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In Spain, some 7.5 million Catalans have raised the same question.
I keep returning to a question I have raised publicly and in private in recent months: How much worse do things in Venezuela have to become before the world would be prepared to act?
The Terrorist Next DoorNEW DELHI – Recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) – the frontier between India and Pakistan in the state of Jammu and Kashmir – have again raised fundamental questions about the nuclear-armed neighbors’ fraught relationship.
The growing strength of euroskeptic forces in many EU member states has raised the same issue on the continent, where many believe that the goal of a political union might overburden member states’ citizens and should be abandoned.
Import tariffs for cars will be raised from their current 25% - the highest tariff - to a prohibitive 70% for imported cars older then seven years, which compete with new Russian cars.
The import of hundreds of thousands of old Western cars each year has raised living standards for Russia's new middle class.
Chinese policymakers have raised serious concerns about the growing risks of inflation and property bubbles.
With regard to China, he has not only threatened to impose tariffs, but also raised the possibility that he will defy the “One China” policy that his predecessors, Republicans and Democrats alike, have respected for decades.
When the government goes after a rich oil tycoon like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, few voices are raised in protest.
The recent crisis, followed by huge bailouts of financial institutions, has raised questions about how at least one segment of business – the bankers – make their money.
But the BOE’s inaction – even as the ECB raised interest rates in order to begin to normalize monetary policy – could send the wrong signal, according to Sentance.
Since its establishment in 2010, 126 companies have graduated from Startup Sauna, having raised more than $37 million in funding.
At the same time, his government raised taxes, increased social expenditures, and strengthened collective bargaining in a deal with the unions.
Its malaise has raised questions about whether its democratic capitalism will survive the economic challenge posed by authoritarian and quasi-authoritarian regimes.
Matters came to a head in August this year, when an initial public offering in India of SKS, a microfinance institution started by Vikram Akula, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, raised roughly $ 350 million.
The prospect raised by today's new technologies in finance and information is that some of the "market failures" at the root of state involvement in the economy may cease to exist.
Two US cities – New York and Seattle – have raised efficiency standards for new construction to record levels.
It is easy to focus on what has not been achieved, because Obama raised high expectations and then failed to deliver.
I can only wonder how many Western leaders in recent years have raised Liu’s case with their Chinese counterparts behind closed doors.
The wars of the Yugoslav succession have not only been a trial for the peoples of that disintegrated country; they also raised huge questions about the exercise of international justice.
Hillary Clinton has raised millions on the premise that she can restore the Democrats’ traditional advantage.
Killer Fish FarmsA recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization found that almost half of all the fish eaten worldwide are raised on fish farms rather than caught in the wild.
McDonnell raised this idea in what was decidedly a political speech; and policy experts and economists have reacted skeptically.
The answer came in the form of “inflation targeting,” which says that whenever price growth exceeds a target level, interest rates should be raised.
Indeed, given the size of the US economy, a slowdown there might conceivably have a far bigger effect on global prices than a slowdown in any developing country, which suggests that, from a global perspective, US interest rates, not those in developing countries, should be raised.
Some banks took action and raised equity through rights issues, sometimes with substantial help from governments.
Over the next year, the rate was raised to 3.75%, even though inflation had not accelerated by more than a few dozen basis points.
The rescue program designed to keep Greece from crashing out of the eurozone has raised the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio from 130% at the start of the crisis in 2009 to more than 170% today, with the International Monetary Fund predicting that the debt burden could reach 200% of GDP in the next two years.
When Justine Greening, one of May’s recently sacked cabinet ministers, became the first senior Conservative to propose this option, the objections raised to it were no longer about the principle of a second referendum, but about the difficulty of deciding the right question and method of casting votes.
The new capital ratio should be raised to 7-10% of total assets in order to dampen risk-taking by bankers and minimize the real economic impact of large-scale deleveraging following a loss of confidence in the banking system.
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