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By contrast, a large debt overhang may be intractable unless policy orthodoxies are challenged.
The euro crisis has challenged the view that the transition to a multi-reserve regime will have a smooth dynamic.
The Gordon-Kasparov-Thiel thesis is extremely interesting, though I have challenged their negative conclusions, both in print and in a debate at Oxford.
For a few decades in the second half of the twentieth century, the West’s dominant position was challenged by the Soviet Union and China.
When Europe and the United States challenged this mercantilist approach with the 1985 Plaza Accord, the Bank of Japan countered with aggressive monetary easing that fueled massive asset and credit bubbles.
In short, emerging economies have been challenged by externally generated macroeconomic shifts, unconventional monetary policies, widespread volatility, and slow growth in developed markets.
When English Protestants challenged the power of the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, mobs laid waste to stone-carved saints and other holy representations with pick-hammers and axes.
Existing global rules – embedded in multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade and investment agreements – are being challenged by the new processes that digitization is enabling.
And while Brexit itself is nothing to celebrate, the process has at least shown that Europe is strongest when it is challenged.
Meanwhile, Jewish Home, a party linked to fanatical, messianic rabbis for whom Zionism should now be imbued with eschatological meaning, challenged Netanyahu to adopt a more resolute expansionist policy in Palestinian territories.
World attention has been trained on the Occupy movement, which has challenged the “1%” of the global population that exercises disproportionate influence on economic and social policy.
Following the suit, the SEC suspended not only the application of its rule mandating companies to grant access to qualified shareholders, but also a rule that was making it easier for shareholders to introduce a bylaw granting them access, even though the Business Roundtable had not challenged that rule.
The authoritarian populism that Trump embodies has challenged democracies at least since the end of the Roman Republic.
The irony of last Thursday's opposition rally is that it took place in front of Belgrade's federal parliament, for it is in parliament and not the streets that Milosevic can be challenged.
The specific dynamics of security-sector reform varies among states, depending on past modes of policing and the circumstances in which the authorities are challenged and forced to change existing structures.
For starters, while recent studies have concluded that higher levels of inequality produce lower long-term growth, other data have challenged this assumption, making definitive claims that are impossible to support, partly because different sources and types of inequality likely have different impacts on growth.
But such debates largely stopped in the twentieth century, partly because they challenged democracy’s universality.
Now, almost all of these states’ electoral maps are being challenged as unconstitutional.
Moreover, Trump’s actions will be challenged in court, and he will almost surely lose.
But his real offense is that he challenged the Chinese Communist Party’s way of doing things.
They see new players (say, Spain) rising to shape EU policy, particularly foreign policy, and sense that their traditional leadership is being challenged.
Watching these events from afar, I find it difficult to escape the conclusion that it is not authoritarian rule per se that is being challenged in the streets, much as we democrats would like to believe otherwise; rather, authoritarian rule has simply failed to deliver the goods.
Not long after the West’s Cold War victory, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the return of national tribalism, even in the heart of “post-historical” Europe, challenged the concept of “the end of history.”
The Global Economy’s Surprising ResilienceLONDON – Disconcerting political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom might lead one to conclude that an already challenged world economy will struggle even more in the near term.
Chen rose to prominence as a self-educated legal activist after he challenged harsh enforcement of the government’s family-planning policies.
Whereas the bogey of inflation seems finally to have been laid to rest, another myth must still be challenged – that the Fed and other central banks should save their “bullets” for a rainy day and should therefore resist cutting rates.
That view was challenged by the discovery of DNA.
They challenged the disparities in legal treatment of women, broached new ideas concerning the role of women in Moroccan society, and questioned practices that had long been understood as Islamic.
During his six-day tour, he challenged Americans to contemplate the issues of poverty, social justice, and climate change in the context of a shared but increasingly inharmonious planet.
The figures have been challenged, but no one disputes that the number is large and that, in some areas, it is having an impact on the survival of other species.
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