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Further aid packages for Greece may seem impossible to avoid, because the losses imposed on Greek debt holders have been too modest.
Government officials have taken modest steps in this direction, but culture and inertia remain powerful obstacles.
The elections threshold makes another round of sanctions virtually certain, but allows the tightening to be more modest and gradual.
That is why, when the latest sanctions were announced, the Europeans issued a modest expansion of their existing list – primarily focusing on military and political officials – while the US went further, adding several Russian institutions.
Lack of specificity also discourages any accommodating response from Tehran by exposing even the most modest move to hardline attacks of kowtowing to the great Satan.
Although Italian employers have dismissed the proposed employment-law reform as far too modest, Monti’s government has retreated in the face of trade-union opposition and protests from assorted interest groups (like taxi drivers) eager to defend their privileges.
This is a relatively modest prediction.
The Bush position also assumes that fundamental political and economic change is feasible and affordable – that open political and economic systems can be sustained with only modest effort – because the desire for freedom and prosperity is universal.
Yes, this is indeed the position increasingly adopted by Turkey’s Islamic opinion leaders — who are striving not for jihad or an “Islamic state,” but just a modest preservation of tradition.
Preval’s own hometown has successfully used a modest level of external donor support to create new rural cooperatives to market improved crops.
Likewise, the Kremlin has no interest in a military escalation in Syria that would increase the relatively modest cost of its intervention there.
Just a handful of countries – Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden – have met or exceeded the UN’s modest target of 0.7% of GDP for foreign development assistance.
Does anyone really believe that America’s CEO’s are that much more productive than those in other countries, where compensation is more modest?
Judging by recent moves by China and the US, we can expect modest success in a few contentious areas.
Judging by China’s behavior in other parts of the world, any military cooperation is likely to be extremely modest and cautious.
America’s Senate Democrats propose $1.5 trillion in higher taxes over ten years (on top of the $600 billion agreed in early January), $100 billion (twice that, for House Democrats) in new stimulus spending, and modest longer-term expenditure cuts.
Thus, even modest portfolio shifts can still lead to big price swings, perhaps even more so when traders are off on their August vacations.
There has been only very modest structural reform in countries like Italy and France.
Despite past refusal by America’s Congress to fund programs to further the rule of law in China, recent US legislation authorizes modest efforts to provide assistance to increase China’s capacity to meet its obligations as a WTO member.
And those programs, in turn, are too modest, especially for senior workers with a reasonable expectation of remaining in a full-time job, to make work-sharing an attractive option.
The new plan relies on a questionable mix of dubious financial-engineering gimmicks and vague promises of modest Asian funding.
Still, a lack of funding for the prosecutor’s office is threatening to reverse its modest gains.
How Europe Can Rescue EuropeLONDON – At their meeting in Rome last Thursday, the leaders of the eurozone’s four largest economies agreed on steps towards a banking union and a modest stimulus package to complement the European Union’s new “fiscal compact.”
The measure’s second shortcoming, however, is that the spending reductions that it mandates are modest.
Despite Japan’s relatively modest rate of economic growth, its GDP per capita is roughly $38,000, more than ten times that of either China or India.
Investing in US Treasuries, after all, was a sure loss-maker, given the gap between their modest yield and the steady appreciation of the yuan.
So, even before the US presidential election had inspired “Trump trades,” a “reflation trade” had signaled a new phase of modest global expansion.
Thus, to the very limited extent that tariffs do prove “punitive” for China, the effect on other emerging markets and the global economy will not be damaging “contagion” but a modest boost to demand that results from displacing Chinese exports to the US.
True, Chinese exporters may experience modest losses as other producers take advantage of the US tariffs to undercut them.
If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
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