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Acemoglu next asks whether there is evidence that the income distribution in the US worsened in the late 1990’s, leading politicians to respond by loosening the reins on lending to people who were “falling behind”?
Each further round of budget cuts has worsened the recession, increased social tension, and further reduced confidence… Neither the IMF nor anybody else would advise any developed country to adopt such masochistic and self-destructive policies….
Moreover, Kim’s health problems might have worsened much faster than outsiders guess, further complicating matters.
If Italy’s situation worsened, debt mutualization in one way or another would ultimately end up being the only alternative to large-scale default.
But Sri Lanka was hit equally hard by the tsunami, and since then the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict has worsened.
Indeed, the danger of international conflict has worsened in the past few months, eroding whatever trust existed between the powers.
If the Keynesians had been correct, he would undoubtedly have failed; growth would have turned negative and the fiscal/debt position would have worsened.
Nor is it surprising that, with inadequate foreign exchange, the country is having difficulty paying its bills, or that price controls and police-state regulation have severely worsened food shortages.
In the 1930’s, such “beggar-thy-neighbor” policies worsened the situation.
Income and wealth inequalities worsened.
Most of the weight will remain, and one’s life prospects will have worsened significantly.
As political moderates have been pushed out, policy gridlock has worsened, with presidential initiatives routinely blocked by congressional Republicans, even when such proposals were consistent with Republican ideas.
Inequality leads to weak demand; widening inequality weakens demand even more; and, in most countries, including the US, the crisis has only worsened inequality.
As conditions worsened, it was impossible to craft an exit strategy.
The imbalances only worsened.
Even before the refugee crisis worsened sharply last year, avatars of the closed society – France’s National Front and the United Kingdom Independence Party – won elections to the European Parliament in two of the West’s ostensibly best-developed democracies.
In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, the distribution of income has worsened, and the top 1% are reaping the lion’s share of gains from economic growth.
The dollar came under pressure early in the current financial crisis, but staged a strong recovery as the crisis worsened.
They had lost trust in an approach that continued to sell austerity as the price of stability, even as virtually every economic and financial indicator had worsened in the meantime, with scant hope of a brighter future.
Other problems have gone unaddressed – and some have worsened.
The net result is that over the past two years, China has worsened its relations with Japan, India, South Korea, Vietnam, and others – quite a remarkable record that confirms the US strategic premise that “only China can contain China.”
Unemployment is high, income disparities have worsened, and corruption remains widespread, notwithstanding important improvements in recent years.
Macroeconomic imbalances worsened as economic growth became excessively dependent on investment and exports.
Inequality worsened.
Heat shortages at the height of this year’s bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
Had either Jalili or Qalibaf been elected, the tension within the IRGC might have worsened, becoming difficult for Khamenei to control.
Meanwhile, income inequality has worsened, while Italian firms have become less competitive in global export markets.
Argentina’s central bank bears a significant share of the responsibility; while its approach proved largely ineffective in reducing inflation to the target level (the annual rate is still at about 25%), high interest rates encouraged inflows of speculative capital, which worsened the external imbalances and heightened Argentina’s vulnerability to external shocks.
Denouncing the Shia as apostates and remaining silent in the face of continuing attacks on their holy places has only worsened the divide.
And, throughout Latin America, the situation has only worsened since the 1990’s.
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