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If the US were to play a relatively smaller role in world affairs, and no other system was created to pick up the slack, these values could be at risk.
I find this to be a rational strategy, given the heavy toll that infections take, and that many can be prevented and treated at a relatively modest cost.
They will be relatively narrowly focused and designed to lay the groundwork for further progress.
It should be relatively straightforward for them to grow at an average rate that outpaces that of the last decade – a period that includes the peak of the financial crisis.
India’s wealthy, who are less reliant on cash and are more likely to hold credit cards, are relatively unaffected.
Europe's low productivity reflects a simple statistical fact that fatally undermines relatively high productivity per hours worked: weak participation in the active labor force means that Europeans work a very low number of hours.
The current level of the Euro makes prices on both sides of the Atlantic relatively similar.
Producers are typically willing to accept relatively lower prices to hedge their risk because they can’t pass cost increases on to their customers.
Large firms are relatively risk-averse not only because they are bureaucracies, with layers of management required to sign off on any innovation, but also because they are reluctant to back innovations that threaten to render obsolete the products or services that currently account for their profits.
Still, the levels of drug-related violence in Mexico remained relatively low.
Despite relatively high oil prices, Venezuela has a large fiscal deficit and falling foreign-exchange reserves.
The UK example is important; but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one.
Nor is there evidence that inflation, should it increase slightly, cannot be reversed at a relatively minor cost – comparable to the benefits of additional employment and growth enjoyed in the excessive expansion of the economy that led to the increase in inflation.
Having overthrown Hosni Mubarak’s iron-fisted 30-year-old regime in a remarkably quick and relatively peaceful manner, Egypt’s revolutionary masses were to leave the streets and pursue an all-out drive for economic prosperity and social justice.
And it is here that the US shines – at least relatively speaking.
While one might quibble about the complexity of US laws and regulations, it cannot be said that they are not applied relatively consistently.
Capital inflows – which will undoubtedly increase in the coming years – are driven largely by investors’ interest in diversification and high yield, rather than the country’s image as a refuge from troubled financial markets elsewhere, especially given that China’s financial markets are relatively underdeveloped and beset by considerable risks.
The good news is that a relatively small reduction in the deficit can put the debt ratio on a path to a much lower level.
These programs are largely benefits for middle-class seniors and not welfare programs targeted at the relatively poor.
MENA startups have achieved the most success online, where the large established players did not show early interest and barriers to entry, in terms of capital investment and market access, are relatively low.
The editor and deputy editors of Beijing News, a relatively new tabloid with a national reputation for exposing corruption and official abuse, were fired.
Governments talk far too much about setting a relatively high carbon tax on emissions, while focusing far too little on ensuring a meaningful increase in research and development to bring about necessary breakthroughs.
To some extent, this is because - all rhetoric notwithstanding - human rights rank relatively low among these governments' priorities.
Thus, governments interested in closing the health gap – such as the British Labour government in 1997-2010 – usually end up pursuing such relatively painless “downstream” interventions.
MILAN – The growth map of the global economy is relatively clear.
The US economy is relatively flexible, and this kind of structural adjustment in the private sector occurs reasonably quickly.
The United States needs to restore the possibility of achieving the American Dream for its middle class, even while it reaffirms the historically light regulation and relatively low tax burden that have allowed enterprise to flourish.
Yet such innovation – including the rapid progress in renewable energy over the last decade – has depended crucially on the relatively free flow of technologies across borders, not to mention China’s unique ability to scale up production and reduce costs quickly.
Relatively modest investments in the resilience, redundancy, and integrity of these systems pay high dividends, albeit at random intervals.
While Africa’s needs are relatively well known, there are challenges in scaling up aid to tackle them.
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