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According to the International Monetary Fund, more than 45% of low-income countries are either in or near debt distress.
By raising the bargaining power of agricultural labor, the act’s passage has led to higher farm wages, greater purchasing power for the rural poor, and lower distress migration.
Tragedy: the word signifies not only suffering and distress, but the impossibility of redemption.
And it is the price of risk that is the source of our current distress.
From the vantage point of the European Central Bank, which is coping with another round of distress in the periphery (primarily in Italy, where the frailty of the banking system is fueling capital outflows), the euro’s weakness is a godsend.
Widening income inequality can add to this distress, but so can other factors, which explains why people at all levels of the income distribution are experiencing anxiety.
The hope is to reduce acute emotional distress and prevent the onset of post-trauma psychiatric disorder.
In some institutions interventions are compulsory - perhaps out of a desire to reduce psychological distress, but also from a belief this will reduce exposure to litigation.
Perhaps debriefing serves merely to professionalize distress - part of the wider process nowadays by which adversity has been professionalized.
Second, no matter how well meaning our attempts to reduce distress and prevent psychiatric disorder, and no matter how self-evident the intervention, we still require firm proof of the benefits.
For example, most mammals must be slaughtered by a method that minimizes their pain and distress as much as possible.
New money should go to good performers, not just to those who are experiencing debt distress.
Funds must be made available to help host and transit countries house, educate, and employ migrants in distress.
Unlike 1929, there were (and are) no obvious macroeconomic answers to financial distress.
The new rules require that no more than 30% of bankers’ bonuses be paid in cash, that between 40% and 60% be deferred for at least three years, and that at least 50% be invested in “contingent capital,” a new form of debt that converts to equity when a financial company is in distress.
But there are several reasons to question the link between populist politics and economic distress.
It will also fund micronutrients and parasite treatment for all students and the food, water, hygiene, and human care critical to children’s development, especially during times of distress.
Quickly out of ammunition when the Great Crisis hit in late 2008, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke embraced the new miracle drug of quantitative easing – a powerful antidote for markets in distress but ultimately an ineffective tool to plug the hole in consumer balance sheets and spark meaningful revival in aggregate demand.
But we should be wary of attributing populism solely to economic distress.
Or does every distress Russia suffers bring it closer to real democracy where free elections lead to a strengthening of the law?
But are multiple downturns so unusual in periods of severe economic distress?
In times of distress, private-sector mistakes often become public-sector obligations.
Since then the broad consensus in the US has been that cyclical economic distress requires the use of budget deficits to ameliorate suffering, stimulate aggregate demand, and hasten recovery.
For the emergence of this vast and growing pool of state-controlled funds may have implications more far-reaching, and certainly more politically sensitive, than the hopefully temporary distress caused by the subprime crisis.
In Central and Eastern Europe, foreign banks extended euro- and Swiss franc-denominated corporate, home, and car loans to firms and households with incomes in local currency, which added to corporate and household financial distress when local currencies tanked.
But, given Germany's economic distress, which looks likely to worsen given the country's demographic problems, the Social Democrats are now condemned to give wealth creation priority over redistribution.
It is finally confronting the beast that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan unleashed over 30 years ago: the “Greenspan put” that provided asymmetric support to financial markets by easing policy aggressively during periods of market distress while condoning froth during upswings.
But the Fed mistakenly believed that what worked for markets in distress would also spur meaningful recovery in the real economy.
Anecdotes about Francis – from his propensity for making personal phone calls to those in distress to his decision to wash the feet of criminals, Muslims, and women (to the horror of some churchmen) – ring true.
The counterpart of here, because exchange rates always ride on differential performance, is a continued poor supply side performance in Europe and Japan’s ongoing and pervasive economic distress.
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