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The letter concludes by calling on all Poles to “wake up” and change their government before it causes irreparable damage to the country.
But it is, because it was Osborne’s first two years that did the damage.
I have made an economic argument that taking money out of an economy in a slump will damage GDP growth, thereby damaging business confidence as well.
Sometimes the physical damage from such labors is permanent.
Brazilian, Colombian, and Egyptian youngsters who work in brickyards often suffer irreparable spinal damage from carrying heavy loads.
With flexible exchange rates, however, monetary-policy contraction in a major economy would stimulate other economies in the short run, while monetary expansion would damage their performance.
Moreover, most of the damage associated with marijuana use – from the indiscriminate incarceration of consumers to the violence and corruption associated with the drug trade – is the result of current prohibitionist policies.
Globalization’s cheerleaders do considerable damage to their cause by framing the issue as a stark choice between existing trade arrangements and the persistence of global poverty.
America’s failures provide important lessons to countries around the world, which are or will be facing increasing problems with their banks:- Delaying bank restructuring is costly, in terms of both the eventual bailout costs and the damage to the overall economy in the interim.
Asia needs more help with infrastructure investment than the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank can provide;China can play a useful leadership role; and the participation of countries with high governance standards can help prevent the cronyism, corruption, and environmental damage to which large-scale infrastructure projects are prone.
But, to the extent that a misplaced focus on country rankings becomes a barrier to sensible policy, it can do real damage.
Otherwise, the damage from Brexit will be even worse than it already is.
In countries like Afghanistan, where 80% of the population lives on what they grow and many communities live far from any water source, environmental damage can be both economically devastating and politically momentous.
But critics point out that this would damage SWIFT and the West, whose banks would lose the hundreds of billions of dollars that Russia currently owes them.
Income inequality was rising dramatically, environmental damage was worsening rapidly, and inflation was leading to weak real-income growth for poor households.
By not doing so France would damage her credibility as a "serious country,” and her reputation for being a rare breed in Europe, a country that is not shy to intervene militarily with her troops.
The good news is that the constraints that Bush and the American government will face in the next four years will almost surely limit the damage they will cause.
The second problem is arguably more serious, for it is epiphenomenal: the damage that unethical behavior has done to the ideal of fair play.
In that case, the agreement will not only damage America’s reputation, but will also undermine global stability.
Should Germany spurn the first part of this formula, the European project would suffer serious damage – and so will German national interests.
Thus, the tools used to carry out fiscal adjustment should boost economic efficiency, or at least not damage it.
It could also cause lasting damage to India’s financial institutions, especially the Reserve Bank of India, whose reputation has already suffered.
But, since February, the taps have run dry, owing to disruption and damage to the oil infrastructure.
Activists cannot possibly take aim at all foreign businesses in China, so most firms are unlikely to be specifically targeted or suffer reputational damage.
Together with the leaders of the Carbon Pricing Panel, we call on governments to seize the moment – for the sake of the planet and future generations – to put a price on carbon pollution that reflects the environmental damage it causes.
But the damage done will extend far beyond the suffering of hundreds of innocent individuals who have been locked up under false pretenses.
When it occurs, toxic stress can actually damage the architecture of the developing brain, leading to disrupted circuits and a weakened foundation for future learning and health.
With each additional risk factor, the odds of long-term damage to brain architecture increase.
Prolonged activation of the body’s stress system during early development can damage the formation of the neural connections that comprise our brain architecture and set our stress-response system at a hair-trigger level.
In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.
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