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Her unpretentious manner and intellectual
capacity
(she holds a doctorate in physics) quickly won her the respect of many, even of Vladimir Putin, whose language she speaks fluently.
Normal limits on access to IMF resources are being doubled – a development consistent with the growing consensus that the Fund’s lending
capacity
needs to be at least doubled given the severity of this crisis.
Still in the pipeline are initiatives to increase concessional lending to low-income countries hit by the crisis, to strengthen the Fund’s surveillance and early warning capacity, and to improve its governance structure in ways that recognize the larger role of emerging-market countries in the world economy.
By turning to the mechanisms of direct democracy, Britain has undermined its
capacity
to address the challenges it faces in a manner that promotes stability.
The IMF could use its bond-issuing power to purchase GDP-indexed bonds from national governments, thereby providing the new global reserve assets with backing and interest-generating capacity, while creating an incentive for governments to issue them.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or
capacity
to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
Then, Macierewicz’s defense ministry unexpectedly canceled a contract with France for the purchase of 50 Caracal helicopters, leaving Poland without a crucial military
capacity
to this day.
Though the government can use its hukou (household registration) system to slow that migration, even it cannot direct people to the specific cities with the most excess
capacity.
To support ASEAN countries in safeguarding the seas, Japan will combine various options, including official development assistance,
capacity
building by the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), and provision of defense equipment and technology.
At least for now, the rest of the world has seemingly unbounded confidence – reflected in very low borrowing rates – in America’s
capacity
to put its house (of representatives) in order.
No Israeli leader since has shown anything like his far-sighted vision, commitment, and
capacity
to deliver a negotiated two-state solution.
In other recent recoveries, growth often hit 4% or even 5% when increased
capacity
utilization pushed up productivity and investment.
What robots lack is the human brain’s executive
capacity.
Existing global stockpiles have a destructive
capacity
equal to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs, and in handling them there is an omnipresent potential for human error, system error, or misjudgment under stress.
We know that terrorist groups have the
capacity
to engineer nuclear devices and would explode them anywhere they could; we simply cannot be confident that we can forever deny them access to the fissile material they need to fuel them.
They should acknowledge that the only entity with the
capacity
to stabilize the situation is the European Central Bank.
The inflation may be severe, implying massive unjust redistributions and at least a temporary grave degradation in the price system’s
capacity
to guide resource allocation.
Developing countries must also build
capacity
for policy analysis and ethics.
Another is the
capacity
for price discrimination by new electronic market makers like Uber, which thus appropriate every penny of the old “consumer surplus” of microeconomic theory.
A new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement would benefit all by increasing developing countries’
capacity
to trade, strengthening the WTO’s development mandate, and boosting global economic growth.
China’s credit tsunami is financing investment in steel and property, sectors already burdened by massive excess
capacity.
The EU needs a comprehensive plan to respond to the crisis, one that reasserts effective governance over the flows of asylum-seekers so that they take place in a safe, orderly way, and at a pace that reflects Europe’s
capacity
to absorb them.
It can raise these funds by issuing long-term bonds using its largely untapped AAA borrowing capacity, which will have the added benefit of providing a justified fiscal stimulus to the European economy.
This will require not only sufficient funding, but also the human and IT
capacity
to match migrants and sponsors.
With the household debt-to-asset ratio now approaching levels last seen in the 1990s, consumers have plenty of
capacity
to ramp up their borrowing.
The Palestinian security services are discovering that they lack the
capacity
to do so without risking civil war.
All of this has diminished its
capacity
to shape the region’s future.
The United States and Spain did it in their civil wars, and today’s Spain would go to the outer limits of its
capacity
to prevent a Catalan or Basque referendum, let alone independence.
At the same time that regulatory changes have reduced the intermediation
capacity
of traditional liquidity providers, new, computer-driven intermediaries with negligible capital buffers have made it easier to flee the market when volatility rises.
This enabled a consumption binge, which meant that debt was created without a corresponding asset, and encouraged excessive investment in real estate, resulting in excess
capacity
that will take years to eliminate.
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