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But unemployment continues to rise in the heavily indebted southern countries, and output continues to lag behind Germany and other northern European countries.
There is a vast difference between unit labor costs – real wages adjusted for productivity – in Germany and in the heavily indebted southern countries.
Production costs in other heavily indebted countries were 20-25% higher than in Germany.
Let all the heavily indebted southern European countries jointly agree to join a weak euro, which would float against the stronger northern euro.
When the weak euro reduces the heavily indebted countries’ production costs by 20-25%, they can rejoin the “hard” euro if they accept fiscal reforms that are subject to approval by the European Commission (and thus by the hard-euro creditor countries).
Restoring a sound euro requires policies that revive growth, rein in government spending, and reform heavily regulated labor and product markets.
Indeed, were NATO and the US military ever to leave Asia, the threat of war would increase, heavily disrupting trade, and Asia’s economic dynamism would not survive.
Greece was heavily indebted when it joined the eurozone in 2001, with government debt at around 99% of GDP.
With developed economies’ competitors, including China, investing heavily in AI, policymakers should be increasing support for basic research and ensuring that their countries have the physical and human resources they need to invent and manufacture everything connected with this major new general purpose technology.
But the authorities remain cautious, given that China’s economic outlook depends heavily on external conditions, which is the source of most current uncertainty.
But Asia cannot be complacent: financial systems remain fragile; economies are burdened with high fiscal and current-account deficits; and Asia remains too heavily dependent on North American and European export markets, increasing its vulnerability to external shocks.
The situation was even worse for Argentina and Venezuela, both of which depend heavily on commodity exports – mainly soybeans and oil – not only to finance imports, but also as their main source of government revenue.
Consider Chile and Peru, both of which depend heavily on copper exports.
But, up until the 1970's it was never heavily encumbered by debt.
The World Social Forum, which met this year in Bombay, India, is another useful body that is generating alternative proposals to overcome the dire situation of the heavily indebted countries.
Worse, the costs of this shift to developing countries will fall on advanced economies’ coal-producing states and energy-intensive manufacturing sectors, and these costs will be only partly offset by heavily subsidized renewable energies.
Their examples will test whether other European democracies with heavily benefit-dependent populations can rein in the welfare state’s excesses.
Again, this is a risky proposition, given that elderly, middle-class, and low-income Americans rely heavily on these programs.
Many banks in Serbia and other transition countries in Europe rely heavily on funding from their eurozone parent institutions.
This will lead to higher unemployment, with inevitable social strains and further stress on already heavily burdened state coffers.
Skeptics caution that Britain relies heavily on exports of financial services, which are not especially price-sensitive, and that the scope for growth of merchandise exports is limited by the subdued global demand.
Like now, the country relied heavily on exports of services – not just banking services but also shipping and insurance.
These findings weigh heavily against the hypothesis that “austerity” has brought Greece to its present plight.
Increasing capital inflows weigh heavily on import-substituting and export sectors, and may even wipe them out if the appreciation is substantive and protracted.
The victory of Hollande, who has said that he wants to “renegotiate” the European Union’s new, German-backed “fiscal compact,” will weigh heavily in this debate.
He did not dwell on the diversion of American corn from food to heavily subsidized bio-fuels.
The professor would then launch into a long and tortured exegesis that will ultimately culminate in a heavily hedged statement: “So if the long list of conditions I have just described are satisfied, and assuming we can tax the beneficiaries to compensate the losers, freer trade has the potential to increase everyone’s well-being.”
After 1947, Turkish politics was heavily influenced by the Cold War.
But the rules of the US corporate game – heavily influenced by directors and their lobbying organizations – usually allow directors to spurn outside offers, and even to block shareholders from selling to the outsider.
It has managed to sustain its terror operations in Europe despite being heavily bombarded since 2014, because it has been able to draw from relatively small subsets of more than 5,000 Europeans who have joined the fight in Syria.
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