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Of course, confrontation with America must be avoided.
The old mistakes – propping up lame-duck industries or betting on specific technologies – can largely be avoided through strong policies on competition and state aid (to ensure that support for the auto sector, say, is not seen as support only for current incumbents) and sunset clauses for specific assistance.
This asset class, which is characterized by shared risk between institutions and clients, avoided many of the most severe consequences of the global financial crisis that began in 2008.
Even if the nightmare of a President Donald Trump is avoided, as appears increasingly likely, the United States can no longer be the world’s policeman.
The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change amounts to a call to action: it argues that huge future costs of global warming can be avoided by incurring relatively modest cost today.
The benefits are the avoided damages, including both market damages and non-market damages that account for health and ecological impacts.
Since the election, Trump has mostly avoided talking about his trade-protectionist campaign pledges, such as imposing punishing tariffs on China and Mexico, dismantling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and rescinding America’s bilateral trade agreement with South Korea.
Trump avoided admitting outright that he was authorizing an increase in the number of US troops in that troubled country, saying instead that military leaders would make such decisions.
For the most part, the two men have avoided head-on confrontation.
While the magnitudes involved are huge, they must be attained if an extended period of low growth, high unemployment, and declining living standards among the world’s poorest is to be avoided.
Given our human nature, conflicts cannot be avoided, but the chances of crises requiring outside intervention are greatly reduced.
The strategy worked;Argentina has avoided making any payments to its creditors.
But the United States has mostly avoided these traps, owing largely to term limits and a reliable system of checks and balances.
Park avoided active politics for many years after her parents’ death, but later won a parliamentary seat.
But China has not avoided the third mismatch, between debt and equity: The credit-to-GDP ratio doubled over the last decade, from about 110% in 2008 to 220% in 2017, highlighting China’s under-developed long-term capital and equity markets.
Even in the highly improbable event that an uncontrolled escalation could be avoided after “a limited nuclear employment,” one tactical weapon alone could generate an explosion comparable to those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If democracy and the rule of law are overthrown in one, serious repercussions for all the others cannot be avoided.
I remain convinced that multi-speed European cooperation has become a necessity, but that a multi-tier Europe must be avoided at all costs.
The good news is that the hazards of Big Data can be largely avoided.
But interest-rate premiums are the main mechanism by which excessive debt in the eurozone can be avoided.
They should be avoided until technologies for clean coal or carbon capture are perfected.
Of course, the Triffin dilemma can be avoided, and America’s outsize influence over the monetary system reduced.
The most recent threat of a US debt default has been avoided, but only temporarily.
Only if annual productivity growth rises from its current range of 0.5-1% to 1.5-2% in the coming years can one declare that the US has avoided the fate predicted by Summers and Gordon.
They hated communism, but, convinced that the system could not be reformed, they avoided the democratic opposition.
France, which is around 80% dependent on nuclear energy, and is a big exporter of nuclear-plant technology, initially avoided most of the global anti-nuclear concerns.
Moreover, by denying Liu’s dying wish to live his final days in freedom abroad, the government avoided an embarrassing spectacle: a public funeral for Liu attended by tens of thousands of his supporters and admirers.
For every dollar spent, $11 of climate damage would be avoided.
“The science of politics...like most other sciences,” claimed Alexander Hamilton, “has received great improvement....The regular distribution of power into distinct departments...legislative balances and checks...judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election...are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided...”Perhaps Hamilton was too much the optimist.
And at least one in four cities examined would find such interventions financially viable, based solely on savings from avoided water-treatment costs.
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