Pressure
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After all, beyond putting
pressure
on NATO’s eastern flank, Russia has been building its military capabilities to NATO’s south.
The
pressure
on Israel might become even greater if, by November or December, it became clear that it was not negotiating in good faith.
Though the region’s countries have the means to stop the growing political, economic, and human-rights catastrophe in Venezuela, they lack the will, while the rest of the world’s attention to Ukraine has removed any
pressure
on them to act.
What has changed is the
pressure
of globalization, which is pushing the world’s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world.
So Israel is blocking Lebanon’s ports from the sea, has breached the runways of all three jet-capable airfields, including Beirut’s international airport, and remains ready to destroy generating plants and other high-value targets, if necessary, to generate sufficient political
pressure
on Hezbollah.
However, the required adjustments have been delayed repeatedly, owing to political constraints, social
pressure
for much-needed development spending, and favorable external financing conditions.
But several years of ultra-loose monetary policy in the advanced countries has led to significant liquidity spillover abroad, putting excessive upward
pressure
on higher-yielding developing countries’ currencies.
In the US, where most undergraduates bear at least part of the cost of their university education, political
pressure
is mounting to provide incentives like tuition discounts or loan forgiveness to students of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (the so-called STEM fields).
It will surely be reflected in upward
pressure
on interest rates, at which point the Federal Reserve will enter the picture.
Undertaken by politicians, an audit might be viewed as an opportunity to score political points or steer policy in self-serving directions, with delicate information leaked in order to
pressure
policymakers.
So it is not just political
pressure
that an audit must avoid.
With hundreds of dams still likely to become targets for protest,
pressure
will only intensify for a more significant response.
China is not a subcontractor on a construction project, and it has means at its disposal to apply its own
pressure
on the new US administration.
The assumption is that only real
pressure
will finally force Sudan’s government to embrace the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, negotiate with the West, disband the feared Janjaweed militia, allow refugees from the country’s brutal civil war to return to their villages, and make peace with Southern rebels.
Nor is it clear whether its aim is to
pressure
Sudan into changing its policy or to bring about wholesale regime change.
The increased spending leads to higher employment, an increase in capacity utilization, and, eventually, upward
pressure
on wages and prices.
Moreover, the dollar’s appreciation relative to other currencies has reduced import costs, putting competitive
pressure
on domestic firms to reduce prices.
The unemployment rate among those who have been unemployed for less than six months – a key indicator of inflation
pressure
– is down to 3.8%.
He wanted to thank Australia for the very significant role our country had played in sustaining the
pressure
for change, particularly under Bob Hawke’s government, and in leading the global charge for financial sanctions on the apartheid regime.
Although it attracted some experienced advisers, political
pressure
for fast results left little time to prepare the groundwork.
Subdued wage growth in the face of a tightening labor market is unlikely to continue, and any big rise in wages will put strong upward
pressure
on prices (though this might not happen anytime soon, given the relentless downward
pressure
on wages coming from automation and globalization).
China’s Exchange-Rate PuzzleChina’s abrupt decision to raise the value of the renminbi (yuan) by 2.1% and to end its peg to the dollar comes after months of
pressure
from the US.
If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non-trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put
pressure
on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.
Pressure
for revaluation comes at a stage when per capita national income is merely $1,000, not $10,000 or $15,000, so China still needs a rather long period of rapid economic growth to reach anything like the stage that Japan had achieved when it allowed the yen to be revalued.
Pressure
for revaluation stems, therefore, not from the real needs of China economy, but from large imbalances in the United States, particularly its long-standing trade deficit, which exceeds 5% of GDP.
Unfortunately, this type of
pressure
could not work in China when its people demanded what other Asians had won.
And why, despite international
pressure
and domestic desire, did he not appoint a successor to the ailing Crown Prince Sultan, for the tradition of the Saudi kings is to have not only the direct but the second in line to the throne known?
One is that spending and growth are now under less
pressure
from fiscal consolidation.
But if most advanced countries were to recognize this new form of global money, they could put
pressure
on holdouts by limiting their holdings of non-participant currencies and treasury bills in their reserves.
This explains the almost continuous stream of measures that emanate from Beijing these days: increased public spending, monetary easing,
pressure
on state enterprises to expand activity, subsidies to exporters, partial convertibility of the remninbi to spur trade with neighboring countries, and so on.
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