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In the ensuing years, the average tariff rate applied by China has continued to fall, and now stands at less than 4%, though China does maintain an unusually high number of tariff peaks (that is, high tariffs for very limited categories of product).
Not surprisingly, this pattern has been slow to emerge in the current cycle, largely owing to an unusually weak post-crisis economic recovery.
Alternatively, it may have no strategy, with unusually high military spending simply reflecting the higher-than-expected costs of the conflict.
In recent years, markets have faced an unusually large (and expanding) set of unconventional political statements and maneuvers.
This gap has narrowed in the past couple of years, but much of the improvement probably reflects little more than the temporary impact of an unusually tough business cycle.
With an annual growth rate of 10%, an investment rate of 50% implies a capital-output ratio of five, which is unusually high relative to other countries.
The Western-educated heir to a shipping fortune, and unusually well connected with the global elite, Tung was thought to be a conservative, thoughtful, cosmopolitan man imbued with liberal values and free of ties to the powerful families that dominated the real-estate industry in the territory.
Today, it is no longer unusual to suggest that the West could linger in a low-level growth equilibrium for an unusually prolonged period.
Troubled by the president’s apparent soft spot for (or perhaps fear of) Vladimir Putin, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers passed a bill to impose more sanctions on Russia and – most unusually – to prevent the president from lifting any such penalties.
While his political strategy has entailed tightening the CCP’s control over ideology, cracking down on official corruption, repressing dissent, and championing a more nationalistic foreign policy, he has announced an unusually bold economic-reform blueprint.
Moreover, though party politics have become more polarized in recent decades, this follows the 1950s and early 1960s, when the escape from the Great Depression and victory in World War II fueled unusually high confidence in US institutions.
There is evidence that in the wake of a financial crisis, when monetary policy becomes ineffective – for example, because nominal interest rates are at the zero bound – deficit spending can have an unusually strong stabilizing impact.
They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.
Such credit constraints are one reason why unemployment rates continue to rise in so many countries – often from already alarming levels, such as 25% in Greece and Spain (where youth unemployment is above 50%) – and why unemployment remains unusually high in countries like the US (albeit it at a much lower level).
An unusually favorable combination of skillful statesmanship (and plain good luck) will be required if this reconstruction of NATO is to succeed in strengthening, rather than diminishing, security.
Weather patterns are changing; the rains, in certain areas, have been failing; and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.
Mexico has been able to keep interest rates much lower – the basic policy rate is 4.5%, compared to 7% in Brazil (which is unusually low for the country) – while maintaining a lower inflation rate as well.
These four sources of risk constitute an unusually serious set of geopolitical challenges.
We face an urgent need to define a safety zone that prevents us from pushing our planet out of the unusually benevolent Holocene state.
But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.
Compared to developed countries, an unusually large number of small, unproductive firms coexist with a small number of large, productive firms.
Escaping the New Normal of Weak GrowthMILAN – There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.
If current US policy towards China is supposed to be Cold War-style containment, it seems unusually warm.
After all, the deal was the result of negotiations involving six major powers, including, unusually, China and Russia.
A country of 20 million people, Ghana is unusually tolerant.
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – China’s government has been using unusually strong language of late to assert its sovereignty over disputed stretches of international waters near to its shores.
This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s power monopoly.
The possibility of a positive choice, instead of mere rejection, created for some of us an unusually encouraging feeling.
The G-7 recovery has been unusually sluggish, notwithstanding large and unprecedented policy stimulus (particularly in the US).
As much as we may wish for a more reassuring outlook, the world economy will remain unusually fluid in the coming years.
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