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To understand why, it is important to know what else was going on inside Iraq in 2007, when President George W. Bush ordered the “surge” of 20,000 additional troops and General David H. Petraeus shifted US forces to a more aggressive strategy.
In response, the US and other rich countries should move this year to create the GFE, with the needed funds shifted from today’s military spending.
Indeed, decades of relentless intervention have shifted the terms of debate, with recent operations justified by their achievability rather than their merit.
The lure of borrowing becomes irresistible if it can be assumed that the burden might be shifted to population groups other than those benefiting today from low taxation or higher public spending.
In all of these cases, the debt burden is, for all practical purposes, being shifted onto other countries.
As a result, William Hague, the Tory leader, shifted his party further to the right.
The central bank might have cleaned up the banking system long ago, ensured the covering by assets of external dollar debts and shifted to a band-basket-crawl (BBC) exchange rate regime.
Having militarized these outposts – presented as a fait accompli to the rest of the world – it has now shifted its focus to the Indian Ocean.
Although Park Geun-hye’s victory in South Korea, where she became the country’s first-ever female president, followed a campaign mainly focused on domestic economic issues, North Korea’s missile-guided brinkmanship probably shifted many undecided voters to the security-minded Park’s camp.
Nor was Arafat helped by world events that shifted the spotlight to Bush’s wars on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And the real price of 9/11 may be the opportunity costs: for most of the first decade of this century, as the world economy gradually shifted its center of gravity toward Asia, the US was preoccupied with a mistaken war of choice in the Middle East.
We subsequently shifted our focus to the “hardware” of economic development, intensifying work on the construction of roads and energy facilities and creating incentives for foreign direct investment in mining, fishing, agribusiness, and real-estate development.
In his final years, Coase shifted his focus to the emergence of capitalism and the creation of markets in China.
Beyond public-sector underinvestment, there is monetary policy, which, whatever its benefits and costs, has shifted corporate use of cash toward stock buy-backs, while real investment has remained subdued.
Although some of the losses may have resulted from productivity gains from information technology and digitization, many occurred when companies shifted segments of their supply chains to other parts of the global economy, particularly China.
Since then, however, the focus of the discussion has shifted, as unsavory – and sometimes bizarre – aspects of the trade have come to light.
By November 2015, about a dozen Indian and Thai clinics had shifted operations to Phnom Penh.
Thus the main emphasis has shifted to structural, financial, and cyclical convergence, in line with economic theory on so-called "optimum currency areas."
I don’t know why President Trump has shifted to positions so different from those he advocated during the campaign.
As a result, policy debates have shifted to arguments about what the recovery will look like: V-shaped (rapid return to potential growth), U-shaped (slow and anemic growth), or even W-shaped (a double-dip).
Japanese insurance companies, for example, have shifted a significant share of their portfolios into foreign bonds.
Political parties that originally emerged from the labor movement have long since shifted to the “center.”
The False Promise of Green JobsCOPENHAGEN – Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the “generational challenge” of climate change.
The good news is that the intellectual climate has shifted decisively against them.
These parties have shifted the regional balance of power away from secular governments, and Putin blames the United States for empowering them through its attempts to impose democracy on the region.
Although US President Barack Obama has shifted his focus toward the Asia-Pacific, reducing US forces in Europe, this needn’t weaken the Alliance’s capabilities or response times.
With much of the country’s population having shifted directly from cash to mobile online payments – skipping checks and credit cards – China’s payments systems are robust.
Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq.
As global economic activity shifted and the structure of all economies evolved with it, the distributional effects were overwhelmingly benign.
Its center has shifted from Iraq (where sectarian strife has recently escalated again) to Syria, but it encompasses Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia as well.
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