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Structural reform and privatization have slowed, eroding investors' confidence.
The legitimacy of corporatism is eroding along with the fiscal health of governments that have relied on it.
“Today, many nations,” he warned, “are revising their moral values and ethical norms, eroding ethnic traditions and differences between peoples and cultures.”
Once he dies, China is likely to install a puppet as his successor, potentially eroding the institution.
Since its focus is the “law of laws,” the Assembly implicitly questions the status of all public norms and bodies, thus eroding the political system.
On April 26, 2007, the entire network of governance professionals in the Bank wrote in an open letter to the Board and the President that the leadership crisis was eroding the Bank’s credibility and hampering implementation of this vital agenda.
In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America’s global credit standing.
This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.
Why, for example, does the world pursue a paradigm of economic growth that rests upon eroding the very basis of earth’s life-support systems?
With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago.
Currency devaluation can boost exports in the short term, but it also makes imports more expensive, eroding households’ purchasing power.
Global companies wish to do business worldwide, eroding not just sovereignty, but also racism and prejudice, as well as significantly weakening nationalism.
The authorities’ heavy-handed retaliation for a legitimate inquiry became an international scandal, eroding confidence in the commitment of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to democratic norms.
It is eroding the currency’s purchasing power and, with it, Americans’ living standards.
First, prolonged unemployment destroys not just current but also potential output by eroding the “human capital” of the unemployed.
In countries such as the United States, broad segments of the population lack access to adequate medical treatments, and even democracy seems to be eroding.
Of course, many societies are undeniably experiencing a growing sense of cultural insecurity, not least because many people have been led to believe that external forces such as migration are eroding traditional sources of peace and stability.
And, with the allies’ military operations eroding President Hamid Karzai’s domestic legitimacy, Obama might consider the advice of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who warns that the answer in Afghanistan will have to be more political than military.
Yet, even today, railing at free trade is sufficiently popular that the Trump administration can start eroding one of the best development policies possible.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have launched a mining frenzy on the plateau that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its precious water.
By leveraging their massive purchasing power, big multinational food corporations drive down prices, not only impoverishing farmworkers, but also eroding the profits of the growers who employ them.
Viewed in this context, the recent protests have weakened Iran’s reformers by eroding their monopoly on hope and driving a wedge between the government’s neoliberal policies, intended to address Iran’s economic problems, and its goal of deepening popular support.
Still, clashes between the army and the Republican Guard are further eroding the regime’s coherence.
The area has lost 70% of its original forest cover, and sediment from eroding hillsides has clogged the city’s reservoir, jeopardizing the water supply of Brazil’s largest city.
It cannot, however, be achieved through the back door, by eroding members’ fiscal-policy sovereignty.
But David Wilcox, Director of Research and Statistics at the Fed, and his co-authors argue that the severity and duration of the downturn that began in December 2007 has been steadily eroding the capital stock and the size and skills of the labor force.
But the arrests of so many journalists are eroding this image.
Now the Trump administration is eroding the dollar’s global role.
Indeed, the danger of international conflict has worsened in the past few months, eroding whatever trust existed between the powers.
Tax competition encourages free-riding on public goods, while eroding governments’ capacity to provide such goods.
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