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On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that the improvement is modest, probably temporary, and not the result of the policies promoted by Germany.
In economic terms, high commodity prices fueled strong growth in South America in 2011, and the modest US recovery benefited nearby countries.
Pretending that banks that passed modest stress tests can be kept open indefinitely with little collateral damage is wishful – and dangerous – thinking.
The Fed’s ability to control the business cycle at this moment is modest, at best.
There are several reasons to anticipate modest improvement in 2013, although, as usual, there are downside risks.
The effect is greater when modest deficit and debt levels are exceeded and current-account deficits are large.
By 2020, the stimulus will run out, and a modest fiscal drag will pull growth from 3% to slightly below 2%.
Acheson understood that the Schuman Plan, though modest and limited to dealing with industrial matters, was in reality more far-reaching than anything Bidault was proposing.
A coordinated move, perhaps raising rates in two modest 25 or 30 basis-point increments, would be neutral in terms of exchange rates and short-term competitiveness, even as it moved real interest rates back into positive territory.
Tourists coming to Australia often try it, and there is a modest export trade as well, but much of it ends up as pet food.
According to Bush’s press spokesman, the growth in world demand for oil – in Asia, for example – was one of the causes of the high price of filling the tanks of gas-guzzling Sports Utility Vehicles, as well as more modest family cars, at America’s pumps.
It has modest but useful soft power when great powers disagree but are willing to acquiesce in a course of action.
Japan’s single-minded focus on economic growth achieved its goal, but the country developed only modest military and soft power.
But it would be a modest step in the direction of reducing the great harm currently being done.
In particular, what makes the Nordic model so attractive is the modest and honest exercise of government power; near-equality between men and women; a low level of income inequality; and relatively humane treatment of immigrants.
China's modest experiments with local elections have been supplemented by exercises in “deliberative democracy.”
In this regard, the contest is not so much between Hobbes and Rousseau as between Bonaparte and Clement Attlee, the famously dull post-war British prime minister (of whom Churchill once said “he has much to be modest about”).
Research by the IMF and others suggests that the demand spillovers from German fiscal policy to Europe are likely to be modest, particularly in the eurozone’s troubled countries, like Greece and Portugal.
If the US now fails to achieve even the very modest target it set itself in Paris, and thus fails to carry out its fair share of the reductions necessary to stabilize our planet’s climate, what should the rest of the world do?
International aid supports harm-reduction efforts in both countries on a modest scale: most of the money comes from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
America’s Neglected Financial ChildrenWASHINGTON, DC – This week, the US Congress again failed to approve a modest appropriation that would have shored up financing for the International Monetary Fund and given China and other emerging economies greater responsibility there.
But the US was not particularly interested in a larger World Bank; instead of using its considerable influence – reflected in its power to appoint the Bank’s president – to create a stronger institution capable of responding to new demands, it went along with what became a modest Bank recapitalization.
The reputational impact of each new settlement is modest, despite the escalation in the level of fines imposed.
Because both countries want to avoid being blamed for scuttling a global agreement, they will work together to make their modest plans look as substantial as possible and promise to do more after Copenhagen.
If these persons were employed to the extent such workers are employed in America--through liberalization of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
And they are able to act quickly with relatively few people, and with modest resources compared to the vast, expensive bureaucracies of democratic governments.
There are nonetheless signs of modest progress.
The decision, taken after more modest attempts at monetary easing failed to increase bank lending and private-sector borrowing, reflects a renewed focus on boosting economic growth.
Similarly, Brexit could be averted or indefinitely delayed if the EU offered an extension of the negotiating period beyond March 2019 and suggested some modest concessions on immigration and welfare payments.
Our first stab at a solution, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, set only modest goals and failed to include the world’s biggest polluters.
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