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Long-term interest rates could be pushed significantly lower if the Federal Reserve were to undertake the unprecedented step of mammoth purchases of long-term government bonds.
While the world made major gains in tackling hunger and expanding access to drinking water, it did not significantly improve upon what could have been expected relative to 1990s trends.
But, on top of that, China has been significantly more successful than Latin American countries in stemming upward exchange-rate pressure.
Even Spain and Italy, the two countries most affected by developments in the Mediterranean and the Sahel, have reduced their military expenditures significantly.
Japanese interest rates have been close to zero for many years – significantly lower than those in most other economies, especially in the pre-crisis period.
A decade ago, my laboratory showed that an anti-prion antibody could significantly delay – and, in some cases, prevent – infection in mice that had been exposed to prions.
The critical limit beyond which creditors become anxious has been raised significantly by the bailout architecture put in place over the last two years.
Perhaps more significantly, the mindset of many intellectuals and policymakers changed in favor of a more market-oriented approach, including greater integration with the world economy.
To be sure, both currently have severe shortcomings, and only one might attain international-currency status – or other currencies could emerge, though at a significantly longer time horizon.
Today, the risk that the monetary union could disintegrate has diminished significantly – but the factors that fueled it remain largely unaddressed.
Unfortunately, while access to education has improved significantly in recent decades, school curricula have changed little since the colonial era, when secondary education was an elite privilege designed to advance the careers of a select few.
Given that productivity has not been picking up, fewer workers mean significantly lower potential growth rates.
And the system seems to work: entering the crisis, US states had significantly lower deficit and debt ratios than the eurozone’s vulnerable member states.
And the cluster’s GDP growth is significantly higher than the rest of China.
These subsidies do not just undermine efforts to reduce environmental damage from emissions; they also tend to benefit the rich significantly more than the poor.
Asian countries will have significantly less time than advanced economies have had to prepare for the transition to an aged society.
The immigration waves of the last two years to Britain, Spain, and Italy will have significantly changed these figures, but the information needed to update the statistics is not yet available.
Creating a large, diverse group of stakeholders – such as by establishing politically and culturally pluralist national media councils – would significantly bolster accountability, while leaving the media free from political pressure.
Successful multilateral trade negotiations have significantly shaped the world in which we live and have dramatically enhanced the lives of millions of people.
Like Japan after the 1980s or South Korea in 1997-1998, China has depended significantly on investment and debt financing during its high-growth phase, raising the risk that excess capacity could lead to financial crisis as the economy slows.
If policymakers are not careful – and lucky – the magnitude of this risk will increase significantly in the years ahead.
But it would significantly ameliorate the problems, making other steps less costly and more effective.
Countries whose services sectors have made a large contribution to productivity growth have invested significantly in intangible capital, pointing the way to success in boosting innovation.
Ishayev’s plan turned out to be significantly more conservative, and Gref was ordered to incorporate its positive aspects into his program.
First, software with a slight edge tends to get a significantly greater share of the available market; and, second, the available market is global, because it costs so little to make an extra copy and send it anywhere in the world.
And, in the near-future, Big Data could significantly improve government policymaking, social-welfare programs, and scholarship.
If the October 24 strike is larger than the spontaneous demonstrations of October 3, support for PiS will surely drop significantly for the first time since it assumed power, and Poland will find itself in a new political situation.
It has long been apparent that the proportion of Asian-Americans admitted to America’s top private universities is significantly lower than that admitted by top public universities, where consideration of race is prohibited.
True, the US is not the worst offender in the world when it comes to farm protectionism; the European Union’s trade distortions are significantly more pervasive.
The commitment began 44 years ago, in 1961, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the objective that foreign assistance should increase significantly, “so as to reach as soon as possible approximately 1% of the combined national incomes of the economically advanced countries.”
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