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Thus, even rapidly rising energy prices imply only a limited additional cost burden for firms.

This suggests that rapidly reducing emissions may sometimes even help to maintain a firm’s competitiveness.

Iran’s bitterest regional enemy, Saudi Arabia, would move rapidly toward a nuclear capability, using abundant petrodollars and Pakistani knowhow.

Fourth, the war in Afghanistan has not only proceeded rapidly on the ground, but has led to a diplomatic breakthrough as well.

But GDP growth soon began deteriorating rapidly.

Poor governance may, in general, be the binding constraint in Zimbabwe and a few other countries, but it was not in China, Vietnam, or Cambodia – countries that are growing rapidly despite poor governance – and it most surely is not in Ethiopia, South Africa, El Salvador, Mexico, or Brazil.

Yet fracking has increased supply so rapidly that these facilities are now being converted to export LNG.

Natural gas emits only half as much CO2 as coal, and occupies a rapidly increasing share of electricity generation – up 37% since 2007, while coal’s share has plummeted by 25%.

In order to ensure that their animals gain weight rapidly, meat producers feed them grain, rather than the grass that they would naturally consume – an approach that is a major source of pressure on grain production, natural resources, and the environment.

With the world facing a serious water crisis, rapidly increasing global temperatures, staggering population growth, and growing health problems like coronary disease, this must change – and fast.

Birth rates have been low in developed countries for some time, but now they are falling rapidly in the majority of developing countries.

China is aging very rapidly, and its working-age population will begin to shrink within a few years.

Its services sector is growing rapidly, but is still embryonic, accounting for just 52% of GDP.

And household consumption, which is also growing rapidly, is still less than 40% of GDP.

Mobile phone use is already spreading rapidly in developing countries, making old-style fixed infrastructure unnecessary; data services can use the same system.

With the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in the middle of that year, Nokia’s market share shrunk rapidly and revenue plummeted.

That share climbed rapidly in the aftermath of the euro’s introduction.

Yet, despite these well-founded criticisms, over the last 20 years factory farming – not only of chickens, but also of pigs, veal calves, dairy cows, and, in outdoor feedlots, cattle – has spread rapidly in developing countries, especially in Asia.

Rapidly expanding demand for skilled workers cannot be satisfied as long as average schooling still totals eight years.

Among the vast list of unforeseen consequences springing from the US fiasco in Iraq is the vital fact that, across Latin America, anti-Americanism is on the rise and is rapidly generating myriad grim effects on the region's politics.

Asia will grow faster because it is accumulating physical and human capital more rapidly, which not only increases output directly, but also facilitates technological progress and diversification of the type that Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo identify as the key to sustained growth.

Moreover, the economy-wide productivity gap between the US and Western Europe does not appear to be widening very rapidly, if at all.

Over the past decade, tens of millions of people across Africa have joined the middle class; our cities are expanding rapidly; and our population is the most youthful in the world.

Rapidly appropriating the lessons of nineteenth-century Europe, Japan in 1894 launched a brutal five-decade effort to dominate Asia and secure its resources, stopping only when America’s atomic bombs flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Just as China has replaced Japan as the world’s second largest economy, so its military might has grown rapidly in recent years.

From America’s point of view, China’s rapidly growing military power and lack of transparency have become grave concerns.

But political disruption in the Persian Gulf or a new terrorist attack in the US would drive up oil prices rapidly, and the political climate in America might also change quickly.

In the tradable part of advanced economies, manufacturing automation – including expanding robotic capabilities and, prospectively, 3D printing – has combined with the integration of millions of new entrants into rapidly evolving global supply chains to limit employment growth.

While American households have reduced their debt considerably (mainly through mortgage defaults), household debt in many other countries has continued to grow rapidly.

The banks made large loans to undercapitalized enterprises, which were thereby able to expand rapidly despite a shortage of equity capital.

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