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In July 2014, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia’s finance, oil and gas, and defense technologies sectors, in response to its military aggression in Ukraine’s Donbas region.
For example, in April, the US imposed additional sanctions in response to Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Its conclusion was that Russia had real and human capital suitable to sustain a growth rate of 8% a year, and that its problem was primarily the distortions imposed by a poorly functioning tax system and the absence of a land market.
Before the advent of democracy in 2000, order was imposed by the iron hand of a corrupt, authoritarian state.
Popular anger at budget cuts imposed at the behest of speculators and bankers has toppled leaders in Ireland and Portugal, and is forcing the Spanish prime minister into retirement.
Putin has explicitly rejected a global order that he believes was imposed by the US in the 1990s, when Russia was weak – an order that, in his view, has run roughshod over his country’s interests.
Fiscal policies should be left with the member states, albeit under the constraints imposed by the EC Treaty (the coordination procedures of Article 99 and the excessive deficits procedure of Article 104).
The Israelis want talks without conditions, even though Netanyahu has imposed his own condition on the Palestinians: recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and acceptance of a demilitarized Palestinian state that does not include Jerusalem and the Jordan valley.
Instead of taking a direct approach – lifting the interest-rate cap imposed on banks – liberalization has been achieved by allowing shadow banking to flourish.
But the regulators clearly doubt their capacity to penetrate the dark recesses of banks’ internal models; so, instead, they have imposed a so-called “output floor.”
Lahoud’s absence is not surprising, as the discussions deal with the fate of his illegal presidency and how to break the deadlock that his continuance in office has imposed on the country.
Greece, for its part, is determined to gain relief from the punitive and counter-productive austerity imposed on it, at Germany’s insistence, by the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund).
Proponents of democracy and economic expansion have missed their best chance to outmaneuver Germany and end the self-destructive austerity that Germany has imposed on Europe.
In the four ministries the Islamists ran, they imposed restrictions on female staff members, triggering widespread protests that ultimately forced the four ministers to resign.
The EU may not have imposed sweeping quotas and tariffs, but powerful “behind the border” protectionism has emerged in the form of subsidies, bailouts, “buy national” injunctions, and new restrictions on foreign direct investment.
The EU has since imposed additional sanctions on judges and other officials involved in punishing protestors, bringing the number of sanctioned individuals to 190.
Regulators could have imposed a floating NAV decades ago; they didn’t because they didn’t foresee a narrative that would make money market funds unstable.
In reality, in far too many countries, ordinary citizens do not benefit from any of this money; in fact, they must bear the brunt of the environmental and social costs imposed by mining and drilling operations.
Attempting to solve a multilateral imbalance with bilateral tariffs directed mainly at China, such as those just imposed on solar panels and washing machines in January, doesn’t add up.
Capital controls--another neo-liberal bugbear--were imposed, and domestic investors looked for opportunities at home instead of in New York or Cyprus or the Cote d'Azur.
Britain was left on the sidelines, and fiscal discipline was to be imposed externally.
Tough budgetary criteria and deflationary policies imposed by the Maastricht treaty are blamed for aggravating Europe’s present slump, exacerbating unemployment, and threatening social stability.
Still, the economic sacrifices imposed on the French to qualify for monetary union are so great that President Chirac cannot let the project fail.
The suggestion that international sanctions are a cause of Zimbabwe's economic woes is ludicrous, as the measures that have been imposed have nothing to do with trade.
Instead of proposing reforms to the electorate and then implementing them on the strength of a clear democratic mandate, the few serious reforms in the past 20 years have been presented as being externally imposed – mainly to comply with European Union requirements.
The answers, if they exist, lie in the slow and painful cleaning up of balance sheets; and in microeconomic restructuring, which cannot simply be imposed from above by an omniscient planner, but requires many businesses and individuals to change their outlook and behavior.
For too long, the Bank’s leadership has imposed US concepts that are often utterly inappropriate for the poorest countries and their poorest people.
In the future, if we discover that some other product causes health problems (think of asbestos), rather than facing lawsuits for the costs imposed on us, the manufacturer could sue governments for restraining them from killing more people.
For all its brutality, even the Soviet imposed transition to communism in the immediate postwar years did not incite a protracted fall in output.
In the south, they protest against the austerity imposed by the north.
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