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But both opposed pro-cyclical policy, such as the misguided US fiscal and monetary tightening of 1937: before the economy had fully recovered, President Roosevelt raised taxes and cut spending, while the Federal Reserve raised reserve requirements, prolonging and worsening the Great Depression.
All of which brings us back to the questions raised at this year’s China Development Forum.
Such enthusiasm raised fears of what the political scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. has called the transformation of “abortion politics” into “tornado politics.”
Turkey’s ISIS CrisisISTANBUL – Following the recent safe return of 46 Turkish hostages held by the Islamic State, hopes were raised in the United States that Turkey would finally commit to joining the US-led coalition now fighting the group.
Cardin-Lugar’s quiet passage through the Senate raised hopes that the law heralded higher standards for publicly-listed extractive companies, similar to those being considered in Europe and Canada.
Within months, Social Finance – another Cohen-initiated social enterprise – had raised £5 million ($6.6 million) from 17 trusts and foundations to launch the bond.
But “domestic” violence is also worsening: although women all over the world are threatened by their partners, the risk is substantially raised when men have easy access to arms and a very slight probability of being taken to court, as is the case in Mexico and Guatemala, where the rate of impunity is over 95%.
The outcome will answer many alarming questions raised two years ago, when Donald Trump won the presidential election.
More generally, some development experts have raised concerns about whether the AIIB can operate according to international standards of governance and transparency, enforce safeguards, refuse to work with incompetent or corrupt governments, and follow effective procedures.
Such an apotheosis, of course, served the political interests of the emperor’s successors, who could claim a godly lineage while aspiring to be raised to godlike status themselves.
Perhaps the most important question raised by his victory is whether the long phase of globalization that began at the end of World War II is essentially over.
No other major central bank raised rates after the stock market drops began in May until June 7- 8, when several did (the European Central Bank, India, South Korea, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey)Another factor is the price of oil, which rose 24% from March 22 to May 2, setting all-time records along the way.
(The Fed raised its benchmark federal funds rate from 1% in 2004 to 5.25% in 2006 and held it there until August 2007).
For China, Clinton’s intervention came as a shock, and, given the warm response she received from her Vietnamese hosts – despite criticizing Vietnam’s human-rights record – the US Secretary of State may well have raised the issue at least partly at their urging, and perhaps with additional prompting from Malaysia and the Philippines.
Moreover, the challenges and fears raised by advances in technology, especially digital technology, with regard to both national security and economic performance are also propelling the world toward greater fragmentation.
But there won’t be many laughs when cherished public programs are cut, welfare entitlements curbed, and taxes raised.
The failure of that system to adapt to changing geopolitical and economic realities has raised serious questions about its legitimacy.
Last year, the African Development Bank (AfDB) raised $2.2 billion to address climate change, 50% more than in 2011.
In October, the AfDB launched its inaugural “green bond,” which raised $550 million from around the world within 24 hours.
Or perhaps the wall will become part of a showdown over how the debt ceiling for the federal government should be raised, with the deadline for doing so also likely to come around the end of September.
Elsewhere in Europe, populists are demanding that the drawbridges of trade be raised.
Yet these gains have not raised the approval rating of Rousseff’s centrist successor, Michel Temer, who is hugely unpopular.
Such questions were set aside under the pressure of public passion, which was raised to a crescendo by incessant media coverage, especially by India’s 81 hyperactive all-news television channels.
The monetary easing undertaken by the US Federal Reserve raised expectations for a devaluation of the US dollar that might help US exports.
Let us begin with the many questions raised at the trial.
Oil giant Petrobras raised $67 billion in its IPO, which until then was the world’s largest.
Tereshkova’s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood.
Likewise, they should increase only those taxes that, when raised, do not reduce consumption, investment, or job creation.
These recommendations focus on four principal concerns raised by Treaty opponents: questions about its value to the non-proliferation regime; the potential for cheating; its impact on the US nuclear deterrent; and the uncertainties associated with the Treaty’s indefinite duration.
The most delicate issues are those raised by the Investment Services Directive, on which only a majority of member states have reached a common position.
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