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But, in recent years, it has suffered economic pain and skyrocketing unemployment, which reached 27% in 2013.
But a mere two days after its creation, the embryonic Council suffered its first big setback.
Consider the trauma a country like India might have suffered if its population of a half-billion had remained barely fed as it doubled.
Bank officers may have walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars, but everyone else in our society – shareholders, bondholders, taxpayers, homeowners, workers – suffered.
Victims of human trafficking cannot experience this type of friendship easily, because the degradation and humiliation they have suffered can lead them to believe they are unimportant or someone else’s property.
To be sure, the authorities have suffered some defections, with the most significant coming soon after the violence in Homs reached its peak, when the deputy energy minister resigned and joined the opposition.
Like them, it suffered through a brutal and protracted civil war; unlike them, however, successive governments have built institutions capable of supporting a reasonable level of territorial control and domestic security.
There can be no excuses for our failure to provide an education to children in the 19 global crisis zones that have suffered emergencies for five years or more, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan, and Somalia – where crises have persisted for over 20 years.
People in developed countries have suffered as a result – witness unprecedented levels of unemployment in countries like Spain and Greece – but so have countless millions in developing countries that played no part in causing the crisis.
Fortunately, Brazil’s stock exchange has suffered less than other emerging-market bourses from the financial turbulence in the US and elsewhere.
But in those regions headed by strong politicians – Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, for example – the damage Putin has suffered in the past week makes it unlikely that he will be able to oust leaders who oppose him.
Over the past year, several diplomats have suffered a similar fate in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.
Let us now consider the second question – whether the Fund suffered from a mindset that blinded it to the causes of what was happening.
The Kingdom has suffered from the rise of the Shi’a in neighboring Iraq and is keen to maintain Sunni supremacy in the Islamic lands further to the east.
Having suffered a deeper economic collapse in 2009 than the United States did, Europe’s economy is poised for a much more sluggish recovery – if one can call it that.
Having suffered what economists call a “sudden stop,” many parts of the US economy were imploding or had ceased to function – to extend the medical metaphor, even the most vital organs were threatened.
Then the madness of the Cultural Revolution, when millions suffered terribly, many died, and many more behaved disgracefully as Mao sought to destroy those who had rescued China from his earlier follies.
Why, she asked herself, had her family suffered so much if it was only to prepare the way for this?
Both suffered little financial fallout from the currency weakness that followed the Fed’s announcement last May that it would “taper” its purchases of long-term assets.
For decades, India suffered from what some called the “Hindu rate of economic growth” of a little over 1% per year.
Having initially suffered from the financial crisis as much as Western countries did (indeed, more in terms of output and trade), these historically less-robust economies staged a remarkable comeback – so much so that they became the engine of global growth.
The same can be said for enhanced saving incentives, which would contribute to longer-term financial security for American households, most of which suffered massive wealth losses in the Great Recession.
Dimona has produced all the plutonium that Israel reasonably needs, and the reactor – one of the world’s oldest – has suffered minor mishaps and evident deterioration, raising the specter of more serious accidents.
Both cities suffered from weak technical and institutional capacity and little foreign exchange or domestic credit.
Despite all the pain Greece has suffered – a 30% drop in aggregate demand since the last cyclical peak and a rise in unemployment to more than 25% of the workforce – the Greek economy is still nowhere near competitive enough to repay its debts.
Indeed, between 1995 and 1998, the Colombian army suffered its worst setbacks – including casualties, captures, and ambushes – in the four decades of the insurgency.
What’s worse is that the rich countries may be an important cause of the increasing weather damage being suffered by the poorest countries in the world.
As a result, the quality of education has suffered.
If investors suffered from irrational exuberance in the 1990’s, they are likely to suffer from rational pessimism in the coming year.
As these assumptions have proved to be excessively optimistic, the standing and sustainability of pro-trade policies have suffered.
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