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In the US, how much of the increase in income inequality over the past three decades reflects technological change and globalization (both favoring those with higher levels of education and skills), and how much reflects privileged access to the policymaking process, is a complex and unsettled question.
Thailand’s new prime minister assumed office surrounded by scandal, Malaysia’s politics seem more unsettled than at any time in twenty years.
They scoff at his popularity, and note that the Middle East remains intractable, North Korea nuclear, Iraq and Afghanistan unsettled, and Iran difficult.
For those who are unsettled by the widespread change of the past few decades, national identities have become increasingly appealing as a way to offset often-unpredictable globalization.
And at the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos this year, the sheer number of unsettled issues – the Middle East meltdown, the European Union’s future (particularly given the possibility of a British exit), America’s presidential election, the refugee crisis, China’s economic slowdown, oil prices, and more – was itself unsettling.
But there is a second and more disturbing reason why financial markets remain unsettled: large swathes of the European banking system remain vastly undercapitalized.
The spillover effects of the Syrian crisis have also unsettled Lebanon, exemplified in the recent spate of sectarian violence, and threaten to destabilize Jordan, which is struggling under the burden of more than 500,000 Syrian refugees.
It also sheds light on the endgame now taking shape in a confused and unsettled eurozone.
The fact that Clinton chose to go to Asia now, when the State Department remains unsettled – with no ambassador in Beijing, many old officials having departed or leaving, and many new appointees still unseated – attests to her determination to stake out Asia as her own area.
Japan has particular reason to be unsettled by “The Donald’s” incendiary rhetoric, which has the potential to do lasting damage.
Of course, Germany is not the only European country that remains unsettled from the refugee crisis.
A far more formidable challenge will be resolving the dispute over the countries’ Himalayan frontier – the world’s longest unsettled land border.
Fundamental issues remain unsettled; hard choices must be made.
That story might have invited some gossip outside of Greece, but it gained little purchase on international attention until the end of 2009, when the market for Greek debt started to become increasingly unsettled, with rising interest rates causing further problems for the government.
Here, the institutional landscape is both crowded and unsettled.
The landscape remains unsettled because intergovernmental cooperation has largely stalled, owing to conflicting priorities among countries.
Confronting the threat that an unsettled Iraq poses to Europe and to the transatlantic relationship implies stopping these tactical games.
The Kurdish north is largely autonomous; where its writ ends and the central government’s begins is unsettled.
Domestic spying is growing and taking new forms nowadays because China's leaders, unsettled by the changes their own economic reforms have unleashed, bluntly refuse to consider democratic reforms.
Europe’s Attackers From WithinBERLIN – Europe finally appears to have moved past its multi-year economic crisis, but it remains unsettled.
Building Cooperation in an Unsettled WorldDAVOS – The world is at a turning point, with power shifting and dispersing in ways that signal the emergence of a new multipolar era.
This is reflected in China’s crackdown in Hong Kong in the wake of its enactment of a harsh new national security law; the inhumane treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority; the clashes along its unsettled border with India; the sinking of a Vietnamese vessel in the disputed South China Sea; and regular displays of military strength near both Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands, which both China and Japan claim as their own.
I am currently involved in one concerning the role of the state in economic life – an unsettled question, going back to the start of economics, pitting those who believe that state intervention worsens economic performance against who believe the opposite (with all the necessary qualifications on each side).
Another unsettled question of particular salience today is what causes the gap between rich and poor within all countries to grow.
Trump Is Guilty as Not ChargedWASHINGTON, DC – The political situation in the United States is more unsettled now than at any time since I began covering it, including the Watergate era.
Energy, Employment, and Migration in AfricaFREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – Africans are increasingly unsettled.
EU leaders arrived at a compromise that allowed everyone to claim victory, leaving the underlying issue unsettled – just as Poland and Hungary had hoped.
While Iraq is reeling from declining oil revenues, Lebanon has been unsettled by falling capital inflows, the country’s main source of external rent.
'She is not exactly dull, but that indefinite, unsettled position...'Levin overheard, and was hastening away when Oblonsky called him.
This offer annoyed Julien; it unsettled his erratic mind; throughout supper, which the friends cooked for themselves, like Homeric heroes, for Fouque lived by himself, he showed Julien his books, and proved to him what advantages his trade in timber offered.
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