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Banks never wanted to admit to their bad loans, and now they don’t want to recognize the losses, at least not until they can adequately recapitalize themselves through their trading profits and the large
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between their high lending rates and rock-bottom borrowing costs.
As she put it in her acceptance speech: “If someone told you that, with just 12 years of investment of about $1 billion a year, you could, across the developing world, increase economic growth, decrease infant mortality, increase agricultural yields, improve maternal health, improve children’s health and nutrition, increase the numbers of children – girls and boys – in school, slow down population growth, increase the number of men and women who can read and write, decrease the
spread
of AIDS, add new people to the work force, and be able to improve their wages without pushing others out of the work force, what would you say?
Mali, Chad, Niger, the Central African Republic, Somalia, Kenya, and even Ethiopia have all suffered or face acute anxieties about the
spread
of extremism.
The Asian financial crisis that erupted in mid-1997 and subsequently
spread
across the emerging economies caused an interruption lasting six years.
This is an enticing
spread
for currency speculators who borrow in dollars and circumvent China’s capital controls to buy renminbi assets.
Again, this would inevitably trigger hot-money inflows, with speculators taking advantage of the
spread
between Chinese interest rates and the near-zero, short-term rates in developed economies, thereby driving up the renminbi further (and creating yet more opportunities for speculation).
The new colonialists call to mind the settlers from Europe who
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across the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, benefiting not just themselves, but also their homelands.
That epidemic has
spread
to all ten departments of the country, as well as to the capital, Port au Prince.
Clearly, the epidemic will continue to
spread.
In the face of transnational, global security threats – including jihadist terrorism, but also the
spread
of pandemics and the consequences of climate change – the need for much closer and more effective European-African cooperation has become increasingly clear.
From its origins as a terrorist group capitalizing on state failure in Iraq and Syria, it has
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like a virus from Afghanistan to Nigeria and carried out or inspired attacks as far abroad as the United States and the Philippines.
On the contrary, ISIS and other groups are seeking new hosts and conditions that are favorable to their spread; all too often, they are finding them.
But now the conflict has
spread
across the Middle East, destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan and threatening to fracture Iraq.
Did the market see the
spread
of lax lending standards and price the relevant pools of loans accordingly, or was it fooled?
This was and is the result of an asset bubble fueled by excessive leverage and by the massive transparency issues associated with complex securities and derivatives that were supposed to
spread
risk, but instead mainly increased the systemic risk already present with excess debt.
Growth
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far beyond a few Asian countries, and, for the first time since the 1950’s, the vast majority of poor countries experienced what economists call convergence – a narrowing of the income gap with rich countries.
The precipitating factor that led to the current situation has to do with our evolving world culture,
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rapidly through enhanced media outlets and the Internet, and its perceptions of the markets.
And we should consider how to facilitate the
spread
of cooperatives’ best practices while avoiding common pitfalls.
A new “narrative economics,” Schiller maintains, should study “the
spread
and dynamics of popular narratives... – particularly those of human interest or emotion – and how these change through time, to understand economic fluctuations.”
Finally, the world faces many serious challenges, ranging from the need to halt the
spread
of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed conflicts.
Piping clean water without improving sanitation can in some cases actually exacerbate the
spread
of infectious agents.
First, it offsets “Americanization” – that is, the influence of the United States over global economic development, and the
spread
of the American lifestyle and mentality.
The recent civil nuclear agreement between the two countries paves the way for cooperation in halting the
spread
of nuclear weapons.
Similar coalitions can be assembled to dent global poverty by fostering a second green revolution in Indian agriculture, to enhance India’s role in the global economy through vocational and higher education, and to tackle the worldwide
spread
of AIDS.
Although Iranian-Saudi enmity dates back many decades, it became acute after the 1979 Islamic Revolution when Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, began to
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his revolutionary brand of Shia Islam across the region.
Luther quickly grasped the potential of the printing press to
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his message, effectively inventing new forms of publishing that were short, clear, and written in German, the language of the people.
Such efforts include automated programs to find and remove fake accounts; featuring Facebook pages that
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disinformation less prominently than in the past; issuing a transparency report on the number of false accounts removed; verifying the nationality of those who place political advertisements; hiring 10,000 additional people to work on security; and improving coordination with law enforcement and other companies to address suspicious activity.
Financial leaders have already begun to
spread
the word about such progress, and the policies that enabled it, in order to bolster and expand financial inclusion.
Even with the
spread
of democratic elections, the region’s leaders tend to come from the ranks of soldiers (Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe), family dynasties (Togo, Kenya, etc), or university professors, lawyers, and economists (Ghana, Malawi, Liberia).
The Disenchantment of IraqLONDON – Twenty-five years ago, on March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein’s troops
spread
poison gas through the Kurdish town of Halabja.
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