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All of this suggests that the global economy will
confront
serious challenges in the months and years ahead.
As I travel across Europe, advocating a pan-European movement to
confront
the EU’s authoritarianism, I sense a great surge of internationalism in places as different from one another as Germany, Ireland, and Portugal.
Then they work alongside schools, social service agencies, and community groups to
confront
gang members directly.
Similarly, while the world today searches for ways to
confront
dependence on fossil fuels and seeks other, cleaner energy sources, Russia continues to live off its oil and gas, which only encourages it to delay the economic and political restructuring that it will need to succeed in the long term.
Today, two Polands
confront
each other.
Given this track record, how can old NAM diplomacy be expected to resolve the foreign-policy challenges that India faces, especially at a time when China and Pakistan are uniting to
confront
India?
And, by protecting the floating exchange-rate regime, the central bank ensures that Chile does not
confront
the kind of foreign-debt crisis that has hit other Latin American countries.
After the tragedy in Ukraine, no one in Berlin will be able to defend this stance, particularly given that Germany’s leaders do not want to
confront
Russia through sanctions.
The reality is evident from Kenya to Kiribati – everywhere where rapid urbanization, the need to support trade and entrepreneurship, and efforts to
confront
the challenges of climate change have exposed a wide infrastructure deficit.
The difficulties presented there are not confined to the chronically unstable Middle East, and Europe must
confront
the situation immediately.
It is better to feed a bear than to
confront
it on one’s own.
For the first time in its history, the EU must
confront
the prospect of a member state that is a non-democracy, in the fundamental sense of lacking free, unrigged elections.
But efforts to re-start the peace process now
confront
a stark new reality: two mutually hostile Palestinian entities in Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank must now be factored into the process.
The Palestinians
confront
a harsh reality.
Whatever actions are taken to
confront
Hamas will undermine the Palestinian national project.
But the counter-argument is that professionally-run private microcredit is better than no credit at all – the situation most of the poor
confront.
While that might be fine for financial investors, it makes little sense to raise interest rates to
confront
price increases for food (and oil), which already slow the economy by reducing real wages (and cooling off production).
This is not an exhaustive list of reforms, but they would go a long way toward allowing the central government and the states, working together, to
confront
successfully the grave potential peril that globalization holds in store for India.
And Americans must
confront
the fact that their president, Donald Trump, has been aiding and abetting today’s crop of budding despots.
This has important implications for the United States authorities as they
confront
a sharp rise in the dollar’s exchange rate.
This impressive group of leaders and thinkers has worked tirelessly to assess the state of education worldwide, with an eye to identifying the particular challenges that
confront
different countries.
Nonetheless, Asia will still have to
confront
fundamental medium- and long-term challenges, not least the aging of its population – a problem that is well known to most policymakers.
If the country of my birth is to retain its reputation as one of Africa’s most liberal states, it must
confront
its affinity for the gallows.
It also prepares women to
confront
– and overcome – the obstacles they will inevitably face as they gain independence and influence.
Even now that Uber has been forced to
confront
its failings, there are doubts about its commitment to change.
Equally important, the program provides farmers with the training needed to
confront
increasingly frequent outbreaks of crop diseases.
In fact, we now
confront
an education crisis that threatens to leave a lost generation of young people without any hope for a better future.
Nevertheless, despite these signs of progress, we are failing to
confront
the magnitude of the challenge, particularly in the translation of global agreements into legislation and action at the national and regional levels.
The problem is that many older activities – be it driving in difficult conditions on a mountain road or taking on a complex legal case – are a source of fulfillment for countless people, because they provide opportunities to
confront
difficult, intrinsically motivated challenges.
If the international community fails to
confront
its most serious challenges – from the need for a sound global economic architecture to addressing climate change – they are the ones that will pay the highest price.
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