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Even if most eurozone countries retain the single currency, it will be because abandoning the euro would be financially painful.
Of course they were told that there was no intention of abandoning Britain’s link to gold, and that the strong pound represented a deep and long commitment (in the same way that US Treasury Secretary John Snow today affirms the idea of a “strong dollar”).
Neither the FSB people nor the oligarchs focus on economic policy beyond their immediate interests, abandoning that field to the liberals, who radically reformed taxes, cleaned up the state budget, and monetized the economy by curbing barter.
Costa Ricans show no signs of abandoning their progressive legacy.
The junta certainly has no intention of abandoning its vast economic empire (with its tax-free benefits, land ownership and confiscation rights, preferential customs and exchange rates, and other prerogatives).
India must also work vigorously to renew its relationships in Southeast Asia, where it risks abandoning the field to China.
With global demand flagging, the priority has to be recovery, without abandoning the goal of reform – a difficult line to tread politically.
In the last few years, France has distinguished itself from other European nations by gradually abandoning community-based policing, which the government considers too “social” and prevention-oriented.
Abandoning the distorted and imbalanced incentive structure, and ensuring that both creditors and debtors share and manage risks, would help break the cycle.
According to Amnesty International, most of Africa is abandoning the death penalty.
Besides abandoning any Gaullist pretensions, the other lesson Germany must learn is that influence is based not only on soft "civilian power," but also on hard military capabilities that are adapted to the exigencies of the post-Cold War world.
Reinterpreting – or even abandoning – antiquated rules rooted in outdated social structures does not amount to subverting the word of God.
A country whose weight in Middle East politics has stemmed more from its role as an engine of the Arab-Israeli conflict than from its objective military or economic power, Syria under the Assads always feared that abandoning ideological confrontation with the Zionist enemy would undermine the regime.
By abandoning this responsibility, today's state has become not only ineffective but dangerous.
As other Chinese cities become more free and more confident, Hong Kong is submissively abandoning the freedoms it once held with pride.
It should be possible for each side to respect the other’s position without abandoning its own and to find common ground.
Financial analysts almost universally ridiculed these policies and castigated Chinese leaders for abandoning their earlier pretenses of market-oriented reforms.
Now, after abandoning their initial plan, Republicans claim they want a revenue-neutral tax cut that includes no reductions for the top 1% of earners.
Now, even his long-term protector, the United States, seems to be abandoning him.
American consumers will save more and spend less, abandoning the pattern of the last few years.
Worse, by announcing that the US will withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership – designed, at least in part, to shape global trade and investment flows according to Western rules, rather than China’s mercantilist vision – Trump is also abandoning a US policy that could have checked China’s surging influence in Asia.
The ECB might have cut off emergency liquidity assistance, forcing the government to impose capital controls and even consider abandoning the euro.
Fears that the United States is abandoning its global leadership role are certainly exaggerated.
But China’s authorities might respond more favorably to an argument that points out how China’s own economic health might benefit from abandoning the current exchange-rate policy, which pegs the yuan to the dollar.
Are they right to fear potentially catastrophic results from abandoning the dollar?
But the dollar’s decline has more recently been reversed by the global flight to safety by investors abandoning the euro.
Contrary to what critics of the IMF, such as Joe Stiglitz, say, abandoning the "Washington Consensus" will hurt the poor.
Abandoning mandatory retirement and opening employment opportunities to people who are able to work at older ages would reduce the burden of an increasing number of pensioners and enable a desirable redistribution of work across generations.
So why are we Asians abandoning it?
Perhaps the most striking contradiction in Europe’s nuclear discourse is the discrepancy between the seeming effort to boost economic growth and employment, and the flippancy of member states in abandoning the nuclear industry, which depends on the design, engineering, and command-and-control skills that underlie Europe’s comparative advantage in the industry.
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