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For Ireland, too, sovereign debt, including bridge financing, will rise close to 150% of GNP by 2014, and is mostly external.
Millions of EU citizens are of Turkish origin, and the country will continue to bridge the gap between East and West, North and South.
The US must establish dialogue with and services for these influential people in order to build a bridge to the tribesmen in the unsettled FATA areas.
At the very moment that Kenya needs to borrow more to bridge a yawning budget gap, its leaders are bumping up against the cold calculus of international finance.
Given this, any strategy that does not address the broader environment of marginalization is a bridge to nowhere.
A crucial difference between the right and the left is that the right thrives on deepening divisions in society – “us” versus “them” – while the left, when successful, overcomes these cleavages through reforms that bridge them.
But even by Trump’s standards, exiting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the Iran deal is formally known, is a bridge too far.
For Sapolsky, “contact theory,” which was developed in the 1950s by psychologist Gordon Allport, can foster reconciliation among rivals, and help bridge the “us-them” divide.
The people infected by IDUs also can infect others sexually, further fortifying the bridge into the “general” population.
The war has added immensely to this segmentation and fragmentation by blocking traffic on the Danube and by destroying international road and bridge links.
In the new context set by the war in Georgia, the urgency of Turkey becoming a real bridge between the nations of the Caucasus is not lost on anyone.
Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.
The mission must therefore walk a fine line to bridge the country’s communal divisions, which will be possible only with a clear understanding of Lebanon and the wider Middle East.
Europeans would show that we could embrace an Islamic democracy and build a strong bridge between Europe and Western Asia.
We must do everything within our power to realize Donilon’s proposal to Putin to, in essence, “reset the reset” and bridge the gap between the two countries concerning the future disposition of their nuclear arsenals.
General Charles de Gaulle once described himself as a “bad weather friend” of the United States, which implied that in “better weather” he could go his own way, leave NATO’s integrated military command, and behave as some kind of bridge between East and West.
The just-concluded deal establishes a bridge between the old climate regime and a new, as-yet-undefined one.
The Scandinavian economic model is often invoked to bridge this gap.
But some depreciation of the euro would provide a bridge to reach internal governance reform.
To bridge this divide and reduce tensions, leaders must pursue confidence-building measures.For China, this could mean ensuring more reciprocity in its trade and investment relations with the advanced economies, despite its World Trade Organization status as a developing country.
To bridge this divide and reduce tensions, leaders must pursue confidence-building measures.
These factors make Jordan seem to many like an ideal bridge between Israel and Palestine.
That made sense when they needed those reserves to be very liquid so that they could bridge temporary trade deficits.
Now, UNRWA’s other donors – the top ten of which contribute some 80% of the body’s total budget – are under pressure to bridge the funding gap.
In doing so, it provides an important bridge between our modern economy, which relies heavily on carbon-intensive fossil fuels, and a future in which CO 2 emissions are greatly reduced.
Meanwhile, the refugee crisis highlights the paramount importance for Europe of the Balkan Peninsula (including Greece), which is the land bridge to the Near and Middle East.
Their efforts are needed to bridge the gap created by the exodus of private capital, thereby enabling the reform programs to be completed and begin to take effect.
With interest rates at record lows in much of the developed world, major players in the financial system have an opportunity – and, I would add, a responsibility – to help bridge this gap.
With a debt/GDP ratio of more than 120%, Italy lacks the flexibility to implement fiscal stimulus to bridge the transition to higher growth.
This means that, unless government spending provides the demand bridge, the large non-tradable part of the economy cannot drive growth and job creation.
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