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At the same time, with Monti’s coalition failing to gain traction, reflecting the historically limited appeal of classic bourgeois parties in Italy, many observers are wondering what his role in the next government will be.
Reflecting this, some European institutions are encouraged by government to try to match the research excellence attained by top universities in the United States.
Of course, some in Pakistan see nefarious designs behind this assistance, but the ultimate objective is straightforward: to build indigenous Afghan capabilities for effective governance, reflecting India’s commitment to regional stability in the face of terror and violence.
There could be an international agreement that every country would impose a carbon tax at an agreed rate (reflecting the global social cost).
Its transport costs are among the highest in the world, reflecting mountainous terrain and international trade routes that must cross political boundaries and depend on foreign ports.
Indeed, in reflecting on their childhoods, many graduates may lament that their fathers spent too little time at home, or were less nurturing than they could have been.
Suppressing consumption thus suffocates future growth, and the share of household consumption in GDP has declined from 67% in the mid-1990’s to below 50% in recent years, with most of the decline reflecting the distortions created by government policies.
This appears to be the Macri administration’s preferred strategy, reflecting its view that Argentina’s large current-account deficit is proof of markets’ support for the country’s trajectory.
Once soybean prices began to fall, however, the entire industry found itself with excess capacity, as well as high debt burdens, reflecting previous investments in labor and capital.
But, given regional differences in political, social, and economic arrangements – often reflecting the particularities of local history and culture – significant divergences in citizens’ attitudes remain.
The decisions to build an interstate highway system (and to spend most of that money on suburban commuter roads) and to jump-start the long-term mortgage market – reflecting the widespread belief that General Motors’ interests were identical with America’s – literally reconfigured the landscape.
Lists have been drawn up of people who played a significant role in the Japanese colonial regime, ranging from university professors to police chiefs – and extending even to their children, reflecting the Confucian belief that families are responsible for the behavior of their individual members.
Banks on the list must keep higher reserves, and maintain more liquidity, reflecting their status as systemically important institutions.
Reflecting the fear that the Fed’s current policy of sustained low interest rates will lead to higher inflation, the law would require the Fed to adopt a formal procedure for setting its key short-term interest rate, the “federal funds rate.”
Federal income taxes as a proportion of income increase steadily from 2% at the 10th percentile (that is, a family ranked tenth from the bottom out of 100) to 14% at the 90th percentile, but then falls off slightly to 13% at the very top, reflecting the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income under the Bush administration’s income-tax laws.
Reflecting the freebooting financial zeitgeist that prevailed at the time, the International Monetary Fund declared in 2006 that “the dispersion of credit risk by banks to a broader and more diverse group of investors…has helped make the banking and overall financial system more resilient…” As a result, “the commercial banks may be less vulnerable to…shocks.”
The official Saudi press explains the new stance as reflecting the government’s desire to abide by Security Council resolutions.
But, rather than reflecting a decline in its military superiority, America’s setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are the result of wrongheaded policies that sought to use hard power to solve conflicts that were simply not amenable to it.
But, in this case, when the son borrows essential elements of his father’s architectural principles and serves a regime that seeks to use the Games for some of the same reasons that animated Hitler, is he not willingly reflecting those sins?
Indeed, economic theory suggests that the interest-rate differential should be offset on average by depreciation of the currency with the higher interest rate, the differential thus reflecting the compensation required by investors to hold money in relatively risky currencies.
Among all university graduates, engineers (and, to a lesser extent, doctors) seem the most frustrated by the lack of opportunities, perhaps reflecting the ambition and sacrifice required to earn such a high-level degree.
Its monthly statements emphasize that there is still “a significant underutilization of labor resources,” reflecting not only the 6.1% unemployment rate, but also the millions of part-time employees seeking a full-time job and those who are not officially counted as unemployed because they are not actively looking for work.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain’s youth are unemployed, reflecting the country’s loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
As representative government in Liberia enters a new phase of maturity, it is worth reflecting on how the country got here.
A new movement of grassroots progressive federalism, reflecting the powers conferred on citizens by the Tenth Amendment, has already begun to emerge.
Interest-rate differentials – including premiums reflecting the heightened risk of a eurozone exit and exchange-rate realignment to reestablish competitiveness – are crucial for the monetary union’s long-term existence, stability, and allocative efficiency.
Reflecting its fears about the potential for Chinese encirclement, democratic India, after early hiccups of doubt, set aside its scruples about Burma’s military regime.
Throughout the nineteenth century, Catholicism’s public role bred cruel fights between supporters of the clergy and their opponents, reflecting a more fundamental conflict between supporters of the Republic and advocates of a return to the old order.
But, from 2015 to 2017, foreign direct investment in Russia amounted to less than 2% of GDP per year, on average – almost half what it had been in the preceding years – reflecting not just falling investment, but also reduced technology imports.
A new global Financial Stability Board is trying to make sense of all this, and also to work out a new “macro-prudential mechanism” reflecting system-wide risks.
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