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To protect that and maintain public support for the investments and policies that sustain growth, Singapore needed to prevent corruption from gaining a foothold, and to establish consistency in the application of rules.
To maintain single-party legitimacy – and thus the ability to govern – those narrower interests must be overridden in favor of the general interest.
Banning or restricting veils, however, is not confined to Muslim countries seeking to maintain a secular orientation in politics.
Because oil consumers generally spend extra income fairly quickly, while governments (which collect the bulk of global oil revenues) usually maintain public spending by borrowing or running down reserves, the net effect of lower oil prices has always been positive for global growth.
To maintain credibility in bargaining with the enemy, a president must maintain a relentless public optimism, which serves to misinform the public.
And, according to the World Bank’s forecast, Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos, is on track to maintain a similar level of growth for the year.
Banks on the list must keep higher reserves, and maintain more liquidity, reflecting their status as systemically important institutions.
To reconcile taxation with an overall economic strategy that seeks to maximize all citizens’ wellbeing, the tax system should adhere to three central principles: tax bad things (like pollution), rather than good things (like work); design taxes to cause the least possible distortion in the economy; and maintain a progressive rate structure, with richer individuals paying a larger share of their income.
By limiting foreign inflows and keeping domestic interest rates low, China was able to maintain a relatively weaker currency, which served to sustain its export-led growth model.
But in Rouhani’s discussions on proliferation back then, Iran had offered the three EU countries with which it had begun negotiations a reasonable compromise: Iran would maintain a civil but not a military nuclear capacity.
If the Gorbachev conference -- or any of a dozen other high-level conferences whose programs I have seen but to which I either was not invited or had the good sense to decline -- is an indicator, hardly anyone even wants to think about the real issues -- like how to maintain the necessary institutions of world order, from international policing to more or less free trade, when economic power is no longer restricted to a handful of wealthy nations.
Second, with banks losing substantial amounts of equity capital – estimates now reach $300 billion and more – the need to maintain minimum equity-debt ratios will force them to curtail business lending, hindering investment demand.
Confronted by a revolutionary situation, however, that approach could be hard to maintain.
In such conditions, France urgently needs to restore and maintain economic growth, and should seek to coordinate its policies with those of other eurozone member countries.
On the contrary, Trump and congressional Republicans are moving fast to dismantle the Affordable Care Act – President Barack Obama’s signature health-care policy – claiming that its as-yet-undefined replacement will maintain the popular elements and drop the unpopular ones.
In what economists later called the “repressed” financial system, retail banks fulfilled the necessary function of financial intermediation without taking on suicidal risks, while the government kept aggregate demand high enough to maintain a full-employment level of investment.
Thus, even as China is compelled to shift from exports to domestic consumption in order to sustain growth, India continues to rely on inward investment, exports of services and raw materials, and lower fiscal and current-account deficits to maintain its growth course.
China can maintain its currency practices, but at the risk of large global macroeconomic imbalances and a major political backlash in the US and elsewhere.
Having the largest economy is vital for a power aspiring to maintain military superiority and the ability to define the international order.
The system needs circuit-breakers in the form of loans and capital flows that dampen the volatility and maintain access to financing across the system.
But German officials preferred to maintain national primacy – and thus a confederational approach to Europe.
True, against all odds and historical logic, Europe seems poised to maintain the leadership of the IMF.
Coming atop an already bloated government deficit, India's government now faces hard choices if it is to maintain its reputation for economic reform.
If India is to maintain the faster growth it achieved over the past decade, it must get its fiscal house in order by cutting government expenditures on consumption and speeding up privatization.
By continuing to maintain its illegal occupation of Japanese territory, however, Russia precludes expansive Japanese involvement in this effort, effectively leaving the Chinese to dominate the region’s development.
Today there is not too much America - as some maintain - but too little Europe.
On the other hand, Israel will not allow Hezbollah to re-establish itself along its border, or to maintain its missile capability.
The Bewildered KingdomLONDON – During the three years of political upheaval in the Middle East since the “Arab Spring” began, Saudi Arabia has attempted to maintain its dominant status in the region by any means necessary.
This helps leaders to develop and maintain human bonds with a large group of people, despite the power gap, while making it easier for employees to identify with the organization.
At the time, I did take a position in the Italian lira, because I was listening to the Bundesbank talking about its unwillingness to provide funds to maintain the European exchange-rate mechanism – the ERM.
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