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Europe and Japan are both facing difficult challenges, including rapidly aging populations and sputtering economies.
Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government’s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.
At a time when even a long-standing EU member state like Greece is facing deadly street riots, some European governments worry that withdrawing hope from a region with a recent history of violent conflict could be dangerous.
National Security BabiesWASHINGTON, DC – From the emergence of the Islamic State to Russian expansionism and China’s rise, there is no shortage of national-security challenges facing the United States.
Food Security Rests on TradePARIS – From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition.
Addressing the challenges facing Ukraine will require policymakers inside and outside of the country to work together to stabilize the country’s economy, protect its territory, and create space for reforms, while seeking to improve cooperation with its powerful eastern neighbor.
If former debtors, facing diminished pressure from major creditors or risk premia, adopted less prudent fiscal policies, their public debt would continue to accumulate.
Today, monetary policy has become subordinate to fiscal policy, with central banks facing intensifying political pressure to keep interest rates artificially low.
As French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently wrote, the key question facing Europe’s leaders is whether to “give up and leave the European project to a slow but certain death” or to “transform the EU.”
Egypt’s economy is facing continued risks, owing to capital flight, rising inflation, unemployment, and populist policies.
The problem, of course, is that no country can be productive enough to reinvest 50% of GDP in new capital stock without eventually facing immense overcapacity and a staggering non-performing loan problem.
This will be an exciting time to be a scientist or engineer facing the challenges of sustainable development.
Without impersonal, general norms and their enforcement by independent judicial authorities, according to this view, little development, if any, is possible, because the risks facing both labor and capital – including corruption, arbitrariness, and rigid traditions – will be too high.
Yet, by forcing the BOJ to follow in the misdirected footsteps of the Fed and the ECB, that is precisely the risk that Abe and Japan are facing.
Even the principal Kurdish parties are facing a challenge from an independent party, Goran, and are likely to incur some losses to it.
But the challenges facing May, Macron, and Merkel would be difficult for even the most competent leader.
Of course, as the murders show, Colombia remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges.
Bernanke regularly warns of the dire consequences of not facing the country’s fiscal problems head-on.
While Syrians have been facing death, violence, and displacement for more than two years, the international community has been busy debating the nature of the Syrian rebels.
The most explicit call for the use of dollar reserves to finance a major program of infrastructure modernization has come from India, which has a similar problem to the one facing China and Japan.
Nature-based solutions may not be sufficient to solve all of the challenges facing a particular city.
If Europe can’t or won’t answer that question, all of the other questions and crises it is facing may well become irrelevant.
How we can help more of the world’s poorest countries emulate South Korea’s success is one of the most important questions facing the world today.
PRINCETON – The European Union is facing a truly terrifying array of crises.
While there is no shortage of challenges facing economies and societies today, they should not be allowed to obscure positive long-term trends.
Jordan: The Fire Next DoorJordanians are facing sleepless nights as the siege of Baghdad proceeds.
In South Africa, another great party of national liberation – the African National Congress, which helped to bring about the downfall of apartheid – is facing similar rot.
Indeed, Japanese Sumo circles are now facing growing public infamy, causing many Japanese to wonder if the country, after 20 years of stagnation, is capable of purifying itself.
Today, the most important issue facing Nato concerns whether or not to admit the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – now, after some delay, or never.
Preventive measures to protect people and property were not carried out despite FEMA’s own conclusion in 2001 that a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was one of the three “likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country.”
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