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But, while the worldwide recession of 1981-2 brought inflation down rapidly, nominal long-term interest rates did not fall immediately, for the world’s markets were still not convinced.
China, the world’s biggest dam builder – with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000 large dams on the planet – is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbors by undertaking massive hydro-engineering projects on transnational rivers.
An alternative approach might be to use a one-off dose of OMF to finance a significant bank recapitalization, shifting as rapidly as possible to a new, more stable financial regime.
Over the past decade, 370,000 new jobs have been created in the sector, and exports of renewable-energy technology are rising rapidly, totaling roughly €30 billion from 2006 to 2008.
While our budget for modernization is below that of the other US armed services, we must continue to develop capabilities rapidly and equip our people with the latest technology.
Although their current combined GDP is still a relatively small fraction of global output (about 15%), that share is rising rapidly.
Perceptions are rapidly coming into line with the reality that sustainability must become a critical ingredient of growth.
China’s military power was built by Mao Zedong, enabling Deng to focus single-mindedly on rapidly building the country’s economic power.
A more prosperous and rapidly growing America – a scenario in which the rest of the world has a vital interest – hangs in the balance.
Europe and Japan are both facing difficult challenges, including rapidly aging populations and sputtering economies.
While China’s foreign reserves are now rapidly falling, Germany’s are rising.
The failure to shift agriculture policies more rapidly in the direction outlined above has been costly – to the sector itself and to the international community.
Trump’s proposed federal budget calls for an increase in US military spending in Europe, while NATO’s European members have agreed to increase their military spending toward the 2%-of-GDP goal (though not as rapidly as Trump would like).
As a result, US fortunes have tended to fade more rapidly.
China is now America’s third largest and most rapidly growing export market.
The eurozone owes its ostensible immunity from financial-market gyrations to major improvements in the peripheral economies’ fundamentals: growth has picked up, and unemployment, though still high, is declining rapidly.
These include not only the rapidly growing formerly communist countries to the east, Poland and the Czech Republic, but also Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland, upon which Germans traditionally looked down.
The current-account balance deteriorated rapidly, owing to the loss of more than $4 billion in tourism revenues and a sharp fall in remittances by Egyptian workers abroad.
And India, China, and South Korea are rapidly shifting their investments away from coal, and toward renewable-energy sources.
Greece is rapidly running out of money; its residents are withdrawing their deposits and have stopped paying their taxes and utility bills.
Then there is “brain” – the ability to sift through the masses of information with which we are constantly inundated, in order to make smart decisions in a complex and rapidly changing world.
In a world that is changing more rapidly than ever, we should seek leaders who can protect and serve the interests of the people they are supposed to represent.
What matters is simply that the supply of the chosen commodity cannot be rapidly and limitlessly increased.
That means they can grow more rapidly than wealthier economies, until their per capita income catches up.
These basic data have been known for a long time, and only a few deny that rapidly accelerating man-made climate change is occurring.
Moreover, anxiety over inadequate provisions for retirement and health care is set to intensify as a rapidly aging population now enters the most vulnerable phase of its life cycle.
The problem is that almost all of it is in US dollars – a currency that is rapidly losing its value.
Developing economies that manage to grow rapidly on a sustained basis without relying on natural-resource booms – as most of these countries have for a decade or more – typically do so through export-oriented industrialization.
Kick-Starting EmploymentBERKELEY – Unemployment is currently rising like a rocket, because businesses that normally would be expanding and hiring are not, and those businesses that would normally be contracting and shedding workers are doing so very rapidly.
Much of this was due to an export-led industrialization and urbanization strategy that opened up new opportunities in the rapidly expanding cities, where labor, capital, technology, and infrastructure came together to form supply capacities for global markets.
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