The answer has both proximate and underlying causes.

Proximate self similarity. And that accounts for this phenomenon.

In Mexico, the working minimum wage varies geographically.

Even such proximate memory is far from being the rule in Russia.

The proximate reason for all financial crises is excessive credit growth a credit boom that goes bust.

Coal is also much more widely distributed geographically than any other fossil fuel.

The same crisis looks like a solvency crisis for those who are geographically distant.

Geographically part of the Tibetan Plateau, Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plain.

Sweden and Chile are almost poles apart geographically, but both have used sophisticated fiscal rules successfully.

The reactor restarts in Fukui are welcome news to small, geographically and economic isolated host communities.

Seattle and Vancouver are close geographically, but Vancouver trades more with distant Toronto than with nearby Seattle.

The proximate cause is a global economic boom that has been stronger, longer, and more broad based than any in modern history.

Perhaps Malthus will rule again, in geographically small but densely populated and immensely poor parts of the globe.

The proximate answer for the US is that a decline in lending standards helped people buy houses at ever increasing prices before 2006.

Africa has about 50 billion tons. Coal is also much more widely distributed geographically than any other fossil fuel.

A recent revelation concerning the film Everest suggests that the promotional poster doesn't even need to be geographically accurate.

The country increasingly lives in its own virtual reality, simultaneously proximate to and far removed from the revolutionary pre modernity of most of its neighbors.

Yanukovich represents the Donetsk clan, one of several geographically defined oligarchic groups that compete to dominate Ukrainian business and politics.

Can one count on this readiness when the threat is real, but more diffuse, abstract, potential, and often geographically remote?

The fact that endangered plant species tend to be concentrated geographically raises the stakes for conservation efforts in those areas.

A total of 4,178 kilometers (2,602 miles) geographically separate the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the United States of Mexico.

The remaining populations are often geographically isolated from one another, which can lead to inbreeding, and consequently, reduced genetic diversity.

Since 1973, 30 previously unknown infectious diseases have emerged, and other familiar diseases have spread geographically in new, drug resistant forms.

Of course, we all know the proximate causes of an economic crisis people are not spending, because their incomes have fallen, their jobs are insecure, or both.

Lebanon is an ideal social laboratory because it has a large number of geographically segregated religious groups and strongly enforced communal boundaries.

Nationalism and imperialism will lead you nowhere you cannot expand geographically without serious costs to your economic growth and your personal enrichment.

The state of Tennessee is geographically, culturally, economically, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee.

Under Israel s occupation, and then with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994, the territories remained separated geographically, but not politically.

At the same time, geographically diversified institutions outperformed even during the recent global crisis, because they were less vulnerable to downturns in individual regions.

Do not fool yourself. Nationalism and imperialism will lead you nowhere you cannot expand geographically without serious costs to your economic growth and your personal enrichment.

Afghanistan is not always considered a part of the Central Asian region geographically, but the country holds the key to the region's future in important ways.

Of course, Ukraine was not the only country put at risk by this brinksmanship suppliers such as Turkmenistan, geographically locked into transit requirements through Russia, also suffer.

First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes something that few, if any, urban consumers do.

The way to achieve this is to decouple the question of who pays for most efforts to mitigate climate change from the question of where, geographically, these efforts take place.

The third challenge that Russia faces one related to addressing its demographic crisis is the need to diversify investment to ensure more even economic development, both geographically and by sector.

Geographically it is the third largest province of Pakistan, stretching about from north to south and (extreme) or (average) from east to west, with an area of of Pakistani territory.

Indeed, both geographically and demographically, Afghanistan s non Pashtun groups account for more than half of the country, with Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras alone making up close to 50 of the population.

Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.

Hungarian Krisztian Gal reflects that even though they were geographically removed from the events, firefighters in his city and schools all took action to remember those who lost their lives during the attacks.

We can identify facts and establish evidence through careful analysis, and with media forensics techniques such as reverse image search, geolocation and metadata analysis. We can build and maintain trusted relationships with friends, colleagues and sources who are proximate to the conflict.

Recently, two of Uzbekistan's neighbours (both geographically and in the Transparency International Index), Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, shook their societies with the unprecedented move of arresting and jailing high ranking security services officials on corruption charges.

When we actually looked at not just self reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation. What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more votes.

Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain. In contrast, coal prices are more stable, and may remain that way for a long time.

After fishing for clarifications Komal Nahta took to twitter and justified himself . Fair enough, maybe he did have a point for saying that, but it's annoying now that the millions of geographically challenged Indian viewers will now think that Nepal is actually a territory of India (oh no).

Although Yemen is geographically part of the Arabian Peninsula, it was excluded from the Gulf Cooperation Council, primarily because its size it is the most populous state on the peninsula would have given it great influence. In fact, the Yemeni population exceeds the population of all six GCC members combined.