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The fight to maintain global support has become an uphill one for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, despite his direct appeal to the whole world for help in securing the girls’ release.
We are facing multiple tests, two of which are especially worthy of attention, because they test international law, multilateral mechanisms, and the global order that we have spent the last 70 years working to build and maintain.
Moreover, Central Asian leaders are eager to maintain NATO’s presence in Eurasia as a way to balance China and Russia.
Normally, the multipliers applied to expansions in government purchases are much less than 1.5, because the central bank does not maintain constant monetary conditions as government spending expands, but rather acts to keep the economy on track to meet the monetary authority’s inflation target.
Given the need to mobilize idle resources in the short run in order to maintain productive potential in the long run, a larger national debt would be, as Alexander Hamilton, the first US treasury secretary, put it, a national blessing.
Many countries in the Asia-Pacific region maintain steep barriers against imports from the US.
Sodium, which is present in salt, is necessary to maintain plasma volume, acid-base balance, the transmission of nerve impulses, and normal cell function.
By contrast, in countries like Sweden and South Korea, technocratic fiscal-transfer programs have ensured that the bottom 20% of earners maintain a disposable income that keeps pace with inflation, and therefore enables them to continue to participate economically.
The UK’s first goal is to maintain a soft border and frictionless trade with the Republic of Ireland, which will remain an EU member state, subject to the rules of the European single market and customs union.
The gap in price does not tell us that diamonds are useful and valuable and water is not, but that it has so far proved easier to maintain market power and high margins in the diamond business than in the water business.
The air force is to continue its monitoring activities in neighboring airspace and maintain response readiness against air attack, while modifying invasion response tactics somewhat as the likelihood of an attack from the air diminishes.
Whereas Boris Yeltsin has sacrificed his status of "Father of the Nation" to maintain an uncompromising conflict with the opposition, the new president within the same model will have to take into account new trends and to become an excessively caring "Father of the Nation" through clenching both supporters and opponents in one firm fist.
But, thanks to the quality of Costa Rica’s primary health-care system, Valeria has been able to maintain her independence and her health, even in the absence of family.
The former should acknowledge medium-term win-lose situations, but maintain their long-term faith in gradual democratic change at home, while working to uphold international peace.
But it also reflects a more fundamental factor in the Kremlin’s foreign policy: desperation to maintain Russia’s strategic influence at a time of unprecedented challenges to its authority.
Despite whatever pain we incur, we must maintain – and, if necessary, deepen – sanctions against Russia and reinforce NATO’s front line.
But it has the advantage of allowing the ECB to present itself as having a clean balance sheet, thereby enabling it to maintain its current policy.
Beyond reducing debt, renewable-energy concessions would stimulate troubled eurozone economies by employing people to construct and maintain the projects – thereby helping distressed countries to reduce their record-high youth unemployment.
Last October, British Foreign Minister David Miliband was so anxious to maintain Chinese good will that he came close to denouncing his predecessors’ recognition of Tibet’s autonomy 100 years ago.
The reality is that major Internet companies – most of which are based in the United States – are already contributing billions of dollars to establish and maintain the networks and data centers that are essential to the Internet’s functioning.
The economic benefits of a trade agreement between economies that, together, account for more than 50% of global output and maintain nearly $4 trillion in cross-border investment are evident.
Among other things, the 2008 global financial crisis and America’s strategic stumbles in the Middle East since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, substantially weakened the West’s capacity to maintain the international rules-based order and provide global public goods.
Central banks now have to reconcile the need to maintain price stability with the responsibility – regardless of whether it is legally mandated – to reduce financial vulnerability.
Berlusconi carefully followed all of Machiavelli’s teachings on how to obtain and maintain power – all but one, and that lapse sealed his fate.
Foreigners make up less than 2% of Japan’s population, and a United Nations report from 2001 found that Japan would need inflows averaging 609,000 immigrants per year until 2050 to maintain the percentage of its working-age population.
Russia is also flexing its muscles over the question of Kosovo’s future, raising objections in the United Nations Security Council to the UN’s plan for independence and openly supporting Serbia’s quest to maintain its supremacy over Kosovo.
With the defeat of al-Qaeda and the Taliban America’s only visible goal, it is no surprise that the US remains enormously unpopular among Pakistanis, forcing Musharraf to maintain his perilous balancing act.
Before any of this comes to pass, however, China will have to continue its rapid economic growth and maintain its social cohesion and political unity.
The trouble is that it will become increasingly difficult for China to maintain the kind of growth that it has experienced in recent years.
Question 4: Will Japan be able to maintain QE while the US tapers?
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