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Moreover, market penetration in poor countries is rising
sharply.
Since the demise of the Doha Round, the WTO’s standing as a multilateral negotiating forum has declined sharply, salvaged in part by the recent agreement in Bali.
GDP growth has slowed sharply; corporate-debt ratios are unprecedentedly high; the currency is sliding; equity markets are exceptionally volatile; and capital is flowing out of the country at an alarming pace.
Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall
sharply
without an ensuing recession.
But holding cash can be risky, as Greek savers, worried about the safety of their bank deposits, learned after stuffing it into their mattresses and walls: the number of armed home robberies rose sharply, and some cash was devoured by rodents.
Blaming China misses the obvious and important point that the Chinese current-account surplus has fallen
sharply
in recent years, from 9.9% of GDP in 2007 to an estimated 1% in 2018.
Then, the global financial crisis struck, income inequality rose sharply, and the post-Wall generation in southern Europe suffered the largest drop in living standards since WWII.
Still, the spirit of surfing’s early days (think of the harmony of wave and human action portrayed in the 1971 movie Morning of the Earth) contrasts
sharply
with the razzamatazz of today’s professional circuit.
But, with concerted international efforts, including by NATO ships, pirate attacks have dropped
sharply.
And repeated attacks could
sharply
reduce business and consumer confidence and stall Europe’s fragile economic recovery.
The CFA franc was
sharply
devalued in 1994, and outstanding debts& were& reduced.
In 1998, for example, the government led a chorus blaming the British for the property price bubble that was punctured by Asia's financial crisis of 1997, causing the stock market to fall
sharply.
Will bond markets fall
sharply
(and interest rates rise) as markets fear that the Fed will be pushed to sell its enormous holdings in short order?
And, as the Global Findex report, using data from India, shows, leakage of funds for pension payments declines
sharply
when the payment is made with smart cards instead of cash.
The budget deficit has been brought down sharply, and unemployment has declined.
Most significantly, he swung
sharply
to the right, out-flanking his rivals.
At some point, Japan will face its own Greek tragedy as the market charges
sharply
higher interest rates.
The government will be forced to consider raising revenues
sharply.
During the bubble years before the 2007 crisis, prices and wages increased
sharply
in the eurozone periphery, relative to Germany, which was plagued by high unemployment and stagnant wages.
When growth slowed
sharply
and credit flows collapsed in the wake of the Great Recession, budget revenues plummeted, governments were forced to socialize private-sector liabilities, and fiscal deficits and debt soared.
This contrasts
sharply
with rapidly declining savings rates among the elderly in the United States.
That, in turn, would
sharply
contain the risk of financial contagion.
A Baltic Test for European Arms ControlBERLIN – Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in early 2014, its political and military relations with the West have deteriorated
sharply.
With fiscal deficits likely to push an already-low domestic saving rate even lower – possibly back into negative territory, as was the case from 2008-11 – there is a great risk of a
sharply
higher current-account deficit.
On the heels of the budget deficits of Reaganomics and the related plunge in national saving, the current account swung
sharply
into deficit, averaging -2.4% of GDP from 1983 to 1989.
Frankly, although I do not see the five-year-old global expansion coming to an end yet, there is no question that risks are on the rise, with output in the United States having slowed
sharply
in the third quarter, and central banks’ hands tied by inflation risks.
PRINCETON – In a provocative recent paper, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University concludes that the rate of technological progress has slowed sharply, and that the rise in standards of living (at least in the world’s rich countries) is thus set to decelerate.
Gordon’s point is not that growth will decelerate in the future, but rather that underlying productivity growth moved to a
sharply
lower trajectory around the year 2000.
The ranking of Andorra, a tax haven, in the World Press Freedom Index fell
sharply
in 2015, because journalists cannot easily secure access to information about the banks operating there.
But it could have worked, had the government not quickly veered
sharply
to the left, forging budget and other agreements with the ex-Communist Left party.
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