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Meanwhile, last year, 36% of employers worldwide reported facing difficulties in finding talent, the highest percentage in seven years.
With America facing a “fiscal cliff” – automatic tax increases and spending cuts at the start of 2013 that will most likely drive the economy into recession unless bipartisan agreement on an alternative fiscal path is reached – could there be anything worse than continued political gridlock?
All the other awful pressures that are driving so many women into bankruptcy will still exist, but at least more women will be facing these pressures with their eyes wide open, and, one hopes, with many better options.
But they also see an unprecedented level of hostility from the West, with regime after regime seeming to be either in peril or facing chaos.
Increasingly, the challenges Germany is facing have become intertwined; terrorism, the Syrian civil war, Russian aggression, and refugee flows are interacting in dangerous and unpredictable ways.
Already facing sluggish growth before fiscal austerity set in, the so-called “PIGS” (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) face the prospect of a “lost decade” much as Latin America experienced in the 1980’s.
Venezuela has been in financial crisis since long before the oil crunch, and Nigeria is looking a lot like Russia in 1998 – a fragile democracy facing a currency crisis.
Meanwhile, excessive income and wealth inequalities are weakening the fabric of societies; persistent joblessness in advanced countries is undermining productivity and skills; policy effectiveness and flexibility are deteriorating; and the world economy is facing increasing challenges in accommodating the development breakout phase in systemically important emerging economies.
Indeed, though perhaps not on a par with global warming and looming water shortages, obesity – and especially childhood obesity – nonetheless is on the short list of major public-health challenges facing advanced countries in the twenty-first century, and it is rapidly affecting many emerging-market economies as well.
True, over the last 25 years, US per capita growth has been faster; but Japan’s economy is not disfigured by the massive increase in inequality that has left many American workers facing stagnant real wages throughout that period.
Facing re-election and preoccupied with Iraq, President Bush cannot afford a crisis in the Far East.
But President Bush is not alone in facing democratic pressures.
The eurozone and the EU are facing multiple threats, all of which call for a collective response.
Whereas Ronald Reagan was negotiating with the reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev, Trump would be facing the power-hungry Putin.
The challenges facing the world today would have been unimaginable in the twentieth century.
To achieve this Chirac must force a reckoning on the most difficult, neuralgic issues facing the EU right away.
Closing Asia’s Emerging Skills GapSEOUL – Asia is facing a human-capital challenge.
There is no shortage of challenges facing the Arab world.
In mid-April, the Constitution Review committee of Japan’s House of Representatives issued a final report on the fundamental problems facing Japan’s Constitution and submitted it to the Chair of House of the Diet.
NEW YORK – The latest round of tit-for-tat tariffs by the United States and China has intensified the ongoing global debate about whether the world is facing a mere trade skirmish or heading rapidly toward a full-blown trade war.
Because tariffs transmit stagflationary pressures (that is, they encourage simultaneous economic contraction and inflation), they risk undermining a global recovery that is already facing challenges.
The challenges facing both are monumental.
Before the euro, a country facing a public-finance crisis would have been forced into a predictable, hopeless sequence: devaluation of its currency, followed by inflation, which alleviated the public-debt burden.
Eurozone members facing a loss of competitiveness can no longer afford to skirt difficult but necessary reforms through a monetary “quick fix” that shifts the burden onto their trade partners: as always, beggar-thy-neighbor policies reward laxity and penalize virtue.
The problem that emerging and developing economies are facing stems from the fact that their capital inflows follow a strongly pro-cyclical pattern.
Pensioners and those near retirement, facing low income from interest, may cut back further on consumption, weakening the economy.
Are moderate Islamic intellectuals facing increasing criticism and challenge?
Turkey’s powerful military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
The idea that the world’s largest economies are merely facing a short-term panic looks increasingly strained.
This is a strong charge, especially given the huge uncertainties that central banks and treasury officials have been facing.
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