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If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high potential future revenues from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
Germany and other Northern European countries maintain that the culprit is lax fiscal policy and excessive debt accumulation by other eurozone members.
Relations with Israel are managed by the defense minister, now Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, and the military security establishment, whose leaders are determined to maintain a peaceful relationship with Israel and to secure Egyptian sovereignty in the Sinai.
Some will prefer to avoid any strengthening of economic, social, and cultural rights and will seek to maintain the status quo.
The ECB would then instruct the banks to maintain their credit lines and loan portfolios while strictly monitoring the risks they take for their own account.
Of all of the economies included in the report, only Zimbabwe and Venezuela have failed to maintain or improve their indicators since 2005.
So long as they control the country’s industries and natural resources, they will maintain their grip on power – the approach perfected by their role model, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Some Ukrainian conspiracy theorists – of whom there is no shortage – maintain that Yanukovych was tricked by skillfully prepared misinformation provided by the officials around him.
In Belarus, an impoverished Lukashenko increasingly resorts to brute force to maintain his rule – breaking up peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning political opponents, and terrorizing the intelligentsia.
Last but not least, the Chinese authorities desperately need to maintain the country’s breakneck economic growth in order to preserve the Communist Party’s legitimacy.
Indeed, the need to pursue financial liberalization to maintain growth is a central reason why middle-income countries are so prone to financial crises.
Ungovernablity arises from attempts to maintain control over people and places who are marginalized from participating in decisions that determine their daily lives.
To maintain that will, we must fight the fear of going against the prevailing political orthodoxy of an inevitable globalization.
Only by separating the two Jerusalems now, before things get any bloodier, will we maintain the possibility of one day reuniting it once again – as the international beacon of peace it was meant to be.
During the campaign, he did not try to hide his preference for a strong executive presidency and unabashedly supported the AKP – violating the neutral stance that Turkey’s constitution requires the president to maintain.
I am committed to working to maintain economic openness, because it is good for America and for our workers.
Developing economies that maintain their old growth models for too long fall into it, and China probably will hit the threshold in 3-5 years.
When states collapse, their constituent parts sometimes inherit armed forces that are competent enough to maintain minimal levels of governance.
Building on Volcker’s success, Western central banks have used their brand to help maintain low and stable inflation.
It is particularly hard to maintain or control your brand when popular sentiment overshoots.
At a recent summit, they emphasized the need for increased EU engagement to maintain stability – and to push back against Russian influence – in the region.
Aside from the usual efficiency arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and idiosyncratic national tax arrangements.
It was the choice of governments to loosen regulations on finance and aim for full cross-border capital mobility, just as it was a choice to maintain these policies largely intact, despite a massive global financial crisis.
Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net-creditor positions.
After all, a domestic stimulus would help maintain economic growth.
But an internationally agreed set of policies could help reduce the risk of weaker growth in the major economies, maintain confidence in the stability of international financial markets, and avoid a hard landing for the dollar.
Of course, the Fed’s policy reversal could hurt countries that maintain fixed – or, like China, “managed floating” – exchange rates.
The constitution of liberty requires both, and the rule of law is the more difficult of the two to establish and maintain, for it requires not just a constitution but, almost more importantly, an independent judiciary that is sensitive to violations of constitutional and other legitimate rules.
If European leaders want to maintain democracy, they must make a choice between political union and economic disintegration.
America’s 50 states must maintain balanced budgets.
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