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Harder to assess, but potentially far more insidious, is the erosion of public trust in core institutions in the advanced economies.
The standard way to judge the efficacy of a vaccine is to conduct a trial in which those who could benefit are randomly assigned to two groups, one of which receives the potentially beneficial vaccine, while the other receives a substance with no active ingredients, known as a placebo.
The likely consequences of North Africa’s youth bulge are thus renewed social unrest and potentially sizeable migration flows to Europe.
China’s potentially strong domestic-demand base and ample room for policy maneuvers can help it to avoid a hard landing.
Of course, regimes with different ideological inclinations might have had different spending habits, potentially cushioning the blow from the commodity-price collapse.
This can compromise short-term economic stability and potentially lead to boom-bust cycles.
Most of us would agree we should have a realistic set of policies to address the potentially serious risks of climate change over time, and at a reasonable cost.
Much depends on who is prime minister; heavyweight politicians holding the office can potentially eclipse the president.
But the medium-term outlook is one of transatlantic confrontation, potentially as divisive as the disputes over the Iraq war.
For starters, the resolution includes two potentially game-changing legal reforms.
But, more broadly, the ultimate goal should be universal health coverage, in order to protect people from the potentially catastrophic health expenditures associated with TB and MDR-TB.
And, given the potentially lopsided power dynamics, grasping that relationship is vitally important.
In addition, there are substantial concerns about political stability in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, and potentially even in Kuwait and Jordan – all areas with substantial Shia or other restless populations.
But the US position is unambiguously misguided in not foreseeing that the “Kosovo precedent” will incite instability and potentially even violence elsewhere.
Rightly so: without a strong policy response aimed at building a more inclusive growth model, rising populism and economic nationalism will impair the functioning of markets and overall macroeconomic stability – potentially cutting short the current global recovery.
China's response to the SARS epidemic suggests an almost automatic defensiveness when the outside world seems to impinge on it or threaten it in some potentially harmful or embarrassing way.
The customs officers tasked with implementing those checks will inevitably become symbols of division, and potentially even a provocation to violence by republican extremists, as happened in the past.
Mood stabilizers are the treatment of choice, and, depending on the medication, they can produce potentially significant health complications affecting renal, endocrine, hepatic, immunologic, or metabolic function.
Handing over any local power before those leaders are ready to use it would be an error, with potentially disastrous consequences.
The Social Democrats, the Greens, the Left Party, and now possibly the left-libertarian Pirates (who polled close to 9% in the recent Berlin elections, but have yet to entrench themselves nationally) potentially represent a structural majority for the left.
Thanks to a coordinated effort by all major players under the Vienna Initiative, these banks’ large-scale withdrawal – with potentially far-reaching consequences for the region – was averted in 2009.
This program, proposed originally by the then director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, Frederick Goodwin, originally ran into a hostility over its potentially racist overtones – ie, repeated coded references to “high-impact inner city” youth.
If and when it becomes evident that hardliners in Iran – not America – are the chief impediment to better relations, internal elite and popular opposition could build, and potentially large, unpredictable cleavages could be created within the Iranian political system.
They surely have a right to defend themselves, whether through foreign-exchange intervention and the consequent accumulation of reserves (a potentially profitable option if capital flows are indeed temporary), imposition of capital controls, or other currency-related macro-prudential policies aimed at countercyclical exchange-rate smoothing.
The authorities also tout the One Belt, One Road project, which will use Chinese financial assistance and resources to develop ports, railroads, and highways linking China with other parts of Asia, central Asia, and potentially even Europe.
But a sovereign default would require a much larger bank bailout than in Greece, potentially leaving private debt almost worthless if official debt has seniority.
But focusing exclusively on what is believed and practiced overlooks a potentially far more important question: how religious precepts are believed and practiced.
In the eurozone, euphoria followed the ECB’s decision to provide support with potentially unlimited purchases of distressed countries’ bonds.
It would either have to tighten sanctions on Russia, potentially tipping Western Europe into recession as Russia responds with counter-sanctions, or accommodate the Kremlin’s expansionist ambitions and jeopardize other countries with Russian-speaking minorities (including the EU’s Baltic members).
Because the next US president will have the opportunity to appoint at least one Supreme Court justice (and potentially up to four), a vote for Clinton may well be a vote for overturning a decision that has contributed to voter disillusionment.
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