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Germans, who since reunification in 1990 know what they are talking about when it comes to such transfers, do not want to hear about a Europe where rich regions would permanently finance pockets of under-development.
Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions are struggling with the fallout from large-scale climate-related events.
Regions in Australia also are struggling with the worst drought in a generation.
According to a 2016 World Bank analysis, drought-related water crises in Africa and the Middle East could reduce GDP in these regions by as much as 6% by 2050.
That would be painful anywhere, but it would be devastating in regions already rife with political turmoil and humanitarian crises.
But conventional geothermal power requires a natural source of large quantities of steam or hot water, and such sources are usually found only in volcanic regions, which rules out its use in large parts of the world.
There is a serious danger that reforms that facilitate markets will benefit northern Europe but harm underdeveloped regions in southern Europe by depriving them of the relationship-based system.
In these regions, higher rates of corruption and tax evasion, together with smaller average firm size, undermine the production of credible information that financial markets need.
But the wellbeing of Ukrainian democracy is not what Putin has in mind; for him, a federal system is a means for the Kremlin to make political mischief and ultimately incorporate Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions into the Russian Federation.
That provision would enable Putin to try to coerce and manipulate Russian-speaking regions into vetoing the country’s European future.
But even here the cloud has a silver lining; clearly, Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union (at least the stable and modernizing regions) are also among the potential offshore locations for a Germany or Japan that is fighting to cut labor costs.
Money Can't Buy ReformMOSCOW: A big squeeze is on in Moscow, as President Putin seeks to drill the country's wayward regions into line with Kremlin policies.
They also form a majority in some Gulf states, as well as in the oil-rich regions of Saudi Arabia.
In this way, more Portugals and Irelands can be created as the wealth of already prosperous regions is sustained.
As they establish and implement such principles, the resulting momentum has been changing corporate governance and behavior across industries and regions.
The French turned out, en masse, to say that they did not want to see the Le Pen gang take possession of their regions.
The part of the brain that generates actions - the frontal cortex - must be sending signals to regions of the brain where sensations are processed, but we know very little about the nature of these signals or the precise pathways involved.
But we can measure the strength of the connections between brain regions, and the strength of these connections seems to be reduced in patients with schizophrenia.
So perhaps the key to understanding the symptoms of schizophrenia at a physiological level will come from studying connections between different brain regions.
Industries shun malarious regions, except where valuable resources can be extracted or where particular kinds of agriculture require unique environmental conditions.
This further contributes to the reluctance of foreign companies to invest in malaria-ridden regions, despite otherwise low labor costs.
Had the US, for example, focused more on health, rather than just on GDP, the decline in life expectancy among those without a college education, and especially among those in America’s deindustrialized regions, would have been apparent years ago.
Europe, too, faces challenges, and not just from the fact that it now has the worst downturn of the world’s major economic regions, with Germany’s government warning of a surreal 6% decline in GDP for 2009.
Not all regions will necessarily have slower economic expansion in the decade ahead.
That could lead to growing unemployment, poverty, inequality, instability, and other factors that threaten not just individual countries or regions, but the entire international community.
Other factors that have plausibly stoked political upheaval – deindustrialization, loss of manufacturing jobs, stubborn pockets of unemployment in left-behind cities and regions – would also change very slowly, if at all.
When sea levels rise, those island-state inhabitants, living just a meter or two above sea level, will be the first to be driven off their land, followed by tens of millions of people farming small plots in fertile delta regions in Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, and Egypt.
Digital mapping technology is having the most profound impact on the world’s most remote and undeveloped regions.
For Africa’s rural regions, moreover, such policies would help bring communities out of darkness and lead to the installation of other critical infrastructure that economic growth requires.
Political and economic water wars are already being waged in several regions, reflected in dam construction on international rivers and coercive diplomacy or other means to prevent such works.
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