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After an initial inflationary surge, American economic growth fell off sharply in the 1970’s.

CAMBRIDGE – With economic growth slowing significantly in many major middle-income countries and asset prices falling sharply across the board, is the inevitable “echo crisis” in emerging markets already upon us?

But assume that China does revalue its currency sharply, by, say, 40%.

Throughout Asian history, the continent's ancient foundations of power were more sharply divided from one another--and over much longer time spans--than in Europe.

Worse, the government might be unable to refinance its debt at all, and then would have to cut spending and raise taxes sharply.

In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.

Fortunately, the latest survey, published in July this year, shows that trust in banks and bankers has begun to recover, and quite sharply.

The Harvard economist Dani Rodrik shares that view, and has been sharply critical of some of his fellow economists for endorsing the “propaganda” that describes such deals as “free-trade agreements.”

That should come as no surprise: Just 31% of Europeans say that they have confidence in the EU, down sharply from 52% in 2007, while the share of those with a negative view of the EU has almost doubled, from 15% to 28%, during this period.

These programs’ costs will rise sharply as the 78-million-strong baby-boom generation – those born between 1946 and 1964 – retires and collects benefits, accounting for the largest increase in government spending and prospective deficits in the years ahead.

Sea levels are rising, and could climb sharply if global warming leads to a destabilization of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

This week, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé called for such a referral to the ICC during a session of the UN Human Rights Council that sharply attacked the Syrian regime for its deadly assaults on civilians in Homs and elsewhere in Syria.

The World Bank should be cut back sharply – to focus on the generation of systematic data; to support new scientific efforts directed at poor-country problems (like the development of vaccines for malaria); and to study long-term global issues, like man-made climate change.

In that context, raising the interest rate sharply makes sense, and officials may be hoping that the hike will stem capital outflows – despite the risk that the decision, if interpreted as being aimed at defending the currency, could have the opposite effect.

True, armaments costs have risen sharply, but only because Putin’s KGB friends, who monopolize weapons production, have stolen inordinate amounts.

In the same period, the proportion of undernourished people in developing regions has also fallen sharply, from 23.3% to 12.9%.

The anti-Morsi forces are sharply divided ideologically and politically.

For example, it generally would say that a recession had occurred if GDP had fallen very sharply in two quarters, even if they were separated by one quarter of weak growth.

Inequality and DiscontentIn the last two decades, the world as a whole has gotten richer, but, while some national economies have advanced sharply, others have fallen farther behind.

But the revival of confidence in the financial sector has caused the pound to rebound sharply (by 18% since the end of 2008), eroding the UK’s competitiveness gain.

The Fed traditionally responds to a downturn by sharply reducing the short-term federal funds rate.

An increasingly prosperous China has not only expanded imports from other countries, but is also providing goods that have kept prices lower in the West, despite sharply higher oil prices in recent years.

These factors, combined with sharply falling commodity prices, will cause inflation in advanced economies to ease toward the 1% level, raising concerns about deflation, not stagflation.

Equity prices and other risky assets have fallen sharply from their peaks of late 2007, but there are still significant downside risks.

In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly resisted it.

Global debt ratios have risen sharply since the financial crisis began, while traditional lenders’ margins have been squeezed, raising questions about their overall health.

And there have certainly been numerous such blows in recent months – from Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and Japan’s natural disasters to sharply higher oil prices and another setback in the US housing recovery.

And the spread has increased sharply in recent months.

We need to rein in the bad actors; eliminate discrimination against migrants; sharply reduce human trafficking; increase the share of migrants working at their highest skill level; decriminalize migration violations; end the detention of migrant children; recast refugees as productive members of our communities; and lower the proportion of migrants lacking residency rights.

China’s annual GDP growth decelerated sharply from its 14.8% peak in the second quarter of 2007 to 6.6% in the first quarter of 2009.

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