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Statisticians at the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, and at its sister agencies in other countries, have struggled to measure the role of increased “variety” in productivity.
Trade negotiators struggled to make headway, while anti-globalization groups seized control of the public discourse, presenting the TTIP as a threat to everything from Europe’s democracy to its health.
For example, in 2013, more than one-third of the Chinese firms surveyed said that they struggled to recruit skilled workers, with 61% attributing this to a shortage of general employable skills.
In a hypothetical European fiscal union, there would certainly be transfers from Germany to the periphery in 2011, but a properly designed setup would have ensured flows to Germany in the 1990’s, as it struggled to cope with the costs of reunification with East Germany.
Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad’s insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust denial as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation’s president).
The Basel Convention, now 20 years old, has struggled to keep up with new technologies, unpredictable loopholes, and clandestine economic transactions involving hazardous waste.
Germany is much closer to potential growth than Italy and even the United States, which struggled more than Germany to escape the Great Recession.
Some big banks have struggled, but others have risen to take their place.
Middle-class families that had struggled to send their kids to private schools (nearly 60% of all pupils attend such institutions) did not welcome what they viewed as unwarranted government meddling.
Bulgarians have struggled for a decade to keep off that road, both in trade and in foreign policy.
But success will require striking a balance between maintaining systemic stability and allowing the country’s massive economy to adapt and grow – a challenge with which China has struggled for centuries.
Over the last 80 years, women in democratic societies have struggled to be recognized and treated as citizens endowed with equal rights.
Attacks are usually asymmetric; the barriers to cyberspace are inconsequential and governments have struggled to enforce the rule of law online.
Likewise, entrenched interests and weak institutions have generated chronic fiscal deficits in both countries, which have long struggled with high public debt and weak credibility.
Even Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government, with its huge popular mandate, has struggled to make headway in contentious areas like agriculture and labor markets.
But the No side has struggled to find a coherent point of reference and seems to have none of the dynamism and vigor that it projected last time.
The budget deficit is now the largest in the EU, and public debt has ballooned, as the government has struggled to compensate for the steep drop in revenues.
Life insurers, for example, have struggled to meet their guaranteed rates of return.
The small, open economies of Switzerland and Norway – important models for Scotland – struggled with sharp currency appreciation during the global financial crisis.
While America has struggled in Iraq this year, China has spent it on a diplomatic goodwill offensive in Asia.
Claudia Samayoa, a Guatemalan political analyst, calls it "a blow against the victims, and against all those who have struggled in Guatemala for human rights and democracy".
China’s voracious appetite for German cars and machines provided the needed boost, even as Germany’s traditional trade partners in Europe struggled.
Local governments, in particular, have struggled with a colossal volume of bad debt, which has undermined their capacity for capital expenditure and frozen out private demand for productive investment.
In recent months, D’Souza has made a point of debating prominent atheists, but he, too, struggled to find a convincing answer to the problem I outlined above.
OPEC countries grew rich, while the rest of the developing world struggled with unsustainable trade deficits and indebtedness.
Even with these funds, however, local governments have struggled to make ends meet.
And Europe, China’s largest export market, has struggled the most.
The government would have had to default, the banks would have been ruined, and both would have struggled for years to regain the trust of financial markets.
Instead, the ideals for which we struggled appear as slogans invoked by those who want to protect their vested interests.
Climate models have long struggled to duplicate those large fluctuations in sea levels – until now.
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