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Together, these policies would reduce sovereign debt, lower interest rates, ameliorate tax pressures, enable countries to increase competitiveness with fewer sacrifices to living standards, and provide Europe with a road map to prosperity.
In response, pharmaceutical companies and policymakers are looking for innovative ways to reduce these pressures, not just by developing new drugs, but also by rethinking how the industry operates.
None of them can currently be found in Bolivia, which means that the money concentrated in the state will surely be redistributed by patrimonial and clientelistic means, siphoned off by corruption, and subjected to social pressures of all sorts.
But the last couple of years have proved that, in a crisis, they are not immune from political pressures to re-focus their portfolio allocations towards domestic investments.
SWFs like to portray themselves as independent institutions, yet it is clear that, once domestic economies falter, they cannot ignore the combined pressures of the media, public, and politicians at home, all of whom question the wisdom of investing domestic wealth abroad in times of crisis.
Moreover, human-driven climate change threatens to intensify existing pressures affecting food supply and migration.
And while those causes include political pressures – particularly the devastating civil wars in Syria and Iraq – the refugee flows also reflect the inability of the Middle East to produce the income growth that is lifting Asia, Latin America, and large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty.
But today’s Russia is feeling even greater economic pressures.
Thanks to EU pressures, Turkey's domestic Kurdish problem is well on the way to being resolved democratically, with most Kurdish leaders in Turkey expressing their commitment to Turkish unity.
Even in the far northern reaches of the Reef, long at a sufficient distance from human pressures like coastal development to preserve, to a large extent, coral health, a staggering 50% of the coral has died.
Before doing anything else, we must relieve some of the balance-sheet pressures – on sovereigns, households, and banks – that risk smothering the recovery.
Structural deflationary pressures in the developed countries – such as highly debated increments of productivity in the United States – help the central banks to maintain price stability, which means that growing exports and high terms of trade have been accompanied by reasonably low interest rates.
France is not a Shangri-La, isolated from global markets or the pressures of international research.
The planet’s response to our pressures is likely to be unpredictable.
Collapsing emerging-market currencies, and the resulting trade pressures, will make it all the more difficult for them to prevent their unemployment levels from rising significantly.
Moreover, the pressures facing a national candidate are quite different – both more magnified and more diffuse – from those facing a governor.
But at the very time that many countries in the East are looking to German universal banks as a model, new competitive pressures in the West are rapidly transforming the German prototype, leading to new patterns of commercial relations between German business and finance.
In a quest for economies of scale and a strategic repositioning of facilities in order to survive in a world of fast growing competitive pressures, globalization adds to the process of corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.
A major reconsideration of the one-child policy is especially important, given the need to relieve pressures arising from the inevitable decline in China’s working-age population.
The first era of globalization, which lasted until 1914, was a success as long as economic and monetary policies remained insulated from domestic political pressures.
And it can turn some of its short-term problems, such as the pressures arising from ethnic and linguistic diversity (the state is now 37% Hispanic and 13% Asian) into long-term strengths in the global economy.
In such a context, fiscal policy would be the only effective macroeconomic-policy tool left, and thus would have to assume much more responsibility for countering recessionary pressures.
The people’s movement also took the lid off social pressures often disregarded by Nepal’s elites.
The need to cope with trade pressures after the Trans-Pacific Partnership encompasses most of China’s neighbors will have a similar disciplining effect.
Taming Politicians on Both Sides of the AtlanticDespite occasional grumbles from politicians, no one seriously doubts the European Central Bank's independence, or that monetary policy within the euro zone is therefore well insulated from political pressures.
We can debate the exact fiscal pressures in each case, and precisely how various kinds of bondholders were treated, but the simple fact of the matter is that when the going gets tough, the US pays its debts.
Instead of being fair and delivering justice, the Hague Tribunal has surrendered to political pressures and manipulation.
The needs of aging populations will add to these pressures.
The competitive pressures on European banks resulting from currency union will almost surely force the issue, by pushing weak banks towards bankruptcy.
On the contrary, the Bank’s current policy of fighting inflationary pressures by slower growth, a stronger euro, and the credit crunch seems just about right for the time being.
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