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This could happen because, in the long run, the EU won’t be able to withstand its conflicts of interest and the resulting process of “renationalization” in all member states without suffering grave damage.
A tax on carbon should be equivalent to its damage.
What the political establishment overlooks is the broader damage that such behavior does to Parliament’s public standing, and therefore to democracy itself.
Although transition was bound to be painful, Russia's epidemic of corruption caused more political damage than the economic side effects of reform.
If Abe does so, Japan’s relations with South Korea and China will suffer serious damage.
A British exit – or Brexit – would cause severe damage to the entire continent.
In fact, despite the low probability of a direct military clash between the US and China, a new cold war would undoubtedly produce collateral damage so far-reaching and severe that the very future of humanity could be jeopardized.
The second component comprises investments that minimize the expected damage to the economy.
But investments designed to control the extent of damage seem to be persistently neglected.
Of course, one cannot at reasonable cost prevent all possible damage from calamities, which strike randomly and in locations that cannot always be predicted.
But certain kinds of damage have large multiplier effects.
This includes damage to critical systems like the electricity grid and the information, communication, and transport networks that constitute the platform on which modern economies run.
Hubs that lack resilience create cascades of collateral damage when they fail.
The government in Paris, which should have known better, was taken utterly by surprise by the intensity of international hostility to its nuclear objectives, and, as governments do in such situations, has tried to limit the damage.
And, as he also warns, if inflation remains above the BOE’s target for another two years, abrupt and sharp monetary tightening would undermine the recovery – and could damage the credibility of the BOE itself.
A third factor that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the impunity long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
People had barely begun to consider that, over time, unbridled economic growth could damage natural capital assets.
Yet, until recently, one could insure one's home against fire or other damage, but not against a loss in market value.
As for Russia, the only traditional world leader of the bunch, the Kremlin’s Ukraine policy has done severe damage to the country’s international profile – damage that not even its possible diplomatic coup in Syria can undo.
Moreover, the EKC perpetuates an erroneous assumption – that environmental damage will not curtail economic growth.
Of the harm that inequality inflicts on our economies, politics, and societies, the damage done to children demands special concern.
Should the damage inflicted by a terrorist attack also be small, there would be no problem.
But the damage inflicted by an attack might be tremendous, because ports are thought to be one of the few ways terrorists might smuggle nuclear weapons into the US.
Only when the disease goes untreated does the damage caused to the peripheral nerves lead to loss of sensation and invite ulceration and wounds.
But if treatment has been delayed, the patient may be left with recurring ulcers and permanent damage.
But I agree with Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn that it is not wise to focus on teaching financiers lessons about moral hazard when doing so risks collateral damage in the form of the destruction of millions of jobs.
There is good scientific reason to believe that many tropical regions will experience vastly more damage from global warming than will temperate-zone countries like the US.
Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.
Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much margin for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.
The North would surely lose, and the regime would collapse, but probably not until it inflicted terrible damage on South Korea, and perhaps also on Japan.
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