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Trump’s proposed policy mix would also have an ambiguous – and modest – impact on growth, if he appoints hawks to the Fed.
In much of the rest of the region, the required fiscal adjustment is more modest and can be achieved through steady increases in tax revenues.
Local-currency government-debt markets have performed fairly well during the crisis, while local-currency corporate-debt markets have played a more modest role as a vehicle for longer-term finance.
We can expect further European turmoil – from banks, sovereign debt, and social unrest in response to even modest welfare-state rollbacks – and clashing visions, within and among countries, concerning the desirability of deeper European integration.
The international community has agreed on a set of modest goals for global development - reducing poverty and illiteracy and improving health.
For example, India’s targets are modest, but also appropriate, given its residents’ low income.
The arrival of “say on pay” provisions in the US – whereby boards will need to put their compensation policies to a shareholder vote in future– may focus minds, though the impact of similar provisions in the UK has been modest.
To the surprise of many seasoned observers, foreign policy is having only a modest impact on voters.
A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters’ choice of the next president is another surprising development: more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye.
While it is true that some modest residue of progress often remains after these episodes end, China's current political environment is far more censorious and intolerant now than it was in the mid-1980's.
While a process of "peaceful evolution" offers the best prospect for change in this mutating "people's republic," the Party's demonstrated inability to countenance even the most modest quotients of political challenge--even with a new generation of leaders in power--does not inspire confidence in the prospect for piecemeal reform.
For starters, Africa is poised for a modest, if fragmented, growth recovery.
But Ireland, with previously modest deficit and debt levels, also suddenly and unexpectedly faces the same kind of issue, owing to the government’s need to take over private debt from the banking sector.
Acting together, these countries could make a massive difference with relatively modest policies.
Council President Donald Tusk has been especially adamant on this point, criticizing “naive Euro-enthusiastic visions” and calling for a more modest Europe that promises less and delivers more.
The relatively modest list of concrete priorities issued by Juncker and Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans is a good start.
Even when average inflation was modest (as in the 1950s and 1960s), it was still more volatile.
With bilateral trade worth only about $5 billion annually, Russia’s economic interests in Iran are fairly modest.
A “seminal image,” according to Walker, was the meeting on December 18, 2009, that brokered the modest Copenhagen Accord – a meeting led by the US and the Chinese, who invited the leaders of India, Brazil, and South Africa, but no Europeans.
In most economies, these macro-prudential policies are modest, owing to policymakers’ political constraints: households, real-estate developers, and elected officials protest loudly when the central bank or the regulatory authority in charge of financial stability tries to take away the punch bowl of liquidity.
Once the lengthy process of ratifying the deal in national legislatures is complete and implementation begins, the impact will be gradual and modest.
Public expectations about Mrs Megawati were modest from the start.
And trade losses imposed on the eurozone by the drachma depreciation would be modest, given that Greece accounts for only 2% of eurozone GDP.
From East Asia to Western Europe, currencies swooned and equity prices tumbled – all because of China’s decision to allow a modest devaluation of its currency, the renminbi.
Had China really wanted to grab a bigger share of world exports, it is hard to imagine that its policymakers would have settled for such a modest adjustment.
A modest goal would be to reach an agreement to keep North Korea’s nuclear and missile program at current levels of capability.
So long as the credits are long term and carry a modest interest rate (say, 25-year dollar loans at 5% per annum), the recipient countries could repay the loans out of the significant boost in incomes that would result over the course of a generation.
Or the US could slip into recession (though modest growth is certainly the central scenario nowadays).
But doubling US foreign aid involves a modest amount of money, compared to what will be saved by pulling out of Iraq.
The past two decades of bilateral great expectations, followed by serial disappointments, suggest that, once the Ukraine crisis is resolved, more modest and realistic US goals toward Russia are in order.
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