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Power has also shifted in the global political arena, with the global financial crisis catalysing the emergence of the G-20.
This shifted demand away from imports toward domestically produced goods.
But, instead of reversing the disorderly deleveraging and encouraging new private investments, this official financing has merely shifted liabilities from the private sector to the public sector.
But, while the overthrow of totalitarian or autocratic regimes shifted the global balance of power in favor of the forces of democracy, not all the pro-democracy movements succeeded.
In country after country, production shifted toward exports.
The annual summits need to be made more substantial, and their focus shifted from transatlantic, bilateral issues to aligning EU and US global policies and actions.
The economy has shifted from manufacturing toward services, where there is less scope for productivity growth.
This will no doubt cause the share of total government expenditures paid by Moscow to rise, but if federal funds cannot pay for something, the costs will no longer be shifted onto the backs of the regions.
But the “absence of war,” as the British playwright David Hare once called it, suggests that Britain’s political tectonic plates have shifted.
The religious self for individual Muslims is being shifted from the private to the public realm.
In fact, the downside risks for oil prices have shifted from the demand side to the supply side.
Even though the embargo was aimed at the US and the Netherlands, market forces shifted oil among consumers, and in the long term all consuming countries suffered shortages of supply and the same price shock.
Capital that has accumulated in the raw materials sector in recent years should be shifted to manufacturing and infrastructure.
Indeed, because the pattern of demand that is expressible has shifted with the change in access to borrowing, the pace at which the economy can grow without inflation may also fall.
Under Hitler, the German economy in the 1930’s shifted to a lower-productivity mechanism in order to churn out armaments and shoddy manufactured goods, neither of which would have any use in a market economy.
There would be a presumption against public intervention and the burden of proof on the need for it--at any level of government--would be shifted to its advocates.
In the aftermath of the main industrial countries' burst of inflation in the 1970's, mainstream economic thought in the world's industrial core shifted into a "semi-Monetarist" channel.
But, following the British example, most major countries had shifted to a gold standard by the 1870’s.
For example, US textile production, once heavily concentrated in New England, shifted mainly to the South (before relocating to Asia and other lower-cost locales).
The government subsidy has shifted employment to less productive employment in the wind industry, meaning that Danish GDP is approximately $270 million lower than it would be if the wind-sector workforce was employed elsewhere.
Globally, childbirth has shifted from the home to health facilities where a skilled clinician could provide safer care.
That is certainly good news, especially if the source of stabilization is shifted from the European Central Bank’s unconventional policies to more durable endogenous balance-sheet healing among a broader set of financial institutions, non-financial firms, and households.
Gradually, the SCO shifted its focus to fighting Islamic radicals.
As it turns out, people’s posts shifted to reflect the tone of their friends’ posts.
And yet, while the EU owes much to the multilateral trade system, since 2006, it, too, has shifted to bilateralism, scoring its biggest successes with free-trade agreements with Latin America and South Korea.
Rather, it is the result of how oil wealth shifted economic development away from manufacturing jobs that have historically pulled women into the labor force, while promoting jobs in construction, which tend to be dominated by men.
So, while the line between the permissible and the prohibited has shifted, it still exists.
Nowadays, the People’s Republic is increasingly challenging this view, having shifted its naval strategy from defending its territorial waters to guarding its Pacific frontier and securing its interests overseas.
Moreover, the threat of further proliferation from countries like Iran and North Korea have shifted the public and official attention from existing stockpiles.
Simultaneously, agricultural productivity was increasing even more rapidly than demand, and capital and labor shifted to the then-modern goods-producing sectors.
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