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At other times, they will propel economic transformation and poverty reduction, as they have done on a massive scale in China, generating gains not just for the home economy but also for consumers worldwide.
But that isn’t enough to propel people from a tortilla factory to a software company, to create a broad middle class, and thus to assure social mobility.
Data-driven optimization, conversely, derives solutions from a predetermined paradigm, which, in its current form, often excludes the transformational or counterintuitive ideas that propel humanity forward.
There can be little doubt that this growth center will continue to propel Japan’s economy for the foreseeable future.
The next power vacuum in the Tibetan hierarchy could seal the fate of the Dalai Lama lineage and propel Tibet toward a violent future, with consequences that extend far beyond that vast plateau.
All of this will propel us into a very different world, one that may well extend humans' life span by 10-30 years, presenting enormous opportunities, but also confronting us with fascinating and perplexing ethical, social, and legal issues.
Resistance to immigration and, more broadly, anxiety about the surrender of sovereignty to the EU also helped to propel another key development of recent years: the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum.
Innovation and Its DiscontentsCAMBRIDGE – Technological innovation is often extolled for its power to overcome major development challenges, fuel economic growth, and propel societies forward.
This has severely undermined the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy, while hampering the kind of market-based competition that China’s economy needs to propel the country to high-income status.
While it relies on profligate subsidies and cash handouts, Thaksinomics also banks on structural reforms to propel economic growth.
I also believe that global, free, online teaching about sustainable development can help to propel global solutions.
Jean Monnet, one of the EU’s founding fathers, repeatedly returned to the notion that the urgency of emergency would propel integration.
During Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward, scrap metals were melted to meet wildly optimistic steel-production targets and thus to propel rapid industrial development.
He called Comey a “weak and untruthful slime ball,” and, as has happened before, his attack on the author of an unflattering book helped propel it to the top of the bestseller list before it was officially released.
But the growth strategies that lift a poor country to middle-income levels cannot be counted upon to propel it to high-income status.
But, with major emerging economies like China and India working hard to foster innovation, while still benefiting from technological catch-up, it is also possible that continued globalization and digitization will propel continued “de-Westernization” of the international order.
Initially, monetary union was supposed to propel Europe toward political union.
This is precisely the kind of incentive that could propel the world toward a more sustainable future.
For some observers, these factors were deemed sufficient to form the critical mass needed to propel the economy into escape velocity.
Moreover, the explosions would propel millions of tons of sooty smoke into the upper atmosphere, causing skies to darken, temperatures around the world to fall by an average of 1.25 degrees centigrade, and rainfall to be disrupted.
Consider Marine Le Pen of France’s far-right National Front party, whom Brexit could help propel to victory in the 2017 presidential election.
Many Russians believe that the Russian apartment bombings of September 1999, which killed almost 300 people, were plotted by elements of Russia’s own security services to provoke retaliation against the Chechens and propel Putin into the presidency on the back of a popular war.
Chinese industries will cut costs, raise quality, and propel innovation for most consumer and industrial products--not just because of their own efforts, but because global companies vying for position in China are putting their own best practices to use there.
Perhaps this disturbing prospect can propel society into mobilizing its politicians.
Fourth, feverish real-estate development throughout China continues to propel land prices to new heights.
From the moment Europe's coal and steel industries were merged in an effort to prevent future wars on the Continent, the "European project" has often relied on economic interests to propel itself forward.
In this way, global public goods can be not only funded; they can also propel global recovery.
And in the 1990s, monetary union was considered likely to propel Europe to greater global prominence; today, the European economy is frequently in the world’s headlines, but not in a good way.
By abolishing private ownership and establishing state control of the economy, one not only deprives society of the entrepreneurship needed to propel it forward; one also abolishes freedom itself.
By backing campaigns and mass actions aimed at stopping the world’s most dangerous fossil-fuel projects – from coal plants in Turkey and the Philippines, to mines in Germany and Australia, to fracking in Brazil, and oil wells in Nigeria – Break Free hopes to eliminate the power and pollution of the fossil-fuel industry, and propel the world toward a sustainable future.
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