France was said to be to be a country mired in apathy and increasingly uninterested in politics.

The hardest challenge will be for economies mired in oligarchic capitalism to accomplish a similar transition.

Europe is mired in its oxymoronic commitment to expansionary fiscal austerity.

But these regions are nevertheless mired in recession.

It is a debate that is already mired in controversy.

First, the US and global economies remain mired in recession.

Of course, one can point to particular countries in Europe that are mired in recession.

China s statistical agency is still mired in communist input output accounting.

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Unless the economies of developing countries grow, they will remain mired in poverty.

Moreover, once a country is mired in one of them, it is easy to fall into the next.

To Italian lawmakers, mired in stalemate and indecision, the French executive s considerable influence over the parliament is appealing.

Those bubbles may keep expanding, or may burst, leaving many homeowners mired in debt.

The main obstacle is that German politicians remain mired in a can t do mode.

State banks are supposed to lend generously to India s rural poor, but their operations are mired in inefficiency and corruption.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

LONDON The usual images of Africa are of a continent mired in conflict and squalor.

SYDNEY Burma, once the richest country in Southeast Asia, today is mired in deep poverty.

Most of the eurozone remains mired in a severe recession now spreading from the periphery to parts of the core.

The US became mired in Iraq. And, for the moment, Israel s Syrian strike appears to have eliminated a potential threat.

In the meantime, Latin America remained mired in what became widely known as the lost decade.

Likewise, whereas Greece s nominal gross national product is at least growing, Japan remains mired in deflation.

It is now mired in an existential crisis more profound than at any point since 1945.

Syria remains mired in a bloody civil war that has already caused more than 100,000 deaths.

Refugees are mired in poverty as they are generally barred from working in their host countries.

The employment to population ratio in the US remains flat mired at the very low levels to which it fell during the recession.

With Europe mired in crisis, capital flows from Tunisia s resource rich Arab neighbors are its best hope.

Unlike Europe, which largely put its historical ghosts to bed after 1945, Asian countries remain mired in nineteenth century style nationalisms that weakens collaboration and makes the region more dangerous than it needs to be.

Lacking democracy s most effective brakes on unpopular wars, the US has become relatively free to get itself mired in unwelcome foreign adventures.

Hence the impasse, with the eurozone becoming mired in a vicious circle of high debt and economic austerity.

Around 48 of Nicaragua s population is mired in poverty, with 79.9 living on less than two dollars a day.

While coastal China and its major metropolises evince tremendous wealth, large swaths of Western China remain mired in poverty.

That successive efforts to agree a programme of work in the CD have become mired in procedural disputes is a matter for deep regret.

I hate to argue with Einstein, but if that which is most valuable in our life and our business actually can't be counted or valued, aren't we going to spend our lives just mired in measuring the mundane?

Well educated and successful, middle class Russians have taken to the streets to gain respect from a Kremlin hierarchy that is mired in deceit and corruption.

Before the green revolution, Nobel Prize winning economist Gunnar Myrdal predicted a bleak future for an Asia mired in poverty.

Since 1991, Japan has been mired in what Harvard economist Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes, once described as secular stagnation.

Brazil, for example, uses visits to doctors to measure health sector output, regardless of what happens to the patient. China s statistical agency is still mired in communist input output accounting.

It is a weakened democracy mired in an economic and social crisis so deep that it verges on becoming an identity crisis.

Nowadays, leaders squander their countries resources and revenues, leaving the majority of their populations mired in poverty, disease, hunger, war, and hopelessness.

In these circumstances, with China s financial system too fragile to withstand external shocks, and the global economy mired in turmoil, the PBOC would be unwise to gamble on the ability of rapid capital account liberalization to generate a healthier and more robust financial system.

Given that as many as half of China s 1.3 billion people remain mired in abject poverty, it is in China s interest to ensure that these economic relationships continue to flourish.

After all, donor countries are mired in debt and stagnation, while some recipient economies are growing 5 7 times faster than they are.

But much of central and western China is mired in poverty Indonesia belongs to a different world culturally and economically and India is a very different Asia as well.

PALO ALTO With the global economy mired in recession and financial crisis, policymakers everywhere have launched a series of monetary, financial, and fiscal responses.