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But at the macro level, expected growth in demand and associated innovation opportunities will remain the primary drivers of business investment.
When inflation is the primary concern, a strong exchange rate may be good for the economy.
Besides, the two primary factors behind long-term economic growth are the size of a country’s working-age population and its productivity.
The primary drivers of the deficit increase over the next decade are the higher cost of benefits for middle-class older individuals.
The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to achieve the target of universal primary education by the end of 2015.
For example, more Malawian children are enrolled in primary school than ever before, and the rate of boys and girls completing primary education has increased dramatically, from 59% in 2007 to 80% in 2014.
But reaction is no longer sufficient; today’s most urgent task is prevention of crises, armed conflict, and war which may require that the primary response be other than by military means.
Last month, Scott Pruitt, Trump’s appointee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said that he did not believe that CO2 is the primary contributor to climate change.
The American Meteorological Society promptly wrote to Pruitt saying that it is “indisputable” that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are the primary cause of global warming, and that it is “not familiar with any scientific institution with relevant subject matter expertise that has reached a different conclusion.”
What many commentators failed to notice, however, is that even if, contrary to all the evidence, we were to accept Pruitt’s statement that “we do not know” whether CO2 is the primary contributor to climate change, the Trump administration’s actions would still be reckless.
Unless the probability that CO2 is the primary contributor to climate change is vanishingly small, it is wrong to take chances with the future of our planet and the lives of hundreds of millions of people in order to reduce energy costs for Americans and preserve a few thousand jobs in the coal industry.
These policies require Greece to maintain a very high primary budget surplus – more than 4% of GDP – for many years to come.
These efforts are geared toward removing one of the primary sources of anti-Semitism: mutual ignorance and incomprehension.
China’s primary political challenge in the near future will be to convince government officials to accept a growing entrepreneurial class richer than they are, while continuing to reform the economy and to foster the development of the private sector.
In that case, the country will continue to be the world’s primary economic engine, contributing about 30% of global growth until at least 2020.
Today, they have become a primary vehicle for citizens to speak out against overweening and abusive governments.
He is an actor whose experience hosting a reality-television show enabled him to dominate the crowded Republican primary field and attract considerable media attention.
The primary demand for oil is as a transport fuel, with lesser amounts used for heating, energy, and as inputs for petrochemical industries like plastics.
But has the political primary now been successfully transplanted to Europe?
But neither was as monumental as the Socialists’ most recent primary.
Based on the Italian experience – also on the political left – of 2005 and 2007, the Socialist party has, in effect, decided that its candidate for the 2012 presidential election would be decided on the basis of an expanded primary.
Although President Nicolas Sarkozy recently opposed the use of primary elections in his own party, many of those responsible for his legislative majority, including Prime Minister Francois Fillon, seem to consider it likely that the French right will also begin the practice of using political primaries, if not in 2012 (because Sarkozy will run again), then in 2017.
The European Union will play a central role in the drama ahead, because it has long been America’s primary partner on global issues, and vice versa.
In response, central banks may intervene in currency markets to prevent appreciation, at the cost of accumulating low-yield foreign reserves and diverting themselves from their primary goal of price stability.
There are four categories of plastics recycling: primary recycling, in which the plastic is re-used in the same application; secondary recycling, in which material (mixed or contaminated) is used in less demanding applications; tertiary recycling, in which the plastic is converted into monomers or chemicals; and quaternary recycling, in which only energy is recovered through incineration.
After all, even though Microsoft has a monopoly of primary sales of its software, copies sold in 2007 compete with those sold in 2006.
Not only are migrant flows into Europe shattering records from one month to the next; migrants’ primary entry points are changing as well.
Since the beginning of the century, recognition of this has driven many countries to pursue the Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education and eradicating gender disparities at all levels of education by 2015.
To be sure, universal primary education has nearly been achieved.
In many countries, primary schools fail to provide students with appropriate cognitive skills like numeracy, literacy, problem-solving ability, and general scientific knowledge.
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