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Lawmakers must, for example, remove the obstacles that deter foreign and domestic investment; open closed professions; remove price caps; and reduce licensing requirements and other anachronistic barriers to firm entry and expansion.
And there are legal and political obstacles to creating a true common backstop.
The significant obstacles to intervention, and the genuine risk of making an already terrible situation worse, makes direct military intervention in Syria a remote possibility at this time.
Fola had minimal support from colleagues to overcome the obstacles and frustrations he faced daily.
Of course, formidable obstacles lie ahead for China.
But Xi has concluded that the obstacles facing the US and the West are greater.
Economic liberals view national frontiers as irrational obstacles to the global integration of markets.
Many political liberals regard nation-states and the loyalties they inspire as obstacles to the wider political integration of humanity.
A 16-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, Mohammed has overcome obstacles that most of us cannot even imagine, in order to excel in his education.
He could count on the IMF – which had real policy leverage, owing to India’s need for a bailout program in 1991 – to provide external support to counter the huge internal obstacles to reform.
But the obstacles also include layers of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians – a vast network of resistance to reform.
Several other obstacles must nonetheless be surmounted in order to boost consumption.
India and China are notorious for the legal and bureaucratic obstacles they place in front of Western universities that want to set up satellite campuses catering to local students.
In some cases, however, Trump will run into obstacles in translating his crowd-pleasing sound bites into reality.
While he has announced grandiose plans to increase the future supply of land for development, and has hiked the stamp duty twice, the market has figured out that he does not understand that he needs to manage expectations by removing obstacles in the current development pipeline.
Wherever demographic growth outstrips economic growth, the fault lies primarily with corrupt and inefficient regimes and the obstacles they put in the way of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
As the leader of the 13th Division, a Syrian rebel brigade that receives American weapons and participates in the larger Turkish operation, declared, rebel forces “will fight anyone who places obstacles before the revolution.”
After traversing a minefield of obstacles, EMU is on the threshold of realization.
My guess is that the ECB is not an effective lender of last resort, because it will face too many internal obstacles to quick action.
This challenge is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean, where many countries have achieved greater GDP per capita, but still face significant vulnerabilities and structural obstacles to long-term prosperity.
Some of the obstacles are logistical.
Finally, Brazil’s policymakers should aim to remove, or at least significantly reduce, existing tax obstacles to efficiency and competitiveness.
Without global economic recovery, their prospects for overcoming obstacles to growth will dim.
The global public must unite to compel decision-makers to take real action aimed at overcoming obstacles to peace, harmony, and sustainability.
And it could compel Europe to overcome the political obstacles blocking solutions to longstanding problems, such as providing the cover needed for certain European creditors to grant deeper debt relief for Greece, whose already-massive fiscal and employment problems are being exacerbated by the influx of refugees.
The new leadership will, of course, face serious obstacles as it tries to shift policy in these market-friendly directions.
Indeed, despite progress in 2012, we have not been able fully to interrupt the spread of the poliovirus in Pakistan, owing primarily to obstacles affecting program implementation and management.
Overwhelming obstacles block the formation of new companies.
In order to overcome the obstacles to investment, we propose the creation of an asset class that we call “buy-and-hold equity" (BHE).
Giving a person like King responsibility in managing Jerusalem means increasing tensions within the city, aggravating the Palestinian population’s greatest fears, and encouraging Israeli settlers to develop new outposts, thereby erecting new obstacles to peace.
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