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And, while economics presents its own methodological problems, the basic challenges facing researchers are not fundamentally different from those faced by researchers in other fields.
The Global Stake in China’s Anti-Corruption ReformSTANFORD – The recent trial of Bo Xilai highlighted the biggest challenge facing contemporary China: the corruption and abuse of power by some government and party officials.
As a result, the US, Brazil, and Mexico find themselves facing the same problem.
President Shimon Peres, who, unlike Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is skeptical of the utility of an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, spoke of the “threat of extermination” facing Israel.
To him, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is another Hitler, and the world is now facing the same challenges that it faced on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power.
Emerging markets are facing headwinds (owing to a fall in commodity prices and the risks associated with China’s structural transformation and the Fed’s monetary-policy shift) at a time when their own macroeconomic policies are still too loose and the lack of structural reforms has undermined potential growth.
The Last Bastion of a Profitable PressNEW DELHI – Around the world, newspapers seem to be facing imminent extinction, as a mass exodus to the Internet causes their circulation to slump and their advertising revenue to collapse.
In 1956, the UK was facing a speculative attack in the midst of the Suez crisis.
In fact, the biggest threat facing these and many other species is a far more ordinary human pursuit: farming.
The list of problems facing Latin America is long, but the salient themes are easily distinguishable.
The bigger challenge facing India will be to nurture and sustain rapid growth in the long run.
“The potential for an overstretched US facing increased demands,” the NIC argues, “is greater than the risk of the US being replaced as the world’s preeminent political leader.”
Economics in the Age of AbundanceBERKELEY – Until very recently, one of the biggest challenges facing mankind was making sure there was enough to eat.
Facing an extraordinary rebuke from the Bank’s ministerial oversight committee and open revolt from his professional staff, Wolfowitz has faint hope of limping through the last three years of his term.
And for rural households facing slightly higher fuel taxes, it is convenient to believe that climate change is just a hoax propagated by political elites and “the media.”
Unfortunately, Europe is so divided nowadays that the ability to achieve such an outcome is not promising, with new initiatives along these lines facing “increasing political resistance.”
Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election was historic, but it was also symptomatic of bigger challenges facing Americans.
Patients facing long wait lists for treatment bemoaned the hospitals that had not been built.
These developments point to a much larger phenomenon: because of delayed awareness of the complex challenges (and the related slow and partial policy responses) facing much of the West, the low-equilibrium growth pattern that has prevailed in recent years (what has been called the “new normal”) is becoming less stable.
NAIROBI – The International Criminal Court, after facing harsh criticism from the African Union (and threats from AU states to withdraw), finally seems to be paying attention to Africa’s concerns about its approach to trying leaders charged with crimes against humanity.
The reasons behind this remarkable turnaround are instructive, illustrating the challenges facing public-health workers and the best ways to overcome them.
And it looks a lot better than the chaos and tragedy that many refugees are facing now.
For agricultural scientists like me, no issue facing future generations is more important than food security.
As Michael Spence recently warned, the international order’s widening security deficit, reflecting the weakening of whatever global governance we have, is fast becoming the biggest risk facing the world economy.
Putin's Dictatorship of Law Begins LawlesslyBOSTON: Wide agreement exists among Russian intellectuals as well as foreign observers that one of the most important – if not the most important task – facing post-Soviet Russia is establishment of the rule of law, the foundation of democracy and a free market economy.
After all, in 2040, many emerging markets – those that have managed to avoid stagnation or collapse by addressing effectively the considerable challenges currently facing them – will have “emerged.”
Second, companies are facing intensifying pressure to improve their handling of sexual harassment accusations, from their response to initial complaints to their reporting of such responses.
Organizations like Save the Children are facing a reckoning as well.
Another issue that is taking on a new sense of urgency is the relationship between business and politics, with companies facing criticism for their political entanglements.
Bethlehem is no stranger to the challenges facing all of Palestine.
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