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For example, one of the most immediate and severe consequences of climate change could be a rapid rise in sea level.
Campaign contributions and lobbying that lead to rapid privatizations of utilities – before appropriate regulatory frameworks are in place, and in a manner that produces only a few bidders – can impede development, even without direct kickbacks to government officials.
What is astonishing about this “model” is that it has enabled China to maintain rapid growth within a relatively stable political environment for 30 years.
A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.
Second, China’s fiscal surplus, growing foreign-exchange reserves, and high savings rate have ensured the financial resources needed to maintain adequate investment and sufficiently rapid growth.
Central banks that also regulate the banking industry were asked tough questions about their insouciance in the face of rapid credit expansion, but they were widely praised for their prompt and decisive response when trouble hit.
In July, following the referendum, consumer confidence collapsed at its most rapid rate since 1990.
Against the pressure of Asia’s rapid urbanization and industrial development, this will take sustained effort, involving complex policy decisions and painful economic trade-offs.
With their large populations and rapid growth, these countries, so the argument goes, will soon become some of the largest economies in the world – and, in the case of China, the largest of all by as early as 2020.
Of course, some of the better-managed emerging-market economies will continue to experience rapid growth and asset outperformance.
A rapid decline in the dollar is likely to have a very different impact: primarily to impoverish workers whose products are exported to America and investors in dollar-denominated assets who see their portfolio values melting away.
The dollar appreciated much faster than anyone expected; and, as data for the first quarter of 2015 suggest, the impact on net exports, inflation, and growth has been larger and more rapid than that implied by policymakers’ statistical models.
In an era of globalized financial markets, when countries can find it hard to cope with rapid cross-border capital flows, there is no time for complacency.
The world's rapid economic growth in 2004 shows that the efforts to shore up our defenses since the 1990's has paid off.
The key difference in the UK is that UKIP is gaining ground with voters despite rapid economic growth (more than 3% annually, the highest rate in the EU).
China and India, which account for 40% of the world’s population, were recording 9-10% annual GDP growth before the financial crisis hit in 2008 and are likely to resume rapid growth in the post-crisis period, meaning that their economies will double in size every 7-10 years.
Early European exploration likely continued this rapid pace of extinction.
Likewise, birds are poor models for other kinds of species, because public concern over birds generally leads to rapid actions to save them.
Nor can we expect rapid GDP growth to save these countries.
Only a few observers dared to point out that this rapid reversal was the result of credit bubbles fueled by carry-trade operations hatched in overly liquid centers of global capitalism.
Genetic medicine is advancing at a rapid pace, but its clinical applications seem to be receding.
Local councils, seeking to grab the biggest possible slice of the pie, began to push forward new projects, leading to rapid and uncontrolled expansion of the health system.
In Indonesia, the government invested oil revenue in the massive and rapid expansion of basic social services, including health care.
The Czechs were first and fastest at comprehensive privatization, including a mass privatization program involving the vast majority of the population through participation in voucher auctions, a far-reaching program of restitution, and rapid liberalization for starting new private businesses.
The advantages included a rapid political changeover and the assistance of some of the former Communist elite in building a free, democratic, and pro-Western state.
One key problem is the rapid rise in the number of actors.
Though India’s public vocational education and training systems are well institutionalized, they lack the scale, curriculum, financing, and incentives needed to prepare young workers to meet the demands of rapid globalization and technological advancement.
Avoiding deflation – and thus sustaining economic recovery – would seem to depend on one of two scenarios: either a rapid reversal in the fall of energy prices, or a deliberate policy to raise output and employment by means of public investment (which, as a byproduct, would bring about a rise in prices).
In 1992, John Major ran for re-election in the midst of an economic slump, a vicious monetary squeeze and the aftermath of a rapid inflation.
His fall from public grace – too statist and fiscally intrusive for the right, but too moderate and social democratic for the true left – was more rapid than that of any president of the Fifth Republic.
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