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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health-care costs push as many as 100 million people below this line every year, with 150 million others facing “catastrophic health-care costs,” defined as healthcare spending that consumes 40% of the household budget after basic needs have been met.
ClimateWise, a global network of insurance industry organizations, has already warned that the world is facing a $100 billion annual climate risk “protection gap”.
In our European Security Strategy, it was deemed one of the key strategic threats facing the European Union, and to fight it we are using all instruments at our disposal, particularly in the intelligence area.
It now seems clear to almost everyone that one key challenge facing the eurozone stems from the fact that it is a monetary union without being an economic union, an arrangement that has no counterpart anywhere.
And yet, as Ukrainians work to rebuild our country after Viktor Yanukovych’s predatory rule, we are facing a new threat, in the form of a “peace offensive” – that old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to undermine Western resolve.
Neither the West nor NATO constitutes the decisive strategic threat facing Russia, which comes from the Islamic South and from the Far East, in particular the emerging superpower, China.
Most advanced economies around the globe are facing similar problems.
If you are a dictator facing sustained political protests, be as brutal as possible and incite sectarian killing.
Indeed, the country could be facing catastrophe, as Hollande’s actions risk miring the economy into sustained stagnation and driving an increasingly angry French public to elect the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen as his successor.
Moreover, the tumult is now threatening to spread to two more nearby countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, which already are facing myriad internal challenges.
The Middle East is not just facing the possible triumph of a force that seeks to achieve its strategic goals by mass murder and enslavement (for example, of Yazidi women and girls).
While there were some faint trails here and there, it was clear that people were facing such harsh economic conditions that they could barely purchase any food to cook.
A stronger exchange rate discourages exports, and when an economy is facing rising unemployment, it can make a bad situation worse.
Moreover, US President Barack Obama, facing an election in November, does not wish to be accused of being soft on Iran, making it difficult for the West to reciprocate potential Iranian overtures.
Jordan and Turkey, which have also embraced the double-shift model, are facing similar dilemmas.
The actors in the Spanish drama are facing what political scientists call a social dilemma: either side gains from selfish behavior unless the other side behaves selfishly, too, in which case both sides lose.
But the adversary facing the NATO alliance today is much more difficult to grasp and to fathom than before, though its sources are terribly familiar.
At the same time, our new status helps us to better understand that freedom is not a gate to egoism but, primarily, an occasion for solidarity and a call for responsible conduct in the face of threats of the type which NATO is now facing in Kosovo.
The one argument that seems – at least superficially – to put the public interest first is that an involuntary restructuring might lead to financial contagion, with large eurozone economies like Italy, Spain, and even France facing a sharp, and perhaps prohibitive, rise in borrowing costs.
Today, India is facing a similar transformation, only it is happening at 100 time the pace.
In particular, NATO is facing a real challenge in Afghanistan, where self-imposed restrictions deprive NATO of the possibility of success.
For starters, domestic politics can pose an obstacle to participation in international treaties, especially when policymakers facing re-election are dependent on the support of interest groups with goals that run counter to the public’s welfare.
The situation is all the more uncertain in view of a problem facing the PPP.
The Eastern Partnership is not an answer to all the problems and difficulties that the six partners are facing.
From an economic standpoint, with China increasingly exposed to the discipline of international trade and facing an economic slowdown, the argument for reining in corruption is as strong as ever.
Europe’s Three Fault LinesPARIS – Ten or 20 years ago, the existential question facing the European Union was whether it still had a purpose in a globalized world.
And, since feminism is simply a logical extension of democracy, the Middle East’s despots are facing a situation in which it will be almost impossible to force these awakened women to stop their fight for freedom – their own and that of their communities.
Indeed, though the Middle East is facing an abundance of challenges to its stability, none is as large, dangerous, and immediate as the Islamic State.
So the strategic challenges facing the EU are vast.
Another pressing challenge facing Europe is immigration.
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