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The private sector alone cannot and will not counter the risk of stall speed.
Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936, equipped governments with the intellectual tools to counter the unemployment caused by slumps.
It is fitting that this threat to national economies and to every person on earth, and the opportunity to counter it, should be tackled with the backing of multilateral development institutions.
His trial could even mark a definitive moment in the history of efforts to counter Russian propaganda, giving beleaguered writers and journalists the courage they need to stand up to Russia in ways that governments rarely have.
From 2002 to 2009, Derbala and other IG leaders produced around 30 books to counter al-Qaeda’s ideology.
One of the main motivations behind the 2013 military coup was to counter potential violence and terrorism.
Of course, opponents can counter with a “slippery slope” argument: Only total prohibition is a defensible line against political pressure for ever-laxer rules.
To counter this threat, democratic bodies invariably need special rules to protect minorities, such as the requirement of qualified majority voting or unanimous decision-making.
And Putin has struck up a good working relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, based on their shared domestic illiberalism and desire to counter American ideology and influence.
OECD countries like Germany counter that the problem is the lack of investment-worthy assets; there are simply not enough bankable projects available.
It was the desire to counter this destabilization and to consolidate its superpower status that was the primary reason for America's actions in Iraq.
If, as is likely, increasing the number of permanent Security Council members lacks sufficient support, developed countries should revert to the idea, circulating in foreign policy circles for several years, of establishing a new G-8-based organization (but including China and India) to counter new threats to global security.
Second, governments should support those groups that are already working on the ground and online to counter extremism.
But this is only half the story: we also need to support and promote alternative, credible voices online to counter the extremist narrative.
One future source of support for effective but under-resourced groups might be the recently established Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience, the first ever public-private global fund to support local, grass-roots efforts to counter extremism.
An American security umbrella over the Persian Gulf and Israel might calm nerves, but it would do little to counter increased Iranian support of Islamic radicals.
And, most important, most emerging-market central banks, having established strong track records of meeting inflation targets, no longer have to counter large exchange-rate depreciations with draconian interest-rate hikes.
With Sarkozy off his back, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet might feel freer to cut interest rates to counter the impending economic slowdown in Europe.
Moreover, the Trump administration recently announced that it would permit the sale of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, to counter Russian aggression there – a move that Russia says will only beget more violence.
The question is whether existing governance systems can coordinate effective intervention to counter the resulting tensions.
Far from tapering its monthly purchases of long-term assets, one can easily imagine a scenario in which the Fed’s already substantial balance sheet would have to expand even more quickly to counter the negative economic effects of an unplanned – and rapid – rise in borrowing costs.
Measures to counter “excessive” capital inflows – of the type introduced in Brazil and Malaysia – might be needed.
It is time to counter the extreme idea, currently popular in Western politics, that coexistence is impossible.
India, which “normalized” bilateral relations a few years ago, is reluctant to alienate Myanmar’s military, with which it has worked closely to counter rebels in India’s northeast who had been using the common border to tactical advantage.
This spending consumes a large proportion of poorer households’ income, precludes more productive household investments, creates few jobs, and often remains untaxed, as doctors and hospitals are frequently paid under the counter.
If the Palestine issue is not resolved soon, there can be no lasting alliances with “moderate” Sunni powers to counter Iran.
But a far better approach than supply-side consolidation is aggressive demand-side expansion, which would counter deflationary pressures.
The EU’s political will to counter its increasing dependence on Russia in the immediate future is thus open to serious doubt.
Wen, who had been bogged down by the bureaucracy, had been seeking to counter it by expanding the media’s openness and transparency.
When they do not, or when other policies perversely counter them, the results will be disappointing.
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