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This would be much cheaper and less
painful
than the current chaos, of which the migrants are the main victims.
This would have ameliorated output losses and
painful
unemployment effects, sparing the bank recent political pressure.
Lowering them or making them rise more slowly than prices in competing countries is
painful
and unnerving.
This, of course, will be
painful
for banks, but their pain will be nothing in comparison to the suffering they have inflicted on people throughout the rest of the global economy.
And the household sector will be only partly through its
painful
de-leveraging phase.
Sudden stops are always painful: economics has not discovered a hangover cure.
But, as Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have long documented, post-crisis healing is typically slow and
painful.
Sadly, one of the most
painful
lessons of modern history has been all but forgotten.
Such a change would acknowledge what humans have always recognized: intense sadness after loss is a
painful
and perhaps inevitable aspect of the human condition, but it is not necessarily a mental disorder.
But nobody forecasts strong growth like that now, because recoveries from financial crises are usually slow and
painful.
And, though the transition will undoubtedly be painful, it is essential to Brazil’s future economic growth and development.
As a result,
painful
policy dilemmas arise, and they can divide even the closest allies.
This must have made the retreat doubly
painful
for the generals, as ASEAN was previously one of the junta’s strongest shields against international pressure.
However, restructuring is painful, and left-wing traditionalists recently gained public support.
In Europe, policymakers have failed to counter an expanding sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s periphery, despite many summits and programs, multiple expensive bailouts, and the imposition of
painful
economic sacrifices on societies.
Disagreement in Europe is not limited to that between “solution providers” (the troika of the European Central Bank, the European Union, and the International Monetary Fund) and countries now implementing
painful
austerity measures (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal).
The severance of those ties was
painful
for our dairy and other industries, but for Britain hard-headed self-interest understandably prevailed.
Households have slashed their debt – often through
painful
foreclosures and bankruptcies – and their debt relative to income has sunk to its 2005 level, significantly below its 2008 peak.
To reduce public debt, which stands above 120% of GDP, while minimizing
painful
adjustments, Italy needs economic growth – something that has eluded policymakers in recent years.
As external imbalances grow larger, each phase of this cycle becomes more
painful.
Against the pressure of Asia’s rapid urbanization and industrial development, this will take sustained effort, involving complex policy decisions and
painful
economic trade-offs.
The US, Europe, and Japan are all burdened by high levels of public and private debt, and are caught in long, painful, and hazardous deleveraging cycles that render recoveries feeble and vulnerable.
From this perspective, the crisis countries would not be spared
painful
retrenchment as long as they remained in a monetary union that includes competitive countries.
And countries like Ireland, Portugal, and Spain have, through hard and
painful
work, reduced their vulnerability to contagion from nearby crises.
Only a strong Israeli government can make the
painful
decisions necessary for negotiations with the Palestinians to succeed.
In successive waves of
painful
crisis – in Latin America in the 1980’s, and in East Asia after 1997 – countries learned a better approach to economic policy and developed a more sustainable framework for managing public-sector debt.
Based on my own experience as Argentina’s first democratically elected president after the collapse of its military junta, I know that this is a long, complex, and
painful
process.
This is never difficult in China, given the
painful
past, and it usefully deflects public attention from the failings and frustrations of living in a dictatorship.
In South Korea, one of the most
painful
legacies of the Japanese colonial period stems from the Korean elite’s widespread collaboration at the time.
That would be
painful
anywhere, but it would be devastating in regions already rife with political turmoil and humanitarian crises.
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