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But I believe what we are confronting is partly the legacy of the flawed Washington Consensus that shaped Russia’s transition.
Angela Merkel’s Moment of TruthBERLIN – In the last two weeks, the two crises confronting Europe – in Ukraine and Greece – both escalated.
Tackling the most urgent problems confronting the world economy will require action by multiple actors – not just central banks.
With their traditional policy tools all but exhausted, the authorities had to be exceptionally creative in confronting the collapse in financial markets and a looming implosion of the real economy.
Like the newly independent US, the EU today lacks an empowered and effective executive branch capable of confronting the current economic crisis.
If China devoted its energy to reining in its North Korean client, the threat confronting South Korea – and thus the South’s need for an advanced missile shield – might be mitigated.
Their research shows that confronting global warming effectively requires nothing short of a technological revolution.
Indeed, with the north pitted against the south, and the east confronting the west, the EU is coming apart at the seams.
The bad news is that the decision not to taper is unlikely to put either the Fed or the economy in a better place, confronting Yellen with a difficult task when she begins her historic tenure.
Simply put, the historic challenge confronting Europe also offers historic opportunities.
Tusk will have to achieve something similar in the face of the new challenges confronting Europe today, which include Russian aggression in Ukraine, the rise of terrorism in the Middle East, and a stagnant economy at home.
As a result, Africans are now confronting a new and serious threat to our land, biodiversity, rights, and food supply.
This is the central problem confronting the world as it seeks to forge a framework to combat climate change.
The key problem confronting Portugal is thus not fiscal policy, but the high (foreign) debt of its private sector – its banks and enterprises.
Saudi Arabia, after all, is a major purchaser of Western arms, a leading oil producer, and a crucial asset for confronting and containing Iran.
The extreme weather confronting Asia is not expected to abate anytime soon.
Donald Trump’s Little WomenNEW YORK – A non-profit women’s health organization in Kenya is confronting an impossible dilemma.
Asia’s democracies now risk confronting the same harsh question that the United States faced when Mao Zedong marched into Beijing, and again when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the Shah in Iran.
Confronting a declining economy, Maduro decided to blame it all on an economic war waged by the United States and its local cronies.
The United States was confronting slowing growth and accelerating inflation, or stagflation, a novel problem that raised questions about policymakers’ competence and the adequacy of their economic models.
When we remove the barriers confronting the most vulnerable in society, the effects are transformational.
It is too early to tell how the political uncertainty now confronting Germany and Europe will be resolved.
The World Bank estimates that over a third of all children in Indonesia, for example, suffer from stunted growth, confronting them with the risk of lifetime effects on fitness and cognitive development.
Confronting them effectively will require root-and-branch change in order to inspire Russian security officials to take the initiative.
Instead of confronting today's new and very real enemy, they would rather confront the old, traditional one - the West.
And yet the near-constant focus on fake news has distracted many in the industry from more serious challenges confronting professional journalism.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, their security and political cooperation deepened, owing to a shared interest in confronting radical movements that threatened their monarchies.
But we must first consider more broadly the challenges confronting economists and financial experts in today’s world – challenges that remain poorly understood, by contemporary economics’ critics and defenders alike.
Without them, Germany could return to a strategic no man’s land, which would endanger Europe, stoke dangerous illusions in Russia, and force Germany itself to deal with unmanageable challenges confronting the continent.
If those SDRs were issued during crises, like the one that emerging and developing economies are confronting today, the result would be a truly counter-cyclical global monetary policy.
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