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Either proposal would entail amending the UN Charter, which requires marshaling the support of a two-thirds majority of the 191 member states, including the five veto-wielding members of the current Security Council.
For starters, taking the IMF’s preferred-creditor status at face value, an IMF loan would entail substituting its “non-defaultable” debt for “defaultable” debt with private bondholders, because the Fund’s money is used primarily to service outstanding bonds.
Furthermore, some proposals entail no additional funds.
Whatever their short-term benefits and popularity, gestures of such gravity always entail serious long-term consequences.
It will entail a long phase of largely unpredictable violence, which implies a high risk of escalation, even toward global conflict; and it will most likely result in humanitarian disasters on the order of what is happening in Syria today.
Inevitably globalization will entail adopting such standards.
Excessive penalties lead to negative-sum games, in which the debtor cannot recover and creditors do not benefit from the larger repayment capacity that recovery would entail.
But finding something satisfying to do with our time seems inevitably to entail doing some sort of work: “meaningful leisure” wears thin after a while.
China’s evolution will likely entail smaller main streets and malls, with large distribution centers near city limits.
Given that the people who borrow and disburse government funds (typically, as in Detroit’s case, an entrenched political elite) are rarely the ones from whom revenues are later collected, public debt does not entail a willing inter-temporal exchange.
For many years, Mexico avoided service on the Security Council, thinking that a seat there would entail many costs and few benefits.
But US efforts to avoid precisely such an outcome cannot be good news for the Chinese, either, given that they entail a deepening of the bilateral defense relationship and support for upgrading Japan’s military capabilities.
But such rules must entail greater counter-cyclicality and more symmetry, forcing surplus and deficit countries alike to reduce imbalances.
An outcome like that of the second Chechen war – less likely, given the major differences between the two theaters – would entail the installation of a loyalist regime, whether led by Assad or someone else, and the persistence of instability and a rural insurgency.
Such a policy would entail committing to a major increase in spending on research and development, as Asian developing countries have done.
At the time, European integration was valued because it did not entail any de facto loss of sovereignty; on the contrary, the EU offered great socioeconomic advantages, enabling its members to maximize their international influence.
Earlier, it ignored calls for standstills and bankruptcy, saying that that would entail the abrogation of the debt contract.
And central banks in both the United Kingdom and China are coming under new leadership, which might entail new thinking.
Against this backdrop, any effort to change existing arrangements will probably entail striking narrow deals and severely penalizing select imports.
This could entail extending humanitarian, labor, and family-reunification visas, with applications processed overseas.
For Germany, this would entail a payment of up to €4 billion and – anathema!
Most disturbingly, Trump and Bannon’s agenda seems likely to entail policies to weaken, destabilize, or even ultimately dismantle the EU.
But disrupting the status quo might entail considerable political instability.
The Fund’s first initiative, the $1.65 billion Karot hydropower dam in Pakistan, will entail both direct lending to the project and equity investment in the company responsible for building the dam and managing it for 30 years.
In fact, Brexit would entail big economic costs for Britain.
But this would entail reciprocal EU controls on UK migrants, harming Britons twice over.
This approach would also entail import tariffs on British goods – including a 10% duty on its car exports to the EU – as well as non-tariff barriers.
The alternative of an authoritarian ruling coalition of traditional elites is even less attractive to Saudi Arabia’s current rulers, as it would entail lower levels of consumption for ordinary people – and thus, in all likelihood, higher levels of repression.
These complex reforms – which require that both formal and shadow-banking institutions adjust to a new, risk-based environment – certainly will entail some pain; but they are critical to putting China on a stable and sustainable growth path.
In the eurozone, this scenario would entail only nominal progress toward greater integration, with Germany’s continued rejection of true risk-sharing or fiscal union weakening incentives for struggling member countries to undertake tough reforms.
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