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Moreover, the use of wood by Africa’s growing population is causing increasingly rapid deforestation in many countries.
The IMF should lend during balance-of-payments crises rapidly and without overburdening conditions, particularly when the source of the crisis is a rapid reversal of capital flows or a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade.
A commitment by Xi, Modi, and Jokowi to do what is needed would bring rapid, far-reaching progress to their respective countries, Asia, and the global order.
Due to pressure to allow the rapid return of displaced residents, however, the JAEA demonstration projects proceeded only as far as establishing temporary storage facilities, intended as stopgaps until centralized waste conditioning, interim storage, and disposal facilities are available.
As rapid population aging generates significant fiscal pressures, EU members have a strong economic incentive to accept more immigrants.
Although he oversaw a period of rapid economic growth as Prime Minister, many poor Thais dislike him, favoring populist parties linked to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose sister was also prime minister until she was ousted in a 2014 coup.
That rapid reversal of fortunes was triggered by events thousands of miles away.
The rapid expansion of Alibaba threatens Western retailers who never expected to face a Chinese competitor.
A long track record of success can warp executives’ analysis, distort their decision-making, and leave them blind to incipient paradigm shifts or rapid changes in a market.
If anything, too rapid a democratic transition may destabilize governments and enhance the extremists’ opportunities to wreak havoc.
The rapid increase of foam plastic production in export processing zones is thought to be based on their purchase of CFC-dependent production units from OECD countries.
But Indonesia is number three, owing to its rapid deforestation.
CAMBRIDGE – In a recent commentary, I examined whether increasing pressure from more rapid stock trading is inducing corporate managers to obsess more over quarterly results, impairing their capacity to run their firms for the long term.
But I noted how pressures from governments and rapid technological change are potentially just as powerful as those from stock-market trading.
But, even if managers and boards at publicly traded firms focus excessively on their quarterly results, and even if median stock-holding periods have shortened greatly in recent decades, it is difficult to know whether stock-market trading has become more rapid in ways that would make managers pay even more attention to quarterly results.
A fringe of rapid traders may well have greatly reduced the mean duration of stock holding, but, for the bulk of traditional American shareholders, the duration did not change.
The US model works in times of rapid, pervasive change.
It is pretty clear by now that an extraordinarily benevolent external environment, not a revolutionary policy shift, underpinned Latin America’s rapid growth in the years following the 2008-2009 global economic crisis.
When China’s market transition started in 1979, Deng Xiaoping adopted a pragmatic, dual-track approach, rather than the “Washington Consensus” formula of rapid privatization and trade liberalization.
Every developing country can have similar opportunities to sustain rapid growth for several decades and reduce poverty dramatically if it exploits the benefits of backwardness, imports technology from advanced countries, and upgrades its industries.
China’s rapid economic growth, juxtaposed against America’s problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, monumental debt, and role in sparking the global financial crisis, have changed global power realities – and global perceptions of those realities even more.
Poor farmers would continue to enjoy robust demand for their products even when food prices dropped, and consumers would be protected from rapid or excessive price increases.
Researchers wanted to combine the cancer cells’ rapid growth and the normal cells’ ability to dictate the production of a single specific “monoclonal” antibody.
The world needs a rapid and fair transition away from dirty energy sources.
The magnitude of this change is due, in part, to a radical and rapid shift in China's governance.
For the sake of the welfare of billions of farmed animals, we should wish it rapid growth and success.
This, in turn, presupposes a North African “common market” – and thus rapid resolution of the conflict between Algeria and Morocco, which has been holding back both countries’ development (as well as that of Tunisia and Mauritania).
But the prospects for continued rapid growth are strong.
With rising incomes and unprecedented scientific and technological progress, rapid positive change on the required scale is feasible.
Looking ahead, China and India are the looming giants of Asia, with their huge populations and rapid economic growth rates.
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