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There are many difficult trade-offs to consider, including the consequences for others around the world who may be made significantly poorer than those hurt at home.
But will these savings be enough to offset the burden of a significantly larger overall government?
By contrast, opposition by US states whose economies rely significantly on coal production proved decisive for the fate of Obama’s climate-change bill.
In the United States, Gallup’s latest survey of “confidence in institutions” shows double-digit percentage declines in trust since the 1970s (or the earliest available measurement) for 12 of 17 institutions, including banks, Congress, the presidency, schools, the press, and churches; of the remaining institutions, confidence increased modestly for four, and significantly for just one: the military.
Doors that were once open to them have been shut, and their faith in public institutions to represent their interests has significantly eroded.
While this pace would be significantly slower than the 9.7% growth the country has averaged since 1979, it is undeniably fast by international standards.
The developed countries have not lived up to their promise in Doha in November 2001 to create a pro-development trade regime, or to their pledge at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 to provide significantly more assistance to the poorest countries.
India and Africa both have populations roughly comparable to China’s 1.4 billion people, with significantly smaller shares having reached the middle class.
The report shows that healthy fish stocks could provide significantly greater amounts of resources than they currently do.
By 2014, the EU’s “big bang” enlargement in 2004 could be hailed as a success story, having contributed significantly to swift and peaceful economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe.
Do his style and preferences differ significantly from those of his predecessor, Hu Jintao?
Governments, in order to contain the fallout of the crisis, ran up public debt, including in countries whose balance sheets had already been weakened significantly by declining GDP growth.
Progress in both fields would be set back significantly by a failure to reach a conclusion in the Sheremet case.
Most significantly, Italy is leading an effort to repair relations with Russia after the Ukraine confrontation and to strengthen cooperation over Syria.
Indeed, progress on some MDGs has slowed significantly since 2008, owing to the global economic crisis.
Similarly, while slum dwellers’ share of urban populations has declined from 39% in 2000 to 33% in 2012 – significantly exceeding the original target of meaningfully improving at least 100 million slum dwellers’ lives by 2020 – their number has grown from 650 million in 1990 to an estimated 863 million today.
Virtually every instance of sustained high growth has been accompanied by a significantly depreciated real exchange rate.
Despite a grim environment, exports/GDP ratios have increased significantly in all four economies.
Confronted with domestic economic collapse and a stagnant European environment, firms in Greece, Spain, and Portugal have turned to overseas markets and significantly increased their countries’ shares of eurozone exports to the rest of the world.
Even so, they contribute significantly to their home countries.
With the US and British governments both mired in chaos, France, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, will have significantly more diplomatic influence in Africa and the Middle East.
While prices of oil, metals, and food rose very significantly after 2003, reaching historic highs sometime between 2008 and 2011, nobody expects similar price increases in the future.
Xi told Singh that he sought “a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable settlement based on mutual understanding and accommodation,” adding significantly, “Let’s settle the boundary framework agreement quickly.”
This would give the company an incentive to ensure that new versions are compatible with and significantly better than old versions – otherwise the new versions wouldn’t sell, or at least not easily.
I believe that every member state should administer those policies that do not directly and significantly affect other member states.
A good start was made with the US-Russia New START treaty to limit significantly strategic-weapon deployments, the largely successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, and the productive, US-hosted Nuclear Security Summit.
In recent years, the Swiss franc has appreciated significantly against almost every other currency.
This means that, had Pakistan’s energy sector been reformed properly, the country’s economy could have grown significantly faster – by about 4% per year – potentially creating a sufficient number of jobs for a young and growing population.
But efforts to overcome at least four – high unemployment, an aging workforce, climate change, and infrastructure deficiencies – would benefit significantly from policies promoting long-term investments.
In this context, the decision to retain the CFA franc, a freely convertible common currency that is pegged to the euro at a significantly overvalued exchange rate, is dubious.
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