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An economy hit by a shock does not maintain its buoyancy; rather, it becomes a leaky balloon.
In fact, this is probably the true motivation of Europe's free public university system: to maintain the state's monopoly on higher education.
As for the new state, it should be obligated to maintain at least the same level of fiscal transfers as before.
This model has inspired many others outside of South Africa, not least in countries still ruled by authoritarian regimes that use fear tactics to maintain their grip on power.
The correct answer to the latter question – as the IMF suggests – may be the Ministry of Finance: the only sure way for Russia to reduce inflation and sustain growth is to maintain a sound fiscal policy.
Other countries could change their exchange rates, and in this way could maintain greater export competitiveness.
He may maintain a focus on Asia, but with a more militarized approach.
But if the movement for progressive federalism continues to gain momentum and push through meaningful state- and local-level reforms, federal lawmakers will not be able to maintain the status quo indefinitely.
It is imperative to maintain momentum on advancing global development issues and implementing the Millennium Development Goals.
We need a sustained global commitment to disarmament and continued common efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction in order to maintain the credibility of the collective security system.
To reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to 70%, Greece would have to maintain an average primary surplus of 4% for the next 30 years, a level that it has temporarily achieved in only four of the last 25 years.
The Rise of Mid-Level PowersThe security environment since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States has clearly demonstrated the limits of the United Nations, or even the US as the world’s sole military superpower, to maintain international security.
According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
And economists have started to calculate that if China were to continue its prodigious growth rate, it would soon occupy far too large a share of the global economy to maintain its recent export trajectory.
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
This helped maintain Australia’s exports and kept the economy growing at around 2% per year, while Argentina’s economy has been shrinking at around 2% per year.
The debt crisis in the euro area has highlighted the unwillingness or inability of politicians to maintain a fiscal policy consistent with the stability requirements.
But consider individual countries: some run a large foreign debt, while others maintain a large creditor position.
It admonishes us to maintain a healthy, nutritious diet.
But, despite this understanding, the major central banks continue to maintain extremely low interest rates as a way to increase demand and, with it, the rate of inflation.
Another possibility is that the world's major central banks are actually more concerned about real growth and employment, and are using low inflation rates as an excuse to maintain exceptionally generous monetary conditions.
The EU and NATO are unable to expand farther, even though they may want to maintain post-Soviet countries’ interest in membership in order to prevent their possible return to Russia’s orbit.
Nonetheless, Liberals and Colorados in Congress used the violence in Curuguaty to justify Lugo’s impeachment, arguing that he had failed to maintain social order and portraying him as a dangerous radical intent on fomenting a rural insurgency.
So the lesson is that we must allow equity holders to lose money sometimes in order to maintain a healthy financial system.
China needs to avoid the pattern by which past neglect of the service sector creates a class of incumbents who use political means to maintain their position.
In 2007, the economists Dwight Perkins and Thomas Rawski estimated that, in order for China’s economy to maintain a 9% growth rate and a 25-35% investment ratio until 2025, it would need to maintain an annual TFP growth rate of 4.3-4.8%.
But even stronger than this economic common-sense-argument is the political imperative: if we maintain a divided Europe, we will never reach the Europe of liberty and peace that was the original vision of the founding fathers that wrote The Treaty of Rome.
Whereas most developed countries will experience a shortage of people as the century progresses, America is one of the few that may avoid demographic decline and maintain its share of world population.
For example, to maintain its current population size, Japan would have to accept 350,000 newcomers annually for the next 50 years, which is difficult for a culture that has historically been hostile to immigration.
If Obama succeeds in enacting immigration reform in his second term, he will have gone a long way toward fulfilling his promise to maintain the strength of the US.
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