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Low returns on SWFs’ earlier investments reduced their
existing
assets, while low commodity prices and a contraction in international trade reduced the accumulation of foreign currency reserves that usually constitute the bulk of new capital flowing into SWFs.
There are no supply-siders in Italy except the referendum-rebels; in Italy everybody near government is playing the end game of accepting the
existing
system and getting the maximum out of it.
Nevertheless, the benefits are real: while there is little evidence that microfinance sets substantial numbers of poor people on the path to riches, it does help the poor save, smooth consumption, deal with emergencies, and expand
existing
businesses.
A private actor with a new idea often needs government approval to start up; and firms that enter an
existing
industry must compete with incumbents that usually already have government support.
This is not to say that
existing
aid programs are perfect.
Moreover, human-driven climate change threatens to intensify
existing
pressures affecting food supply and migration.
What is needed is not just a politically tolerable adjustment to
existing
policies, but rather root-and-branch reform that emphasizes real results.
But, to avoid entering into new agreements that merely re-state or re-negotiate
existing
commitments, world leaders must act now to lay the institutional and legal groundwork for operationalizing previous proposals and make further progress.
International cooperation on migration should be founded on
existing
intergovernmental agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2013 Declaration of High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
Migration is a multidimensional issue; it requires a comprehensive approach that also respects
existing
national laws and regulations.
But
existing
efforts to alter the situation remain woefully inadequate.
While tackling climate change effectively will be virtually impossible without civil-society organizations’ participation, their impact has often been undermined by the political considerations of their governments, which may, for example, favor incumbent energy suppliers over green alternatives in order to preserve
existing
jobs.
The solution is a version of the deal that Clinton sought: two sovereign states based on the 1967 borders, with negotiated land swaps to reflect
existing
settlement patterns.
In developed economies, construction can add only a relatively small amount each year to the
existing
stock of housing.
With populations stagnating (or declining in many parts of Europe and Japan), the
existing
stock of housing is exchanged among different parts of the population, and typically bequeathed from old to young.
The situation is different in emerging economies, where the quantity and quality of the
existing
stock of housing is woefully inadequate.
Moreover, most of the
existing
housing tends to be in rural areas, whereas most of the jobs are in the cities.
Once too many houses have been built, the
existing
overhang depresses the market for a very long time, and unemployed construction workers are usually unable to find jobs elsewhere.
Now this competitive process, not only is capable but is actually meant to endanger
existing
structures and vested interests that no longer serve the purpose of demand.
In other words, a competitive process is a process that induces change, even if the
existing
structures and vested interests would like to eliminate change in order to continue their existence.
China's mistake has been excessive attachment to
existing
economic structures which have turned deeply counterproductive and need to be dismantled very fast before the loss in the population's confidence pushes the economy much deeper under water.
The
existing
paradigm serves to rigidify decision-making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.
They can be seen almost everywhere, including in the world’s oldest
existing
democracy, namely the United States.
APEC members, too, should use the
existing
umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.
And, finally, we need to develop new treatments that use alternative doses and combinations of
existing
drugs.
And, indeed, the legacy of Third Reich hyper-chauvinism and “actually
existing
socialism” in the eastern part of the country has inculcated in most Germans a cautious centrism, rendering extremist parties unsupportable for the majority of voters.
China cannot fix its economic problems merely by pulling the right combination of
existing
policy levers.
What do
existing
institutions like the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or the African Union want for the international rules-based system for the future?
China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of
existing
stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.
Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the
existing
international order – continues to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which applied to join in August.
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