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The real immediate problem concerns what is happening and what will happen to the dollar.
Banks’ immediate interest is to adjust to the new capital requirements and restore their balance sheets to financial health, which implies that they will use the ECB money in a way that enables them to meet this objective most cost effectively.
The administration arguably devoted most of its counterterrorism efforts not to law enforcement operations, but into “war” in Muslim lands because it failed to keep a cool head in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington.
Lifting these restrictions would not only give the economy an immediate boost, but also increase long-term GDP growth.
At the peak of the floods, the Indian government allocated money from the National Disaster Response Fund for immediate relief.
In fact, the total additional assistance the government has provided – $90 million (with promises of an unspecified additional amount) – amounts to less than half of what the state government was requesting for immediate relief.
Moreover, African inventors hold just 0.1% of the world’s patents, meaning that even when money is spent on science, innovation, and research, the findings rarely translate into solutions for the continent’s most immediate challenges.
With much of its immediate neighborhood convulsed in revolutionary change and in search of a viable road forward, understanding how Turkey moved from cronyism to economic dynamism is vitally important.
In this respect, the fact that the demand for Mubarak’s immediate resignation originated from Cairo’s Tahrir Square rather than from the Obama administration is a positive development.
If oil prices stabilize near their current level, the most immediate risk to the world economy and the bull market in equities will have been removed.
The response from China was immediate and unambiguous.
More borrowed growth – the Keynesian formula – may create the illusion of normalcy, and may be useful in the immediate aftermath of a deep crisis to calm a panic, but it is no solution to a fundamental growth problem.
The Russian proposal forced the West to choose prohibition of chemical weapons as its immediate goal.
Certainly, the immediate effects are likely to be better, especially in countries where little government-to-government aid actually reaches the poor.
First, a trillion-dollar bailout package in May prevented an immediate default by Greece and a break-up of the eurozone.
This historic moment invites us to rededicate ourselves to this European tradition as well, and to admit clearly that there are values that transcend our immediate interest, that we are not accountable solely to our party, our voters, our lobbies or our state but, in fact, to all humanity, including those who come after us, and that the decision on the worth of our deeds will ultimately be made beyond the realm around us.
Liberia’s progress has significance well beyond its immediate borders and those of its neighbors in West Africa.
Americans have traditionally said that, absent a risk of immediate unlawful violence, this form of speech should be protected under the First Amendment.
But the thread that united all, the theme that remained unerringly constant, was the yearning for “change” – immediate, real, and tangible, not a promise or a tantalizing, unreachable mirage.
The US military intervention touches all of R2P’s bases of legality, legitimacy, and likely effectiveness in meeting its immediate objectives.
Yet the immediate consequences of Djindjic's death will be tragic.
The P3 did neither of those things, and paid an immediate price with the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), which withdrew their support from the Libya operation.
The most immediate priority is to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, which is reaching mass-extinction levels.
Almost every economist warned that Brexit would have serious consequences, from the immediate shock – and, indeed, the pound has already dropped to a 31-year low – to longer-term trade challenges.
Western statesmen are right to congratulate themselves on averting an immediate major crisis.
Even if countries avoid the immediate blow of a dollar collapse, they still have to watch for a boomerang effect.
Whether or not these parties succeed at the ballot box in the immediate future, their emergence should cast doubt on overly sanguine views about the euro’s longevity.
The bigger policy uncertainty is about the more immediate prospect that the Fed may soon reduce its purchases of long-term assets – so-called quantitative easing.
Combating disease, hunger, and polluted water would bring immediate benefits to millions and allow poorer countries to increase productivity and break the cycle of poverty.
The single most immediate and direct impact of having an independent fiscal policy would be to reign in spending by producing a counterpoint to Panglossian government growth and revenue forecasts.
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