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In these circumstances, given Russia’s continuing failure to meet the G-8’s political and economic standards, the upcoming summit in St. Petersburg could produce a backlash, eroding the legitimacy, credibility, and relevance of the world’s most developed countries.
Second, failed military solutions in Afghanistan and Iraq have played a large role in undermining the international community’s unity, and eroding confidence in intervention in general, even as established powers cut budgets and emerging powers shy away from taking on new responsibilities.
If the Republicans lose their majorities in either or both houses of Congress, and if Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel in the Russia investigation, presents his findings around the same time, then Trump will feel his power quickly eroding.
Mexico needs nothing more urgently than a period of sustained high growth so as to start eroding endemic poverty.
Money has become a corrosive agent that is eroding and redefining the democratic process, with the mobilization of personal energies giving way to the enlargement of campaign budgets.
For example, the administration could still pursue protectionist measures that would precipitate a trade war, and it has already imposed migration restrictions that will likely reduce growth, by eroding the labor supply.
But the revival of confidence in the financial sector has caused the pound to rebound sharply (by 18% since the end of 2008), eroding the UK’s competitiveness gain.
Between 1971 and mid-1973, the dollar depreciated by 25%, eroding the income position of developing countries.
For decades, IMF programs have been undercutting Pakistan’s productivity and growth potential, by eroding governance and state capacity, and creating conditions for ever more rent-seeking and corruption.
And international support for economic sanctions – particularly on the part of China and Russia – has been steadily eroding since even before the Singapore summit.
With the tax base eroding, owing to a declining population and diminishing private-sector jobs, efforts to boost revenue by raising taxes would have been futile.
Against this background, the credibility of Mexico’s political institutions is rapidly eroding.
All of this is highlighting America’s own challenges, which are being exacerbated by its eroding global economic preeminence and involvement in two overseas wars.
Populist demagogues are arguing that migration is draining national resources and eroding national sovereignty.
Despite their economic costs, restructuring public debt or eroding all public and private liabilities through inflation can be less detrimental options.
Protectionists fail to see how the United States’ eroding industrial base is compatible with the principle that globalization boosts growth.
Further eroding Europe’s effectiveness is its fragmented approach to securing energy supplies.
As the consequences of rising domestic inequality feed through to geopolitics, eroding stability, the need to devise new rules, re-distribution systems, and even global agreements is no longer a matter of morals; increasingly, it is a matter of survival.
On the other side is the danger that a completed “development round” will fail to live up to the high expectations that it has spawned, further eroding the legitimacy of global trade rules over the longer run.
Perhaps spurred by the recent appreciation of the dollar and the first signs that it is eroding net exports, congressional Democrats and Republicans are once again considering legislation to counter what they view as unfair currency undervaluation.
Declining harvests would strain the global food system, increasing hunger and eroding the tremendous progress the world has made against poverty over the last half-century.
John Paul II was one of the decisive forces in eroding the hold of communism on Europe.
Over the last decade, increased shale-gas extraction has driven down the price of natural gas, rapidly eroding coal’s position in the US energy mix.
Central authority is gradually eroding as the country continues to splinter into ethnic and sectarian regions, with a de facto Kurdish sovereign state already well established in the north.
Nonetheless, warnings that the Atlantic partnership is eroding are unduly dire.
Brazilians are tired of being brutalized by public transport in the country’s metropolitan areas; tired of ghastly hospitals; tired of corruption scandals; and tired, especially, of inflation, which has returned like a dreaded disease, once again eroding people’s purchasing power and threatening to return millions to the poverty from which they only recently escaped.
That money must come from higher taxes, from eroding the real value of money balances and government debt through inflation, or from outright default and debt restructuring.
The problem is not that governments lack resources to spend, but that higher government spending, taxes, and debt are eroding economic growth and future living standards.
But, for a US concerned with its eroding manufacturing base, the lesson is already apparent.
But a government that grows too large, centralized, bureaucratic, and expensive substantially impairs the private economy by eroding individual initiative and responsibility; crowding out private investment, consumption, and charity; and damaging incentives with high tax rates.
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