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A series of recent studies shows how fragile the water balance is for many impoverished and unstable parts of the world.
Budgets are close to balance, with less public expenditure and lower tax rates, while economic growth has recovered.
Regulatory institutions – such as bank supervisory agencies and bodies that oversee the telecommunications, food, and energy industries – play a vital role by maintaining the always-delicate balance between “free” markets and the actions of elected governments and legislatures.
On balance, it is likely that the economy-wide effects of the energy shock, though unpleasant, will not derail growth.
Indeed, as the euro weakens, the periphery countries’ external accounts have swung from deficit to balance and, increasingly, to surplus.
In the end, the next decade will be marked by a delicate balance in which Europe remains dependent on Russian gas, but Russia’s need for export revenues will also make it dependent on Europe.
So a better balance is needed to mitigate the concerns of diverse social and political actors whose participation is needed to renew constitutional frameworks, strengthen the rule of law, and revive national identity and state institutions in a context of democratic transition.
If China is serious about reform, it will need armies of people like these, fighting for their rights, in order to balance the overwhelming political power of its entrenched elites.
Rather than concerning themselves with how to balance growth and inequality, policymakers would do better to focus on how policies impact average incomes and other welfare indicators.
With the global balance of power shifting rapidly, China can no longer be judged solely by Western liberal-democratic norms.
US credibility is not at risk, for either its allies or foes, when it makes carefully calibrated choices about the balance of risk and return in using such force in particular cases.
Unemployment was soaring, and austerity, rather than restoring fiscal balance, simply exacerbated the economic downturn.
History cannot be put on hold as Europe sorts out its internal balance of power.
Assuming that Greece could borrow at a real interest rate of only 3% (the current level is 17%), the government would need to run an annual 2.6%-of-GDP primary budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt-service costs) for the next 30 years just to keep the debt burden stable.
Moreover, many central banks’ balance sheets have expanded to record levels, although in different ways and for different rationales – further underscoring the experimental character of the monetary easing now underway.
This is because “[h]ouseholds also have made some progress in repairing their balance sheets – saving more, borrowing less, and reducing their burdens of interest payments and debt.”
In fact, China’s success so far has come from maintaining a balance between government and private sector expansion.
Sharply raising the government’s already outsized profile in the economy will upset this delicate balance leading to slower growth in the future.
These officials often make it sound as if the livelihood of hundreds of millions of poor people in developing nations hangs in the balance.
The political balance in these countries has tilted decisively in favor of pro-trade groups with an outward-looking orientation.
The balance depends on the poverty profile of individual countries and on whether they are food exporters or importers.
Or should the recovery be used to clean up wobbly banks’ balance sheets, by bundling their NPLs and selling them at a discount?
In order to restore confidence among savers and investors, it will have to find a solution to clear banks’ balance sheets of NPLs, which are undermining credit, making capital more expensive, and thus acting as a drag on the economy.
The US surpassed the UK in terms of industrial production as early as the end of the nineteenth century, but that was not enough to tip the balance.
Syria and its regional allies are determined to protect a new regional balance of power that shifted in their favor following the US-led invasion of Iraq.
US President Barack Obama recognizes this potential, and has promoted increased strategic cooperation between South Korea and Japan in order to underpin a stronger trilateral security alliance with the US that can balance a rising China.
Eurozone leaders must recognize that spending cuts will do nothing to stabilize the balance sheets of core-country banks that are over-exposed to peripheral countries’ sovereign debt.
China suffers from under-consumption and possible over-investment, and needs to strike a balance between the state-owned sector and private enterprise.
Second, both countries must find the right metric to balance short-term and long-term interests.
Similarly, the increase in infrastructure spending is likely to be accomplished through tax credits, which will help hedge funds, but not America’s balance sheet: such programs’ long track record shows that they deliver little value for money.
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