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Of course, Kenya had lived through tense electoral periods before, and few people who know Africa were blind to the many difficulties the country continued to face.
The DollarThe effort to pump the American economy full of money will run into difficulties on two fronts: the exchange rate and interest rates.
The dollar’s strength in the latter part of 2008 was due not to an increased desire to hold dollars but to increased difficulties in borrowing them.
The euro staged an explosive rally, but the rally was short lived because the eurozone developed its own internal difficulties.
The foundations of the Maastricht Treaty are shaking—not to mention the difficulties that the United Kingdom and Switzerland are facing in protecting their overgrown banks.
This seemed necessary because some (still quite rare) children presented with more or less normal language development, but with grave social and behavioral difficulties.
Much of the explanation lies in the very heterogeneity of services and the greater difficulties that mutual recognition, or the “country-of-origin principle” – essential in the integration of product markets – implies for services.
Young and other new entrants into the labor force and workers who lost their jobs have special difficulties in finding work.
Giving more independence to the Central Bank would be well received in the markets, as otherwise they will fear Lula will succumb to the temptation to inflate the country's way out of difficulties.
The difficulties are immense.
But these ups and downs only indicate the difficulties involved.
Japan, despite recent difficulties, remains an economic giant.
Though difficulties still lie ahead, Poland is determined to build a relationship with Russia based on mutual respect.
Finally, Greece’s difficulties imply problems for managing the euro, as well as possible disorderly behavior in foreign-exchange markets, which threaten to augment uncertainty and negatively influence the already-weakening global recovery.
But not many countries are experiencing the same level of difficulties; surveys consistently show that only about 10% of Chinese SMEs’ finance comes from banks, while the global average doubles.
That is why the 44 countries in attendance, and the 188 that now belong to the IMF, agreed to “consult and agree on international monetary changes which affect each other… and they should assist each other to overcome short-term exchange difficulties.”
Russia, too, faces real demographic difficulties, though in the other direction as Russia’s population is projected to shrink by as much as 10% over the next 15 or 20 years.
When non-standard measures are required because of loss of confidence in sovereign debt, such messages must seek to avoid the measures’ failure by highlighting the risk of major additional difficulties in the future.
Concern for the environmental implications of trade, humanitarian objections, or adjustment difficulties might all constitute grounds for an opt-out of this kind.
They sought a system that would prevent nations from exporting their economic difficulties to their trading partners and which would avoid the problems of the interwar period: destabilizing capital flows, excessively volatile currencies, and an eventual descent into bilateralism and protectionism.
If capital flight occurs, the consequences will be dire: tightened credit, balance-of-payments difficulties, inflation, rising interest rates, fiscal stress, and downgrades by the major credit-rating agencies – all of which implies more capital flight.
And, according to many economists, commentators, and journalists, today’s worries are temporary, solvable difficulties.
The idea of targeting nominal GDP has been around since the 1980’s, when many macroeconomists viewed it as a logical solution to the difficulties of targeting the money supply, particularly with respect to velocity shocks.
America’s difficulties in Iraq and beyond contributed decisively to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In the 1990’s, Japan’s government, grossly misjudging the sources of the economy’s difficulties, vastly increased government expenditures on public works, but ignored supply-side adjustments.
One set of problems concerns politics and the difficulties of creating democracy and the rule of law after decades of totalitarianism.
First, the scale of the debt burden built up over close to 20 years of conflict was monumental, amounting to more than $4 billion – three to four times the level of indebtedness relative to income of the most severely indebted European countries currently facing difficulties.
It may make sense for eurozone policymakers to focus on the difficulties that weak external demand and Chinese exports have created for southern Europe.
Without it, some members of the euro zone might have found themselves in the same difficulties as Eastern European countries.
At a time of slow growth, lingering high unemployment, and difficult fiscal situations in some countries, it is understandable that longer-standing members of the EU sometimes focus more on the potentially disruptive difficulties than the opportunities.
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