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Perceptions of corruption and inefficiency are high, underpinning weak public trust in institutions, while infrastructure investment has recently declined sharply.
When demand in Germany and France was quite weak early in the last decade, the ECB reduced interest rates sharply.
After all, in just six years, the number of young people (aged 20-29) in South Korea is expected to decline sharply, by as much as 390,000.
Generally, as a country’s household income rises, the share of spending on food declines, while spending on transportation rises sharply.
Illness and deaths from malaria can be reduced sharply by using insecticide-treated bed nets to stop the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and by effective medicines when the illness strikes.
This contrasts sharply with China and India, both of which have several world-class universities, especially in science and engineering.
With commodity prices falling and dollar interest rates on the rise, Chilean growth is slowing sharply.
In all of these cities, CO2 emissions declined sharply and congestion was significantly reduced, with Singapore experiencing an immediate 45% drop in traffic.
A major reason has been sharply decelerating growth in global trade, which the World Trade Organization expects to grow by 1.7% this year – far below the 6.7% average in the decade preceding the 2008 crisis.
Fortunately, interest rates on Greek and other periphery-country debt have fallen sharply over the last two years.
Inequality within countries has increased, and inequality between countries increased sharply after 1980, before leveling off in the late 1990’s and finally falling back after 2000, as catch-up growth in developing countries accelerated.
Interest-rate spreads on Italian sovereign debt have widened, but not sharply.
In any case, the possibility of unexpected restrictions or sanctions on businesses or individuals, imposed in the name of national security, sharply increases the risks faced by Chinese, American, and other businesses.
It would also make it much harder for Trump to impose tariffs on European car imports – and German car companies’ stock prices rose sharply on the news.
The price of soybeans has fallen sharply in recent months, owing to China’s imposition of tariffs on US soybeans, in retaliation to higher US tariffs on some Chinese exports.
With Venezuela’s economy deteriorating sharply, and violence and human-rights violations proliferating, Maduro has been forced to call elections for this coming December.
Decades of failed negotiations have left Palestinians with sharply diminished expectations of ever having a state of their own, as well as a deep lack of faith in their leadership and institutions.
In this sense, China’s trajectory contrasts sharply with that of the United States, where the rapid growth in output of shale oil and gas, together with energy-saving measures, has brought energy independence closer than ever – a point that President Barack Obama emphasized in his most recent State of the Union address.
The sense of control over one's home territory and one's life-time horizons (in terms of guaranteed long-term employment and pensions) has sharply weakened.
An increase in military spending, in conjunction with an enforcement of the stability pact, should bring about a trimming of the non-defense budget: the public sector wage bill and a welfare state grown far beyond the goal of supporting the incomes of the poor, would of necessity need to be trimmed sharply.
Sometimes, even often, economies prosper nicely after the government’s deficit is sharply reduced.
The dollar, to which Argentina's peso was tied, increased sharply in value.
In these instances, machines caused the value of a good that was produced in a labor-intensive sector to fall sharply, by increasing the production of that good so much as to satisfy all potential consumers.
China and Russia are also sharply boosting military spending, despite their pressing domestic priorities.
Sixteen years later, the results are in: disease burdens have fallen sharply, and the Global Fund proved to be a great success (the donors now think so, too, and have recently replenished its accounts).
First, the cost of raw-material imports has risen sharply.
More important, the 52% who voted for Brexit were sharply divided in their aims, with some prepared to accept economic sacrifice for a “hard Brexit” (total separation from Europe), and others hoping for a “soft Brexit” that would minimize the impact on the UK economy.
It is, in short, the familiar story of gains being widely distributed while losses are sharply concentrated, usually by sector, and often by region.
But, with nationalism and military budgets rising sharply, achieving consensual stability has become imperative for the region.
In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing: as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.
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