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African governments have joined dozens of civil-society groups in calling for Magufuli to reverse course.
The economic explanation emphasizes that in a world of widening economic inequality and stagnating middle-class incomes (here the United States is cited as Exhibit A), no one should be surprised if angry middle- and working-class voters turn to politicians who promise to reverse these trends.
This will make it exceedingly difficult to reverse the trend in the future.
But, at that point, it will be too late to reverse the impact of decades of excessive emissions.
It will not be easy for leaders on either side of the border to reverse gears, but there is still chance that people and companies can make a difference.
And it is very likely that Trump, who attacked the US Federal Reserve’s easy monetary policy during his campaign, will quickly reverse that position and press the Fed not to raise interest rates.
Earlier this year, Trump approved a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy that would not only prosecute all adults – even asylum-seekers – illegally crossing the border, but also take their children away to be detained separately (although he has since issued an executive order to reverse the separation of families).
To recover and return to both internal and external balance, they must not only close the cost gap, but actually reverse it, thereby generating the trade surpluses needed to repay the foreign debt that they accumulated in the meantime.
Following the massacre, China’s conservative leaders attempted to reverse the liberalizing reforms that Deng had initiated in the 1980’s, plunging the Chinese economy into recession.
For example, while Trump has expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, he did not reverse a decision by his predecessor, Barack Obama, to deploy US forces in Poland and the Baltic countries under the auspices of NATO.
In general, terms-of-trade improvements and capital inflows do not continue permanently: they either stabilize or eventually reverse direction.
This upward trend is likely to reverse, however, if Brexit negotiations with the EU lead to an erosion of confidence in the British market.
Despite undergoing great changes in the years since 1989, China needs not only to reverse the verdict on the June 4th movement as "a counter-revolutionary rebellion," but also to restart its stalled process of political reform and democratization.
So calls to reverse the verdict are growing, both inside and outside the Party.
These calls will eventually form the mainstream, and the liberal forces within the Party will undoubtedly respond by seizing a historic opportunity not only to reverse the verdict but to move toward discarding the Communist system.
Once an area has started losing skills and firms, there is little hope that the trend will naturally reverse.
Academia proceeds almost exactly in reverse, as department heads and deans struggle to keep track of what the staff are doing.
Nonetheless, as Western governments also realize, it is almost impossible to reverse these commitments even during an extreme budget crisis.
To be sure, Bachelet’s proposals for higher corporate taxes, increased welfare spending, greater government control over pensions, and a re-examination of Chile’s participation in the TPP threaten to reverse much of this progress.
First and foremost, it has been anemic, projecting an image of weakness that undermines its ability to reverse Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which has been tacitly accepted, or counter its aggressive behavior toward eastern Ukraine.
It has taken the government to court in an effort to force it to reverse its decision.
Hatoyama’s administration, however, is attempting to reverse the current plan, which the LDP administration and the US had agreed upon after long and intense discussions.
Congress should also reverse its relentless promotion of home ownership, which made mortgages easy to acquire and mortgage pools easier to sell.
A government that wants to replace the euro with, say, the “new franc” (which is not to suggest that France or Belgium would be likely to abandon the euro) would have to reverse the process by which its currency was originally swapped for euros.
One hopes this will lead to the restoration of financial stability and growth as the government looks to reverse its stance on central-bank independence, interest-rate policy, and perhaps even the IMF.
But with Brexit throwing history into reverse, the specters of the past are threatening to return.
Secretary of State Colin Powell's April mission was doomed to failure because American policy failed to reverse, or even address, the causes of deterioration.
There is no other way to reverse the widespread perception across the region that the US has imperial ambitions.
Only further unification, underpinned by growth-oriented policies in the struggling countries, can reverse this trend.
A simulation shows that if German wages grew at 4% annually instead of the 1.5% of the last decade, and if annual productivity growth in Spain accelerated to 2% (it was close to 0.7% in both countries), Spain could reverse the unit-labor-cost differential that emerged with Germany since 2000 in five years, with Spanish wages growing at about 1.7% per annum.
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