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With advanced economies struggling to avoid financial collapse, escape recession, reduce unemployment, and restore growth, central banks are being called upon to address, sometimes simultaneously, growing imbalances.
Sectarian violence is once again consuming Iraq, while clashes between anti-regime factions in Syria are becoming ever more frequent, with Islamists seeking to gain the upper hand ahead of the political transition that would occur should the government collapse.
The higher rates made it more costly for Greece to refinance its debt, creating a fiscal crisis that has forced the government to impose severe austerity measures, leading to public unrest and an economic collapse that has fueled even greater investor skepticism about Greece’s ability to service its debt.
The “bicycle theory” of trade liberalization – that it will collapse unless it keeps moving forward – is wrong.
A well-organized team would collapse like a house of cards, and the hopes for future space research and missile design would be dashed, threatening the country’s security.
But, though it does represent progress from 2012, when popular opposition in South Korea to the idea of military cooperation with Japan caused a similar agreement to collapse, the latest effort is inefficient, at best.
But most state and local governments that have experienced a collapse in tax revenues must sharply retrench spending by firing policemen, teachers, and firefighters while also cutting welfare benefits and social services for the poor.
In 1992, the sirens of Somalia’s political collapse lured the US into another civil war to save a country from itself.
And neither the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev nor the Soviet collapse resulted in a loss of control over the country’s nuclear arsenal.
In his classic 1944 book International Currency Experience, Ragnar Nurkse argued that reflationary policies following the collapse of the gold standard of the 1920s operated by lowering currencies’ foreign exchange value, with the 1931 devaluation of the British pound unleashing a spate of competitive devaluations worldwide.
While some pundits and politicians now suggest that the GNP could collapse sooner than corrupt and poverty-stricken North Korea, Park Geun-hye, an iconic woman in South Korean politics, has made it clear that she will not abandon the GNP.
The EU cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe’s current institutional infrastructure.
If so, then Europe’s deconstruction – or, worse, its collapse – would be a shockingly fearful and painful business.
For us, that means that the economic mismanagement that caused the Irish economy’s collapse would never recur.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, peace and liberty are more or less taken for granted.
The gulf between GDP and domestic demand can be explained largely by a collapse in imports, which were 15% lower in the second quarter of 2015 than they were in the final quarter of 2007, owing to declining living standards, mass unemployment, and depressed investment.
For its part, Germany must acknowledge the enormity of Greece’s collapse.
Europe rose from the rubble of World War II because of the vision of statesmen; now it has been brought to the verge of collapse by the everyday vanities, corruption, and cynicism of bankers and politicians.
Thus, Reagan pursued rearmament on such a large scale that it ultimately led to the Soviet Union’s collapse; and he paved the way for an American economic boom with a massive increase in the national debt.
Mending Bangladesh’s Garment IndustryKUALA LUMPUR – Four years ago, the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh pulled back the curtain on the employment practices of the global apparel industry.
With the collapse of the strategy’s most basic premises, what should Israel do?
Yet just waiting for North Korea to collapse is a regime-change strategy by default – and the cost of a chaotic or violent collapse could be frighteningly high.
China’s great “opening up” and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 marked the start of a quarter-century of truly remarkable global progress.
But his credibility was sapped in the wake of criticism of the BoE’s handling of the collapse in 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International – an episode that anticipated later issues in managing the failure of large, cross-border institutions.
With the Soviet Union’s collapse, a unique opportunity to end the nuclear competition emerged.
No dollar collapse looms.
At the same time, their actions – and similar actions by other bankers – are directly responsible for both the run-up in housing prices and the damaging collapse that followed.
That collapse has impacted non-bankers in many negative ways, including through the loss of more than eight million jobs.
Few shared Herzl’s angst that European culture, symbolized by the legendary longevity of Queen Victoria and Emperor Franz Josef, would violently collapse.
Less than ten years after Herzl’s death, however, it did collapse in the carnage, nationalisms, revolutions and counterrevolutions of the Great War and its aftermath.
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