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But the surplus has fallen sharply in the past five years, from roughly 6% of GDP in 2007 to only 1% now.

But on issues like jobs, hospitals, schools, and the welfare state, their approaches contrasted sharply.

Since the National Unity Government, with Ashraf Ghani as President and Abdullah Abdullah as Cheif Executive, was established in 2014, the flow of aid to Afghanistan has declined sharply.

Certainly, a slowing China that is rebalancing toward domestic consumption has put a damper on all global commodity prices, with metal indices also falling sharply in 2015.

At the same time, many oil exporters are being forced to scale back expenditure plans in the face of sharply falling revenues.

Europe’s Ukrainian LifelineNEW YORK – Last weekend’s European Parliament election and presidential election in Ukraine produced sharply contrasting results.

And turnout was apparently sharply down from previous presidential elections, indicating a large number of disaffected voters.

Rich countries in Europe, North America, and East Asia have a sharply higher share of the elderly than developing countries.

The number of working-age Japanese will thus fall sharply, bringing the ratio of workers to retirees to about one.

And, for the wealthiest 1%, the ratio fell sharply, from 23% in 1989 to 11% in 2010.

The rate of price growth in London and New York slowed sharply over the past year, to only about a 1% real increase in the second quarter of 2004.

Prices in glamour cities are likely to drop sharply the next time there is a serious recession, or if the local economy suffers a severe shock, or if interest rates rise too fast.

The “troika” – the IMF, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank – might have refused to provide an aid package, forcing Greece to compress imports even more sharply.

Although eurozone sovereign-debt markets have stabilized, the share of sovereign bonds held by domestic banks has increased sharply in the last few months, accounting for more than half of the net increase in debt emissions in some countries.

German banks’ quiet move toward disintegration contrasts sharply with the behavior of banks based in France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, all of which have resumed European financial integration by stabilizing and often increasing their exposure in other countries.

But unless Germany addresses the roots of that slowdown at home, it risks taking a huge hit, in the event that its currency is sharply revalued, in the form of lower exports and damage to its already-weak banking sector, resulting from deflation and negative long-term interest rates.

What would really happen is this: The big tax cut would help relatively few people, while also cutting federal government revenue sharply.

But it is the poorest nations that feel these blows most sharply.

What happened next, of course, was that the dollar strengthened sharply, as investors, desperate for liquidity, fled into US Treasury securities.

But there appears to be no “fear premium” on oil prices; on the contrary, oil prices have declined sharply since 2014.

With his populist style, demagogic language, and authoritarian behavior, he replaced the country’s former elite, demolished traditional power structures, and sharply increased spending on anti-poverty programs and social inclusion.

And, indeed, imports have risen sharply as well, as the rupee’s appreciation lowers the relative price of foreign goods: in the first half of this year, nominal merchandise imports grew by 28%.

According to the American sociologist James C. Davies’s so-called J-curve theory, revolutions – such as the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Egypt’s revolution of 1952 – occur when periods of prolonged economic and social development are sharply and suddenly reversed.

This blow was felt all the more sharply as it became obvious that curtailment of these popular forums did not stir a wide public reaction.

Declaring an ADIZ, which the United States would certainly ignore, would sharply increase the likelihood of military incidents, with wholly unforeseeable consequences.

That said, given low inflation, there is little reason to expect interest rates to rise sharply, and gradual monetary-policy normalization would not necessarily have negative effects on growth or inflation.

Indeed, with the cost of connectivity falling sharply – China’s mobile users are expected to surpass PC users by 2013 – and, with urbanization and per capita incomes also rising sharply, it is not unreasonable to expect China’s Internet penetration rate to cross the 50% threshold by 2015.

Adding to Bachelet’s woes was an economy that slowed sharply, at least in part because of poorly designed tax and labor-market reforms (low commodity prices in 2014-16 also played a role).

At the same time, if the economy is already contracting sharply, as it often does in such situations, a spending cut is bound to have serious negative effects on domestic demand.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

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