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This is a main goal of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, which has warned of the unprecedented pressures that economic growth will impose in coming decades on infrastructure (especially transportation), housing, waste disposal (especially of hazardous substances), and energy supplies.
The World Bank’s Water Sector Assessment Report on the Gulf countries, published in 2005, predicts that these demographic pressures will likely cause the availability of fresh water to halve, exacerbating the danger of inter-state conflict.
Worldwide economic growth is already slowing under the pressures of $135-per-barrel oil and grain prices that have more than doubled in the past year.
If we continue on our current course – leaving fate to the markets, and leaving governments to compete with each other over scarce oil and food – global growth will slow under the pressures of resource constraints.
This should boost India's per capita income;2. old social barriers to education for girls and lower castes are giving way, under democratic pressures, to strong calls for universal education.
The lessons of earlier battles against inflation are clear on one fundamental point: inflationary pressures cannot be contained by negative, or slightly positive, real short-term interest rates.
Its efforts focus mainly on increasing banks’ mandatory reserve ratios while introducing administrative measures to deal with food price pressures, approving a couple of token interest-rate hikes, and managing a modest upward adjustment in the currency.
Policymakers must weigh the risks of volatility, exchange-rate pressures, and vulnerability to sudden reversals in capital flows against the benefits of wider access to credit and enhanced competition.
Internationa1 cooperation which depends solely on the good will of governments is constantly exposed to the pressures of the moment, to domestic political calculations, to moods and tactics.
Over the last year and a half, they withstood these pressures remarkably well; but, as the global crisis hits them with full force, they are now seeking help from the International Monetary Fund.
Or, more precisely, they reflect the requirement that the real exchange rate be such that the economy attains both external balance (a small and manageable current-account deficit) and internal balance (no inflationary pressures at home).
Accordingly, it is far better to insulate monetary policy from political pressures by delegating it to technocratic, independent central banks that are charged with the singular objective of price stability.
It is a lot easier to exit from a fixed exchange rate regime when the pressures on the currency are upwards.
While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange-rate pressures can turn in an instant.
In the past year, the RMB has appreciated by 6%, but the pace is not fast enough to reduce China’s global trade surplus, its internal imbalances, or foreign-exchange-market pressures.
The US faces similar pressures, even though we are one of the world’s most open economies.
Yes, there are a few notable outliers – namely, the United Kingdom, where currency pressures and one-off holiday distortions are temporarily boosting core inflation to 2.4%, and Malaysia, where the removal of fuel subsidies has boosted headline inflation, yet left the core stable at around 2.5%.
By signaling their intention to contain price pressures, they would alter inflation expectations – and thus essentially convince the public and the government to do the heavy lifting.
Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.
But, while it is true that central bankers are more vulnerable to political pressures than they were before the global financial crisis, Weidmann’s reasoning is faulty.
The best defense against these pressures is to operate according to utterly unambiguous criteria.
Interestingly, one of the reasons given for retaining Article 9 was that it would better enable Japan to resist American pressures to engage in military “coalitions of the willing” far from Japan’s shores.
Domestic Chinese firms, too, need to respond to these pressures.
The eurozone is much better positioned to manage fiscal pressures than it once was.
In both cases, pressures from the Republicans as well as from centrist Democrats helped to pull the Clinton Administration onto the correct track: supporting free trade despite powerful protectionist allies in the Democratic Party; supporting budget deficit reduction instead of large fiscal spending programs.
Like the Nixon/Connolly team, the Bush administration is responding to America's massive budget and trade deficits by letting the dollar fall--and hard --while it also tries to distract attention from its responsibility by pointing an accusing finger at China as the cause for both US joblessness and deflationary pressures.
The euro's dizzying trade-weighted ascent over the past year is, indeed, exacerbating near-term pressures within the EU.
Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist.
To meet this demand, the world’s agribusiness firms will attempt to boost their annual meat output from 300 million tons today to 480 million tons by 2050, generating serious social challenges and ecological pressures at virtually every stage of the value chain (feed supply, production, processing, and retail).
The real challenge in Europe is continued stagnation and rising public-sector fiscal pressures in bloated welfare states with rapidly aging populations.
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