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Brazil has also dramatically improved child health, with mortality rates of young children falling sharply, from 60 per thousand in 1990 to 36 per thousand in 2001.
Brazil's total fertility rate (average number of births per woman) has come down
sharply
as well, from 2.7 in 1990 to 2.2 in 2001.
There is clearly a risk that consumers may react more
sharply
to rate increases when they eventually occur.
In the case of many of these commodities, world prices have declined
sharply
during the period (at least relative to the cost of imports), but the poorest countries lack the flexibility and innovative capacity to shift to new types of production, much less to produce entirely new products not previously seen in world markets.
And emerging markets (the fourth engine) are slowing
sharply
as decade-long global tailwinds – rapid Chinese growth, zero policy rates and quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve, and a commodity super-cycle – become headwinds.
By that autumn, when a real-time assessment of fiscal performance was carried out, it had been revised
sharply
downward, by 0.2%.
Whenever stock markets have fallen sharply, as they did in early February and again after Trump announced his trade sanctions on China, the bond-buying instinct became irresistible, bond prices rallied, and the resulting reductions in long-term interest rates stabilized stock markets.
The Renewable FutureNAIROBI – Renewable energy triggers
sharply
polarized views.
He would
sharply
reduce income taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals.
At the most basic level, there were not enough gold reserves around to back the monetary needs of a growing world economy, especially since the prices of goods had risen
sharply
as a result of wartime money printing.
Even though the Fed has not yet started raising interest rates, the well-established US economic recovery and the prospect of monetary tightening have, over the last year, caused the dollar to appreciate
sharply
against most currencies, those of emerging markets and advanced countries alike.
But then, yet a few decades later and reinforced by longer life expectancy and
sharply
lower birth rates, the system goes bust: tax inflows are insufficient to balance the outflows in the form of payments to retirees.
The Economic Consequences of the Arab RevoltNEW YORK – Political turmoil in the Middle East has powerful economic and financial implications, particularly as it increases the risk of stagflation, a lethal combination of slowing growth and
sharply
rising inflation.
If the threat of supply disruptions spreads beyond Libya, even the mere risk of lower output may
sharply
increase the “fear premium” via precautionary stockpiling of oil by investors and final users.
If oil prices rise much further – towards the peaks of 2008 – the advanced economies will slow sharply; many might even slip back into recession.
Encumbered by slowing growth in China, a collapse in commodity prices, and adverse spillover from numerous security crises, Africa’s overall annual GDP growth averaged just 3.3% in 2010-2015, barely keeping up with population growth – and down
sharply
from the 4.9% recorded from 2000 to 2008.
This is particularly evident in the case of investment spending, which has fallen
sharply
since the global financial crisis.
When that boom, which was sustained by China’s seemingly insatiable appetite for raw minerals and food, came to an end in 2012,
sharply
falling prices devastated Latin America’s exporters.
Similarly, the personal saving rate stood at 4.9% in late 2013, up
sharply
from the low of 2.3% in the third quarter of 2005; but it remains 4.4 percentage points below the average recorded from 1970 to 1999.
In the US, the Fed was
sharply
raising rates.
National debt, too, has risen
sharply.
The Commission believes that over the next four decades, fossil-fuel costs will climb sharply, because sources will dry up and governments will place massive taxes on fossil fuels.
But Hart
sharply
distinguished such legal paternalism from legal moralism.
World expansion means
sharply
higher prices for raw materials and manufactures and from there it is a short step for Mr. Greenspan to raise interest rates and stop America's long-running party.
The safe assumption is that it will kiss good bye to any thought of further financial opening or restructuring and, instead, move
sharply
into reverse.
Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, and China are four countries where land and real-estate prices have risen
sharply
in recent years.
The internal recession that followed the bailout was deep and long and left the ordinary Mexican citizen with a
sharply
reduced income facing higher prices for goods and services.
As a result of the disappearance of these checks and balances, the quality of the government’s decisions has fallen
sharply.
Similarly, Chinese residential investment and commercial real-estate activity are slowing
sharply
as home prices start to fall.
According to the UN, the working-age population will stop growing in 2015, while the share of the population that is 65 and older will rise to 9.6% (130 million people), up
sharply
from 6.8% in 2000.
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