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The postcommunist transitional agenda is exhausted, without having yielded a sustainable European politico-economic structure.
This visit yielded another appeal not to rush Nato enlargement.
Several weeks ago, the general election in the Czech Republic yielded a total impasse, with the left and right each gaining 100 lower-house seats and no resolution in sight.
The long-term viability of the incipient Russian-Turkish alliance is questionable, but it has undoubtedly yielded results on the ground in Syria.
But China’s 2008 rice yield was 6.61 tons/ha, Turkey’s was seven tons/ha, and Indonesia and Vietnam yielded 4.88 tons/ha each (96%, 105%, and 45% better than India’s yield, respectively).
Again, such data do not demonstrate that Obama’s policies yielded an immediate payoff.
But the first study yielded very imprecise estimates of the number of deaths, which the authors glossed over.
That had not happened, so I asked why so much financial skill and enterprise had not yielded “obvious economic dividends.”
A back-of-the-envelope calculation of mine in 2007 suggested that the world paid financial institutions roughly $800 billion every year for mergers and acquisitions that yielded about $170 billion of real economic value.
They evidently believe that this approach has yielded results – most notably the fragile Syrian ceasefire that the US and Russia brokered in July.
Pressure on Croatia and Serbia to arrest and hand over suspects – a condition of EU accession negotiations – has yielded several extraditions and may result in more.
Higher exports would not only have yielded directly higher revenues; they would have had a multiplier effect on the domestic economy as well, thereby increasing consumption tax revenues.
Measuring the avoided climate impact for the indefinite future, the entire combined efforts of the Queen, many companies, and the city halls of Copenhagen and other cities yielded $20 worth of good.
In fact, in 2014 Germany’s governing coalition yielded to union pressure and actually reduced the retirement age for some manual workers, despite frequently lecturing other eurozone countries to do the opposite.
While these policies – or lack thereof – have impeded recovery in the southern countries, they have yielded reasonable growth and very low unemployment rates for the northern economies.
Many state-owned firms were privatized for ten times the sums yielded in asset sales under the previous government of Edvard Shevardnadze.
It would offer returns close to those yielded by equity investments, but with some of the risk offset by its long-term nature.
But the theoretical investigations of Borda, Condorcet, and others often yielded rather pessimistic results.
Now the Social Democrats’ popular support hovers at around 30%, and the last two elections yielded the worst results in a century.
Two decades of applying neoliberal economic policies to the developing world have yielded disappointing results.
But, far from producing a breakthrough, the talks yielded only a promise to hold further discussions.
The diplomatic push has so far yielded somewhat predictable results.
Unfortunately, despite an immense expenditure of energy and resources spanning a quarter-century, these efforts have not yielded the desired results.
In 2001, three financial economists – Paul Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick – identified a governance-based investment strategy that would have yielded superior stock-market returns during the 1990’s.
While ultra-low interest rates yielded few benefits for developed countries, they imposed significant costs on developing and emerging-market economies.
These programs yielded modest growth at best; what they did succeed in boosting was poverty, inequality, and social protest.
Ideally, this should come about in a manner similar to democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980’s, when authoritarian, army-backed rulers yielded to popular demands for radical, democratic regime change.
For example, Western policy has yielded some progress toward a resolution regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
The Srebrenica trials also yielded a soul-testing record of a crime whose gravity Serb political leaders, former UN officials, and others once shamefully denied.
His visit to Seoul last year yielded South Korea’s pledge of support for the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – again, over US objections.
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