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Brazil has quietly dropped its decade-long commitment to floating its currency, and has moved to a de facto semi-fixed regime, with the exchange rate allowed to move only within a narrow band
slightly
above two reals to the US dollar.
That is why Cameroon, a country
slightly
smaller than Spain, is home to 230 languages.
But global growth is largely unchanged – the distributive effects actually impede it
slightly
– as one gains at the expense of the other.
Unlike most other OECD countries, where inequalities have increased over the last 30 years, in France pre-tax income inequality decreased slightly, or at worst remained stable, from 1970 to 2000.
The overall CPI is actually
slightly
lower now than it was a year ago, implying a negative inflation rate.
In Israel, hawks attack Justice Minister Tzipi Livni for leaning
slightly
to the left on Palestinian statehood – just as they would attack a man in her position.
Freedom House, a non-governmental organization, listed 86 free countries at the beginning of the Bush years, a total that increased slightly, to 89, by the end of his term.
Indeed, though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted partly by its enhanced competitive posture and structural flexibility, and, on a
slightly
longer time horizon, by a recovery in domestic demand.
As the figure shows, these targets are roughly in line with what has historically been considered their fair share, though each could do
slightly
more.
America’s Election and the Global EconomySTANFORD – As America’s elections approach, with President Barack Obama
slightly
in front of his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pollsters still rate the races for control of the presidency and the United States Senate too close to call, with the House of Representatives likely to remain in Republican hands.
It is expected that there will be
slightly
fewer than 400 million poor in 2030, and income growth should almost completely eradicate poverty by 2060.
The world could continue to close its eyes to global warming and hope for the best: a
slightly
warmer climate that produces as many winners (on the Siberian, Northern European, and Canadian prairies) as losers (in already-hot regions that become hotter and dryer), and that the Gulf Stream continues warming Europe, the monsoons are not disrupted, and that the Ganges delta is not drowned by stronger typhoons.
The US has done
slightly
worse than suggested by this rough measure;Japan has done a bit better; and most other rich countries come pretty close.
In Germany, for example, interest rates on public debt up to five years will be negative, and only
slightly
positive beyond that, producing a weighted average of zero.
Although it was only
slightly
longer than the highly successful cantilever bridge over the Forth River near Edinburgh, Scotland, the Quebec Bridge was so inadequately designed that it collapsed before it was completed.
But things that work on a small scale do not necessarily work when
slightly
larger.
While the renminbi has appreciated
slightly
relative to the dollar since June, the greater fall of the dollar relative to many other currencies means that the renminbi has generally also fallen relative to those currencies.
For the next 19% of taxpayers, the effective tax rate fell only
slightly.
The current crisis did not create the debate about globalization now heard in the West; it only made it
slightly
more salient.
The parliament is 18% female (a
slightly
higher percentage than in the US Congress), and a woman, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was the country’s fourth president.
The underlying problem – which has plagued the global economy since the crisis, but has worsened
slightly
– is lack of global aggregate demand.
They continued to use the old discredited models, perhaps
slightly
modified.
Right now, all six indicators show more promise than they have for some time, and only one of them has fallen
slightly
from a recent high.
While the two countries together consume
slightly
less than half as much oil as the US, their consumption is increasing faster.
That alternate route would be longer, but only slightly, and it would pose no navigational difficulties.
The fifth source of optimism is
slightly
paradoxical.
Slightly
apart from these are the new social sciences, which deal with humans and societies.
But from 2000 to 2015, real GDP shrank slightly, while real per capita income dropped by 0.5%.
Most European countries now spend less than 2% of GDP on defense;China spends
slightly
more than 2%; and the US spends about 3.5%.
Something started to cause investors to fear that Greek debt had a
slightly
higher risk of eventual default.
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