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And, already, labor-market flexibility has been undermined by structural inertia, including difficulties in retooling and retraining workers, particularly the long-term unemployed.
But I continue to believe that convergence is here to stay, though it will not occur at the extraordinary pace of the 2008-2012 period, when the global financial crisis and the eurozone’s difficulties led to particularly slow growth in the advanced economies.
We should not wonder at the difficulties that other cultural and linguistic groups must experience in gaining a voice and proper acknowledgment in science.
Some trimming here and there will not be enough to solve Brazil’s structural fiscal difficulties.
Accordingly, these reforms “are going to prove inapplicable outside the US and so create difficulties of international coordination.”
“Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect,” Kennedy said.
The point is that, despite the excesses of 1999-2000, the economic difficulties of the last two years, and the tendency to think of the technology boom of the 1990's as mere hype, the US underwent deep structural changes in its economy during that decade.
The euro’s strength, despite the magnitude of the eurozone’s difficulties, makes an export-led recovery strategy harder to realize.
At the same time, local governments’ difficulties are having an adverse effect on provision of clean water and proper sanitation, which are vitally important for polio eradication and public health more broadly.
As they crowd into Hong Kong over a short period of time, their presence may cause some difficulties for Hong Kong’s highly respected civil servants who try to maintain the high standards of Hong Kong’s market environment, with its impartial enforcement of the laws and fair competition.
If the largest beneficiary of a public good (like the US) does not take the lead in devoting disproportionate resources toward its provision, smaller beneficiaries are unlikely to be able to produce it because of the difficulties of organizing collective action when large numbers are involved.
In situations where groups have difficulties living together, it may be possible to allow a degree of autonomy in the determination of internal affairs.
Indeed, Ukraine’s struggles highlight the need for an agreed framework to resolve sovereign-debt difficulties and govern IMF lending.
Meanwhile, last year, 36% of employers worldwide reported facing difficulties in finding talent, the highest percentage in seven years.
The EU has also encountered difficulties in fulfilling its pledged financial assistance to the existing AU force in Darfur.
No bank in difficulties can survive if the ECB does not grant or renew emergency liquidity assistance.
An overemphasis on growth in recent years has exacerbated these difficulties.
A closer look at the problem suggests that the division over Iraq is not merely an isolated incident, but reflects a range of deep-seated difficulties.
Moreover, because Darfur is emblematic of wider difficulties in the world, the international community must look beyond the immediate circumstances of the conflict and increase efforts to deal with the threats that have played a role in the disaster, such as climate change and environmental degradation.
Scandinavia’s Accounting TrickWhile most of the world’s advanced countries face increasing difficulties in coping with the forces of globalization and competition from low-wage countries, the Scandinavian countries -- Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden -- seem to have managed these challenges quite well.
Even though voters could choose between electronic and paper ballots, difficulties remained, especially among older voters.
While campaigning isn’t the same as governing, Trump’s campaign has added to the difficulties he will face.
For non-US banks, governments, and any other entity that had borrowed in dollars, the strengthening greenback created repayment difficulties.
The emerging currency crises in Argentina and Turkey are linked to rapid exchange-rate depreciation and loans in foreign currencies that are becoming increasingly difficult to service – just like in 1982, when both countries also encountered serious difficulties.
Southern Europe, which did not borrow in foreign currencies (but has close financial links with Turkey), will likely face difficulties in coping with higher interest rates, which is why the ECB would prefer further euro depreciation to interest increases.
These technical difficulties stood in the way of previous attempts to put the SDRs to practical use, but they do not apply to the proposed green fund.
The radical polarization of the Andean region between those two countries will create difficulties in building regional consensus and security problems in the Amazon, as well as weakening the Brazilian project for South American political and economic integration.
It’s worth noting that even before its current economic difficulties, Europe was unable to keep up with the growth rates of the United States, not to mention the emerging economies of India and China.
While the relative absence of Facebook-style mega-entrepreneurial successes in Europe is regularly bemoaned, the difficulties of opening hairdressers, basic retailers, and simple mail-order businesses may have an equally profound overall effect.
To be sure, rapid population decline would create difficulties.
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