
It would be “understood that countries are expected to pursue their citizens’ economic welfare as a
primary
objective but where their ability to harm the interests of citizens elsewhere is circumscribed.”
Overall, cuts in public spending should continue beyond current plans; but funds should also be reallocated to finance investment in
primary
education.
This means that the
primary
objective of the Russian attacks is to weaken the entire opposition, including the democratic opposition, fighting the Assad regime.
Low investment and a deteriorating
primary
education system?
An attempt at a
primary
to choose Fatah candidates backfired, owing to fraud and the losers’ refusal to honor the results.
The macro evidence indicates that the
primary
cause of disappointing business investment in the US and other developed countries in the years following the global financial crisis has been anemic demand, not a lack of investable funds resulting from excessive distributions to shareholders.
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