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Many economists have concluded, however, that continual and deep labor-saving technological change, not trade with poor countries, is a
principal
culprit in the stagnation seen in rich-country wages nowadays.
Extending this idea to sovereign debt, government bond covenants could stipulate that if a sovereign’s debt/GDP ratio exceeds a specified threshold,
principal
and interest payments to bondholders would be automatically reduced.
In 2011, a good start at following through on this vision was realized at the East Asia Summit in Bali, where, for the first time, China, the US, and the region’s other
principal
players gathered around a table to deliberate their interests.
Their
principal
– and successful – experience is in local politics.
Mobile workers in their prime will seek outlets for their skills, creativity, and entrepreneurial impulses elsewhere, and Italy will have lost one of the
principal
engines of economic dynamism, growth, and adaptability.
At stake is the relevance of NATO in a world in which the
principal
security challenges facing Europe are to be found outside the NATO treaty area.
The government's harassment of opposition leaders, capped by the banning of the BNP's
principal
political ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, for its purported religious extremism, has done nothing to cool the fires.
Developed country tariffs on imports of agricultural products, textiles, and clothing – the
principal
exports of most developing countries – remained between 5% and 8% in 2008, just 2-3 percentage points lower than in 1998.
A board of 17 people, one from each eurozone economy, would be unwieldy, and unlikely to win the support of the eurozone’s
principal
creditor countries.
Peace comes only when a conflict becomes ripe for resolution, which happens when the leaders of the
principal
protagonists are both willing and able to embrace compromise.
If, say, Islamist terrorism is the
principal
threat, then it might make sense for the West to align itself with Russia in the fight against it.
If such “global summits” are going to be the
principal
means of governing in the twenty-first century, we have real cause for concern.
The
principal
reason is that in times of crisis people fall into predictable but avoidable errors, largely because of panic.
In making its case for a reduction of Greece's debt burden, Syriza draws heavily on the history of Germany, its
principal
creditor and, in the eyes of many Greeks, their country's primary antagonist.
Steering the economy forward without populism – and the inflation and fiscal crisis that always go with it – is their
principal
challenge and possibly will be their most publicized achievement.
But no debate is more persistent than that between those who believe that American foreign policy’s
principal
purpose should be to influence the external behavior of other states and those who hold that it should be to shape their internal nature.
As it turned out, after 40 years of containment, the Soviet Union and its empire unraveled, though this outcome was a byproduct of US policy, not its
principal
purpose.
Europe still constitutes a quarter of the world’s economy and remains one of America’s
principal
geopolitical partners.
Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the
principal
opposition party.
Here, Israel may come under growing pressure from its
principal
ally.
Thus, the Five-Year Plan’s goal is to recompose (not expand) aggregate demand in order to sustain growth and avoid the diminishing-returns trap that is the
principal
risk of China’s current investment pattern.
As a result, the cost of capital in the US will soar, discouraging investment and reducing consumption spending as high interest rates depress the value of households’
principal
assets: their houses.
Americans may love stories about individual change and redemption, but the global poor – who will be the
principal
victims of global warming – are more interested in what we do than in the state of our souls.
The failure to sacrifice the subsidiary objective of keeping the private sector private meant that the Fed and the Treasury lost their opportunity to attain the
principal
objective of avoiding depression.
In addition, China has served as the
principal
broker in talks between the US and North Korea on nuclear issues, in which Japan has a huge stake.
But governments offer no collateral, and their
principal
incentive to repay – the fear of being cut off by international credit markets – derives from a perverse addiction.
The
principal
reason summits are back is that they constitute Trump’s favored approach to diplomacy.
Europe’s values – and those of its
principal
postwar sponsor, the US – are tolerance, diversity, and human rights.
It was galling to have to acknowledge that the
principal
center for trading in euro-denominated instruments lay outside the eurozone.
That is somewhat ironic: removing the UK from the ECJ’s jurisdiction is now one of May’s
principal
aims.
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