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Europe may be facing another moment of reckoning, and the scenarios are bleak.
While America is facing the limits of fiscal policy, monetary policy can do more, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke detailed in a recent speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Unfortunately, most child brides do not have that option, and end up facing a far bleaker fate.
But the UK economy will be facing significant challenges – all but ignored during the election campaign – even without Brexit.
The greater the political instability, the more acute is the need for a framework that will finally start to address the deep divisions and challenges facing the British economy.
Ours can be the generation that ends extreme poverty, ensures that all people are treated equally, and eliminates, once and for all, the dangerous climate risks facing our planet – but only if the world mobilizes around a shared agenda for sustainable development and ambitious, time-bound SDGs.
But that time is ending, with energy prices rising and the Belarusian economy facing shocks that could provoke unrest and pose a threat to Lukashenko.
After 13 years in power, she has shown herself to be extraordinarily resilient and capable of facing down ambitious macho men.
In other words, governments should be facing a clear choice: behave or leave.
Governments’ Self-Disruption ChallengeLAGUNA BEACH – One of the most difficult challenges facing Western governments today is to enable and channel the transformative – and, for individuals and companies, self-empowering – forces of technological innovation.
Addressing this gap would change the discourse in European politics and policies, not only regarding the sustainability and equitability of the welfare state, but also concerning some of the most divisive issues facing the EU – such as how to handle economic immigration and refugee flows.
Europe’s Left Turns Right on ImmigrationBERLIN – Europe’s established left is facing the threat of extinction.
In some ways, Obama’s candidacy illustrates the problems facing our democracies today.
While education is improving in urban areas, children in the countryside are facing a decline in educational quality, because better teachers find their way to the cities.
Indeed, no one should underestimate the magnitude of the challenge now facing South Africa, the host of next year’s talks, in terms of midwifing a new legally binding agreement to bridge this gap and securing the finance needed to bring the Green Fund into operation.
Another big change has come from fast-growing emerging-market countries, many of which, facing a wall of money coming their way from slow-growth advanced countries (and mindful of the costs that large and volatile capital flows can bring), have chosen to apply capital controls.
Facing the temptation of duplicity, they may become concerned, or even suspicious, that their partners – facing the same temptation – are betraying them.
Brazil is now facing its worst economic recession in 80 years; unemployment stands at almost 10%; annual inflation exceeds 10%; and living standards have collapsed.
The women, facing a crowd of furious men calling them “whores” and other epithets, marched two miles under a rain of abuse and delivered their petition against the law to legislators.
In the interpretation of the IMF and Brazil, there are two main problems facing the Brazilian economy.
With a weak central government facing brutal guerrilla forces, many rural Congolese are forced to survive in a dangerous and cruel environment.
My purpose was not to recommend specific policy actions in particular countries, but to widen the scope of debate about our policy response to the still profound challenges facing the advanced economies.
Foshan’s development offers important insight into the core problem that China is now facing: how to transform a low value-added, manufacturing-based economy into a high value-added, innovation-fueled economy.
Is America facing this third type of recession?
Moreover, while the programs that most donors like – such as micro-credit, formalization of land titles, and governance reforms – have sometimes helped to ameliorate the conditions facing the poor, they have not reduced poverty significantly.
American journalism’s business model is collapsing; the people who should be defending Assange are facing salary cuts or unemployment, owing in large part to the medium that he represents.
Pakistan is now at a crossroads, facing an uneasy moment of truth.
Turkey is facing a refugee crisis that dwarfs the one confronting Europe; a proliferation of terrorist attacks on its territory; and heightened tensions with the Kremlin, following its downing of a Russian warplane near its border with Syria in November.
Africa is facing a bevy of development challenges, alongside a demographic explosion.
Given the divergent interests and problems facing different countries within the eurozone and the EU, together with cumbersome governance structures and the difficulty of treaty changes, this is the path of least resistance for elected leaders – and thus the one most likely to be followed.
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