The ILO and WHO found that those countries which invested in their social protection floors, before the global crisis, weathered it better than those that failed to do so.
It was a crisis Rove weathered well, maintaining a close relationship with his (now adoptive) father.
Malta obviously was not immune to the 2007 global crisis, but weathered it better than others did.
Spikes in the price of jet fuel and revenue lost from recessions, regional crises, terrorism, weather and natural disasters can wipe out tens of million of dollars of profits in a few days.
Mr Flint was the financial director at the bank through the financial crisis, a crisis that HSBC weathered better than most with its diversified structure and better management of its cash.
Did this subsidy come, perhaps, from the "20-27% of all corporation-tax receipts" that financial companies paid in the decade before the crisis ("Foul-weather friends", December 19th)?
Gee, doesn't this sound a lot like the Flint water crisis and weather crisis mode thinking?
As a hedge fund, Goldman Sachs is just a group of astute risk managers, brilliant market strategists who managed during the crisis to weather the storm.
Countries that invested in strong social protection systems before the global crisis are weathering it better than those that did not.
Countries like South Africa that invested in strong social protection systems before the global crisis are weathering it better than those that did not.
Many countries that invested in strong social protection systems – through cash transfers to the poorest families, pensions and social security schemes, and the like – before the global crisis are weathering it better than those that did not.
