Degree
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Investors can count on an exceptionally high
degree
of exchange convenience and capital certainty.
One would expect that the shock from the financial crisis should be comparable for the United States and the eurozone, given that they are of similar size, exhibit a similar
degree
of internal diversity, and experienced a similar increase in house prices (on average) in the years preceding the bust.
If there is one thing that is clear about the European Union’s institutional arrangements, it is that it is insufficiently democratic for the
degree
of integration that is now underway or planned.
Others do not oppose secret diplomacy per se, but they believe that maintaining a reasonable
degree
of democratic accountability requires that a small subset of congressional leaders be informed.
This does not mean that our economic knowledge cannot guide us, only that what works in theory – or worked in the past or elsewhere – should be prescribed with an appropriate
degree
of self-doubt.
This is not to say that a single economic policy should be imposed on everyone; but Europe does need a higher
degree
of coordination and convergence to ensure that everyone is at least heading in the same direction.
There may be disputes in some cases, but the system has brought a
degree
of legal certainty across the single market that the EU’s member states could not have achieved on their own.
“When the credit of a country is in any
degree
questionable,” he argued, “it never fails to give an extravagant premium upon all the loans it has occasion to make.”
Collective burden-sharing is in the long run the only non-catastrophic way out of Europe’s current crisis, but that requires a substantially greater
degree
of political accountability and control on a European level.
The lesson to be learned from Hamilton and the US is that the necessary institutions will not function without a greater
degree
of moral consensus as well.
As in the darker decades of the twentieth century, today’s nationalism takes the form of heightened opposition to immigration and – to a lesser
degree
– free trade.
In order to placate Hong Kong’s restive population – which included many refugees from China – a “one country, two systems” policy was embedded in the region’s constitution, promising Hong Kong “a high
degree
of autonomy,” except in foreign and defense affairs for 50 years.
About a third of young people around the world pursue a college
degree
or advanced training; but, despite scholarships and other incentives, the percentage of refugees who do so is a mere 1%.
The overwhelming majority of these officials end up receiving doctorates (a master’s
degree
won’t do anymore in this political arms race) granted through part-time programs or in the Communist Party’s training schools.
One managed to complete his
degree
in a mere 21 months, an improbable feat, given that course work alone, without the dissertation, normally requires at least two years in most countries’ doctoral programs.
There also must be limits on the power of the central government and the presidency, a
degree
of regions autonomy, and rule of law – in short, the rudiments of a modern state and democracy.
Determining the right
degree
of openness is a thorny and complex issue for every country.
While slogans and sound bites capture most of the attention, deeper issues in play leave the outcome of the June 23 referendum subject to a high
degree
of uncertainty – so much so that a single event could end up hijacking the decision.
And, in fact, many of the underlying issues that should shape the referendum’s outcome are still subject to a high
degree
of uncertainty.
The higher the
degree
of a democracy's illiberality, the higher the
degree
of corruption, moral hazard, opportunism and rent seeking behaviour; the more corrupted the economy, the more stunted democracy is likely to be.
Most of all, it stakes a claim to a
degree
of philosophical coherence of which the various “third ways” of the last decade could only dream.
Conspicuously, Bashir’s regime has been disqualified in the eyes of its neighbors in Africa and the Arab world to a
degree
that makes the South’s secession a more acceptable option to the main regional stakeholders than ever before.
Many British voters have started to feel a
degree
of “buyer’s remorse” as the hypothetical becomes real.
It is this high
degree
of fragmentation that explains Italy’s poor aggregate performance.
Wolf’s long-term solutions include tackling inequality, “more global regulation,” a greater
degree
of “freedom for individual countries to craft their own responses,” and economic analysis that is less in thrall to the free-market ideologues that led us into the crisis in the first place.
The Middle East is bound to remain a cauldron of geopolitical unrest; but, even here, Trump’s preference for local strongmen over “democracy promotion” could restore a
degree
of stability (at the cost of human rights).
The former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, had, it seemed, provided a perverse lesson in virtue when, having been caught lying about his educational credentials, protested that he did not remember whether he had actually defended his master’s thesis as required to receive his
degree.
But, regardless of who leaves first, any countries trading in the euro for their defunct national currencies would, like an independent Scotland, have to determine the right
degree
of exchange-rate flexibility.
LNG has now added a
degree
of flexibility to gas markets and reduced Russian leverage.
Finally, humans lack a certain
degree
of rationality, making us terrible at designing effective institutions and organizations – at least for now.
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