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Similar losses at the Kuwait Stock Exchange prompted the Kuwait Investment Authority to invest $5.4 billion in a new fund meant to provide liquidity to the local market, and to purchase a 24% stake in Gulf Bank for $1.5 billion.
This was not an issue in the disinflationary environment of the last decade, but it is becoming more of one, which is probably what prompted World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s proposal to restore a role for gold.
What We Owe Refugee ChildrenBEIRUT – Last year, images of desperate refugees, many of them children, stirred our collective conscience and prompted world leaders to take action.
These so-called "wars" are part of the same conflict that prompted the peasant blockades of September 2000, the continuing protests by coca growers against efforts to eradicate their crops because of their role in the cocaine trade, and the withdrawal earlier this year of a progressive tax project.
Chinese leaders have not forgotten that Imperial Japan attacked Northern China (Manchuria) from the Korean Peninsula in the 1930’s, or that it was US troops’ approach toward the Yalu River on China’s border that prompted Chinese intervention in the Korean War, in the early 1950’s.
The recent carnage in Mumbai has prompted another standoff between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.
Defeat prompted Klaus and Zeman to try to and gain control over Czech TV by packing its council of overseers with their sympathizers.
This has prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to ban the Open Society Foundations from disbursing grants to Russian organizations and artists.
One would think that such a track record would have prompted officials to revise their model of the economy.
Indeed, the failure of officials to convey how their inability to make accurate predictions has prompted them to update their model is leading many to lose confidence in the Fed’s capacity for sound decision-making.
While rejection of this presumption landed Michael Boskin, Chairman of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, in rough political waters, the presumption prompted a reporter to go and check the matter for himself.
The Iranian revolution prompted a Shia uprising in the Eastern Province in November 1979.
Prompted by capital flows to low-wage countries, specialization, outsourcing, and even immigration, the equilibrium price of unskilled labor has fallen throughout the western countries.
The competition prompted by the Global Findex rankings could be particularly valuable, especially with regard to financial inclusion.
Evidence from the recent crisis suggests that ultra-low rates prompted a wide range of portfolio adjustments, whereby Asian and Middle East central banks and funds ended up holding the safest low-interest securities, while the US and European financial sectors went on a risk-taking binge.
For Europeans, the NIE has not removed, but rather confirmed, the concerns that in 2003 prompted the EU-3 (Britain, France, and Germany) – namely, that Iran’s nuclear program could eventually give it a military nuclear capability, and that even before that point, it might trigger regional nuclear proliferation.
This has prompted a modest uptick in expected inflation – the ECB’s favorite measure of price stability – not for the immediate future, but in five years, and then for five years.
Chinese officials say that concern over the overexploitation and illicit export of rare earths prompted them to regulate the industry more closely.
Here an irony intrudes: usually prompted by civil movements, removal of such biases only becomes effective when these movements have their goals implemented by direct state action.
A Good Economy for ChinaNEW YORK – Decades of plodding growth together with the 2008 financial crisis have prompted a seismic shift in economic thinking in much of the world.
The brutality of bilateralism prompted US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to draft the Atlantic Charter in 1941.
And on April 10, the exchange rate’s rapid depreciation prompted the government to halt domestic foreign-exchange transactions and outlaw foreign-currency holdings of more than €10,000 ($12,000).
China’s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion – but there is no shortage of speculation.
Similar “mission creep” and commercialization prompted the US Food and Drug Administration to reprimand the American company Darwin Life for promoting its three-person IVF techniques for the much wider market of age-related infertility.
The US, prompted by its allies’ anger, dispatched two B-52 bombers into the ADIZ.
In recent years, the renminbi’s decline relative to the dollar has prompted complaints from American firms that compete with Chinese products.
If China’s ultimate goals include internationalizing the renminbi, its more immediate objective, prompted in part by US tariffs or sanctions on China and other countries, is de-dollarization of the international system.
Imagining a New Bretton WoodsAUSTIN, TEXAS – The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows, and prevents systemic contagion.
In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression.
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