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Georgia must also be helped to recover from the damage inflicted by the Russian invasion, but help should be contingent on the Saakashvili regime observing the principles of open society.
The European Central Bank would contain the collateral damage by flooding Europe’s banking system with liquidity (against subpar collateral).
That is why, despite the damage that his reputation suffered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Greenspan retains enormous credibility among all those who hope to see rational economic policy in America.
After all, financial crises are directly linked to significant output declines and unemployment spikes; and, equally important, they often severely damage social cohesion.
Most Indian farmers will benefit from greater access to irrigation, but if this means building more ill-conceived dams and pursuing large-scale projects, the result will be more water for industrial agriculture, more damage to India’s damaged environment, and little improvement for poor farmers.
Presumably, Putin would not object to the infliction of such damage behind closed doors, during a debriefing with the Russian security services.
The Baltic economies are perhaps the most tragic victims, but the damage stretches across Central and Eastern Europe and down into the Balkans.
Rather, the economy has become so vulnerable to declines in asset prices that the Fed is obliged to intervene to prevent them from inflicting broad damage.
And, as usual, the consequences – environmental destruction, damage to health, and impeded development – are disproportionately affecting the world’s poor.
The damage to human health and the environment is already profound.
This approach also applies to the environmental pillar of development: intervention to counter damage generated by the economy is not enough.
As a result, “there can be no genuinely honest and friendly dialogue with those countries that suffered considerable damage and casualties in the wars with Japan.”
When a country defaults, the economic damage swells the number of poor people and worsens their living conditions.
But it now seems that we know even less about the oceans than we thought – and we may well have been doing even more damage than we realized.
Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.
If Germany and France don’t quickly resolve their differences and find a joint strategic answer to the crisis, they will damage themselves and Europe as a whole.
Whatever becomes of the Republican Party, it is within the American people’s power to mitigate some of the damage from Trump’s domestic policies at the local level.
Iran presents Trump with another opportunity to inflict political damage on the Democrats.
Iran pursued mass prosecutions of government critics following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial reelection in 2009, and it now appears that some of Ahmadinejad’s allies may themselves become collateral damage in his conflict with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, facing politically motivated criminal trials.
Tropical countries that sign this convention will seriously damage the health of their peoples.
Not only does it make it impossible to see what lies ahead; it is itself also a force of environmental devastation, leaving irreparable damage in its wake.
The scale and structure of any out-of-court mortgage settlement should address the damage inflicted by the alleged pattern of behavior.
Khamenei, concerned with repairing the damage caused by his acceptance of the fraudulent reelection in 2009 of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was willing to accept the victory in June of Rouhani, a conservative reformist whom he trusted.
They see the damage extreme weather events can inflict on homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods, and they hear climate scientists’ warnings that conditions will only deteriorate.
Still others, like the Fed’s current leader, Janet Yellen, suggest that investment and interest rates are depressed as a result of the damage done to the economy and the labor force during the Great Recession.
Austerity might have worsened the slump temporarily, but it did deliver fiscal sustainability without permanent damage to the economy.
By the time Putin finally realizes that he has been duped, the world will probably have paid a high price in terms of political stability, strategic security, and environmental damage.
Fortunately, Chinese households’ relatively low leverage means that the kind of balance-sheet damage that occurred in some advanced countries during the crisis, leading to a huge drop in demand, is unlikely, even if real-estate prices continue to decline.
Now, it has debunked the 1980s myth that “greed is good,” and has revealed the extensive damage inequality causes.
The wood frog can survive long periods of freezing temperatures without suffering cell damage.
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