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But they face major regulatory obstacles.
To succeed, however, several obstacles must be overcome.
Of course, there are some obstacles to introducing debt-equity swaps between the public and private sectors, beginning with concern about the loss of state assets.
Indeed, the need to act on new export opportunities and remove obstacles to success is probably the central lesson from the East Asian and Irish growth miracles.
For starters, there would be no legal obstacles.
Relying on “infant economy” arguments, major exports were restricted and legal obstacles were erected against foreign participation in the development of natural resources, as well as financial and other services, further impeding regional integration.
The real source of duplication and waste is the congeries of obstacles that European countries face when it comes to developing joint capabilities.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
If the Europeans back away from the costs of victory, they will give dramatic proof of their reluctance to develop a European CFSP: the systemic obstacles coupled with cowardice will have proved stronger than the éngrenage.
Perhaps some of both, but surely the economic trauma of the last few years reflects, first and foremost, a financial meltdown, even if the way forward must simultaneously treat other obstacles to long-term growth.
Their strategy will doubtless face obstacles in the coming years.
And yet, the wealthy countries have a crucial role to play in helping to remove some of the special obstacles that still burden Africa’s re-entry into the world economy.
Reliable data are needed to determine whether people are encountering financial or geographic obstacles to health care; whether care is being administered safely and effectively; and whether it is reaching the most marginalized groups in society.
But obstacles have appeared.
One can understand why change is slow to take root at the primary and secondary school level, where the social and political obstacles are massive.
Building Palestine From the Bottom UpJERUSALEM – As President Barack Obama’s special Middle East envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell, learned during his visit to the region, America’s efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peace-making are running up against three major obstacles.
Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and erect more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time.
But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.
Two major obstacles stand in Thaksin’s way.
In the most recent elections, Zimbabweans made their choice known, despite serious obstacles and widespread repression, with the MDC’s presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, gaining more votes than Mugabe.
These obstacles apply to all infrastructure investments.
The obstacles to energy access are not technical.
Political risk and security of tenure present further obstacles to investors.
Equivalent advice today would be that governments the world over are doing all the wrong things in bailing out top-heavy banks, subsidizing inefficient businesses, and putting obstacles in the way of rational workers spending more time with their families or taking lower-paid jobs.
To overcome these obstacles, a eurozone debt-mutualization scheme must satisfy three crucial requirements.
The consensual society that was at the center of the Federal Republic’s Wirtschaftswunder now looks inflexible, throwing up obstacles to change.
Xi knows the obstacles that blocked the implementation of his initiatives during his first term, and he is committed to overcoming them.
While Brexit, by removing an anti-integrationist country power from the EU, may well give a greater impetus to Franco-German cooperation, it will do nothing to remove many formidable obstacles to progress.
Rather than confront the political obstacles, Europe’s leaders are hiding behind a mountain of pious, nonsensical rhetoric.
Still, each faces serious obstacles to becoming a $1 trillion economy, never mind accounting for 2-3% of world GDP.
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