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In a shrinking economy, a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio rises rather than falls, and Europe’s recession-ridden crisis countries have now saved themselves into a depression, resulting in mass unemployment, alarming levels of poverty, and scant hope.
Moreover, this system subjects the world economy to cycles of confidence in the US dollar, while placing the world economy at the mercy of a national authority – one that often makes decisions with scant regard for their international implications.
There is, however, scant evidence that the real problem holding back investment is excessively high wages (many corporations reduced overtime and benefit contributions, and even cut wages during the recession).
As in 1981, the current process has been rushed, with scant deliberation – the usual hearings have not been held – and not even a pretense of bipartisan cooperation.
And at the same time, laws meant to support legitimate journalism usually offer only scant protection against those who are determined to act in bad faith.
Traditional economic remedies, like diversification of ownership, increased efficiency, access to basic education or a minimal pension, have scant impact on resolving these problems.
As this UK-sponsored resolution was meant to bring the Iraq issue back to the Security Council after the withdrawal of the UN weapons inspectors and subsequent American air strikes of December 1998, hope for progress on Iraq within the Security Council was scant.
But one thing is clear: a great game is beginning among Asia’s great powers, and there are scant rules in place to manage how it will be played.
But the evidence for believing that euroization can precede sufficient institutional reforms is scant.
Yet the SRF has received scant attention from Western media.
We have scant information about this, beyond some limited information about international acquisitions and some detection of traces of highly enriched uranium (HEU) on materials brought out of North Korea.
While Russia was launching its bid to subordinate Ukraine, I was in prison, with scant hope of ever regaining my freedom.
A newly refurbished facility in Masunthu, for example, had scant equipment and no water in the taps.
Deficient education, infrastructure, security, and courts, together with endemic corruption and scant entrepreneurial dynamism, militate against excessive optimism.
The costs of corporatism are visible all around us: dysfunctional corporations that survive despite their gross inability to serve their customers; sclerotic economies with slow output growth, a dearth of engaging work, scant opportunities for young people; governments bankrupted by their efforts to palliate these problems; and increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of those connected enough to be on the right side of the corporatist deal.
Political outcomes in the United States and many other countries in recent years have reflected the state of insecurity in which many ordinary citizens live, and to which GDP pays scant attention.
With the post-2009 recovery came a drop in measured joblessness, which allowed the government to pay scant attention to a labor market that leaves out far too many women and young Chileans.
The attendees made some progress toward creating a European Defense Union, which should be welcomed, and toward admitting that the EU’s current organizational framework is unsustainable; but there was scant talk of meaningful institutional or economic reform.
Then came the news that Trump had also decided – again with scant consultation – to withdraw half the US troops in Afghanistan, despite the US being in the midst of negotiations with the Taliban.
Thus, it hopes to divert public attention from still non-existent basic services, continuing sectarianism, weak oil production, scant infrastructure investment, and rampant corruption and cronyism.
Foreign central banks, from Europe to Japan, have similarly scant room to cut interest rates.
Robert Mwanga was awarded this year’s World Food Prize for inspiring work that resulted in the large-scale replacement of white sweet potato (with scant Vitamin A content) by a vitamin A-rich alternative in the diets of Uganda’s rural poor.
But such "proofs" had scant effect on their opponents, who shout that globalization aggravates poverty and inequality while blighting communities and the environment.
Economic growth is at its lowest since World War II, averaging a scant 1.3% since the decade began.
He is wagering his scant remaining authority on the talks’ success, and Palestinians will be counting down his days in office should he fail.
By recklessly denying China’s request to extradite Uighur extremists to China for trial, the US showed scant regard for an issue of paramount importance – the threat posed to China’s hard-won unity by separatists.
In 1930’s Spain, of course, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy fully supported General Francisco Franco’s rebellion, while the democracies reluctantly offered scant help to the Spanish Republic.
Indeed, the efficiency of public spending is doubtful, with scant positive results to show for it.
But, given China’s continuing opposition to further sanctions, there is scant hope of this happening.
Military planners who consider the use of nuclear weapons have probably given scant thought to those living in the cities on their target lists.
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