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“Well, my dear and old country, here we are again facing a heavy test,” he said.
Unemployment remains high because Europe cannot afford the job guarantees, heavy payroll taxation, short work weeks, and high-take-home pay (especially for lower skilled workers) that it aspires to.
This threat took a heavy toll on the ECB’s credibility, since an interest-rate hike in the midst of the most serious financial crisis in decades was obviously absurd.
First, highly indebted countries should be allowed to swap existing debt for new bonds issued at a heavy discount.
If America’s trade disputes reduce confidence in the dollar, many economies will pay a heavy price.
North Korea, which has so far refused to capitulate to international pressure, has paid a heavy price as global pariah, choked by economic sanctions.
Moreover, the brutal paradox of climate change is that heavy precipitation is occurring more often as well, increasing the risk of flooding.
The departure of the US military from Iraq, particularly those forces that helped to pacify Anbar against heavy odds, is permanent.
The bad news is that directed lending and the relaxation of credit standards in China, particularly after the crisis, have led to investment in assets in real estate and heavy industry with a value well below the cost of creating them.
China’s leaders are placing heavy emphasis on pollution control.
Such a well-educated and mobile population is essential to Cyprus’s business model, in which high-value accountancy, banking, and legal services compensate for the country’s lack of agriculture and heavy industry.
Still, heavy security makes the system relatively cumbersome to use, and just maybe governments might adopt one of today’s private digital technologies.
Taken together, these appointments demonstrate the new Chinese leadership’s emphasis on pro-market reforms and a shift from heavy industry to greater reliance on consumption and services.
More consumption and less heavy industry will also reduce China’s demand for raw materials, dampening global commodity prices.
China’s state-owned enterprises are powerful forces in the economy, with substantial political influence; they will resist the shift from heavy industry to services.
In many of the HIPCs, we find heavy spending on urban hospitals and higher education relative to basic health care and primary education.
The IMF-supported program, despite heavy criticism, eliminated most of them.
First, the industrial enterprises must be relieved of their heavy debt burden.
Pakistani leaders obviously bear a heavy responsibility for this state of affairs.
Most South American countries are heavy commodity exporters, and the Asian crisis drove down world market prices for a wide range of commodities, including oil, copper, and agricultural products.
The US is not allowed under the UN Charter to organize an alliance, fund mercenaries, and smuggle heavy weapons to overthrow another country’s government.
Under heavy pressure from Congress, that requirement was gutted in 2014.
Throughout the world, standards for reporting national-accounts statistics focus attention on a linguistic construct, official debt, rather than on the economically meaningful infinite-horizon fiscal gap, where pension and health-care liabilities exact a heavy toll.
But nuclear attack carries its own heavy burden.
Kunstler’s view is harsh, but perhaps prophetic: India’s “climate-change-related problems are doing heavy damage to the food supply.
The heavy social and financial costs of an expensive bailout or a disruptive restructuring could thereby be avoided.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that governed Mexico uninterrupted for seven decades (until its recent loss of the presidency to Vincente Fox) had been a strong advocate of government ownership of heavy industry, prohibitive duties on imports to protect domestic companies, and detailed regulation of labor and financial markets.
Given the heavy volume of concessionary loans provided by China, concern about African countries’ future debt burden is growing.
The army has also paid a heavy price for Musharraf’s approach to the war on terror.
It is now Japan, however, that is doing the heavy lifting of modernizing Myanmar’s economy.
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