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As a result, Russia’s economic growth is likely to fall sharply and suddenly.
Too many big investors can no longer meet their margin calls, while borrowing costs have risen sharply.
It pointed out that under the Conservatives relations between Britain and the European Union (EU) had deteriorated sharply.
But, because Greece’s creditors – the International Monetary Fund and European governments – misread the challenges facing the country, the rescue merely delayed the inevitable sovereign default and caused the Greek economy to contract sharply, magnifying the pain.
Developing countries ask why they should pay attention to global warming if rich countries are not prepared to curtail their own emissions sharply?
Yet resistance to the resettlement of refugees is rising sharply, owing largely to fears stirred by terrorist attacks in many countries.
A headline in the Financial Times this July stated that “negativity about immigration falls sharply in Brexit Britain.”
In the Scandinavian countries, as in the US, foreign competition intensified sharply during the past decade.
And investors are wary of a repeat of 2015, when market turbulence led to government intervention, sharply falling prices, and several trading halts.
Indications that the US Federal Reserve might “taper” its quantitative easing (QE) drove investors to reduce their exposure to emerging markets, sharply weakening their currencies and causing their equity prices to tumble.
Emerging-market economies came under intense pressure, with inflows to investment funds falling sharply, asset prices declining, and many currencies losing value against the dollar.
This has sharply reduced the gaps in the quality of health services and education both within the country and between it and other OECD members.
Even before the refugee crisis worsened sharply last year, avatars of the closed society – France’s National Front and the United Kingdom Independence Party – won elections to the European Parliament in two of the West’s ostensibly best-developed democracies.
Although long-term government interest rates are now very low, they are beginning to rise in response to the outlook for a sharply rising national debt.
This outcome, which would sharply shift East Asia’s strategic balance in China’s favor, is not as unlikely as most people think.
First and foremost, Ukraine will have to reduce its budget deficit sharply, which, given large tax revenues, should be accomplished through expenditure cuts and freezes.
This underpinned economic stability and sharply declining inequality everywhere.
Although Chinese GDP is large and growing, its per capita income is still low, and its economic policies differ sharply from those prevailing in the region’s OECD countries.
As signs of an incipient slowdown in the European economy begin to multiply – coincident indicators suggest that industrial production has slowed sharply in 2018 – the case for agreeing on a Brexit deal and refocusing attention on capital markets union is becoming more powerful and more urgent.
The Gallup Index dropped sharply between the first week of July and the first week of August – the period when US political leaders worried everyone that they would be unable to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling and prevent the US from defaulting on August 2.
Economists, although they praised the idea of balancing the budget, sharply criticized the means.
Making matters worse for ordinary Iraqis, public services have deteriorated to a dismal level, and unemployment is rising sharply, despite public expenditure in excess of $500 billion over the seven years of Maliki’s rule.
Moreover, far from coalescing into a united anti-Western bloc, the emerging powers remain sharply divided.
“The speed of technological progress is accelerating sharply,” he observed.
Within a few years, western governments will have to sharply raise taxes, inflate, partially default, or some combination of all three.
They emphasize that, since the late 1970's, wage rates in America and Britain of the better educated and more skilled have risen sharply relative to those of other workers.
The price of capital equipment, particularly ICT equipment and software, has declined sharply since the 1980s, even as quality has improved.
But when the flow becomes a flood, the currency strengthens sharply.
For example, GDP growth in Brazil has slowed sharply, from 7.5% in 2010 to 2.7% in 2011 and to just 0.9% in 2012, while India’s growth rate slowed from 10.5% to 3.2% over the same period.
On the contrary, they believe that, while the likelihood of a nuclear war has fallen sharply since the end of the Cold War, nuclear deterrence has become more valuable for Russia and other countries that are outmatched by America’s conventional military power.
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