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Those investments yielded good returns: despite staggering global population growth, from 2.5 billion in 1945 to seven billion today, food availability per person has risen by more than 40%.
Citizens in the stronger European economies are increasingly unwilling to provide financial support to their struggling neighbors; and their elected representatives will find it hard to ignore growing resentment of repeated diversion of national tax revenues, which has yielded only disappointing outcomes.
While those meetings also highlighted trade disputes, they also yielded heightened cooperation and significant accomplishments.
In the United States, air-quality improvements have yielded $30 for every dollar invested, for an aggregate return of $1.5 trillion on a $65 billion investment since 1970.
China’s foreign minister hailed the measure as a “gift” – an accurate description, given that China has yielded nothing in return.
But it would be premature to conclude that traditional banking has yielded to new financial platforms.
These primitive life forms have yielded important, generally valid clues that have forced a comprehensive re-evaluation of the nature of the aging process.
Rather than retreat from a system that has yielded exceptional results, we must use the international community’s current crisis as a historic opportunity to reshape the existing order to better meet our modern challenges.
While international bankers went bust by making legions of bad loans, African bankers stuck to earning profits the old-fashioned way: paying very little to depositors, and earning a big “spread” by buying guaranteed government debt, which yielded healthy returns.
But one must still follow through, and it must be admitted that Khan has not yielded in these matters to the facile communitarianism common on the other side of the Channel.
But, while the games yielded an underground metro system for the city and a reasonably modern airport, they also produced the abandoned Hellinikon Olympic complex and a mountain of debt.
Governments will suffer, too, as their foreign debt – boosted by fiscal and monetary expansion that yielded little growth – becomes much more burdensome, while the export stimulus from lower exchange rates will be small, owing to the absence of new capacity outside the commodity sectors.
Funds invested, and reinvested, in the S&P composite from 1998-2008 have yielded a real return of zero: the dividends earned on the portfolio have been just enough to offset inflation.
Against this background, the ECB has yielded to immense political pressure, particularly from France and Italy, to loosen monetary policy further and weaken the exchange rate.
Banks would then find it advantageous to hold their surplus liquidity in the form of T-bills as long as these bills yielded more than bank deposits held at the ECB.
The question now is whether this determination can bring about the type of surprising breakthrough to peace that Sadat’s newfound prestige in 1973 yielded.
The effort has already yielded two promising new antimalarial drug candidates currently in Phase 2 clinical trials – new classes of compounds that treat malaria in different ways from current therapies and thus have the potential to combat emerging drug resistance.
This “see-no-evil” policy has yielded precious little stability.
Although exiting the monetary union would have yielded considerable benefits, “Grexit” would have entailed sizeable costs as well.
It was an ambitious goal that yielded early results.
Clinical trials involving 393 people in East Africa, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States have yielded encouraging immunogenic responses and a “favorable safety and tolerability” profile.
The new gene-splicing techniques have yielded many important new research tools and commercial products, and have only begun to change the way we do biological research and to increase the choices available to farmers, food producers, physicians, and consumers.
Morales has yielded to the protests by making concessions and short-term promises, which will only fuel further inflation.
Other approaches to treatments and preventative measures – including changes in public-health policy, improvement of water treatment, and development of vaccines – have not yielded significant, cost-effective results.
US President Donald Trump, after initially defending the separations, yielded to public pressure and signed an executive order ending it.
Making matters worse, we now know that the only results the experiments could have yielded would have been misleading.
We also know that fish catches can remain high (and in fact usually do) even as stocks collapse, as illustrated by cod off Eastern Canada, which yielded good catches until the fishery had to be closed because there were literally no fish left.
The brave Baltic countries – the “legality” of whose independence is reportedly being reviewed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, another unsavory pal of Tsipras – have not yielded to panic or succumbed to the temptation to burden others with their misfortune.
One such trial, in March 2014, produced 529 death sentences; another, in April, yielded 683 death sentences.
Many questions remain unexplored, some studies lack sufficient confirmatory evidence, and still others, like those involving the effects of economic growth, have yielded conflicting results.
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