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It won’t die of course, as international bureaucracies
seldom
do, but it risks becoming irrelevant, thus robbing Europe of its global voice.
The Board actually predicted that its proposals would turn Puerto Rico’s recession into a depression of a magnitude
seldom
seen anywhere: a 16.2% decline in GNP in the next fiscal year (and a further decline the year after), which is comparable to the experience of countries undergoing civil wars, or that of crisis-ridden Venezuela.
As abhorrent as these methods may be, they
seldom
lack defenders, who argue that they are needed to obtain information that can save lives.
Meaningful debt renegotiations are
seldom
swift: creditors want repayment, and debtors want a write-down.
As Christoph Trebesch and I have documented, negotiations
seldom
get it right on the first – or even the third – try.
Seldom
do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.
While the future of oil prices is uncertain, the fate of countries that have treated adverse shocks as temporary and reversible, and were then proven wrong, has
seldom
been encouraging.
Its bloody ten-year civil war, however, was
seldom
in the international limelight.
Companies hoping to catch India’s next growth wave might want to consider areas that
seldom
feature on investment lists, but that might offer better value than marquee destinations.
Their final outcomes are
seldom
congruent with their prime movers’ intentions.
Monsieur Raffarin was right to say that austerity would result if France obeyed the Pact's strictures, but in debates over economic policy, the truth is
seldom
appreciated.
They
seldom
hire locals.
But there is frequently a third factor in middle-class women’s economic stress, one that is
seldom
publicly addressed, much less measured.
Taxpayer bailouts, on the other hand, are
seldom
smooth and inevitably compromise central bank independence.
Second, water scarcity is
seldom
absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.
Gold mining in particular was almost a death sentence: workers
seldom
survived more than three years before succumbing to mercury poisoning or accidents.
Such high-level, fast-moving technologies are
seldom
successful right out of the gate; as they’re applied and refined, they improve, sometimes with astonishing speed.
It is this feature of populism – the idea that the people want only one thing, and that only true representatives can give it to them – that explains a symmetry (often evoked, but
seldom
spelled out) between populism and technocratic government.
Customers, competitors, and even suppliers
seldom
knew what stock bookstores held.
You would be wrong: gender is
seldom
on the political agenda, and civil movements for gender emancipation are weak.
Unfortunately, these questions are
seldom
given serious consideration.
In fact, such a large increase has
seldom
– if ever – been attempted, owing to the risk that it would spur consumers to spend before it takes effect, thereby reducing future consumption.
Indeed, today’s challenges are
seldom
simply environmental, social, or economic, and their solutions do not lie within the area of competence of a single government ministry.
But
seldom
will it be the case that the best response is simply to walk away.
But these have
seldom
worked.
A Green European BudgetPARIS – However predictable the difficult negotiations that accompany European politics may seem to be, in the end they
seldom
fail to surprise.
As Summers and others argue, globalization has brought large gains to the world economy as a whole, but
seldom
have the winners compensated the losers, directly or indirectly.
That is because the bulk of income-distribution data in Latin America comes from household surveys, which
seldom
manage to elicit truthful information about how much Piketty’s rentiers, who receive their income as profits, dividends, or interest, actually earn.
Indeed, with the notable exceptions of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, China’s leaders have
seldom
imposed their own personalities upon Chinese diplomacy.
In the United States’ presidential election campaign, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee,
seldom
referred to his closest competitor in the primaries without calling him “Lying Ted Cruz.”
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