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NEW YORK – Sometime in the 1980’s, when the communist regime in Poland was facing serious challenges from disaffected masses, the regime’s official spokesman, Jerzy Urban, remarked to a foreign journalist that there were only two choices in Poland: communism or domination by the Catholic Church.
With popular destinations like the United States and Canada cutting back on research and public education and facing the need to raise top tax rates, Europe has a unique opportunity to attract skilled migrants and reduce the exodus of European researchers.
Already the US is facing huge fiscal deficits and a squeeze on popular programs, even before the costs of war and its aftermath are taken into account.
Whereas regulators worry that the merger would lead to higher prices, AT&T argues that it is facing direct competition from tech giants like Netflix and Amazon, which both offer online video streaming and original programming.
The complex challenges facing workers worldwide will require complex solutions.
The challenge facing China as it confronts the problem of excess capacity is that those who would otherwise lose their jobs will require some form of support; firms will argue for a robust bailout to minimize their losses.
They should also help support scientists and universities in the poor countries that will be the key to finding technological solutions to the deepest challenges of disease, low agricultural productivity, and environmental degradation facing the poorest peoples of the world.
With the Islamic State (ISIS), the main inspiration for transnational terror nowadays, facing near-total defeat on the ground, the group is scrambling to use what weapons it still possesses – namely, its ability to inspire young would-be terrorists around the world.
The same can be said for the challenge facing the democratic left.
This is only one of the uncertainties facing the US economy.
Britain Fights BackLONDON – As the world recovers from the Great Recession, the question facing advanced economies is this: How do we deliver sustainable growth and rising prosperity for our citizens?
Fossil-fuel companies and governments are already facing intensifying legal pressure.
By the summer of 2008, both the West and India were facing a Pakistan again in the grip of chaos, its border areas in Islamist hands and its ISI out of the control of the elected civilian government.
What to do with the various rebel groups that “liberated” the country will probably be one of the main challenges facing any new provisional government.
In labor markets, this meant unemployed workers facing prolonged job searches.
Many people suspect that Megawati's inactivity results from her recognition of the almost intransigent nature of the challenges facing Indonesia.
Reigniting Emerging-Economy GrowthHONG KONG – It is no secret that emerging economies are facing serious challenges, which have undermined their once-explosive growth and weakened their development prospects.
Now that prices have dropped, these countries are facing huge imbalances and fiscal strain.
In some ways, Nigeria is plagued with the same problems facing Iraq.
Western democracies are facing serious internal threats – most notably, populist forces espousing dangerous policies like trade protectionism – that have risen largely in response to these systems’ failure to manage problems such as income inequality, political polarization, rising debt, and failing infrastructure.
Partly because of the floods, which will shave off at least 1% from GDP, partly because of the administration’s inability and unwillingness to curb non-essential expenditures, and partly because of slowing export growth, Pakistan is once again facing serious fiscal and balance-of-payments problems.
They could, for example, try to persuade the US to stop selling arms to Pakistan, or secure better access to the American market for India’s highly competitive IT and pharmaceutical sectors, which are facing new US non-tariff barriers.
Sympathy for the MigrantGENEVA – The tragic fate of the several hundred Africans who drowned near the Italian island of Lampedusa in October made international headlines, leading to a rare moment of compassion and reflection about the dangers facing many migrants.
They are also facing huge uncertainties.
It is in Russia's direct national interest to craft a special relationship with America, both to underpin its modernization strategy and to deal with the countless security problems facing Eurasia.
The threats facing the world today are supranational, so counteracting them must be supranational, too.
With Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran topping the list of strategic challenges facing the West, anchoring democracy and security in these new borderlands of the Euro-Atlantic community has become imperative for both the United States and the EU.
However, its members are increasingly facing capital volatility, and there is a sharp decline in the use of Fund resources.
The Fund has no instrument to provide short-term liquidity to emerging markets facing capital volatility.
In Africa’s Sahel region, millions of people are facing hunger for the third time since 2005.
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