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Although recent reports of the International Working Group of sovereign funds have indicated the difficulties in applying uniform governance standards, several measures are needed in order to bring Libya back to global capital markets.
The difficulties intensified when risk aversion in international financial markets increased markedly, owing to other emerging-market defaults.
This broad set of spiraling difficulties has led credit-rating agencies to slash Egypt’s rating.
While it acknowledged that “the EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest,” it highlighted the EU’s role as a beacon of hope – a democratic anchor, particularly meaningful for peoples who have lived through the horrors of dictatorships.
This is partly because of a second key weakness: the difficulties of verification.
But his continuing difficulties with white working-class voters, who in the primaries went with Hillary Clinton, suggest that, perhaps, the “Bradley effect” is still alive and well.
For example, under the Medium-Term Financial Assistance (MTFA) facility, the EU provides liquidity to non-eurozone members in balance-of-payment difficulties and, more recently, also to eurozone countries.
These efforts have encountered difficulties.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
It centers on whether China is best understood as a strong country, with a promising future despite some short-term difficulties, or as a country facing serious structural problems and uncertain long-term prospects.
Some observers, fearing a rising China, will breathe a sigh of relief at its current difficulties.
America’s difficulties in Afghanistan – and the serious problems it faces in harnessing Pakistan’s government to a more robust fight against the Taliban both at home and in Afghanistan – provide an opportunity for these powers to attempt to shift the dynamics of the “Great Game” to their benefit.
Moreover, some aspects of patient management emerged as risk factors for not completing therapy, which suggests difficulties in access to health services for TB patients.
These two simple elements – orderly default and a financing mechanism – could resolve the current crisis within the euro zone: by creating a European Monetary Fund along these lines, the euro area would acquire an institution that could support member countries in difficulties, but that would also ensure that market discipline really worked.
In fact, if one considers those risks carefully, one realizes that all options are not on the table: diplomacy, despite all of its difficulties, is the only solution.
Despite the difficulties that remain, China’s bankruptcy legislation is increasingly adapted to the market economy; the trend is irreversible.
Despite being a period of chronic high unemployment, corporate bankruptcies, and continuing financial difficulties, the 1930’s recorded the fastest productivity growth of any decade in US history.
Businesses that ignore the broader social and environmental context in which they operate are likely to pay a price: reputational damage and loss of brand value, falling sales, difficulties in recruiting talent, lower worker productivity, corruption, tougher government regulation, or an increase in climate-change-related costs.
The EU’s difficulties stem from the fact that the global financial crisis caught Europe midway through a similar process.
But such criticism captures only one small part of Europe’s difficulties.
Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America’s difficulties.
Insurance companies face inherent difficulties in measuring risks, and they must tailor their policies creatively around the human foibles that limit uptake.
As the European Union, despite all its difficulties, embodies the Continent's future, Russia must be integrated with it so that Europe's future will be about trade, capital and technological flows, not defense and security.
Some of the poor do manage to piece together the price of care, but the difficulties of doing so are becoming greater due to medical inflation, currently running at over twice the general rate of consumer inflation.
Still, despite the difficulties of rooting out the very last cases, the progress made against polio has been historic.
Despite financial difficulties in the EU and the US, support for Ukraine’s efforts at reform and modernization is crucial.
On the contrary, America’s current economic difficulties will hit Europe hard, but with a time lag – the best guess being 2009.
In addition, the administrative difficulties of instituting a comprehensive wealth tax are formidable, raising questions about fairness.
Given that Egypt and Turkey are two of the three most populous countries of Islam’s historic core (the third is theocratic Iran), one might infer that their ongoing difficulties have destroyed any prospect of reconciling political Islam with pluralist democracy.
Egypt will face enormous economic difficulties, exacerbated by recent events, which have frightened off tourists, deterred investment, and kept many from working.
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