Ukraine s Secret Turnaround

Why such a turnaround?

The turnaround was unprecedented.

We've made a complete turnaround.

Keeping Africa u0027s Turnaround on Track

Normally, a fiscal turnaround of this magnitude would provide massive stimulus.

Despite a messy default, this fresh start has generated a remarkable turnaround.

A turnaround needs to be visible to the naked eye to impress voters.

The turnaround in Germany s public finances was due mostly to a reduction in expenditure.

Any solid understanding of the causes of this turnaround is likely to prove elusive.

If the war on environmental degradation is to be won, we need a major turnaround.

One can start with the stock market turnaround since March of this year, which has been stunning.

Brazil's economic turnaround may have powerfully positive effects on its neighbors, especially the struggling countries of the Andean region.

The upshot is that whenever a problem gets out of hand, the turnaround comes too late and is dramatic.

This turnaround comes despite South Africa s protection of its labor intensive sectors, such as clothing and textiles, through high tariffs.

With different tools including a profound restructuring of its foreign debt and less discipline, Argentina accomplished a similar fiscal turnaround.

It would be flattering to think that this turnaround in China s financial system been attributable to the wise counsels of foreign advisers.

What at first sight seemed a meltdown, gradually came to seem just a very bad situation and soon a surprisingly rapid turnaround.

Germany, the euro zone s biggest economy, had a particularly dramatic turnaround, with annual GDP up by 2.7 in 2006, the highest rate since 2000.

By the middle of the century unless there is a dramatic turnaround about half the population will be economically inactive for reasons of age.

Moreover, this same sharp turnaround occurred in many countries and for many assets, including oil prices, gold, and, in some countries, residential real estate.

Indeed, the much noted Energiewende, or energy turnaround, that she announced in 2010 is arguably one of the most audacious acts of environmental statesmanship yet.

Much of the credit for Brazil's turnaround belongs not to Lula but to his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who was Brazil's President from 1992 to 2000.

In short, we will have to wait for the data on house prices in June and July to know whether there has been a permanent turnaround.

As a result, perhaps the long awaited turnaround in German consumption which has been flat for the good part of a decade is about to happen.

In fact, in what is perhaps the most remarkable diplomatic turnaround, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has become a key facilitator in the resolution of the Colombian conflict.

But Liberia s dramatic turnaround would not have been possible without the support of the United Nations peacekeepers, the G8, the European Union, and other partners around the world.

Rajoy, who has argued this year that the crisis is history in Spain, seems to be the only person capable of seeing this supposed turnaround in the economy.

That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

Still, even in the traditionally weak currency countries, changes afoot suggest that a turnaround in political attitudes and public opinion toward a stronger euro may be on the horizon.

Any solid understanding of the causes of this turnaround is likely to prove elusive. People are still puzzling over the reasons for other major market upturns (1933, 1982, etc.).

The turnaround year, 1989, was marked by the first issue of Brady bonds (dollar denominated bonds issued by Latin American countries), which helped the region to get past the crisis.

The economic turnaround began under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, who had survived Mao s purges to follow in his footsteps and become the architect of China s rise as a world power.

Turkey s no to new sanctions against Iran in all likelihood will prove to be a significant error, unless Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can deliver a real turnaround in Iran s nuclear policy.

While these worries hardly amount to the full frontal attack mounted by the likes of Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize winning economist, they still constitute a remarkable turnaround in the intellectual climate.

It will also be interesting to see if and how Merkel tackles Germany s muddled Energiewende (energy turnaround) the move to a low carbon economy that is the most important domestic project of her tenure.

This largely reflects the impact of 152 billion in tax rebates (roughly 1 of GDP), but, given the continuing and intensifying real estate crisis, this boost to growth still does not mark a turnaround.

In considering which lessons of Germany s turnaround should be applied to other eurozone countries, one must distinguish between what government can do and what remains the responsibility of business, workers, and society at large.

Money started to come back, pushing exchange rates nearly up to pre crisis levels. What at first sight seemed a meltdown, gradually came to seem just a very bad situation and soon a surprisingly rapid turnaround.

In Ireland, last autumn s financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.

And the turnaround in swimming came when a friend of mine said, I will go a year without any stimulants this is a six double espresso per day type of guy if you can complete a one kilometer open water race.

This is quite a turnaround in Turkish policy, because over the past two years the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had gone out of its way to cultivate good relations with neighboring Syria, with whom it shares a long land border.

Europe s citizens understand that the relatively small nation states that make up the EU are no longer able to face these enormous challenges on their own. In Ireland, last autumn s financial crisis provoked a turnaround in public opinion about the EU, and even in Iceland, although it lies on the periphery of our continent, membership of the EU and the euro have become a priority.