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China is now facing inflationary pressures.
Indeed, the flip side of “a world awash with liquidity” is a world facing depressed aggregate demand.
These numbers reflect the fact that IMF advice to countries facing budgetary pressures emphasizes the importance of sustaining expenditures on health and education.
Indeed, more than a debate over “Islam” and the “Muslims,” Europe needs a serious dialogue with itself over this relationship, for it is facing a crisis.
Muslims are facing a new racism, and they have to strive for their rights, but they should do so alongside their fellow citizens and in many fields: domestic and foreign politics, education, media, and social activism.
Poor and erratic rains have left 2.5 million people facing an ongoing food crisis; some 400,000 children live with acute malnutrition; food prices are rising; and dry wells have left communities dependent on expensive trucked water.
But Americans do need to understand the challenge they are facing from a Russia that no longer seems interested in what the West has been offering for the last 25 years: special status with NATO, a privileged relationship with the European Union, and partnership in international diplomatic endeavors.
Not inflation, but a Japanese-type period of deflationary pressure with ever increasing public debt is the real risk that the world will be facing for years to come.
But, in the distant future, when the financial crisis and the euro’s troubles are long forgotten, we will still be facing the consequences of climate change.
The World Bank has, yet again, downgraded its medium-term projections, and economists the world over are warning that we are facing a “new normal” of slower growth.
Toward a Peaceful PacificMELBOURNE – The Western Pacific is currently facing a difficult problem – how to accommodate China’s rising aspirations in a region where the United States has held primacy since the Cold War’s end.
Brazil is facing its biggest political crisis since the restoration of democracy in 1985.
Ukraine’s election was shaped by an acute awareness of the risks facing the country.
That sometime means making hard choices of the type that the US and many other developed countries are facing now.
Moreover, with Japan and China facing increasing economic uncertainty, they have recognized that it makes sense for the world’s second and third largest economies to remove major political impediments to expanded bilateral trade and investment.
Europe Has Lost its WayWASHINGTON, DC – Europe’s response to the strategic challenges it is facing – Russian aggression in Ukraine, refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East, disorder in North Africa – leaves the impression that its leaders have no idea what to do.
If global leaders can come together to address the challenges and opportunities facing our economies today, we can strengthen our ability to cultivate global and sustainable talent pipelines.
The United States is not alone in doing this, but its refusal to acknowledge the true magnitude of its old-age liabilities has left it facing perhaps the worst impending fiscal crisis of all the advanced countries.
All major non-US developed countries – Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy – are facing long-term fiscal crises, though each has managed to exercise much better control of its health-care spending, and has taken or is taking major steps to contain other spending.
Facing Up to Chronic DiseaseMONTREAL – Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating stroke or a fatal heart attack.
But the detractors overlook an inherent contradiction in the UN’s responsibilities in countries facing civil war.
This is where the challenge facing the economies of Western Europe to strengthen their international competitive position comes in.
At a time when the major emerging economies – with the exception of China – are facing a sharp slowdown, Africa, with its untapped energy resources and precious raw materials, including rare earth minerals, has naturally become a focus of investors’ attention.
Greece’s Two CurrenciesATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in California.
One widespread practice involves two such firms, say, Micro (a small family firm facing a large advance tax payment) and Macro (a publicly traded limited liability company that needs to demonstrate higher turnover than it has).
For reasons I have described, this time the forces of freedom would not be facing one totalitarian enemy.
After three decades of growth on a scale unprecedented in human history, China’s new leaders are facing a historical turning point.
More broadly, as China has declared unconditional Indian troop withdrawal to be a “prerequisite” for ending the standoff, India, facing recurrent Chinese incursions over the last decade, has insisted that border peace is a “prerequisite” for developing bilateral ties.
This time around, however, the task facing China’s government is complicated by political and social constraints.
Pervez Musharraf’s Long GoodbyeISLAMABAD – Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan stands virtually alone today while facing the most serious challenge to his presidency: possible impeachment by the new democratically-elected government.
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