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The lessons of the last oil shock, which came on the heels of a collapse in state-led industrialization in the mid-1980s, were hard to absorb.
This is a labour of Sisyphus, since the 'acquis' grows faster than the capacity to absorb it in East European legislation.
Several estimates indicate that, given the additional demand for reserves, the world could absorb annual allocations of $200-300 billion or even more.
Moreover, many banking systems have bigger capital buffers than in the past, enabling them to absorb losses from a correction in home prices; and, in most countries, households’ equity in their homes is greater than it was in the US subprime mortgage bubble.
According to research by the McKinsey Global Institute, Saudi Arabia has the potential to double its GDP and create six million additional jobs by 2030, enough to absorb the influx of young men – and, increasingly, young women – entering the labor market.
The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.
The poor performance of Wall Street and America regulators has cost America a good deal in terms of the soft power of its economic model’s attractiveness, but the blow need not be fatal if, in contrast to Japan in the 1990’s, the US manages to absorb the losses and limit the damage.
Moreover, such institutions are often able to absorb formal anti-corruption training and yet continue with business as usual.
Among Colau’s commitments to the people of Barcelona was a local tax cut for small businesses and households, assistance to the poor, and the construction of housing for 15,000 refugees – a large share of the total number that Spain was meant to absorb from frontline states like Greece and Italy.
Trump’s suspicion of multilateral institutions – and his unwillingness to absorb the costs of persuasion, side payments, and organization that centralized leadership demands – makes that shift all the more pressing.
As a result, a major recapitalization of Italian banks and the creation of a “bad bank” to absorb NPLs were deemed unnecessary.
Such a Chinese “Marshall Plan” could seek to strengthen developing countries’ capacity to absorb Chinese goods, or it could advance a broader development agenda.
Plants absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, thereby providing the air we breathe and helping to regulate the climate.
With less Arctic ice to reflect sunlight, the oceans will absorb more warmth.
As Africa’s workers seek better opportunities, they are flocking to cities faster than those cities can absorb them, leading to the proliferation of slums in urban areas and a flood of illegal migration to the West.
In the meantime, India’s banks have enough capital to absorb losses.
But, despite the decrees, ways were found to continue building, to absorb new residents, and to increase the settler population.
For starters, the US will be more reluctant to absorb a disproportionate share of the cost of providing global public goods.
Unfortunately, government borrowing to finance its deficit over the rest of this decade is projected to absorb about 5% of GDP.
Politics will make such transfers impossible, but even if that were not the case, the new members lack the political, economic, social, and administrative infrastructure to absorb them.
Because the public sector can no longer absorb the swelling ranks of university graduates, the MENA region now has one of the world’s highest rates of youth unemployment.
Getting the market to absorb those bonds will require higher real interest rates.
If Africa’s economies are to absorb the 122 million young people expected to enter the labor force in the next few years, we must get the accounting right – starting now.
Countries in most developing regions, such as Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia, may be able to absorb their armies of potential workers into productive employment and benefit appreciably from the ensuing economic boost.
For the last five years, Pakistan’s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3% – half the rate needed to absorb two million new labor-force entrants every year.
But unless officials of all the countries involved, including the United States, admit that Afghanistan is dangerous and unprepared to absorb the Big Return, they cannot start taking steps to remedy the situation and guarantee that repatriations will be both safe and voluntary.
The reason is obvious: Japan has run sizeable current-account surpluses for decades, giving it more than sufficient domestic savings to absorb all of its public debt at home.
The money that developing countries would receive for this would not be aid, but rather a recognition that the rich nations must pay for something that in the past they simply appropriated: far more than their fair share of our atmosphere’s capacity to absorb our waste gases.
Because these countries are keen to maintain their share in the world's biggest market, they often absorb the effect of a drop in the dollar by cutting their profits rather than raise prices.
Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China’s massive labor force.
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