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Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago.
Central and local government borrowing in China has soared: bank and shadow-bank credit has grown rapidly: and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has increasingly issued direct loans to state-owned banks in a maneuver closely resembling monetary finance of government spending.
For all the ugly things coming out of President Donald Trump’s White House, not least his denigration of Haiti, El Salvador, and African states as “shithole countries,” the United States is still a long way from resembling Nazi Germany.
While inferior to the open alternation of power between two or more political parties, the evolution of United Russia into something resembling the LDP would still leave Russia in a much better shape than a personal regime confined to the Kremlin.
When they do, they might join the traditional powers – the US and Europe, as well as Russia – to create a sort of “pentarchy” resembling the European balance-of-power system of the nineteenth century.
In the first version (the euro crisis minus the currency problem), the scenario looks more like the United States than like Latin America in the 1990’s (with Italy resembling California rather than Argentina).
But he could end up resembling Michel Temer, who replaced Rousseff, and Kuczynski, both of whom lost whatever public support they had after only a few months in office.
Europe in DisarrayNEW YORK – It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world most closely resembling the end-of-history idyll depicted by Francis Fukuyama at the end of the Cold War.
To bring them to heel, Putin has appointed seven officials (mostly ex-generals and KGB men) resembling tsarist Governors-General who will serve as his agents.
But, even as tensions escalate, with no hope of Russia backing down, the world is not headed toward anything resembling a new Cold War.
Similarly, Western populist leaders are disrupting their countries’ interests with respect to China, Russia, India, and Northern Europe, and challenging the post-1945 international order, without offering anything remotely resembling a viable alternative.
Without the legal and economic institutions, supported by taxes, that make a market economy possible, we would have nothing--or at any rate nothing resembling what we have now.
In 1989, large numbers of Chinese students took over Tiananmen Square to demand more rights, adopting a symbol resembling the Statue of Liberty.
These challenges may be better addressed by policies resembling free-trade agreements, which define the rules of the road for bilateral trade.
Not long ago, the German position in eurozone-reform negotiations was to offer the bare minimum: redesigning the European Stability Mechanism to turn it into something resembling a European Monetary Fund.
Only by doing so can the world begin to discern something resembling a coherent, if misguided, approach to US foreign policy by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The key problem in Europe today is whether eurozone members will advance towards something resembling a federal nation-state.
Good transportation with relatively underdeveloped communications meant that production was centralized at major transportation hubs, and production lines resembling those pioneered by the American automobile manufacturer Henry Ford were used to mass manufacture goods.
The only territorial units resembling those that exist today were Ethiopia, Liberia, and South Africa.
But the main question now is whether Iraq will drift along lines somewhere between these two scenarios, increasingly resembling Afghanistan.
Given that existing development banks in the region have largely failed to act as vehicles of coordination and commitment, a new institution – resembling the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – would have to be established to oversee a regional aid push and underwrite the costs of economic transition.
None of these events sparked anything remotely resembling the public outrage of recent weeks.
Otherwise, its turn at the G-20’s helm risks resembling the chaotic Czech presidency of the European Union in 2009, which confirmed some larger EU members’ belief that it is a mistake to let smaller countries do the driving.
The question is whether the US and other reserve-currency countries will share the burden of maintaining global currency stability, through an agreement resembling the 1985 Plaza Accord, in which five major economies agreed to depreciate the US dollar against the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche Mark.
To be specific, we need to convert the IMF into something resembling an international central bank.
Something resembling an international central bank could provide the cornerstone of the financial architecture around which a new Bretton Woods conference could be organized.
But even with those measures in place, the global economy may not be able to avoid a bleak scenario – one resembling a depression more than a recession.
For that reason, the year 2019 could end up resembling the “unfinished spring” of 2010-2012.
With all due caveats, Brexit might well end up resembling Louis XIV’s decision that drove the Huguenots out of France, thereby condemning Paris to economic backwardness and political isolation for decades.
Before the pandemic reached Brazil, state officials used data from both Japan and Singapore (where the virus’s impact was limited) and Italy and Spain (where it was horrific) to generate mathematical projections, and set out to avoid outcomes resembling the latter.
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