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The results have become increasingly obvious and painful: an economy that has suffered more severely in the global crisis than its neighbors to the south; a rent-seeking business elite that is unaccustomed to competition; public and private monopolies that no one seems to have the political will to dismantle; and corporatist pacts that siphon off public resources to unproductive unions, thwarting productivity and growth.
Thus, the EU has a strong incentive to make Brexit as
painful
as possible for the UK, in order to discourage countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, or Finland from following the British example.
British negotiators will then respond to EU negotiators’ domino-theory logic by trying to make the process as
painful
as possible for the rest of the EU.
The promise of a regional settlement that offers Israel the needed security guarantee – not to mention a considerable boost to its international standing – would make the
painful
concessions, including compromises on borders and Jerusalem, which are critical to the creation of a Palestinian state, more digestible for Israeli leaders.
As the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman pointed out a quarter-century ago, a country in this situation will be unwilling to undertake additional
painful
adjustment, because it gets nothing in return.
This is a
painful
lesson that post-communist countries learned during the 1990s.
Because truly democratic policies must be inclusive, implementing reforms in a democracy takes time and effort; but the
painful
process of building broad pro-reform coalitions also ensures that those policies will endure.
First, it is tempting to avoid facing the
painful
events in our lives that might be the cause of our difficulties.
Second, and much more important, a tacit anti-appeasement ultimatum has been issued to the Kremlin: additional expansion in Ukraine will lead to much stronger and more
painful
sanctions.
Little comfort is to be taken if Brazil's crisis is less extreme than Russia's, but surely it is time tell the IMF to start adopting winning strategies rather than gamble on the seemingly less
painful
options peddled by client governments.
First, unit labor costs needed to decline toward productivity levels to restore competitiveness – a
painful
process without the exchange-rate mechanism.
While in the White House, Feldstein waged a persuasive but lonely bureaucratic campaign against the Reagan administration’s 1981 income-tax cuts, arguing that they had been too big, and would prove economically
painful
if not corrected.
First, prohibiting oil exports is more
painful
when world oil prices are rising.
Europe and Anti-EuropeLONDON – The European Parliament election has set off a
painful
process of rethinking not only how the European Union works, but also what it is fundamentally about.
Germany has endured nearly six of months under a caretaker government (the longest in the Federal Republic’s history), a failed coalition agreement, weeks of arduous negotiations,
painful
internal party rumblings, and much politicking.
Such a past is painfully visible today, for example, in the Balkans, a world largely paralyzed by a
painful
fixation on the conflicts that tore the region apart in the 1990’s.
To refuse to deal with a
painful
past is to risk reproducing it.
The country’s colonial past still remains a
painful
issue that is yet far from being confronted in a dispassionate, objective manner.
But Europe should have learned from its lackluster response to the financial crisis that postponing essential but
painful
reforms only leads to more dramatic and complex political crises down the road.
For one thing, we cannot know how long and how
painful
the necessary adjustments will prove to be.
Although Park’s ouster was painful, it also demonstrated the resilience of South Korea’s democracy.
That would have been painful, but it could have spared the Greeks from a 7% decline in GDP and a rise in unemployment to 22% (including an increase in youth unemployment to a whopping 48%).
But, given the large adjustment needs, it is not politically feasible to do everything, including
painful
fiscal tightening, immediately.
According to IMF critics, bailouts allowed leaders from Brazil to Turkey to avoid
painful
but necessary reforms, with the perverse effect of making crises inevitable.
Indeed, like so many post-communist countries over the past 20 years, Libya is now making the gradual and at times
painful
transition to a market economy.
According to unofficial figures, subsidies already represent 5% of GDP, and only
painful
adjustments can reduce them.
But, while the specifics differ, the implications are the same: all must now endure excruciatingly
painful
spending cuts.
The crisis countries have, in fact, shown remarkable resolve in implementing
painful
cuts.
The adjustment will be even more
painful
in Europe, because a sovereign-debt crisis has a depressing effect on everyone – consumers, investors, and the public sector alike.
The immediate consequences of this deficit are tremendously painful, and so are the long-term outcomes.
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