Spurred
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And it has
spurred
large-scale corruption, with local officials striking special deals with businesses to provide, say, tax breaks, cheap credit, or land at below-market prices.
By suppressing returns to savers and holders of assets for a protracted period, low interest rates have
spurred
a frantic search for yield.
Indeed, over the last 30 years, massive public investment and economic liberalization
spurred
rapid urban growth in coastal provinces.
This
spurred
an unsustainable consumption boom, as well as unwarranted risk-taking by consumers and financial institutions, which contributed to the large distortions and bubbles in global financial markets that were the preconditions for the current crisis.
The latest example is the United Kingdom, where trade unions have
spurred
the creation of the Pension Protection Fund, which will begin operating next year.
In Trump’s case, such a resignation could be
spurred
by the desire for a similar pardon.
This shift has
spurred
the Kingdom to announce a “crackdown” on individuals and groups that fund terror.
Questions, justified or not, about America's ability to retain its dominant position in Asia's security architecture in the medium to long term – together with the rise of isolationist sentiment within the US – have
spurred
its regional allies and partners, including stalwart friends like Australia, to hedge their strategic bets.
In fact, eurozone leaders might be
spurred
into action even sooner.
Spain Can Still RiseMADRID – July will enter Spanish history as having started on a tremendous high,
spurred
by Spain’s recent triumph in the 2012 Euro Soccer Championship.
But that demonstration also
spurred
a major change in China’s policy towards Hong Kong.
The Assad regime’s use of excessive force, especially the deliberate killing of thousands of mainly Sunni civilians, has nonetheless recently
spurred
a tougher stance.
After all, Argentina’s external debt was also considered relatively low until the peso’s recent sharp depreciation, which
spurred
the government to request funds from the IMF.
Despite this acute awareness of the enduring impact of its own humiliations, China often fails to recognize how its own past actions might have
spurred
similar feelings in others.
Spurred
by Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up,” China’s export sector increased sixfold – from 6% of GDP in 1980 to 36% in 2006.
But Clinton will also have to address some of the real grievances that
spurred
the backlash against economic openness.
For example, the US Department of Education’s Race to the Top Fund, which offered $4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms,
spurred
innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.
The incentives have
spurred
a number of state-level experiments in Medicaid (America’s health-insurance program for the poor) through waivers of the standard rules.
One hopes that its leaders respond, though their fondness for autocratic measures and indulgence of illiberal and intolerant statements by their supporters – behavior that has
spurred
serious concern across the political spectrum – raises serious doubts that they will.
And before Trump’s victory, such conditions
spurred
the UK’s so-called “left behind” to vote for Brexit.
Adopting the euro in 1999 clearly was not sufficient, nor has rising competition from emerging economies
spurred
Italians to halt their country’s decline.
Although The Hite Report initially
spurred
great controversy, in the end it was broadly accepted that women’s pleasure and sexual well-being mattered and deserved respectful inquiry.
The election that President Joseph Kabila was supposed to have called in 2016 is now scheduled for December 2018 – a delay that has intensified grievances and
spurred
violence.
We can, however, count on rising rates of female labor-force participation
(spurred
by continued low fertility), increased levels of effective labor as educational attainment continues to rise, and higher savings rates in anticipation of greater longevity and longer retirements.
Spurred
by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which entered into force in 2005, most countries have launched comprehensive tobacco-control programs.
Even freight companies and airlines have been
spurred
to act, with a growing number now refusing to transport shark fins.
In 2013,
spurred
by Huajian's success, the Ethiopian government created a new industrial park, with space for 22 factory units.
It
spurred
the 1992 Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, and it continues to influence global discussions.
The killing had
spurred
fear that tribal warfare would break out, as Younis was part of the powerful Obaida tribe, which lives around Benghazi.
Consumption is being
spurred
by record-low unemployment rates, below 7%, and by credit growth, which has doubled, from 22% to 45% of GDP, between 2002 and 2010.
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