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The Case Against Emergency Food AidNiger’s food emergency has reached the world’s headlines, but the crisis there is only one part of a much larger disaster.
Annual inward foreign direct investment is estimated to have reached $80 billion in 2013.
We have reached two million people in an act of compassion and care, with results that are as remarkable as the interfaith cooperation that produces them.
Racist discourse – tinged with anti-Western rhetoric that Najib has ignored – has reached fever pitch, with right-wing groups openly advocating intolerance and racial hatred.
The limits of technocratic utopianism have been reached.
In the US, stock prices have reached near-record highs.
The euro has not necessarily reached the bottom.
In 1985, the value of European currencies as a basket reached 67 US cents, 25% below today's levels.
If and when that point is reached, a bit of ECB intervention can initiate the long march upwards.
In popular opinion, negotiations have reached a dead end.
Hamas does not share this view, and Palestinian reconciliation efforts have reached an impasse.
One conclusion, therefore, is for countries to be cautious about removing capital controls when they have not yet reached the relevant “safety” thresholds, but equally to stress the sizable net benefits for countries that exceed the thresholds.
If a preliminary agreement on these questions is not reached by the end of the year, the economy faces a “fiscal cliff” of $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will shave about 4% from GDP and trigger a recession.
In the United States and elsewhere, there is a sense that the long-foreseen implosion of news publishing is accelerating, having reached a kind of critical mass.
Moreover, it has been accompanied by rising income inequality, which has now reached historic highs within many countries (though, across countries, such inequality has declined).
The Coming Revival in French-American RelationsWith the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, French-American relations reached a low point.
Last year, Chinese GDP growth reached a 13-year low, and no upturn is in sight.
Unemployment reached 18% last year, up from 13% in 2010.
Egypt’s budget deficit reached 10% of GDP, while its foreign-exchange reserves have fallen to $15 billion – barely enough to cover the country’s import bill for the next three months.
As Skidelsky rightly pointed out, confidence recovered from its low point in the first quarter of 2009, and reached a plateau in the first half of 2010.
Instead, those who argue that the Chinese economy is overheating cite the high rate of investment in plant and equipment and real estate, which reached 43% of GDP in 2004.
The faster, the better, so that the billion or so people there who have not yet reached prosperity by world standards can get there within their lifetimes.
In 2004, when the EU formally welcomed eight formerly communist countries as member states, European openness reached its pinnacle.
The US Congress refuses to ratify the agreement reached in 2010 to correct this skewed state of affairs.
Just when the world reached a consensus that Ahmadinejad was merely an instrument of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ahmadinejad appointed a Vice-President against Khamenei’s wishes (though he later retracted the appointment).
At the same time, the EU should not lift sanctions until a credible political settlement between the regime and opposition forces has been reached.
US President Donald Trump, who has already reached the height of political power in his country, and former UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who aspires to keep rising in the ranks, have in common not just their crude nationalism, but also their apparent inability to control their sexual appetites.
On the other hand, the desire to avoid confrontation can prevent meaningful agreements from being reached in a reasonable timeframe, and the appearance of consensus may merely mask the true politics at work.
Last year also marked the first time in millions of years that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm).
Those who feel comfortable with the status quo would do well to heed the conclusion Representative Abraham Lincoln reached at the end of the Mexican-American War: “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
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