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Reinforcing the ICSID is one of the biggest current challenges facing the World Bank and the international community.
Given the need to cut the deficit in the future and the need to increase it now in order to revive the economy, the problem facing Obama is how to shift smoothly from top gear into reverse.
This precedent offers an important lesson for Thailand and other countries facing intractable insurgencies.
But by stubbornly arguing that that these countries are facing a liquidity crisis, rather than a solvency problem, euro officials are putting entire system at risk.
The other major problem facing NATO is linked to the United States’ loss of the moral high ground.
The Afghan quagmire and America’s image are not the only problems facing NATO.
The challenge facing the delegates at the Brussels convention is nothing less than creating an open, democratic, and yes, greater, Europe.
Facing Nature’s FuryThe Pakistan earthquake continues a streak of shocking natural disasters during the past year: the Indian Ocean tsunami, killer droughts in Niger and other countries in Africa, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Central American mudslides, and Portugal’s wildfires.
Following US President Barack Obama’s refusal to enforce his “red line” concerning the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, the Kingdom’s rulers concluded that they were facing a different America from the one that 22 years ago sent a half-million troops to expel Saddam Hussein’s forces from neighboring Kuwait.
Facing widespread shortages of goods and malfunctioning markets, including for foreign exchange, his government has already lost control of the National Assembly, and the opposition is now seeking to shorten his term by constitutional means.
Now it is up to these elites to respond effectively to the causes of popular anger, or risk facing the eventual emergence of anti-establishment movements, like their American and European counterparts.
The West may be facing some mysterious and unthinkable “change,” intoned the tabloid.
The factors driving the challenges facing the Western democracies today hold even worse implications for China.
So, to determine whether tariffs are actually protecting the value added – wages and profits – in a particular US sector, one must also account for the US value added within imports that are now facing levies.
Under these conditions, the real challenge facing the Arab Spring countries, at least in the short term, is not ideological, but institutional.
To help us better understand the problem, the World Bank and the ONE Campaign recently conducted an unprecedented analysis of the challenges facing women farmers.
Mali, of course, is not the only country facing a fundamentalist insurrection.
Now, citizens are facing higher taxes and cuts to public services.
Rather, Europeans are facing an existential crisis over cross-border solidarity and the definition of "self-interest."
After all, there is almost universal agreement that the crisis the world is facing today – and is likely to continue to face for years – is a result of the excesses of the deregulation movement begun under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan 30 years ago.
Instead, many Ukrainians saw Russia's exploitation of Ukraine as the main problem facing their country.
But perhaps the toughest test facing the ANC’s new leadership will be to reverse the creeping dirigisme that the country has faced in recent years, while steering bold reform.
Pachinko is a kind of pinball game with betting, and the people lined up facing the vertically arranged machines look like they are working in a factory.
To avoid facing retaliation, the offending government is required either to change its behavior or to offer offsetting concessions.
Civil Society UnboundMOSCOW – The challenges facing civil-society organizations are greater in Russia than in many parts of the world, but the challenges facing civil society itself are similar everywhere.
Even some who failed to protect young women – including the boards of directors of USA Gymnastics and Wynn Resorts, and the president of Michigan State University, where Nassar was on the faculty – are facing the music.
Countries like India and Indonesia are now facing possible financial crises, in part owing to large budget deficits, a major component of which has long been food and energy subsidies.
Activation of our "fight or flight" mechanism is an appropriate adaptive response when facing a wolf pack, but not so when struggling to adjust to rotating shifts, monotonous and fragmented tasks, or over-demanding customers.
Full confessions about AUC crimes are also promised, with former paramilitary fighters facing full retribution for withholding information.
The danger in Japan’s game of prime-ministerial musical chairs is that this political wrangling diverts attention from the serious problems facing today’s Asia.
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