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In a perverse way, the world got its way, because the vehicle exploded a minute after takeoff, its debris falling harmlessly into the sea.
In the United States, conditions for an economic takeoff ostensibly have been present for the last year.
Compared with the region’s mostly sluggish performance over the last three decades, this looks like takeoff velocity.
Brazil Breaks OutThe biggest hidden story in international development these days may be Brazil's economic takeoff.
If the Fed does not postpone rate increases until the global economic weather clears, it risks an aborted takeoff – the fate of many economies in the last few years.
As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3-5 times.
When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among Mexico, Canada, and the United States entered into force on January 1, 1994, it seemed that Mexico was poised for a true takeoff.
In the 1960’s, as its economic takeoff was proceeding, Japan initiated a serious dialogue with regional players, aiming to build stronger relations with countries that it had once conquered and occupied.
Under such circumstances, it does not take much to lead to an aborted takeoff, or worse.
Emerging countries tend to benefit from imported technologies in the early stages of economic takeoff, but their growth rates generally slow as they reach higher levels of development.
Without the industrialization drive, economic takeoff becomes quite difficult.
There, the takeoff point for joining Asia’s great production chains was not just the country’s low wages, but a decision to redress past government omissions: trade liberalization, creation of a more favorable investment climate, and infrastructure improvements.
The resulting STOL (short takeoff and landing) performance could also improve airport productivity.
The economic takeoff of these two giants started 40 years ago with the introduction of higher agricultural output and an end to famines.
Having missed their economic takeoff, many Muslim-majority countries appear open to the call of Islamist fundamentalism.
Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertilizer, irrigation, and high-yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China’s economic takeoff.
How long this boom in productivity growth will continue is anyone's guess: optimists point to the fact that waiting behind the information technology revolution, ready for takeoff, is the biotechnology revolution, and behind that is a looming nanotechnology revolution.
But none experienced economic takeoff at independence.
The French historian and sociologist Emmanuel Todd has argued that, everywhere in the world, economic takeoff usually occurs 60-70 years after 50% of the population achieves literacy.
That change will give China a much better chance of avoiding the dreaded “middle-income trap,” which ensnares most developing economies, precisely because their policymakers mistakenly believe that the recipe for early-stage takeoff growth is sufficient to achieve developed-country status.
Earlier this year, Airbus launched Pop.Up, a vertical takeoff and landing concept vehicle for personal mobility.
China’s economic takeoff began with labor-cost arbitrage, but has been sustained by massive knowledge transfer.
There are a few reasons why Ukraine’s newfound financial stability hasn’t yet led to a stronger growth takeoff.
But communist China is not 70 years old: despite the official rhetoric, China’s economic takeoff was mainly the result of Deng Xiaoping’s liberalizing 1978 reforms, and the country’s leaders no longer harbor communist ambitions.
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