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No official has offered criticism analogous to Swedish Foreign Secretary Carl Bildt’s condemnation of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko’s show trial in that country, or US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s frank statements about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s
erosion
of the rule of law.
Europe is in no shape to rise to the challenge of Pax Americana’s erosion, either.
Beyond these three immediate issues were long-run policy challenges: updating the country’s pension system to deal with an aging population and the decline of defined-benefit pensions; improving the education system so that more people would bear the risk of pursuing higher education; and reversing the
erosion
of America as a middle-class society.
Although it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between people fleeing from environmental factors and those who have left for other reasons, we know that climate will play a larger role in migration, as slow-onset threats such as
erosion
and acute hazards such as cyclones threaten more people’s livelihoods.
Nine of the ten countries with the most people living in low-lying areas (who are therefore threatened by flooding, storm surges, salinity, and erosion) are in Asia, owing to mass migration to megacities in recent decades.
Secular capitalism, however, has experienced an
erosion
of values, whereby the financial sector has put its own interests above those of the rest of society.&
But the fact is that the advance of democracy historically entailed the
erosion
of shared values and the rise of individual autonomy.
Socioeconomic advances have come at the cost of an
erosion
of the separation of powers and media independence.
Recovery from the resulting devastation, capital flight, and
erosion
of confidence will take years.
Harder to assess, but potentially far more insidious, is the
erosion
of public trust in core institutions in the advanced economies.
As climate change exacerbates the effects of storms, flooding, and erosion, the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of those people will be at risk.
A healthy coral reef can reduce wave force by 97%, lessening the impact of storms and preventing
erosion.
Perhaps the clearest manifestation of this is the
erosion
of the rule of law in the European Union.
The
erosion
in public support for Bush’s Iraq policy is stark.
One consequence is
erosion
of support for the EU among its member states’ electorates.
And the pace of
erosion
could accelerate in the next two years.
Higher inflation would cause the interest rate on new debt to rise in a way that prevents the
erosion
of the real value of the total debt.
Land conversion for grazing (and construction), together with crop tillage, has also caused soil
erosion
at 15 times its natural rate.
Indeed, at its current pace, anthropogenic soil
erosion
would fill the Grand Canyon in 50 years.
Turkey’s ability to make headway in the Middle East reflects the
erosion
of US legitimacy and lack of EU influence.
But the
erosion
of traditional law remains most pronounced in the international arena.
This challenge is rooted in two developments: the post-colonial and post-Soviet proliferation of states, and the disaggregation and
erosion
of state sovereignty.
Given increasing globalization of business activity; the rising importance of intangible capital that is difficult to price and easy to move (for example, patents and brands); competitive cuts in national corporate tax rates; and the spread of tax havens, income shifting and the resulting tax-base
erosion
have become a major policy concern throughout the OECD.
In response, other developed economies have used a variety of techniques to create “hybrid” territorial systems aimed at countering tax-base
erosion.
As part of comprehensive corporate tax reform that includes a revenue-neutral rate cut, the US Congress is currently considering a hybrid territorial reform and evaluating several measures to counter tax-base
erosion
and income shifting, including those used by other advanced countries.
And achieving food security is impossible without agricultural systems and practices that not only support farmers and produce enough food to meet people’s nutritional needs, but that also preserve natural resources by, for example, preventing soil
erosion
and relying on more efficient nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers.
The resulting
erosion
in Greece’s international standing amplified the hardship that citizens were starting to feel.
This upward trend is likely to reverse, however, if Brexit negotiations with the EU lead to an
erosion
of confidence in the British market.
What can be done about the
erosion
of global democracy and accountability?
As a result, there has been a notable
erosion
of trust in the effectiveness of public institutions.
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