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But very few analyses delve beneath the surface of immediate figures and assess the core of Spain’s strengths and weaknesses.
Externally, India’s immediate neighborhood, with Pakistan teetering, is more disturbed than ever.
The lesson policymakers drew is that Hungary's deep integration into the international economy makes it impossible to pursue soft macroeconomic policies; the impact of such laxity on Hungary's external balances is immediate because international capital markets lose confidence quickly in the country.
To take one notable example, Merkel and Sarkozy once held a summit to forge closer ties with Russia without bothering to consult or include the EU member states in Russia’s immediate proximity.
For the time being, Germany’s main foreign policy priorities are likely to remain the EU and the continent’s eastern and southern neighbors – from which immediate security risks are most likely to emanate.
Germany and its EU partners will be most effective when managing conflicts, stabilizing governments, or supporting economic and political transitions in their immediate neighborhood.
Neighboring Yemen is a much more immediate threat.
Once an entrepreneurial culture takes root, it typically spreads locally, as people learn about business and begin to feel attracted by it – even if it doesn’t yield an immediate or certain payoff.
As long as the status quo persists, with strong global growth and stunning macroeconomic stability, the US can continue to borrow and run trade deficits without immediate consequence.
Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near-death experience for quite some time.
And, if action prevents the problem, the public never experiences the averted calamity, and voters therefore penalize political leaders for the immediate costs that the action entails.
While it must be reformed to accommodate today’s world, all that is needed is a smidgen of the statesmanship shown seven decades ago, when world leaders subordinated their immediate short-term interests to a long-term vision of the kind of world they wanted their children to inhabit.
This contrasts with the approach of some developing economies, which not only face more immediate environmental and social challenges, but also take a “developmental” view of the financial system’s role.
Consider some of the grand bargains of the past, not just in 1963, but in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when liberal-democratic systems were fundamentally reconceived.
The health sector faces fewer obstacles, because it is characterized by immediate threats to human life, easily measurable outcomes, a high degree of sustainability, and a vibrant private sector.
The Swiss National Bank’s unexpected abandonment of the franc’s euro peg on January 15, though posing no immediate financial threat, was an enormous psychological blow, one that reflected and reinforced a massive loss of confidence.
The immediate consequence of attempting to implement these doctrines in Russia was economic collapse.
The first issue concerns not just the immediate question of the terms on which the Chief Executive will be elected in 2017, but also how the Legislative Council should be elected in 2016 and after.
Moreover, because Darfur is emblematic of wider difficulties in the world, the international community must look beyond the immediate circumstances of the conflict and increase efforts to deal with the threats that have played a role in the disaster, such as climate change and environmental degradation.
Furthermore, because these countries no longer faced current-account constraints, they could spend beyond their means without any immediate apparent damage to their economies.
Today’s global economy bears striking similarities to the immediate post-war period: high unemployment, high and rising debt levels, and a global shortage of aggregate demand are constraining growth and generating deflationary pressures.
China’s government, as prone to political maneuvering and policy gridlock as any, appears to agree that immediate economic growth is crucial and that an 8% annual rate is essential.
Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).
But the immediate effect on long-term bond rates has not been encouraging.
Whatever the immediate trigger, the consequences for the US are likely to be severe, for a simple reason: the US government continues to pursue pro-cyclical fiscal, macro-prudential, and even monetary policies.
Colombia’s government has gone as far as it can, in the face of much criticism from its own supporters, in not insisting on immediate disarmament or surrender, but instead offering a cease-fire and the rebels the possibility of reintegration into civil society under international observation.
The European Council in Lisbon ordered further assistance to help alleviate the immediate financial needs of Montenegro.
And, with a rising China seeking to do much the same in its immediate neighborhood (and perhaps farther afield in the future), the movement has a second reason for surviving as a check on the super-powerful.
Both measures had an immediate and profound impact on financial markets.
For far different reasons, the US, and the entire world, seems condemned to simplification of thought, action, and feeling in the service of immediate, quotidian efficiency.
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