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But income disparities in the regions are still substantial in western Europe when compared with American states.
It is true that poorer EU countries tend to outgrow richer ones, but poor regions do not necessarily outgrow rich regions or even the country average.
As with the EU-15, income convergence for the regions again turns out to be slower than convergence between countries.
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the central and eastern European regions benefiting most from EU membership are those around the country’s capital city or sharing a border with one of the 15 countries.
The fact that companies in these sectors benefit from operating close to one another may boost economic development at the expense of peripheral regions.
In the US, successful convergence in economic conditions across regions relies strongly on labor mobility.
Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by “Polish plumbers,” net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.
Reducing the labor supply in economically depressed areas of Europe and increasing it in booming regions would do much to reduce differences in wages and unemployment rates.
Worse, they inspire little confidence that the US can deal with future cases in which countries with nuclear assets find themselves in revolt, civil war, or political collapse – and with compromised domestic atomic safeguards risking the spread of nuclear havoc to other regions.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
A hundred years ago it was one of the world’s most peaceful regions; today it is the most violent.
It is believed that the epidemic first took hold in the forested regions of Guinea in December 2013, then gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Current polls indicate that the opposition’s dominance could slip significantly, but that it will almost certainly retain control of the country’s western regions and most large cities.
By drawing on these principles, countries, regions, states, and businesses can move faster to tackle the climate challenge confronting us all.
These leaders have taken steps to price carbon pollution and catalyze greener investment in their own countries and regions.
Carbon pricing policies are already being implemented by some 40 national governments, including that of China, the world’s largest emitter, and 23 cities, states, and regions that are putting a price on carbon.
I hope that spirit will spread far beyond San José, and that other regions will join us in recognizing that while our borders may define our territories, having the courage to reach across them defines our character – and, ultimately, our future success or failure.
The free flow of capital from these regions’ SWFs to corporations in the advanced countries is crucial in order to balance the global economy and provide liquidity to financial markets, especially given the prospect of another recession in the West.
But are we being fair by comparing the various regions’ SWFs and expecting them to adhere to Western standards?
Though Western consumption rates are now stagnating and even declining in some regions, they remain far higher than in most other regions in the world.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are already being created, some in remote, previously stagnating regions.
As North America becomes self-sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide alternative sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia’s leverage.
The people of the Czech Republic, like most Europeans, wish to jointly build an irreversible system of mutual relationships among states, regions, municipalities, and their inhabitants.
Screening travelers from affected regions may have prevented significant epidemics elsewhere.
Climate Change and Water SecurityThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released alarming data on the consequences of global warming in some of the world’s poorest regions.
Global warming will increase evaporation and severely reduce rainfalls – by up to 20% in the Middle East and North Africa – with the amount of water available per person possibly halved by mid-century in these regions.
Violators of international law must be made aware that the Middle East is subject to the same norms as other regions, and that the principles of democracy belong as much to its people as to those of more politically developed nations.
Official statistics show a slowdown in real growth in the old manufacturing and construction-based economy, reflected in declining corporate profits, rising defaults, and an increase in non-performing loans in poorer-performing cities and regions.
Latin America’s Military FactorBUENOS AIRES – In 2009, Latin America scored an unrecognized achievement: the global economic crisis did not affect the continent as dramatically as it did other regions.
How will the world’s two superpowers, China and the United States, come to terms with the fact that important commodity-exporting regions from Africa to the Middle East to Central Asia are littered with ill-formed nation states?
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