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The focus of public policy regarding prostitution should be to prevent violence and coercion, as well as to stop the spread of infectious diseases – which is exactly what Amnesty is recommending.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates view Qatar’s efforts to aid Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat, even as their own wealth has fueled the spread of Salafi jihadism and Al Qaeda ideology.
But reversing that growth would create other problems; forcing people to compete for diminishing assets and resources would spread unemployment, poverty, and even violence.
As the value of altruism becomes increasingly obvious, the new approach will spread through the economy, benefiting all of society, future generations, and the planet, too.
The more intriguing question is this: when will the rapid IT-driven productivity growth seen in the US spread to the rest of the rich countries?
The immature malaria parasite takes 26 days to develop fully at 68 degrees F, but only 13 days at 77 degrees F. The Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria live only several weeks, so warmer temperatures enable more parasites to mature in time for the mosquitoes to transfer the infection.
Add to that the in situ cancers – early-stage cancers that have not spread to neighboring tissue – and the number rises to 50%.
Nonetheless, it has emerged, spread, and resisted those who oppose it.
In South Africa, more than a century of white rule stifled the indigenous economy and established a migrant labor system throughout Southern Africa that disrupted families and created a social ecology favorable to the spread of HIV.
So put aside the fact that these diseases are infectious and can easily spread, or the idea that the fortunate bear some moral responsibility for the welfare of the poor and sick, and merely consider the economic consequences of the plagues of transition.
Competition would thus spread outward.
We expect improved technology and its spread to make the world of 2100, at a 2% annual growth rate, much richer: $50,000 per capita of year-2006 purchasing power.
Critics correctly pointed out that the American order after 1945 was neither global nor always very liberal, while defenders replied that while the order was imperfect, it produced unparalleled economic growth and allowed the spread of democracy.
By 1980, that spread had widened to at least 33% and as much as 300%; and today it is 28% and 360%, respectively.
Indeed, by integrating Turkey, Europe would show that it is not a Christian club, that the supposed “clash of civilizations” need not be fatal, and that the European project, born out of a desire for reconciliation and the need to promote development, can spread its benefits far beyond the Western half of Europe.
In India, smoking triples the risk of death from tuberculosis in men and women and may even contribute to the spread of tuberculosis to others.
If relief fails to materialize, political discontent will spread, extremist forces will gain strength, and the survival of the European Union itself could be endangered.
Unless we start now, the fires will spread – fanned by politics and religion – and it will not only be Nineveh that is consumed by them.
That chaos, Jordan’s government feared, could spread to the East Bank, potentially dealing a fatal blow to the Kingdom.
The same thing occurred in East Asia in the 1990s: the crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 with the collapse of the baht, and quickly spread to other East Asian countries.
It began in the developed world, with the fall of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers that September, and initially spread to emerging economies.
For a facial slap, the interrogator was supposed to hit with fingers slightly spread, at equal length between the tip of the chin and the bottom of the corresponding earlobe.
Any adverse consequences would no longer spread to other countries, because their banks would no longer hold concentrations of government bonds.
As a result, with investment demand remaining robust, inflation could spread.
While the number of new dot-com billionaires created each day is likely to diminish drastically, the benefits of IT to the real economy will continue to spread.
But it is also prompting profound social changes that are rooted in a rising rights consciousness within society, something strengthened--and amplified-- not only by the growth of the economy, but by the rapid spread of the internet.
The new terminology inspired by the information technology revolution was especially prevalent after the SARS outbreak last spring, when the government covered up the epidemic until after it had spread throughout China and beyond.
Journalists now learn how to evade government guidelines by distributing and collecting information online, making it more difficult for propaganda bosses to silence the spread of information considered "sensitive."
Moreover, the authorities have a difficult time tracking down and punishing people who spread this kind of "subversive" information--a term frequently used by the government to suppress political dissent--online.
This surge in volatility appears to reflect a new and different attitude toward homes as an asset – an attitude that has spread around much of the world.
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