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While Sanusi’s accusations have contributed to a consensus that Jonathan is a weak president who presides over an incompetent and corrupt government, public opinion remains sharply divided.
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative attempts to curtail sharply the amount of unhealthy fast food that Americans consume, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign to crack down on “super-sized” sodas, Asia is witnessing the opposite trend.
We must focus sharply on research and development to drive down alternative energy prices over coming decades.
Today, Russia and the EU have sharply opposing views on the nature of the post-Cold War European order and on the sources of instability in Eurasia.
Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state-owned firms.
Indeed, growth in nominal wages slowed sharply in the second quarter of this year.
But China’s sharply rising monetization rate cannot be judged against the high, steady rates of developed countries without bearing in mind that China’s monetization process began much later, and has distinct structural and institutional foundations.
This number is up sharply from just five years ago, owing primarily to chaos across the Middle East, with Syria alone the source of nearly one in every four refugees in the world today.
But with online markets, savings are generated in many dimensions, and transaction costs are sharply reduced at all stages of the process.
Even as European growth turns down, sharply lower import prices would also bring down inflation.
Indeed, while China’s living standards have risen dramatically over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.
Europe’s economic strength relative to the rest of the world may therefore diminish, perhaps sharply.
Second, Trump wants to cut America’s corporate tax rate sharply, to 15%.
Indeed, there is no indication how any of his tax policies would be financed, and every indication that they would sharply expand the budget deficit.
The parties remain sharply divided on several fundamental questions.
Argentina’s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.
Perhaps Asian real currency values will rise sharply as a result of a burst of inflation in Asia.
If the supply of vital inputs is constrained or the climate destabilized, prices will rise sharply, industrial production and consumer spending will fall, and world economic growth will slow, perhaps sharply.
In the US, GNP has risen sharply in the past 40 years, but happiness has not.
Yes, sharply rising food prices are an important factor in boosting headline inflation in Asia.
Financial markets appear to be expecting a good deal more Asian monetary tightening – at least that’s the message that can be drawn from sharply appreciating Asian currencies, which seem to be responding to prospective moves in policy interest rates.
And government debt, of course, has risen sharply, owing to bank bailouts and a sharp, recession-fueled decline in tax revenues.
Next, suppose that the price of the natural resource that is the country’s largest export suddenly dips sharply (as has happened recently).
This contrasts sharply with the vision upheld by many other EU members, including core countries like France and Germany, which view the EU’s single market as a stepping stone toward deeper integration, not an end in itself.
With inflation falling sharply, real incomes increased.
The pooled financing should start with a minimum of $15 billion per year, and rise sharply thereafter, as key, high-return technology breakthroughs come into view.
Yet demographic shifts mean that contingent liabilities for public pensions and health care in Germany will rise sharply over the next decades.
Perhaps Tymoshenko herself did not understand how sharply her country had turned away from democratic norms when she mocked Yanukovych and her opponents during her trial.
The situation escalated sharply earlier this month, when Yameen refused to comply with the Supreme Court’s unanimous order quashing the convictions, which he had engineered, of nine opposition figures – including the exiled former president, Mohamed Nasheed – on terrorism charges.
Publications about the NCD problem have increased sharply.
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