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China’s economic slowdown is likely to exacerbate negative perceptions of its assistance.
Unrealistic expectations exacerbate these psychological impediments to progress.
Given this, and the very real danger that other countries could pursue their own exit from the bloc, Trump must not be allowed to exacerbate existing divisions.
Making matters worse, today’s toxic nationalism will exacerbate the economic slowdown that fueled its emergence.
Expected benefits would increase further if we included the chance that potentially higher climate sensitivities would exacerbate damages, even though doing so would require including similarly plausible lower climate sensitivities, which would push in the opposite direction.
Higher poverty rates exacerbate – and are exacerbated by – virtually every other urbanization-related problem, beginning with housing.
Local climate change can, of course, exacerbate the situation, but given the scope for world trade and the existence of surpluses in many food producing areas, democratic governments can deal with the consequences.
At February’s Munich Security Conference, many US senators advocated arming Ukraine – an approach that could exacerbate the situation, given Putin’s conventional military dominance there.
Future-of-work debates often overlook the question of how the labor market will evolve and either improve or exacerbate the skills mismatch that is already acute in developed countries.
Such measures would only exacerbate deflation in these countries, which are the most important markets for German exports.
The massive spending and personnel cuts promised by Trump will exacerbate the shortfall, forcing the federal government to rely even more on state and local authorities to do much of the work.
In the short term, it is important that monetary policy in the US and Europe vigilantly fight Japanese-style deflation, which would only exacerbate debt problems by lowering incomes relative to debts.
Likewise, cutting fiscal support (via government-directed bank lending) to zombie firms would free up fiscal capacity and enable resources to be redirected to new sectors that facilitate services and urban employment; but this would exacerbate – at least at first – today’s demand shortfall.
Similarly, dozens of renowned scientists, NGOs, and international and Australian lawyers have demanded that the WHC counsel Australia not to continue supporting developments that will exacerbate the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef.
But, for all the dramatic headlines, there is a deeper, unreported problem with the UK’s welfare reform: rather than reduce poverty, it could actually exacerbate it.
Ultimately, easy money probably does more to reduce income inequality than to exacerbate it – an observation supported by econometric estimates.
If PiS’s populist slogans become policy, government spending is likely to expand, which will exacerbate Poland’s already weak fiscal position and consequently trigger inflationary expectations.
With high unemployment in many parts of the labor market, downward pressure on wages will further exacerbate the country’s already skewed income-distribution.Labor markets will eventually clear, but this will happen slowly and painfully, owing to skills gaps and other short-term mismatches.
In this context, increased investment would only exacerbate the problem.
Piping clean water without improving sanitation can in some cases actually exacerbate the spread of infectious agents.
In such a deeply divided country, joining NATO by a simple majority vote would merely exacerbate unrest, regardless of Russia’s involvement.
Indeed, economic sanctions not only exacerbate the crisis in Russia; they also negatively affect other European countries.
Trumponomics seems likely to exacerbate America’s saving shortfall in the years ahead.
Either way, such policies will exacerbate the downturn.
The end result would be a tangled network of deals that would only exacerbate the balkanization of the international trading system.
What is clear is that, if it is adopted widely, it could exacerbate trends that are undermining public policy, including governments’ ability to boost economic growth and improve social outcomes.
Indeed, local problems are likely to exacerbate regional tensioins.
But here, his record is weak, and his pronouncements only exacerbate the problem by increasing Iran’s isolation from the global economy.
Large and growing federal budget deficits over the next several years will only exacerbate this problem.
Any Western military intervention would only exacerbate the situation.
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