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India also offers important experience in agricultural expansion, clean water management, and confronting the growing threat of climate change.
After three years of bold reform, the government’s approval rating is over 70%, which helps President Uribe both in confronting the rebels and in negotiating with them.
And Europe is already confronting many significant challenges, including Russian aggression against Ukraine, Brexit, the rise of populism and nationalism, and low rates of economic growth.
This is not to diminish the challenges confronting China.
For example, while it would be tempting for a leader confronting ecological or nuclear disaster to devote less attention to domestic social issues, effective global cooperation depends on strong individual states.
Finally, world leaders must recognize that it will be impossible to address the water challenge effectively without confronting the climate challenge.
But neither of the main problems confronting Europe’s social-security systems – slow economic growth and aging populations (a function of low fertility) – can be addressed at the European level.
Although the issues immediately confronting developing countries are different from those facing the rich countries, in our globalized world, demographic challenges anywhere are demographic challenges everywhere.
Confronting the escalating waste crisis will be crucial to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Compounding the challenge confronting China is the fact that the economy’s major demand-side driver, real-estate investment, is declining more rapidly than the alternative source of demand, domestic consumption, is rising.
Kasem Wattanachai quit as education minister after confronting resistance from the education bureaucracy.
In short, despite a strong national balance sheet and ample central-bank liquidity, China is confronting a localized subprime problem, owing partly to high reserve requirements.
It will also demand that we overhaul our unsustainable lifestyles and our patterns of production and consumption, while confronting the issue of rapid population growth.
The neighboring Middle East is in turmoil; the West is attempting to contain a newly aggressive Russia; and China, already the world’s largest source of savings, the largest trading country, and the largest overall economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), is confronting the West with new economic and strategic realities.
Beyond the distributional issues that many countries face, Japan, parts of Europe, and some developing countries are confronting weak growth and persistently high unemployment.
Such partnerships are necessary for confronting the infectious and chronic diseases that threaten communities throughout the region, and they have the added benefit of providing entrepreneurial opportunities for the region’s youth.
This will severely weaken global trade, thereby undermining economies’ growth prospects, while preventing the world from confronting shared challenges.
From confronting climate change to creating a world without nuclear weapons to building a more equitable and sustainable global economy, I saw a sprit of renewed multilateralism, with the UN at the fore.
So far, the Trump administration has not been spurred to action by the humanitarian catastrophe confronting Syrian civilians.
On both counts, the EU confronted challenges in 2007 much like those confronting Austria-Hungary in 1907.
But confronting China will require allies;Trump’s approach will only leave the US more isolated.
As is often the case – and particularly in a presidential election year – America’s politicians resort to the blame game in confronting these tough issues.
Moreover, political gridlock will ensure that little is done about the other festering problems confronting the American economy: mortgage foreclosures are likely to continue unabated (legal complications aside); small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to continue to be starved of funds; and the small and medium-sized banks that traditionally provide them with credit are likely to continue to struggle to survive.
The size of the problem, the fact that it hits so many countries at the same time, and the great difficulty of doing something about it all call for confronting it as soon as possible.
Last month in Paris, the international community proved that it could subordinate national self-interest to a greater global goal: confronting climate change.
As a result, the moralizers risk bringing the common roof down on Europe’s head, and confronting the nationalist dangers that the EU was created to prevent.
And with voters in both countries – particularly in France – confronting the temptation of populist nationalism as they head to the polls this year, that relationship, too, now hangs in the balance.
This is no time for Europe to rest on its laurels – particularly with the United States moving to extract itself from two wars and confronting isolationist urges.
Third, the EU is confronting, in more severe form, a problem facing much of the developed world: powerful forces operating beyond the control of elected officials are shaping citizens’ lives, leaving them feeling powerless.
But US efforts to encourage Europeans to adopt their pragmatic and discretionary approach to economic policy inevitably lead to frustration: the issues confronting the European economies are different from those facing the US--as are perceptions about the challenges.
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