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In 1991, around the time India’s economic liberalization began, the country’s cities tended toward specialization.
In the past, top North Korean leaders tended to calculate carefully the costs and benefits when they acted to put pressure on the outside world.
One requires cuts in the emission of greenhouse gases; the other has tended to promote the combustion of fossil fuels for transport and energy.
Politicians, even those of the reform ilk, have thus tended to "buy out" this age cohort through generous early retirement schemes and lax disability standards.
A 30-kilometer exclusion zone still rings Chernobyl, leaving once-fertile land unable to be tended by local farmers.
Terrorists in the mid-20th century tended to have relatively well-defined political objectives, which were often ill-served by mass murder.
Facing an accelerated exchange-rate depreciation that, at one stage, almost halved the lira’s value, Turkey has taken a variety of measures that attempt to simulate – albeit partially – the traditional approach that emerging economies have tended to follow in the past.
Until 2000, the government tended more to rely on the advice of the OSCE, but even since 2001, it has tried to buttress its position by claiming that it gets along better than ever with the OSCE and its mission.
Thus, in the past, the judges’ union tended to go along, with predictable results.
And the evidence of Guajardo and his co-authors does show that deliberate government decisions to adopt austerity programs have tended to be followed by hard times.
Although the bilateral relationship has historically tended to emphasize security and defense more than economics, the two leaders’ perspectives, exemplified in their new initiatives, threaten to leave things even more unbalanced.
And international trade in services has tended to expand more rapidly than trade in goods.
On the day, newspaper headlines tended to interpret this letter as the beginning of a roll-back by France and Germany from their previous commitment to a politically integrated Union.
After that, the structures of integration that would eventually underpin today’s EU tended to be more economically oriented, and territorial defense was left to NATO and the US security umbrella.
In the run-up to the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, many emerging economies kept their currencies rigidly pegged to the dollar, and governments tended to borrow heavily in dollars, despite generating most of their revenues in the domestic currency (what economists labeled “original sin”).
Re-Reading George H.W. Bush’s LipsCAMBRIDGE – When President George H.W. Bush was laid to rest last week, the encomiums appropriately remarked on his general decency and competence, which tended to be followed by a “but.”
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that violate human rights.
Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline – despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth.
As a result, US fortunes have tended to fade more rapidly.
This particular political revolution has been largely missed by commentators, who have tended to misinterpret the weakness of traditional parties, particularly those of the center left, as a fundamental threat to democracy.
International efforts, led by the World Bank and other international donors, have tended to focus on strengthening relations between the state and its citizens in order to achieve “Tocquevillian” gains – that is, operational democracy and effective government.
Macroeconomic models have tended to neglect the role of institutions, ranging from trade unions and employer associations to property-rights regimes and mechanisms for redistribution.
Until recently, the bilateral relationship has tended to be guided by a transatlantic, trans-Eurasian perspective, while ignoring the trans-Pacific option.
Until now, however, its lending has tended to follow donor fashions, rather than complementing them.
Tolerance for failure was slim in both initiatives, so they tended to rely on the previous generation of scientific insight, because the resulting technology was more trustworthy.
But the comparisons that have accompanied both deals have tended toward hyperbole, impeding rational discussion of their implications for Europe, the Middle East, and the prospects for international diplomacy.
Although economists and commentators have tended to view austerity in the United States and Europe through the same lens, conditions in the world’s two largest economic areas are very different.
This episode, which other central banks watched with great interest, tended to reinforce the views of those who are skeptical of monetary authorities’ ability to manage exchange rates.
But the carry trade has tended to produce positive returns.
This led to increased flows into the carry trade, which for a while increased its success, because higher inflows tended to exacerbate the weakness of the low-interest-rate currencies.
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