A Year of Divergence

The Great Policy Divergence

The Messy Politics of Economic Divergence

But interest rate convergence caused economic divergence.

This means that the divergence is widening.

I think they re two quite different modes divergence and convergence.

But there is another international income divergence that demands attention.

In implementing these policies, both central banks are pursuing domestic objectives mandated by their governing legislation. The problem is that there may be few, if any, orderly mechanisms to manage the international repercussions of this growing divergence.

Divergence in policies and convergence in outcomes is not a realistic expectation.

The divergence of professional anthropology from medicine was never a complete split.

There is also a divergence of basic interests which must be recognized.

BERKELEY On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah s new book The Great Divergence America s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Director Friedman s classic Free to Choose A Personal Statement.

A similar divergence, though less acute, has appeared with respect to fiscal policy.

The pressure on policymakers to address the risks of divergence will increase next year.

The third, and most important, claim is the subject of Noah s The Great Divergence.

Reflecting the divergence in economic performance, Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

Witness the divergence in long run economic growth between the Euro 2012 co hosts.

This divergence on fiscal policy has many causes, and no single shock will alter it.

It became apparent that there was a significant divergence in country practices in that area.

And this slide here is the best simplification of the Great Divergence story I can offer you.

In practice, however, these developments led to a sharp divergence from physics, particularly from 1950 to 1980.

Second, divergence of views on a possible fissile material treaty is one of the reasons for the impasse.

Finally, instead of managing common challenges, as in 2009, the G 20 members will need to manage their divergence.

But, while global imbalances have preoccupied many observers, few have sought to explain the divergence in world savings behavior.

Generally speaking, parties concerned are now moving towards consensus on this issue, though divergence remains on some specific questions.

There is growing demand, growing population.

Thus, divergence over macroeconomic policy will continue at least as long as investors remain willing to buy US public debt.

All this only goes to show the sharp divergence of views among the members on the mandate of the FMCT.

Surveys of attitudes toward the evolving global economic system show a widening divergence among countries as well as subgroups within countries.

To prevent this, lawmakers should adopt safeguards for political spending decisions that would limit the divergence of such decisions from shareholder interests.

The language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest growing areas of the world, particularly sub Saharan Africa.

And of course it's growing so fast, sometimes there's growing pains.

To put that into perspective, this red vertical bar here marks the divergence time of humans from chimpanzees, a mere seven million years ago.

The three hours of discussions in an informal, interactive mode lead me to conclude that there are more areas of convergence than of divergence.

We are among those who believe that the stalemate in which we find ourselves is a symptom of a political divergence on our main priorities.

The Roma community is growing, while there is also a growing Vietnamese community.

Growing Green Cities

Momentum is growing.

Protests were growing.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Much of this costly divergence from the earlier projections can be attributed to the benign view of fiscal consolidation that UK authorities and the IMF shared.

We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages.

We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).

Independent directors should have an important oversight role, as they do on other sensitive issues that may involve a divergence of interest between insiders and public investors.

On this view, risk aversion both reflects and reinforces a divergence between individual incentives (the desire to be reelected, reappointed, or promoted) and collective needs (fixing problems).