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The bottom line is that deleveraging will ensure that growth will be modest at best in the short and medium term.
Another multilateral forum that could prove invaluable to the UK is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a mega-regional trade agreement that provides for duty-free trade and includes modest commitments in areas like state aid and competition policy, without requiring EU-level integration.
It would be better to keep wage increases modest so that people get jobs and to look for other ways to subsidize education and health care for those who need such help.
The world needs a more modest and confident America.
The renminbi remains highly overvalued, despite August’s modest 3% nominal depreciation against the soaring US dollar.
It is telling that the US Federal Reserve has now pursued modest interest-rate hikes without triggering an adverse reaction even in emerging markets, which last year were dreading such a move.
The ECB has thought about this problem, but all that has been agreed (in the Nice Treaty) is some modest rotation of voting membership as the federation grows further.
But interest savings are modest, because the ECB is formally limited from buying more than a certain amount of each country’s government debt.
Tax modifications planned for 1997 are modest steps in the right direction: personal income taxes as well as the employees' contribution to the social security system are being shaved and simultaneous measures have been taken to strengthen tax administration.
Moreover, the Fed’s modest tightening is being matched by a trend toward looser monetary policy in the eurozone and Japan; so, overall, advanced-country monetary policy remains highly accommodative.
But a modest political opening and economic diversification away from state-owned industry have been sacrificed.
When Pinkhas Sapir, Prime Minister Golda Meir’s legendary finance minister died, all that he owned was a modest apartment in Tel Aviv and some small savings.
A second is the Bush administration’s ideological hostility to the modest amount of wealth redistribution implied by the public system.
While appearing to own the Queen's English, Eban was not to the manor born: he came from the extremely modest fringes of Anglo-Jewry.
Economics should offer “very approximate guesstimates,” requiring “only modest amounts of modeling and computational effort.”
Fortuyn, on a more modest Dutch scale, and Berlusconi, on a more grandiose Italian stage, had similar tastes.
Perhaps America, with its Asian allies, could make some modest shift in their approach to China’s illegal pursuit of territorial claims in the South and East China Seas.
Likewise police stations, post offices, and other existing public facilities might, with modest adjustments, provide space for secondary schools for at least part of the day.
Two final reflections suggest a renewed, if more modest, role for Keynesian economics.
Alongside efforts to attract foreign investment, equal energy should be directed at mobilizing and unleashing domestic capital;In Canada, as in the US and Western Europe, a modest home, a small plot of land or a solid credit history can be enough to secure a loan.
With a modest fiscal deficit, record-low borrowing costs, and a huge current-account surplus, Germany has the financial firepower to unleash a significant stimulus.
But Germany sees no need to stimulate its own economy, and is willing to consider only modest eurozone measures, such as additional capital for the European Investment Bank, a small pilot program for European Union “project bonds” for infrastructure investment, and more rapid deployment of unspent EU structural funds.
Even a modest and fragile peace would represent a major advance for Colombia’s democracy and economic prospects.
Twenty-five years ago, it was estimated that this process would double the cost of electricity; it now appears that costs may be more modest.
Thus far, judging from the modest recovery in the US versus non-recovery in Europe, American policy accommodation is performing better than European austerity.
Sridevi – who, after a 15-year hiatus, had made a spectacularly successful return to the silver screen in two mega-hits in the last six years – led a modest and conventional life with her husband, film producer Boney Kapoor, and their teenage daughters.
By contributing to the integration of the Middle East into the global system, Turkey’s democracy and market economy are having a positive spillover on its southern neighbors, however modest.
Faced with such significant obstacles, it is not surprising that the High-Level Working Group has settled on a more modest measure of success for TTIP negotiations.
His chief goal – obtaining a permanent seat for Brazil on the United Nations Security Council – is more distant than ever, and his more modest aims have not met with greater success.
It is all the more irrational in view of the rather modest effects early retirement plans have on unemployment in general, and on youth unemployment in particular.
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