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And a bigger current-account deficit means that the already-large trade deficit will only widen further, violating one of the main tenets of Trumponomics – that making America great again requires closing the trade gap.
Borrowing is also supported by an easing of credit standards and new financial products that increase leverage and widen the range of assets that can be borrowed against.
If they do not diffuse worldwide, they will widen the income divide between countries and regions.
Indeed, the government’s suspicion of the international media is liable to spark friction when thousands of journalists arrive and inevitably widen their coverage beyond athletics to politics and human rights.
Still, if Trump’s firm response ends up being successful, it could widen his appeal.
The left calls for an expansion of social protection; the right says that doing so would undermine economic growth and widen fiscal deficits.
Continued rapid technological change threatens to widen further the existing gap between available skills and those demanded by the global labor market.
One can only hope that this crack of freedom will widen in time.
With US budget deficits likely to widen by at least $1 trillion over the next ten years, owing to the recent tax cuts, pressures on domestic saving will only intensify.
Indeed, with budget deficits likely to widen, America’s saving shortfall will only deepen in the years ahead.
The launch of the oil futures contract can be anticipated to widen the scope for renminbi-denominated commodity trading.
If we widen the lens further, Kenya, like the rest of Africa, is approaching a demographic tipping point that must also be addressed.
This has driven down demand and prices, causing the disparities among eurozone member countries’ economic performance to widen.
And, everywhere, it is likely to be another year in which the gap between the haves and the have-nots will widen.
In short, as the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton has acknowledged, by creating new opportunities for a certain group of millions of people, while subjecting an enormous number of people to wage stagnation, unemployment, and economic precarity, globalization and technological innovation have helped to widen the gap between the haves and have-nots.
The result will probably be the same as when Bush pursued similar policies: income inequality will widen, and budget deficits will grow.
And historic infrastructure-spending gaps continue to widen: by 2020 or 2021, annual per capita transportation-infrastructure spending will reach £1,900 in London, but will be less than £300 in the northeast.
This will widen the already-large gap between the country’s haves and have-nots.
Political advisers to future Democratic administrations may argue that the only way to tie the Republicans’ hands and keep them from launching another wealth-polarizing offensive is to widen the deficit enough that even they are scared of it.
So long as performance gaps continue to widen, voters will continue to challenge European integration.
Such a possibility seems even more far-fetched as long as the Iranian nuclear crisis remains unresolved and the Syrian crisis continues to widen the region’s Shia-Sunni divide (reflected in increased tension between Turkey and Iran).
After all, his firing was rooted partly in his extremism, while Le Pen is currently attempting to widen her party’s support by softening its image.
Putin has expertly used an endless and highly professional barrage of propaganda to widen the gulf between the beliefs of most Russians and those of most Westerners.
Income inequality began to widen in the US in the late 1970’s, and the trend spread to Europe by the late 1980’s, affecting even countries with long egalitarian traditions by the start of the new century.
If the attacks widen beyond the three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, Thaksin’s regional leadership chances will be dimmed.
My purpose was not to recommend specific policy actions in particular countries, but to widen the scope of debate about our policy response to the still profound challenges facing the advanced economies.
News reports and “analysis” by state-controlled channels in both Russia and Georgia that promote negative images of “the enemy” serve only to widen the gap between ethnic groups.
Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen.
Unless all young people have legitimate prospects of improving their social and economic status, the gap between rich and poor will continue to widen, creating a vicious cycle that will be increasingly difficult to escape.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
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