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There is the danger, too, of arrangements that would lessen tensions over the short-term but threaten peace over the long-term by requiring real compromises and constraints in exchange for promises and possibilities.
At that point, self-inflicted domestic political weakness collided with the fiscal constraints of the euro rescue.
That is not only because she is a poor public speaker, but also because she herself does not seem to know how to resolve the contradictions between national solutions and European constraints.
Without regard for the political consequences, Merkel is trying to escape the specifically German contradiction between national solutions and European constraints by advocating a rigorous fiscal-consolidation program, severe punishment for non-compliance (including loss of EU voting rights), and a trigger mechanism for member states that lag in meeting their obligations.
The first challenge is location; finding affordable land is one of the biggest constraints on housing development virtually everywhere.
There are feasible policies that would work within long-term budget constraints.
Immovable adjustment constraints have caused eight countries to experience nominal wage deflation in at least two years since 2008.
Japan’s leaders must also work to expand the workforce, which faces severe constraints, owing largely to the country’s rapidly aging population.
Putin has allowed the “systemic liberals” in his administration to impose hard budget constraints even on the large state companies.
But, while such policies help to reduce unemployment, their impact is subject to human-capital constraints, with many unemployed workers lacking the knowledge, experience, or confidence needed to launch a new venture.
And almost 40% of firms surveyed by the World Bank lament the constraints imposed by competition from informal firms.
But some calls for international coordination are less useful, particularly when the aim is to blame foreigners in order to distract attention from domestic constraints and disagreements.
American critics, meanwhile, saw the Euro area as overly cautious for cutting interest rates slowly and maintaining the fiscal constraints of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Currently, the region suffers from tremendous transport and transit constraints.
Quality of management obviously plays a key role, but institutions and human capital also matter; corruption, credit constraints, and lack of access to high-quality education all make economic transformation more difficult.
We restrict access to most drugs, impose heavy taxes and marketing constraints on tobacco, and control gun circulation and ownership.
Twice in the last ten years, national governments have explicitly given the EU the authority to tighten constraints on their subsidies to failing airline companies.
But they did, and this did not prevent them for blaming “Brussels” strongly and loudly for these very constraints when their own national airlines got in trouble.
Thus, as China’s labor-supply constraints tighten, wages should be determined not only by the relationship between labor supply and demand, but also by labor-market institutions.
Unlike the West, where the very concept of strategy has become an oxymoron, China has embraced a transitional framework aimed at resolving its sustainability constraints.
There are no psychological preferences, natural-resource constraints, or technological factors that make investing in private enterprises riskier than it was five years ago.
Such policies should start from the trade regime’s Golden Rule: do not impose on other countries constraints that you would not accept if faced with their circumstances.
More generally, China probably looks less appealing to investors now than it did a few years ago, not so much because of the Chinese economy as a whole, but because of constraints on the ability of any foreign entity to make serious long-term profits.
And, while countries like Greece and Spain suffer from market constraints, such is not the case for Northern Europe.
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
Effective financial markets enable them to pursue such opportunities despite these constraints by enlisting investors to provide the capital.
Eurozone governments, however, face no such constraints, and were thus free to put in place a program that would have been sustainable.
Academics can be adept at identifying problems, but they often struggle to win the full attention of decision-makers and may be subject to legal, financial, or political constraints.
And tightening financial constraints have weakened growth in the real-estate sector considerably.
This extra-national effort on behalf of the World Cup’s sponsors underscores the threat to newly empowered civil societies from global corporate entities, many of which are increasingly chafing at the constraints imposed on them by strong democracies.
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