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Second, achieving full potential growth requires that the widespread pattern of public-sector underinvestment be reversed.
Damaging America’s standing as a good-faith actor on the world stage would set the scene for widespread instability.
To postpone enlargement beyond 1997 would not only disappoint eager East Europeans, it would confirm a widespread notion in Moscow that the West will always bend to pressure.
A widespread – and false – perception is that Obama has kept the US out of the Syrian war.
The rise of nationalism prior to the outbreak of World War I led to the widespread introduction of passports and ushered in stricter controls on the international movement of people.
With widespread ownership of mobile phones and Internet-connected computers, it is far easier than ever before to organize supporters and allies.
Distrust of political parties and disappointment in their ability to govern is widespread, as evidenced by low voter turnout in the recent elections.
Eventually, the required restructuring became so widespread that it impacted virtually every sector of the economy.
Amidst this undeniable progress, however, remain widespread poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
Protests have erupted over widespread joblessness, purportedly caused by Chinese dumping of goods, which is killing off local manufacturing, and exacerbated by China’s import of workers for its own projects.
Beyond Homo EconomicusLEIPZIG – Humanity currently faces numerous global challenges, including climate change, resource depletion, financial crisis, deficient education, widespread poverty, and food insecurity.
A key reason for this is urban sprawl: with a built-up area nearly 12 times larger than Barcelona, Atlanta implicitly encourages widespread private-vehicle use, boosting emissions, congestion, and air pollution.
Since 1860, when the industrial revolution and soaring population growth led to widespread consumption of fossil fuels, the volume of atmospheric CO2 has increased by about 28%.
And in Europe, there are plenty of legitimate grievances: austerity, widespread youth unemployment, a democratic deficit in the EU, and an overloaded bureaucracy in Brussels.
Similarly, in Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement following elections in January 2008 that were marred by widespread irregularity, violence, and destruction.
A 2004 report by the Humanitarian Policy Group cited a survey carried out in Ethiopia after UN agencies said that humanitarian efforts had averted widespread famine in 2000.
Meanwhile, widespread pumping lowers the level of the entire aquifer, potentially allowing salt water to encroach.
Widespread political violence in both Iran and Latin America in the 1960’s and 1970’s demonstrated a connection between popular feelings of powerlessness and the growth of urban guerilla movements.
Exasperation is especially widespread among the eurozone’s poorer members.
Widespread recognition of the potential uses of ZIRP and QE may well turn out to be one of the most important outcomes of the current crisis, shaping monetary policy far into the future.
With MIT’s Benjamin Olken and Kreindler, we examined the impact in Jakarta, Indonesia, of the widespread policy of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) restrictions, which limit travel based on the number of passengers in a car.
But instead we see a landscape of widespread poverty set against a backdrop of endemic corruption and official mismanagement.
This severe downturn created widespread social discontent, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of US support for military regimes in the region, every Latin American dictatorship except Cuba’s was upended.
Moreover, widespread anger over high war profits while men were being conscripted to risk their lives led many people, not just Americans, to start advocating for “wealth conscription.”
Rebooting Nuclear SecurityVIENNA – In these days of economic woe, potential pandemic disease, and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around the world still view nuclear conflict as the greatest threat facing humanity.
So there is no real moral argument for outsize wealth amid widespread poverty.
The disastrous demonetization process of November 2016 spurred widespread criticism of the RBI for failing to perform its fiduciary duties.
As wave after wave of Falun Gong supporters arrived in Tiananmen Square to be arrested, however, what began as an aberrant event became the most widespread movement of organized protest in China since 1989.
Nevertheless, wary of provoking widespread hostility, military leaders have indicated recently that they have no intention of intervening in politics.
Organic chemistry, so named because it was believed to be a prerogative of living organisms, has turned out to be the most widespread and banal chemistry: the chemistry of carbon.
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