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Currently, the US banking system looks sufficiently robust to absorb the strain.
But there aren’t enough safe, secure, and sound enterprises to absorb all the workers laid off from risky enterprises.
But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so-called automatic stabilizers.
Yet, this trend cannot last forever, as many of the economies hosting SWFs simply do not offer sufficient attractive investment opportunities to absorb the bulk of SWF investments.
And yet it is also clear that both administrative and political problems – not least a populist backlash against the new arrivals – limit the EU’s capacity to absorb large numbers of migrants in a short period of time.
Its key passage reads: “[…] we shall so wear down the Goyim that they will be compelled to offer us an international power that by its position will enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government.”
Europe's Designer DemagoguesThe world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees.
That is why cities, regions, and countries can absorb technology only gradually, generating growth through some recombination of the knowhow that is already in place, maybe with the addition of some component – a bassist to complete a string quartet.
As the ocean continues to absorb heat from the atmosphere, large-scale coral bleaching like that which has decimated the Great Barrier Reef – not to mention other destructive phenomena spurred by rising temperatures – is likely to become even more frequent and devastating.
Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the capacity for “assured destruction” – that is, the ability to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.
With a full banking union, cross-border lending should resume and remain stable, as common institutions would absorb national shocks.
Solar energy enables plants to absorb carbon gas and thereby produce not only oxygen, but also matter that the animal kingdom uses for food – and that our machines can use for energy.
But, unlike in the past, crumbling pension systems can no longer absorb such labor-market shocks.
The gradual improvement of its labor force in terms of skills and productivity, together with its relatively strong capacity to absorb high-value foreign investment, will drive economic development; and MNCs’ shift in strategic focus from Western markets to those in the Asia-Pacific region will transform the global value chain.
China’s initial globalization “dividend,” accrued through low factor costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era – characterized by reliance on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high-level factors of production, such as technology and human capital – is just beginning.
The task for China’s leaders is to expand policies aimed at boosting domestic demand, while working to improve the economy’s skills base and enhance its relative capacity to absorb high-value-added, high-tech foreign investment.
Meanwhile, China, with a graduate unemployment rate of 16%, is producing more highly educated workers than the economy can absorb.
On the basis of those reforms, and a new WHO agenda on global health, Dr. Bruntland made the extremely modest request that the core WHO budget from the donor countries should be raised sufficiently to absorb rising costs due to inflation and exchange rate changes.
This is like the American primary-school system suddenly having to absorb all of Mexico’s children.
A ruthless program to absorb his political rivals on the right has helped Orban's FIDESZ party become nearly equal in size to his Socialist rivals on the left.
Thirty percent of its population of 230 million is below age 15, so Indonesia's economy needs to grow at 8% simply to absorb the new workers.
Today, China provides a large and rapidly growing market for a widening array of previously unaffordable goods, and will increasingly produce as well as absorb new technologies.
The US will also provide, share, and absorb technology and human talent, remaining at the top end of the higher-education spectrum and in basic and applied research.
The oceans annually absorb approximately 25% of all human-caused CO2 emissions, and we are now overtaxing this capacity.
A growing economy would make it much easier to absorb immigrants, whether refugees or economic migrants.
The non-residential construction boom this created helped not only to absorb the labor force that was leaving rural areas but also to achieve a remarkable reduction in inequality.
Complicating this effort is the fact that, unlike in 1997-2002, China cannot absorb overcapacity by stimulating real-estate investment and exports.
Such spending risks absorb productive resources that could be employed more efficiently elsewhere.
In other words, if the advanced countries absorb mitigation costs in the short run, while mitigation efforts lower emissions growth in developing countries, the conflict between developing countries’ growth and success in limiting global emissions may be reconciled – or at least substantially reduced.
Germany is now, for the first time, in the position of having to ask its EU partners for solidarity, as it cannot absorb all the newcomers alone.
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