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The International Monetary Fund forecasts 4% growth for the world economy in 2015, while stock-market indices are up in many parts of the world; indeed, the Dow Jones reached an all-time high in July.
Iraq and a Great Leap for Chinese IntellectualsEven before images of the first cruise missile strikes on Baghdad reached Chinese TV screens, the country's intellectuals were debating the US-led war against Iraq and the government's response.
More people have attained – or are reaching for – prosperity than at any time in history, and, despite the threat that violent extremism poses, the percentage of people who die violently has reached a low for the modern era.
Maybe we have reached a point at which the productivity boost from Internet-based technology has been cashed, and we need another technological leap to move forward again.
Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.
It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia - long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society - after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
In developed nations, the number of the working poor reached 10-15% of the workforce, with another 5-10% of unemployed workers and 5-10% dropping out of the labor market altogether.
But, almost six months into the North African upheavals, the number of arrivals on the southern island of Lampedusa has reached roughly 30,000.
But only a few have reached scale, and achieved long-term sustainability; the majority of projects have not made it past the pilot phase.
China’s Antifragile AmbitionsHONG KONG – China has once again reached a crossroads on its journey toward inclusive, sustainable prosperity.
The issue has little to do with the insignificant accord that Prime Minister David Cameron recently reached with his EU colleagues.
Intellectual property protection is related to economic development, so the question should be whether China has reached the stage at which effective protection is possible.
After a restless month in which it appeared that momentum for talks had dissipated, the announcement has renewed hope that a transformative agreement between the United States and the European Union can be reached.
Cumulative Chinese foreign direct investment since 2003 has reached nearly $7 billion in Zimbabwe, compared to $3.9 billion for Kenya.
Central banks’ reputation reached a peak before and at the turn of the century, thanks to the so-called Great Moderation.
Clearly the situation in Syria has reached that threshold.
This is good, because only then will a reliable democratic consensus on Europe’s future be reached.
The US rate reached 1.77 in the late 1970s, compared to 1.8 in Northern Europe and 1.65 in Western Europe.
Like many Israelis, I agree with Trump that the international agreement reached with Iran in 2015 is fundamentally a bad deal.
According to GK Dragonomics, China’s total corporate debt amounted to 108% of GDP in 2011, and reached a 15-year high of 122% of GDP in 2012.
In 2014, investments in clean energy reached a new high of $310 billion, after two years of decline.
Indeed, with the exception of the London summit in April 2009, when a consensus was reached on joint monetary and fiscal stimulus, the G-20 has become just another bureaucratic forum where much is discussed, but little is agreed upon.
For EU politicians, however, the long term will be reached only after a series of short-term electoral challenges, so pro-reform governments may well not survive to reap the benefits.
This is a substantial difference, especially considering that China’s per capita GDP amounts to only 19% of Japan’s at its highest level, and that its debt has already reached 60% of Japan’s.
But the level that computers have reached already is scary enough.
By contrast, aid reached 95% of gross national income in Rwanda soon after the conflict ended, but fell to 20% within five years.
Moreover, Russia's dialogue with the European Union reached a dead end in 2004.
An agreement to amend the new articles was reached, but the Ennahda-dominated Constituent Assembly rejected the agreement a week later – the third time Ennahda’s elected members have refused to honor a commitment made by the party’s leadership.
Tunisia has reached a critical point in its political transition.
And he is ready to renounce rules-based cooperation across the board, from trade (he has already rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal) to climate change (he has threatened to withdraw from the historic agreement reached last year in Paris).
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