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But Trump’s ad nauseam tweets about failing newspapers and fake news have also
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more reasonable consumers to embrace newspapers as a bastion of anti-Trumpism.
So far, the Trump administration has not been
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to action by the humanitarian catastrophe confronting Syrian civilians.
Russia’s reversal on the Afghan Taliban reflects a larger strategy linked to its clash with the US and its European allies – a clash that has intensified considerably since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea
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the US and Europe to impose heavy economic sanctions.
The murder charges leveled against Zia have already
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protests, and could incite massive civil disturbances if a trial actually takes place, jeopardizing the economic success that the country has had under Hasina’s rule.
Indeed, India’s nuclear tests are what initially
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the NSG’s formation.
Capital-flow bonanzas, often
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by low US interest rates and calm global financial markets, end abruptly when these conditions reverse.
A Fiscal Fix for the GCCABU DHABI – Supported by strong oil revenues and
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by unrest in neighboring countries, the Gulf oil exporters – especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain, which form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – have lately ramped up public social and investment spending.
The culprit of this storyline is the Club of Rome, a global think-tank that, in the 1970s,
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energy anxiety with its absurd prophecies derived from questionable models.
For example, in Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, a billion-dollar banking scandal has
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a wave of public protests calling for fresh elections.
To an even greater extent, however, the motivation that
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the human-rights movement was revulsion worldwide, including in the US, against American aid to Pinochet’s forces, a policy directed by President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
For example, China’s productivity-enhancing agricultural reforms in the 1980s were
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partly by growth in the non-agricultural sector, a result of policies aimed at stimulating township and village enterprises.
For example, fiscal decentralization in China,
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by local institutions’ demands for increased autonomy, has helped to fuel regional competition and sustain an increasingly market-oriented economic environment.
But rising uncertainty over America’s reliability – together with the departure of the UK, which has long opposed European defense, from the European Union – has already
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Germany to acknowledge the need for progress.
Such data have
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a flurry of initiatives to improve early education.
The judge's ruling
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rumors that he went easy on her because her husband was related to senior provincial officials.
But the European Council,
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by the European Commission, invented a new policy approach - called "open coordination" - in order to impinge on these fields.
We were more than pleased with the reception of our report, which
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an international movement of academics, civil society, and governments to construct and employ metrics that reflected a broader conception of wellbeing.
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on by Scotland, a small group of countries has now formed the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
In France, a law adopted in 2005 requires that severance pay for company managers now be subject to a shareholder vote, and the EADS scandal has
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consideration of further legal changes.
The refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, which has
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panic across Europe, could have been addressed effectively with coordinated international action, as occurred in the past.
Lifestyle changes, for example, have
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increasing per capita water consumption, with rising incomes promoting dietary change, for example, especially higher consumption of meat, production of which is ten times more water-intensive, on average, than plant-based calories and proteins.
But, as some Chinese policymakers respond, all growth processes involve waste: nineteenth-century railway booms in Britain and America created huge overcapacity and investor losses, even as they
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economic transformation.
The Real Challenges to GrowthMILAN – Advanced economies’ experience since the 2008 financial crisis has
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a rapidly evolving discussion of growth, employment, and income inequality.
This is not some farfetched scenario; rising demand for biofuels has
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devastating land grabs in developing countries for many years.
But these efforts were conducive to fraud and delinquency, and thus
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a wave of new financial crises – in Europe in 1992, in Asia in 1997, and in Russia in 1998 – as well as a recession in Europe and the United States in the early 2000’s.
Since their abduction in April, global outrage has not waned; on the contrary, it has
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a worldwide movement to uphold all girls’ basic rights.
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by increased public awareness and mounting evidence that national economies can reap net benefits from policies to mitigate climate change, governments worldwide are pledging to do so – and taking to multilateral forums to display those commitments.
Falling prices, together with stricter lending standards, has
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a shift by would-be home buyers to the rental market, causing recent declines in the sales of both new and existing homes.
That is why fear of “secular stagnation” in today’s advanced economies has many wondering how creativity can be
spurred.
The inflationary credit bubble
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in southern European countries by the persistence of lower interest rates undermined their competitiveness and drove asset and property prices to unsustainably high levels.
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