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While this pattern may not necessarily hold in the country with the dominant global reserve currency, there is a very real risk of capital-flow reversal.
What we are witnessing today is a reversal of the debates of the 1980’s.
This represents a clear reversal from President Barack Obama’s second term, during which important progress was made in adapting America’s international role to a changing global environment.
A party of “Bregretters” – those who regret Brexit and could push for its reversal – does not exist.
The new strategy is a reversal of the policies of the late 1990’s, when the ADB changed its objective from “economic growth” to “poverty reduction.”
As many commentators have pointed out, from the Islamists’ standpoint, Morsi’s removal looks remarkably like the Algerian military’s overthrow in 1992 (with US support) of an elected Islamist government; the Turkish military’s “soft coup” in 1997, when it forced an elected Islamist government out of power; and the US government’s reversal of its support for “Arab democracy” after Hamas won elections in Gaza in 2006.
Increased community engagement and changes in hygiene practices have freed the women, men, and children of Los Palmas and the neighboring village of Jacob of cholera – a dramatic reversal from the last few years – and reduced their risk of contracting other water-borne diseases.
For Italy, with its deeply divided political environment, engineering such a reversal will require a massive policy effort – and possibly a large dose of luck.
Such a reversal would be catastrophic for global efforts to tackle climate change.
The net result was a reversal of deforestation.
So long as a borrowing country is stable and attractive, a major reversal due to the current account balance will not be forced by the market.
If one looks at the reserves-to-money ratio, the reversal is even starker than that suggested by looking at reserve data alone.
Indeed, the Gleevec decision is still only a small reversal for Western pharmaceuticals.
The root cause of this reversal of fortune was a global environment that could no longer support high commodity prices.
Today, most of the major emerging economies have experienced a severe reversal of fortune.
This is a complete reversal of the pattern that prevailed in the 1950’s.
The immediate cause of the crisis is clear: a sudden, unexpected, and large-scale reversal of international capital flows into Asia.
This requires a reversal of the broadly negative public-investment trend in the last couple of decades.
But, with little influence, much less control, over what comes next, emerging economies are still struggling to figure out how to protect themselves from the impact of a Fed policy reversal.
Other smaller economies (mostly the new members of the EU, which all have large current-account deficits) risk a sudden reversal of capital inflows; this may already be occurring in Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Iceland and New Zealand.
But I do not expect any reversal of the organized misanthropy afflicting Greece just because nearly 100 died in a single day.
In 2007, the attrition rate was one out of three – short of the pledge, but a sharp reversal from previous decades, in which the ranks of civil servants grew significantly faster than private-sector employment.
The Oil-Producing CountriesThe oil-producing countries have suffered a sudden reversal of fortune.
With little sign of improved economic fundamentals, rapid currency appreciation is a potentially dangerous development for China – in part owing to the risk of an abrupt and painful reversal.
The parties involved can appeal to the European Court of Justice, but this takes time and a reversal of the Commission's decision typically produces no more than a moral victory to one of the parties.
The DPJ’s leader, Ichiro Ozawa, seems to be opting for the obstructionist approach favored by the bureaucrats, which will seek to bring not only a populist reversal of Koizumi’s economic and political reforms, but the shelving of Abe’s civil-service reforms as well.
This policy – aimed, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis, at convincing adversaries that “they have nothing to gain and everything to lose from the use of nuclear weapons” – amounts to a reversal of 40 years of US leadership on reducing nuclear stockpiles and encouraging non-proliferation.
But June’s resounding victory could ultimately lead to an even more stunning reversal, like Napoleon’s hubristic march on Moscow after he had destroyed all opposition in Western Europe.
The assurance given to the world that wars will no longer originate in Europe represents a formidable reversal of history.
This shocking reversal of progress on food security is the result of many factors: climate shocks and crop failures and, of course, the global financial crisis itself.
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