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Earlier this month, the Indian government reacted to the revelations about the baseless nature of the glacier claim by announcing plans to establish what amounts to its own “Indian IPCC” to assess the impact of global warming.
The Middle East AwakeningBERLIN – When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement.
The Fed certainly would have reacted sooner had it not been attached to a model of banking more appropriate to the 1950’s.
The Indian public and the country’s notoriously fractious political class reacted with great pride to the news, unanimously hailing the decisive action as long overdue.
So, as 2014 winds down, it is worth asking ourselves, with the benefit of hindsight: Have we at the European Central Bank reacted swiftly enough to maintain price stability in the face of threats, as our mandate requires?
Firms and consumers reacted to this year’s shocks by “temporarily” slowing consumption, capital spending, and job creation.
But the EU reacted swiftly and forcefully, with a support program for Greece and a financial guarantee plan for the entire eurozone.
This is the main reason why the governing establishment and the markets reacted to the election results with equanimity.
Now that the markets have reacted adversely, some investors have begun to worry that, as a result, the economy is doing worse.
When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970’s.
Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not intervene in events in the Arab world.
When net exports collapsed in 2008-2009 from 11% of GDP to 5%, China’s leader reacted by further increasing the fixed-investment share of GDP from 42% to 47%.
Their bodies probably reacted defensively, adapting in the short term by changing the genes for the next few generations, or until the “danger” had passed, a so-called “soft inheritance” running in parallel to slower-acting evolutionary forces.
Governments have sometimes reacted with protective measures or macroeconomic initiatives, but in some cases with repression.
The other is that financial markets haven’t reacted very much, at least so far, to growing geopolitical risks either, including those stemming from the Middle East, Europe’s identity crisis, rising tensions in Asia, and the lingering risks of a more aggressive Russia.
French officials have now reacted to the prospect of a credit rating downgrade by lashing out at Britain.
India’s citizenry eventually reacted.
When these hopes were dashed, the West reacted with stunned disbelief and anger, reinstating sanctions on 156 top Belarusian officials and members of Lukashenko’s family.
How have other countries reacted?
Others, however, have reacted skeptically, and for good reason.
President Mbeki reacted to Obsanjo's announcement with what South Africa's business weekly, The Financial Mail , described as "surprise and consternation."
The Israeli government reacted furiously to Goldstone’s efforts.
Politicians reacted by devising an international financial system after WWII in which default and bankruptcy were more or less impossible.
Unsurprisingly, the market has reacted badly to the draft budget.
While rich countries reacted more quickly and more wisely in stimulating their economies than in 1929, and the hemorrhaging of banks was stanched, this has not been enough to boost growth.
Yet Russia reacted swiftly and harshly.
India’s government, which has reacted to previous terrorist outrages with calm and restraint, has no choice this time but to respond decisively.
Congress politicians have reacted with robust indignation to Modi’s attempt to appropriate Patel’s legacy.
But when markets in both countries reacted more violently than expected – with bond yields soaring in the United States and inter-bank lending rates spiking in China – the monetary authorities backed off.
They reacted against a rather smug liberal establishment that tended to dismiss all critical thought about immigration or non-Western faiths and traditions as racism and bigotry.
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