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Mexico’s oil fields are diminishing, which means that it may need to look for external supplies.
The traditional model of trading financial support for conditionality does not bode well with emerging economies that, despite having strong macroeconomic fundamentals, still need help to cope with external shocks.
Savings rates are between 10% and 20%, and external debt has decreased from 110% of GDP in 2005 to 21% in 2008.
Fears that extending EMU to new states "too soon" would undermine the euro's external exchange rate are irrational.
For the Kim dynasty to survive, the threat of external enemies is essential.
Venezuela used the 2004-2013 oil boom to quintuple its external public debt, instead of saving up for a rainy day.
This is mainly because the region’s labor market is too rigid and thus unable to handle external shocks.
That chance is diminished further by other disruptions, from natural disasters to external interference.
Indeed, as the euro weakens, the periphery countries’ external accounts have swung from deficit to balance and, increasingly, to surplus.
To avoid this outcome, Germany needs to adopt policies – fiscal stimulus, higher spending on infrastructure and public investment, and more rapid wage growth – that would boost domestic spending and reduce the country’s external surplus.
But would it have erupted the way it recently did had Europe not mishandled the eurozone crisis since 2010, imposing quasi-permanent stagnation on Spain and the rest of the European periphery while setting the stage for xenophobia and moral panic when refugees began crossing Europe’s external borders?
Revisionism might turn into outright revanchism as the Kremlin seeks to counter-balance internal weakness with demonstrations of external strength.
Specifically, they should expand individual and collective apprentice-based and vocational programs, modernize their methods for measuring performance, and intensify their efforts to include recent research on the benefits of cognitive diversity and “superadditivity” in internal and external communications.
In areas as diverse as employment and social inclusion, environmental protection and climate change, health, external and internal security, and the fight against illegal migration and poverty in the Third World, European citizens are demanding effective policies.
But if Europe’s political center holds, as expected, the EU will be in a strong position to confront increasingly hostile external forces and move forward with purpose.
Another, more plausible theory is that over the past fifteen years there have been various external challenges or shocks that have hit the country simultaneously.
This theory recalls that of the British historian Arnold Toynbee, according to which empires collapse because they are unable to react to external challenges.
Roughly half of Greece’s external debt migrated from the private sector to official institutions.
In a near-parody of external interventions, the US and Israel encouraged President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah to dismiss the Hamas-led government, and to declare a new Fatah-led government in the West Bank.
But the form of agriculture that they practice, which relies less on external inputs and mechanization, is highly labor-intensive.
There is no safety valve in currency depreciation when the economy is buffeted by external shocks.
Argentina is vulnerable to external shocks such as declining agricultural commodity prices because Argentina failed to develop a diversified export sector, one in which a broad range of industrial and service sectors are internationally competitive.
External challenges do sometimes bring down states.
Ironically, the strength of transnational criminal organizations in Latin America may act as a barrier to external terrorist groups.
Within the eurozone, where until recently external accounts were nearly balanced, a similar creditor/debtor spectrum has emerged, with Germany and the Netherlands at one end, and much of the eurozone south at the other.
External forces, meanwhile, compounded the problem.
Third, countries like Thailand that were running large external deficits, heightening their dependence on foreign finance, are now running surpluses.
That was bad news for Argentina, because Brazil, its main trading partner, will now buy less and sell more, undermining Argentina’s external position.
The policy also helped to expand China’s foreign trade and boost its external financial strength (with a robust balance-of-payments position, large international reserves, and a stable currency), thereby creating space for Li to carry out his ambitious reform agenda.
And China’s external financing activities do not end there.
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