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But excessive foot-dragging and uncertainty – owing not least to German unilateralism – impeded EU-level action, as it enabled migration to become a hot-button issue in domestic politics.
Corruption is rife, owing to organized-crime networks that grew out of the communist-era security apparatus.
Greece has always promised to veto Macedonian membership, owing to a dispute over the country’s name.
Nonetheless, economic insecurity – owing to the rapid pace and, at times, destructiveness of the global economy – evidently is driving much of the public's nostalgia for British sovereignty.
Confrontation and brinkmanship have become the new watchwords of American politics, even when the US government’s legal ability to pay its debts is on the line, owing to the Tea Party’s ideological rigidity.
Liberated from political pressure, central bankers fell prey to intellectual capture, owing to a natural inclination to please those most like them: bankers and banking scholars.
Since then, the population has fallen by millions more, owing to Russia’s high mortality rate, especially among men.
Pakistan – a democracy in name only, owing to the political dominance of its military and intelligence services – wants an Afghanistan in which the Taliban play a dominant role.
With high unemployment in many parts of the labor market, downward pressure on wages will further exacerbate the country’s already skewed income-distribution.Labor markets will eventually clear, but this will happen slowly and painfully, owing to skills gaps and other short-term mismatches.
In 2014, the United States and Europe cut aid to Uganda, owing to a bill imposing penalties on homosexual activities.
That hope is built on all three leaders’ need for a period of diplomatic quiet, owing to the difficult domestic challenges that each now faces.
The data on global debt are certainly correct, but any prediction that we draw from them is likely to be overwrought, owing to our own hindsight bias.
What if, for example, Kim Jong-un fails to consolidate power, perceives the domestic political situation as worsening, owing to elite power struggles or popular discontent, and deems the external environment, especially South Korea and the US ever more hostile?
So, while there may be fewer economic collapses, owing to better macroeconomic management, high growth will likely remain episodic and exceptional.
The EU has just rejected such an offer, partly owing to a sentiment of wounded pride, but also because EU competition rules might make it difficult to organize a cartel of European steel producers.
Many industries collapsed, owing to neglect, lack of international partners, and financial chaos.
In the longer term, Europe faces serious demographic problems, owing to low birth rates and unwillingness to accept mass immigration.
In most European countries, the political backlash has been sharp, owing to the rapid rate of the inflows (more than a million people in the past year) and the Muslim background of many of the newcomers.
While such ambivalence will not change, French-American relations are likely to improve no matter which of the three leading candidates prevails in the final round of voting on May 6, in part owing to Chirac’s exit.
First, the United States is consistently outperforming Europe and Japan in terms of economic growth and dynamism – and will likely continue to do so – owing not only to its economic flexibility and entrepreneurial energy, but also to its more decisive policy action since the start of the global financial crisis.
And Spain and Ireland before the crisis did not have a fiscal problem, owing to the rapid economic growth produced by a real-estate boom that seemed to promise a new era of economic miracles.
In fact, he is the sixth most widely cited monetary economist, owing his renown especially to the Taylor rule, a guideline for setting interest rates in response to observed inflation and growth.
Private insurance would discourage construction in the most dangerous locations, owing to prohibitively high premiums, while encouraging the adoption of tsunami-resistant building standards in marginal areas.
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 impact has been limited, owing to the authorities’ ability to stuff debt down the throats of captive local banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.
But he then presided over the weakest economic recovery since World War II, owing partly to his attempts to reengineer vast swaths of the economy.
But, owing to the sheer scale of the SDGs, the participants had to hash out their differences, and develop a common language to devise the best way forward.
And when they do consciously choose a country, they tend to look for places where their compatriots or relatives already live, or where they already know the language, owing to past colonial ties.
Yet a convergence may be at hand, owing to developments in Greek, Spanish, and British politics, as well as to the simple passage of time.
The problem is that Kim Kyong-hui is in poor health, owing to years of alcohol abuse.
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