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Surprises seem likely because Russia's political dividing line has shifted, but the President's political strategy hasn't recognized that fact.
Putin's re-consolidation of power within the Kremlin, after much of it escaped to the regions during the Yeltsin years, dramatically shifted Russia's political dividing line.
Legitimacy shifted from the regime to its opponents, who soon brought it down.
As Israel’s political center of gravity has shifted to the right, if not the extreme right, one consequence whose long-term effects are not sufficiently appreciated is the growing alienation of Arab citizens, who represent 20% of the population.
The focus has shifted.
After the 2010 eurozone crisis, the debate shifted toward structural reforms.
For example, their views on what is a reasonable target for unemployment have shifted over time, and they have not always concentrated as much as they do today on 2% as a reasonable target for inflation.
Why?Business loved the first paper, because it shifted the conversation from how much executives were paid (a very controversial topic) to how they should be paid (a more technical and less contentious issue).
Although policy has since shifted to reflect supply-side economics and real business-cycle theory, the new reigning paradigm’s builders and promoters display the same antipathy to checking data for serious error.
In the 1990’s, it used crude political pressure to bring Georgia into line, but it shifted to economic leverage in 2003.
In economic terms, these costs should be “internalized” by the factory farmers rather than being shifted onto the rest of us.
He cited research by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who, more than 20 years ago, warned that as US multinational companies shifted employment and production abroad, their interests were diverging from the country’s economic interests.
But the mood had changed, and the “median” projection of emerging economies’ growth prospects has shifted.
Politically, however, the agreement amounts to a small revolution, because it has shifted the balance of power within the eurozone: Germany is strong, but not strong enough to get away with isolating itself completely from Europe’s other major players.
With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty-first-century post-sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.
The answer is not to be found in drawing new maps, though once populations have shifted and political stability has been restored, recognition of new borders might prove both desirable and viable.
Power in America shifted first from the East Coast to the West Coast, and then to the South.
And there were huge frustrations even when the search shifted to the Indian Ocean, as massive naval and air resources failed to find any trace of relevant surface debris.
But poor nations could have shifted the “burden” onto rich countries, where, economic logic suggests, it ought to be placed.
Hirschman’s interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.
Policymakers have shifted from working on the quantity of money (QE, CE, and foreign-exchange intervention) to working on the price of money (first ZIRP, then FG, and now NIRP).
We know that powerful technological and global market forces have reduced dramatically the number of routine professional and blue-collar jobs, shifted employment options for the middle class toward the non-tradable side of the economy, and channeled growth in national income toward capital and high-end employment, with stagnating income elsewhere.
There is little doubt that something shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century.
The balance of power between the two countries has shifted decidedly in the US’s favor.
Emphasis has now shifted to how the entire UK can remain in the customs union, with the proviso that “one day” it might be able to escape.
WASHINGTON, DC – It is often said that the unipolar world order, dominated by the United States, that emerged at the end of the Cold War has lately shifted to a “multipolar” arrangement, owing to the growing geopolitical “weight” of countries such as China, as well as many emerging economies.
Thus, insidiously, the burden of proof is shifted.
In the process Mexico has also shifted from being dependent on oil earnings to becoming a diversified exporter of manufactured goods.
So it is not surprising that private consumption continues to hold up even as US economic growth has shifted into lower gear.
As a result, over the past two decades, policymakers’ attention has shifted from trying to understand Asia’s so-called tiger economies toward recreating the successful clusters of Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, Taiwan’s Hsinchu Park, South Korea’s Daedeok Science Town, and Israel’s Silicon Wadi.
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