Amid the Asian economic crisis, now seemingly set for another virulent phase, the Western-influenced IMF vets economic policy in Korea, Thailand and Indonesia.
But when the economic crisis dimmed the now-graduate's prospects of securing a full-time position with a firm, he turned to another passion: entrepreneurship.
The U.S. and Europe are struggling with an economic crisis that is now into its fifth year, and there are more pressing matters to deal with.
On top of the economic crisis, he must now confront an unexpected constitutional one.
Aliyev told CNN his country had weathered the global economic crisis well, and was now seeking to diversify its economy.
Now, the economic crisis required the government to make immediate emergency investments that added to our accumulated debt -- critical investments that have helped to break the back of the recession and lay the groundwork for growth and job creation.
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Political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin says much of the roiling discontent now is due to the economic crisis, which has hit Russia particularly hard after almost a decade of oil-fueled growth.
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Is it really credible to argue that investors have only now woken up to the Asian economic crisis?
"We recognise that we are now in the midst of an economic crisis which will leave a legacy of austerity in public finances and lean years in public finances for years and years to come, " he said.
But we now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war.
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And now that the worst of the Japanese economic crisis seems to be past, it should also halt its credit-guarantee programme.
In part that's because the circumstances he now faces are not just a long long way from the sunny optimistic rhetoric which preceded the economic crisis, but also a long long way from the economic recovery he once believed would be well under way by now.
Turkey is in the midst of a political crisis which now threatens, yet again, its economic stability.
Shaken by the ongoing European economic crisis, Nokia shares today extended their ongoing swoon, and now trade for their lowest level since 1996.
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Now, with the economic prospects clouded by the euro crisis and his political capital at a high, Mr Tusk is at last talking tough.
In effect, we are all Europeans now, as the euro zone crisis threatens global economic security and threatens to evolve into a renewed global economic crisis.
Many now credit those with ensuring that Germany got through the economic crisis relatively unscathed.
What his comments reveal is that when - if - the eurozone crisis ends big political questions will replace the big economic problems which are now being confronted.
It seems the western media tries hard to pick a new problem of russia first it was economic crisis, then unemployment, inflation, democracy, growth, diversification and now they try out mainly corruption and rule of law and the latest seems now to be emigration.
In addition the US economy is feeling the adverse affects of the Gulf oil spill and the debt crisis in Europe, which the Fed now cites as a potential economic contagion.
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No matter what critics may say, Europe, including its central and Eastern parts and despite the crisis, is now a vast, stable but also the richest economic area where people enjoy much better living conditions than those of most other parts of the world.
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Moody's said the global financial and economic crisis had led to a "deterioration" in French government debt, which was now "among the weakest" of countries with the top AAA rating.
The Great Moderation is now also known as the Great Stagnation, when productivity growth slowed down to a crawl and it now appears, post-Financial Crisis, that much of the economic growth of that era was illusory.
Right now, this country is still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Mr Hollande, who cast himself as "Mr Normal" is now perceived as "too normal", struggling to get a grip an unprecedented economic crisis.
Now, in 2008, we were in the middle of two wars and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The novels of London are now coming full circle, bringing a fuller cast into focus through two modern preoccupations: economic crisis and terrorism.
Even if the euro crisis remains far from over, the vast majority of EU economies now benefit from relatively sound economic fundamentals (low inflation, reducing deficits etc.).
But it seems that voters - for now at least - are far more concerned about who will extract them from the current economic crisis, than any questions about political infighting in far-off Alaska.
Regardless of Obama's future, it is likely that Americans will be talking about this economic recovery and financial bailout programs years from now as they reach conclusions about whether the government can lift this country out of an economic crisis.
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