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Banks’ exposure to local-government debt and the real-estate market has already undermined the quality of their assets, increasing debt
pressure
and weakening profitability.
Moves to liberalize interest rates will put even more
pressure
on asset quality and bank profitability.
In the early postwar decades, foreign competition exerted virtually no
pressure
on the economy, owing to the isolation of America’s continental market from the devastation of WWII.
Hence there was little
pressure
for government-sponsored social democracy: Why bother?
Indeed, the impact of intelligence on mortality rivals well-known risk factors for illness and death, such as high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood glucose, and high cholesterol.
The result will look familiar to aficionados of Japan’s banking crisis: zombie banks lending to zombie firms, which apply artificial
pressure
on viable firms, stifling their growth.
Arafat is under
pressure
from his extremists.
So enduring weakness in US consumption implies
pressure
on the growth of export-led developing economies.
In short, Germany could exert significant
pressure
on Hungary.
These investors – nearly all of whom had profited handsomely from the oil industry – faced intense social
pressure
to use their wealth for humanitarian causes.
As the US Federal Reserve inches closer to achieving its targets for the domestic economy, it faces growing
pressure
to normalize monetary policy.
At the same time, the cost drag on inflation is set to diminish as the oil price stabilizes, and the dollar’s recent softness implies further inflationary
pressure.
Nonetheless, the
pressure
to support global financial markets and other external economies suggests why the issue is being debated.
In this context, Japan knows that a deeper strategic collaboration with India – which is also seeking to blunt increasing military
pressure
from China – is its best move.
Indeed, America’s only successful attempts at peace diplomacy in the Middle East involved a masterly combination of power, manipulation, and
pressure.
Their reaction to Putin’s plan – from the announcement last September that President Dmitri Medvedev would stand aside for his mentor, to the deeply flawed parliamentary and presidential elections – and their accumulated resentment of Kremlin cronies’ massive enrichment, has placed
pressure
on Putin and the top-down system of government that he created.
How Putin, an astute politician, responds to that
pressure
will determine his political legacy.
So, too, is the lack of inflation
pressure
globally.
In the past, emerging-market governments defended exchange-rate pegs, which meant that stress was borne first by local interest rates rising sharply, and then through wider external debt spreads as currency pegs came under
pressure.
In the face of relentless demand-side pressure, driven mainly by high-growth countries like China and India, some predict stratospheric energy prices, supply shortages, economic and social hardship, and even resource wars.
The big, open democratic conventions that he has proposed for the first half of 2018 could inject fresh ideas into a stale debate, provide legitimacy for bold reforms, and put
pressure
on recalcitrant governments.
But the
pressure
to internationalize – or, specifically, to “Europeanize” – the crisis will continue.
The immediate crisis passed when Erbakan succumbed to
pressure
and resigned June 18, a move he hoped would allow his coalition partner to take over.
Indeed, they are now coming under increasing
pressure
– putting the strategic miracle that has facilitated Asia’s economic miracle in jeopardy.
Business
pressure
on the UK government to move more quickly will thus grow, as a longer wait means a further ebbing of confidence and, in turn, a weakening of Britain’s bargaining position.
Moreover, the renminbi has come under downward pressure, owing partly to economic recovery in the United States, which has fueled capital outflows.
It places strains on each country’s institutions (seen in the
pressure
on Europe’s welfare states), breeds resentment against foreigners (witness the recent success of anti-immigration parties), and renders financial crises originating from abroad both likelier and costlier (as the current situation makes all too clear).
With a lack of grace, Netanyahu finally agreed to a temporary freeze – due to expire at the end of September – and eventually the Palestinians, this time under US pressure, relented to open negotiations without an explicit Israeli assurance that the freeze would be continued.
By contrast, the French government is right to call for measures to improve employment and development opportunities for Roma in their countries of origin (primarily Bulgaria and Romania in this case), which would reduce the incentives and
pressure
for them to move to other countries.
Now Rasheed reflects on his country’s turn toward religious extremism: he describes a pre-invasion Iraq in which women were professionals and fairly emancipated, whereas now women wear headscarves under pressure, “for a peaceful life.”
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