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As employee satisfaction becomes more widely reported, companies are facing pressure to ensure good working conditions in order to recruit the talent they need.
Furthermore, the US – hesitant to face yet another foreign-policy disruption, much less offer assistance or deploy troops, and facing other hotspots where vital national interests are more at stake – has contributed, albeit discreetly, to a negotiated settlement.
The region is facing problems that are simply too complex and deep-rooted to be addressed with isolated, top-down solutions.
In addition, Lagarde has identified, and acted on, three of the most important challenges facing today’s world.
Latin America in the Second Machine AgePANAMA CITY – At the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Panama City, business and government leaders will discuss the economic challenges facing the Western Hemisphere, especially how to support inclusive growth in the wake of the commodities bonanza that endured for the better part of the last decade.
For a region that arrived late to the Industrial Revolution, this is not a trivial question – especially at a time when many Latin American economies are facing daunting challenges, stemming from the end of the commodities boom.
A New World ArchitectureNEW YORK – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism.
But banks facing possible liquidity problems – which the Fed wants to be able to borrow at 5.25% – are borrowing from the Fed itself at 5.75%, as are a few big banks that want more liquidity but don’t believe they could get it without disrupting the market.
Today, the global economy is facing many known unknowns, most of which stem from policy uncertainty.
Some might blame France’s rejection of Hollande and Sarkozy on the challenges facing Europe today.
The question facing the Tsipras government is thus whether the next haircut will be more therapeutic than the last.
The task facing the IMF is formidable.
The demographic challenges facing advanced economies are slight in comparison.
On the other hand, increased automation could be a huge barrier to economic development for countries still facing rapid population growth.
With Africa’s population likely to increase by more than three billion over the next 85 years, the European Union could be facing a wave of migration that makes current debates about accepting hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers seem irrelevant.
Ensuring that women are educated and free is by far the most important demographic challenge facing the world today.
But the new regime, facing continued unrest, eventually allowed multi-party democracy.
In contrast, if history is a guide, a policy mix characterized by financial de-regulation (a Trump favorite) and an independent central bank facing potential full employment and overheating would be a harbinger of higher interest rates.
The recent onslaught against free speech and Western values reflects the central political challenge facing President Xi Jinping, who must transform a one-party system enfeebled by greed and mistrust into a well-ordered, ideologically united regime capable of carrying out market-based reforms and sustaining its own long-term survival.
Besides the never-ending anarchy of neighboring Somalia, the regional challenges facing Ethiopia and its long-serving prime minister, Meles Zenawi, are daunting.
The World Bank, which engaged in a similar decentralization a while back, has become better at serving its clients as a result (without facing difficulties in recruiting top talent).
But the extreme heat will return, with cities facing particularly brutal conditions.
Yet, facing the possibility that Ecuador might grant Snowden asylum, the US felt the need to scramble, with Vice President Joe Biden personally pleading America’s case to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, even after Obama announced that he would not engage in “wheeling and dealing” over the extradition.
Feeding, clothing, housing, and otherwise providing for this massive net addition to the global population is one of the main challenges facing humankind.
Although the issues immediately confronting developing countries are different from those facing the rich countries, in our globalized world, demographic challenges anywhere are demographic challenges everywhere.
The task facing the world is to meet the environment’s “carbon constraints” while creating the growth necessary to raise living standards for the poor.
How to deal with Russia on security issues – particularly on energy security – is one of the most divisive issues facing the EU.
In this context, China is not facing a choice between Keynesian stimulus or supply-side reform, but rather a challenge in balancing the two.
As if that were not enough, farmers are facing increasingly volatile climate conditions that increase the likelihood that their crops will fail.
Carter was facing re-election, and he enjoyed a comfortable lead over rival Ronald Reagan.
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