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America's big technological lead will narrow relative to Brazil, China, India, and other major economic regions of the developing world.
Similarly, in the aftermath of the Iraq war, the US managed to recover much of its soft power in most regions of the world (though less so in the Middle East).
With the Kremlin’s blessing, these regions have been turned into news and information “black holes,” where the authorities are free to act without fear of consequences.
Within the genetic code, there are 30,000-40,000 highly organized regions called genes.
This is why, in order to maintain food prices in the medium term, other countries or regions will need to start reducing poverty at rates similar to that of China in the recent past.
With larger deficits under Obama than under Romney, America would need more capital from Europe, Latin America, and Asia, while higher taxes and debt would impede US growth and thus undermine these regions’ exports.
Only countries, not regions, are entitled to draw IMF resources.
Brookings has extrapolated previous trends and data from other countries within regions, and finds that the cost in 2015 could well be as low as $75 billion annually.
As Saudi officials have observed, Iranian militias fighting the Islamic State in predominantly Sunni regions north and west of Baghdad hope to reinforce their country’s control over Iraq.
As an added benefit, such an approach could spur “competitive envy” in other sluggish regions.
The inclusiveness of growth has to do with the disparities of income and growth across different regions and social groups.
Indeed, corruption, including “protection” of traffickers, is distributed along the lines of party control in various regions.
The new government’s effort to share power with political forces in Myanmar’s volatile regions, and thus weaken local warlords, clearly contributed to the decision to halt construction.
Some places in the world are very remote from international trade – think of the Andean highlands, the mountainous regions of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the landlocked countries of Africa, such as Rwanda, Burundi, Burkina Faso, or the landlocked regions of Central Asia.
New leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, and now India are political nationalists in regions where territorial disputes remain serious and long-held historical grievances fester.
While about 40 countries and 23 cities, states, and regions are using a carbon price, this covers only 12% of annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
But the same analytical approach can be used – and extended to cities, states, and regions.
Thus, the neurocognitive effects documented for non-konzo children in konzo-affected households and communities make it all the more important to ensure food safety in regions dependent on bitter varieties of cassava with high levels of cyanogenic compounds.
Konzo-affected regions lack the agricultural, educational, and public-health capacity and infrastructure needed to implement the necessary changes.
For the same reasons, these regions fail to diversify their food staples to include safer crops such as millet, maize, or beans.
To be sure, communities in affected regions have long followed safe, traditional practices.
The key to solving Spain’s fiscal problem lies in the semi-autonomous regions that generate spending and shift the financing burden to Madrid.
Even the technology’s advocates concede that their computer models predict that it will have a strong negative impact on tropical and subtropical regions.
A new regional autonomy law will provide greater freedoms for regions and local communities to express themselves.
If the central government refrains from re-imposing its power in the regions, either administratively or militarily, they are more likely to remain within the Republic.
Regions must be prevented from promulgating regulations that violate national laws or impose negative effects on other regions, as has happened with the creation by some regions of internal trade barriers.
But this is not true of Scotland or Catalonia; nor, despite Russian propaganda, does it appear to be the case for those regions of Ukraine with ethnic Russian majorities.
But, though the Venetians’ desire to secede from the poorer South might sound familiar to other regions in Europe where taxpayers feel aggrieved at subsidizing other, allegedly feckless, regions, the politics of secession can be taken to absurd extremes.
Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil revenue and political clout.
Wealthy states and regions face the dilemma of designing border controls that reflect not only the needs and demands of their populations, but also their responsibility to those seeking to enter their territory.
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