Example sentences of "world economy " in BNC.

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1 Today a main thrust of Moscow 's security policy is to eliminate the possibility of crises escalating ; pressing economic priorities push it towards cutting defence spending and integrating with the world economy .
2 Dutch policies applied generally might have a damaging influence on the world economy , it says , ‘ How great such influence might be and to what extent it might be worse that that resulting from the worldwide deterioration in the quality of the environment is not known . ’
3 IN THEIR rather cheerful new outlook for the world economy , published late last month , forecasters at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development were careful to point out that the risks of error were ‘ on the downside ’ .
4 In that event , after a brief panic , the price of oil would fall sharply and stockmarkets would celebrate ; the floor for the world economy would move up and into view .
5 Of all the risks that face the world economy over the next few months , the most easily avoidable is this threat of trade war .
6 Over the past few years even badly managed luxury groups have made a profit , thanks to a booming world economy .
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8 In 1991 the world economy faces , at best , a year of slow growth .
9 But the fate of the American economy , and hence the world economy , was sealed by activism where activism could only do harm — in trade policy .
10 If governments really want to shatter the world economy , January 1991 would be an unusually good time to start .
11 There is enough crude being produced outside Iraq and Kuwait to keep the world economy afloat .
12 That remains the best reason for believing that continental Europe will remain a region of growth in a faltering world economy .
13 These include the Central Economic and Mathematical Institute ( TSEMI ) and the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations ( IMEMO ) .
14 The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months .
15 In drafting their communiqué , should there be one , they will spare no effort to appear united and quietly confident about the state of the world economy .
16 But financial liberalisation and the greater integration of the world economy have not only made current-account deficits easier to sustain ; they have also made trade flows less useful as an indicator of national competitiveness .
17 3 , although this middling category were clearly affected by the economic crisis of the early 1930s when their profits and rents were probably affected greatly by the Wall Street Crash and the ensuing impact upon industry and finance throughout the world economy .
18 They say fiscal policy is now highly stimulative , the world economy should be growing in 1993 and real interest rates were high throughout the early 1980s , as the Datastream/Robert Fleming graph shows .
19 The four-fold hike in oil prices in 1973 would have devastated the world economy had inflation not come to the rescue of western consumers by reducing the real burden of dearer oil .
20 Late last month , IMF managing director Michel Camdessus said : ‘ The world economy is emerging from a period of slow growth , but with hesitation . ’
21 FINANCE ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven leading industrial countries will meet in Washington later this month amid mounting concern about the risks for the world economy posed by the continuing slide in Japanese financial markets .
22 This monetary squeeze , which is already retarding recovery , could tip the world economy into a depression .
23 There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult .
24 As Gilbert has suggested , ‘ Self-help keeps the Third World economy functioning ’ ( Gilbert and Gugler 1982 : 113 ) .
25 Thus , governments are endlessly seeking to shore up the erosion of the national idea which a world economy inflicts upon them .
26 The cry of ‘ neocolonialism ’ attacks a real issue : the persistence of a world economy and political order that imposes upon its constituent elements quite strict forms of behaviour .
27 Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) .
28 The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends .
29 Modern empires , it was thought , showed the internationalization of a world economy in a distorted form ; once the empires could be overthrown , the world 's productive forces would create a single economy .
30 Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade .
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