The last baby boomers of the late 1970s and early 1980s--before the one-child policy took full effect--are having children now, creating another Chinese baby boom.
That so-called conditionality policy went into effect world-wide last year.
Javier Solana, the so-called "High Representative" of the EU -- in effect its foreign policy supreme -- is working on the command structure and seeking to ease the worries of countries like Turkey, currently in NATO but not in the EU, that they will be squeezed out of future decisions on European security.
They are arguing - in effect - that the policy is having a positive impact before it is put into place.
Chinese fertility was falling for decades before the one-child policy took effect in 1979.
He said the rise in commodities prices is a side-effect of the loose monetary policy.
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It will likely also have a severely chilling effect on the willingness of policy-makers rigorously to challenge, and thereby to improve, the quality of the intelligence they are getting about tomorrow's threats.
Argentina's inflexible currency-board scheme not only pegs the peso at par to the dollar but limits the money supply to the level of hard-currency reserves, in effect turning monetary policy over to the United States' Federal Reserve.
But what about the second-order effect, the cost of replacing that same policy with another insurer in a spooked market?
This part is where the GOP controlled state houses legislate using the funds of the middle-class and the poor to give effect to the policy changes that will benefit business and the wealthy.
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What is more, America's endorsement of the Vance-Owen plan would depart from long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the changing of borders by the use of force -- the practical effect of its parcelling out ethnic fiefdoms.
Describing the Education Secretary as the "Mr Bean of the coalition government", the Labour MP said today's announcement came two days after Mr Gove insisted the anti-cuts march would have no effect on the government's deficit reduction policy.
And we have pursued a policy that we believe there is time and space at this point to allow -- to have an effect, to have the result that we desire.
The 8%-a-year growth of a decade ago is a distant memory, and an austerity policy is in full effect.
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In early May the business and public-policy worlds awoke to the gathering trouble over the rising value of the euro and its further enervating effect on Germany and France, in particular.
Proponents of the minimum wage such as John Schmitt, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, like to argue that the mean effect of the minimum wage on jobs for low-skilled workers is close to zero.
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Inflation was believed to be driven largely by non-monetary factors, and most people believed that if you tried to control inflation using monetary policy, the primary effect would be to throw a lot of people out of work.
Such a step would surely have the effect of making the present policy paralysis in the Gulf a permanent state, with devastating implications for long-term U.S. interests in the region and a disturbing precedent for future military operations.
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