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Two weeks later, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria pulled its funding for programs in Burma, citing government restrictions that had created “an impossibly difficult environment.”
Moreover, Trade Representative Michael Froman made it clear last October that the US was not interested in negotiating a free trade deal with Britain if it pulled out of Europe.
The talks ground to a halt in June 2004, when the North Koreans pulled out, citing the allegedly hostile policies of the US and Japanese governments.
Since the start of 2018, the same emerging markets have been under intense pressure from a combination of factors, beginning with the US Federal Reserve’s tightening of monetary policy, which pulled capital back to the United States.
But such practices are still being applied to a lesser degree, and they can be pulled out of the arsenal whenever political or social conditions dictate.
As a result, China has pulled ahead, with per capita income last year standing at $11,850 – more than double India’s $5,350.
Just recently, its regional neighbors – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka – pulled the plug on a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit that was scheduled for early next month in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
If these persons were employed to the extent such workers are employed in America--through liberalization of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
But the French people pulled themselves together and turned out to vote in much greater numbers than anyone expected.
Last year, the US suggested quadrilateral defense exercises including US, Japanese, Indian, and Australian naval units, but the newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pulled his country out of such arrangements.
Unfortunately, the resounding success of Sanders’s and Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric has pulled Clinton away from her more centrist position, and might have the same effect on many members of the House and Senate.
In Rwanda, France armed the genocidal Hutu regime, and Belgium pulled out its peacekeepers though they were reporting corpses piling up like cordwood in Kigali.
Chinese zoos have drawn crowds by staging animal spectacles, and by allowing members of the public to buy live chickens, goats, and horses in order to watch them being pulled apart by lions, tigers, and other big cats.
The weapons inspectors were pulled out, and America opted for preemptive war.
Venture capital has pulled back from early-stage life-sciences companies, and big pharmaceutical companies have seen fewer drugs reach the market per dollar spent on research and development.
Other economies will also be pulled down as the US contagion spreads.
The New and Not Improved NAFTACAMBRIDGE – US President Donald Trump acts as if he has pulled off a smashing victory by replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – supposedly “the worst trade deal ever” – with the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Without question (and without much precedent), interest rates are extraordinarily low in advanced economies, pulled down partly by the slowdown in longer-term output growth, but also as a consequence of official efforts.
The junta pulled back, a civilian government was installed, and by the 2000s Thailand seemed to be building a solid and stable democracy.
But forget Peter the Great: Now “Vova the Little” – or Lilli-Putin, as Georgia’s sharp-tongued president, Mikheil Saakashvili, once dubbed Russia’s president – may have pulled off an even greater coup.
The authorities have pulled the eurozone back from the brink before.
Both Kohl and Chirac would like to find a means to placate Russian fears of encirclement, and appear unlikely to move either item along until that rabbit can be pulled out of the diplomatic hat.
Now China is the world’s largest exporter and its second largest economy, and more than 600 million people were pulled out of poverty.
WASHINGTON, DC – Last month, Emmanuel Macron pulled the proverbial rabbit from the electoral hat.
By contrast, in the northeastern state of Manipur, Congress was expected to yield ground to critics of its long-serving chief minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, who instead pulled off an overwhelming victory.
The Harsh Lessons of 2009NEW YORK – The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to be perched in late 2008, and that 2010 will almost surely be better for most countries around the world.
Indeed, notwithstanding an unprecedented post-crisis tripling of Fed assets to roughly $3 trillion – probably on their way to $4 trillion over the next year – US consumers have pulled back as never before.
Government officials from several countries, including the United States, pulled out of a major investment meeting held in Riyadh.
Thus, the world cannot help but be pulled down by a US slump.
So, after a varying mix of tolerance and “heterodox” responses, officials are pulled into loosening their own monetary policy in order to weaken their countries’ currencies or, at a minimum, limit the pace of appreciation.
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