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If China is to manage its current challenges – in particular, sharply decelerating growth – it should look to these countries’ experience for guidance.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, among others, seems to doubt the need for a new treaty, which would require the unanimous support of the member states – some of which are sharply opposed – to enter into force.
Two-thirds of Ugandans felt similarly, up sharply from 42% in 2010.
In Brazil, for example, the share of women in the workforce has risen sharply over the past 20 years, from about 45% to almost 60%, owing in part to family-friendly policies.
But a growing number of programs around the world are proving that the death and illness of the poor can be reduced sharply and rapidly with targeted investments in public health programs.
Similarly, testing and treatment for TB rose sharply, including a strong increase in several heavily affected Asian countries.
This lead to a quick devaluation of the ruble, which was extremely beneficial for the export-oriented elites which dominated Russian politics at the time, because for them a stable ruble meant losing a big part of their profits when world oil prices were sharply dropping.
It is unlikely that the adjustment process will be much faster in the US, where the manufacturing base has shrunk much more sharply.
Rising wages and sharply declining returns to capital in traditional industrial sectors have underscored the need to accelerate modernization – an imperative that has been reflected consistently in the central government’s reform strategies.
The death toll has risen sharply in recent years.
America’s Saving Rate and the Dollar’s FutureCAMBRIDGE – The saving rate of American households has risen sharply since the beginning of the year, reaching 6.9% of after-tax personal income in May, the highest rate since 1992.
Such opportunities come sharply into focus when you ask some of the world’s best minds to find the biggest bang for the buck.
Moreover, while mortgage debt rose sharply in some eurozone countries, the increase was moderate in others and completely absent in Germany.
But, in time, they may find that a new Plaza Accord – the 1985 agreement to devalue the dollar and push the Japanese yen and the Deutsche Mark sharply upward – will become necessary.
Inflation dropped sharply, especially in the poorest countries.
Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai raised their minimum wages sharply in the last three years – by 22% on average in 2010 and 2011.
It is no surprise, therefore, that sterling has dropped sharply since the Brexit vote.
Some argue that exchange-rate depreciation will narrow the trade deficit by making British exports more competitive, but the experience of 2008, when the pound also fell sharply, is that the impact on the external deficit may not be great.
The West should also recognize that the constituencies of Hezbollah and its allied, largely Christian, Free Patriotic Movement, led by presidential contender Michel Aoun, will be hit hardest by many of Siniora’s proposed economic and administrative reforms, such as lifting fuel subsidies and sharply raising value added tax.
This differs sharply from the experience of the 1930s, when moderates’ failure to attract a large enough share of the Spanish right fueled deepening polarization and, ultimately, civil war.
In a world where the major players’ governance models diverge sharply, designing a workable system will be a major challenge.
Likewise, as China’s demographic profile causes the labor market to tighten sharply, rapidly rising real wages will make it easier to achieve strong growth in domestic demand without excessive credit creation.
And the latest study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows that the debt jumped sharply, to 47.5% of GDP, by the end of 2014.
For the moment, with the rising dollar adding to China’s economic woes as its currency appreciates sharply against regional peers, the authorities have fallen back on old instincts by devaluing the currency.
Households and businesses are reluctant to finance long-term investments with short-term loans or with variable-interest-rate loans, because a jump in inflation would cause their interest payments to rise sharply.
Markets reacted sharply, with the yen strengthening by 2% against the dollar and the Japanese stock market falling 3%.
This contrasts sharply with policies pursued by China and Vietnam, Asia's two other communist powers.
But now, with oil prices down sharply, Russia’s export revenue has plummeted by 30% this year, and state funds have become very scarce.
For the first 15 years of Putin’s rule, Russians’ standard of living rose steadily; but it has fallen sharply since November 2014.
These include not only World Trade Organization rules, but also proliferating regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements – all of which have sharply reduced the scope for IP formulation by limiting options for protecting and supporting industries and businesses selectively.
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