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The second major issue facing China during the urbanization process is the conflict between rural landowners and local governments – a highly combustible dynamic.
In short, the key challenges facing Asia today are to sustain economic growth – at lower, but still enviable, rates – and to improve its quality.
A country of 9.5 million people, it is providing refuge to 2.9 million non-citizens, including 1.265 million Syrians, and facing the influx of additional Syrians uprooted by Russian bombing.
But we are facing a looming challenge.
This, not the unsustainable imposition of quotas, is the real monetary-policy challenge facing China today.
Does authenticity involve facing the anxiety and anguish that Jean-Paul Sartre thought was the inevitable companion of freedom and responsibility?
In other words, the transition we are facing is bigger than any one country or organization can manage alone.
Finally, one of the most severe challenges facing contemporary societies is figuring out what to do with tens of millions of retirees as life expectancy continues to climb.
So what does all this say about the future, including the key issues facing Yellen?
What these countries are facing is a test of leadership, which they may pass or fail.
As it stands, defense of Schengen’s external borders is up to individual member states, including one, Greece, that is already facing a devastating economic crisis.
The result has been the emergence of some surprising, if not bizarre, alliances: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the American-backed, Shia-dominated Iraq are facing Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of the other Sunni Arab states, all of which feel existentially threatened by Iran’s ascendance.
The country is facing a severe shortage of money, which could lead to a serious financial crisis, in addition to the ongoing and dramatic military crisis.The EU’s difficulty in devising a concrete financial commitment stems from its dearth of financial means.
The country is facing a severe shortage of money, which could lead to a serious financial crisis, in addition to the ongoing and dramatic military crisis.
Today, real growth is subdued and may even be slowing, while inflation is below target in most places, with some economies even facing the risk of deflation.
With the world facing a serious water crisis, rapidly increasing global temperatures, staggering population growth, and growing health problems like coronary disease, this must change – and fast.
The security issues facing the region, from the Korean peninsula to the outcome of the upcoming elections in Myanmar (Burma) this autumn, have grown more pressing – perhaps all the more so in view of reports that North Korea is assisting Myanmar’s ruling generals to develop nuclear capabilities.
But they also must acknowledge and attend to the post-crisis challenges facing the region as a whole.
One often hears people saying that the true problem facing Denmark – and, in particular, its political class – is that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt lacks Nyborg’s strengths.
By exposing the fundamental challenges and anxieties facing a society, a TV series can, at times, almost prefigure the future.
The US is facing, albeit in somewhat weaker form, a similar problem.
But, since the de facto invasion of Ukraine in late August, her government has changed its position on Russia, and she has sought to convince many critics that she knows the problems facing Europe well (her university thesis, for example, was about political Islam).
In his “burning platform” memo, Elop compared Nokia to a man on a burning offshore oilrig, facing a fiery death or an uncertain leap into the frigid sea.
Global-governance institutions are facing many challenges: slowing economic growth, volatile financial markets, falling commodity prices, emerging-economy risks (especially in China), refugee and migrant waves, geopolitical tensions, rising inequality and social fragmentation, and the threat of violent extremism.
Putting Public Health at the Center of the Struggle against PovertyCAMBRIDGE: One great challenge facing humanity is reducing the huge gaps in income and wealth between the world’s haves and have nots.
It was possible to experience being a refugee through a virtual reality headset, – or through the actual experience of donning a headscarf and spending 75 minutes being treated like a refugee and facing heart-wrenching choices in a simulation created by the Crossroads Foundation.
Optimism about the Syrian people's future must be tempered by realism about the challenges facing Syria's opposition movement and the international community alike.
According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain drain (loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.
Building bigger, more integrated sub-regional markets that are deeply embedded in the global economy is one of the most urgent tasks that we are facing.
As it stands, the renminbi is facing significant depreciation pressure, caused largely by a surge in capital outflows.
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