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These economies’ current-account surpluses, together with massive inflows of capital, have led their monetary authorities to try to prevent their national currencies from appreciating in order to maintain the competitiveness of their industries.
From the European perspective, a new common strategy must maintain the minimal dialogue that diplomatic relations represent.
Is it not in the interest of the West to maintain observers in the most populous nation of the Gulf, to convey western views directly, and to have communications in place should Iran be prepared to strike a deal?
And cooperation would be essential to maintain control over North Korea’s nuclear materials.
Many of the new entrants have benefited from advantages that would be difficult to maintain were they to scale up in size and importance.
Indeed, some Chinese authorities also maintain that renminbi appreciation would have no significant impact on China’s trade balance because they believe that China’s trade surplus is a reflection of excess saving and hence has nothing to do with the exchange rate.
To maintain political stability, both the Chinese and Hong Kong governments willingly shelved the issue during Tung's first term.
Second, Hong Kong has an international image to maintain, and in international politics what is perceived is often as important as what really happens.
Rather than just reform health care, we should also figure out how people can maintain or regain their own health.
And the determinant of that flexibility and ability to adapt lies in political institutions and their willingness to challenge interest groups, mediate social conflicts, and maintain the rule of law.
And maintaining an only partly liberalized financial sector, which channels savings to investment at below-market rates, has made it easier to maintain the high investment essential to sustained rapid growth.
But the tools available to China to manage such a slowdown within a “hybrid socialist market economy,” and thus to maintain strong medium-term growth, should not be underestimated.
No, Kuchma wants to change Ukraine's constitution for no other reason than to maintain his grip on power.
To maintain jobs in smokestack industries with the help of government subsidies seems preferable to the creation of new jobs through subsidizing more promising ventures.
Another powerful motivator for Murdoch, as well as for other media proprietors and business leaders, is to be on the winning side and to maintain good relations with Cameron, unless they see overwhelming evidence that he will lose.
It is important to achieve price stability; but it is just as important to maintain it, by continually managing monetary policy to target a low rate of inflation.
The Japanese public may prefer to maintain its current lifestyle and cultural homogeneity, even though doing so is preventing more rapid economic growth.
At the same time, he has recognized that maintaining close alliances with Japan and Australia – and good relations with India – helps to maintain the hard-power capabilities that shape the environment for a rising China.
In some European countries, where income inequality has remained in check, this has been a component of a deliberate strategy to maintain employment growth and competitiveness in the tradable part of the economy, with wage restraint partly shared across the income distribution.
But globalization and technological progress, by making it easier to match supply and demand, will make such monopolistic behavior harder to maintain in the future.
If the developed liberal democracies maintain status quo policies, displaced workers will continue to be alienated.
An alphabet soup of measures has been served up: ZIRP (zero-interest-rate policy);QE (quantitative easing, or purchases of government bonds to reduce long-term rates when short-term policy rates are zero);CE (credit easing, or purchases of private assets aimed at lowering the private sector’s cost of capital); and FG (forward guidance, or the commitment to maintain QE or ZIRP until, say, the unemployment rate reaches a certain target).
As it stands, the Chinese government is keen to maintain decent growth of about 7% annually while pushing for rebalancing and reform.
The question now is whether China’s leaders will tolerate higher inflation in order to maintain an annual growth rate of more than 8%.
To maintain his domestic image as a strong leader, he must stick to his nationalist rhetoric and policies.
One area on which to focus is the Ukrainian financial sector, where both Russian and Western European banks are highly exposed – and thus have a strong incentive to work together to maintain financial stability.
Thus, for the public sector, too, the default mode has been to maintain old infrastructure as long as possible.
If a country has run out of reserves, its central bank automatically borrows to maintain the intraeuro peg.
Hayek feared that deliberate policies to maintain full employment would lead to increasing state encroachment on the free market and political liberty.
This did not, however, imply a return to the 1930’s, in large part because energy dependence forced industrial countries to maintain an open trade regime so that they could earn the money to pay for oil and gasoline.
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