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Just as she resumed campaigning, there were bombings in New York and New Jersey, and two more police shootings of unarmed African Americans, which
spurred
demonstrations in North Carolina, a swing state.
This
spurred
a new wave of tense – and ultimately failed – negotiations with holdout creditors.
Moreover, silent epidemics have taken hold, particularly in lower-income countries, as the combination of mega-trends like urbanization, population aging, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, and alcohol consumption has
spurred
the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
The fall in interest rates, which
spurred
business investment, was in part due to the long-term deficit reduction strategy.
But pitifully low domestic returns on capital soon
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Japanese investors to resume foreign lending, fueling the massive investment boom of the Clinton-era "new economy."
TVEs
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private entrepreneurship, despite weak frameworks for property rights and contract enforcement.
SEZs
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exports and foreign investment without undermining employment among protected state enterprises.
A worsening economy and widening inequality have
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more people to become more engaged and take an interest in the activities of companies and those who run them.
Remittances have long
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inflation in many parts of Africa.
But then the housing market stalled, as fears of a property bubble
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a government clampdown on credit, leaving the stock market the place for middle-class savers to put their money.
This helps to explain why the struggles of traditional media – many owned by wealthy families or conglomerates – have
spurred
even less of a backlash than did Walmart’s decimation of independently owned retailers.
Massive government stimulus in the wake of the global financial crisis
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local governments to take loans from Chinese banks to realize dream infrastructure projects, with remote cities attempting to imitate urban showcases like Shanghai or Shenzhen.
Before the Berlin Wall fell almost 25 years ago, Albania boasted of its self-reliance, and,
spurred
by relentless propaganda, vilified everyone outside its borders.
When it comes to oil, for example, shale gas, tight oil, liquefied natural gas, and increasingly competitive solar and wind energy are boosting energy supply, even as a decade of high prices has
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conservation and reduced demand.
Even her resignation, 25 years ago this year, was
spurred
by a mutiny in her own cabinet and party.
True, market forces have
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innovation, which has continually driven down the price of processed food, even as the price of plain old fruits and vegetables has gone up.
This has
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doubts about America’s ability to provide strategic heft to its “pivot” by sustaining a higher level of commitment in the Asia-Pacific region, where it already maintains 320,000 troops.
Spurred
into action, the government launched initiatives to support disadvantaged and immigrant students, and made the notion of early childhood education a driving force in German education policy.
This asymmetry has
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huge capital flows from the former to the latter, which are likely to continue.
So they have been overexploiting local resources instead – a practice that has
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an environmental crisis, advancing regional climate change and intensifying natural disasters like droughts.
The process has involved disputes among the incumbent executives, a private investment fund, and an SOE shareholder, as well as a default on corporate bonds issued by the state-owned Dongbei Special Steel that has
spurred
disputes among the Liaoning provincial government, the China Development Bank, and many other investors.
In any case, the wave of judicial activism that the recent scandals have
spurred
has so far produced little or no actual change.
In recent years, China has set up domestically funded institutions such as the Silk Road Fund and
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the establishment of new international financial institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Finally, Trump’s public questioning of NATO, the US-led security alliance, has
spurred
Europeans to forge ahead with their own common security plans.
Mahathir appears to have been
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on by the successes of the neighboring island-state of Singapore, briefly a part of Malaysia, on its swift march to First World status.
All of this has
spurred
questions about the Trump children’s capacity to leverage their father’s presidency to benefit the family business, with many fixating on whether Trump is violating conflict-of-interest or anti-nepotism rules.
The backlash against real integration has, most recently,
spurred
US President Donald Trump’s administration to resort to unilateral trade protectionism, targeting China in particular.
His elaborate 2007 plan, undoubtedly shared with King Abdullah’s consent, was
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by the prospect of chaos should an Israeli government decide to secure Israel’s survival as a Jewish state through unilateral withdrawal from much of the West Bank.
One was the reversal of China’s attempt to install a stock-market “circuit breaker,” which, far from tempering volatility,
spurred
a new wave of selloffs.
The US Federal Reserve’s decision in December to raise the federal funds rate, together with the uncertainty generated by collapsing oil prices, has also
spurred
investors to reduce their China exposure and switch to dollars.
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