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Having reached the point at which taxes can scarcely be increased further, these governments cannot both repay their debts and keep welfare spending at current levels.
Moreover, the IMF’s share in crisis countries’ total external debt has reached unprecedented and systemically problematic levels.
Each day from January 1 to June 30 that the damage continues will have a roughly linear impact on economic performance in 2013, reducing the likely full-year real GDP growth rate by 0.0084% – and only if a deal is ultimately reached that would have caused no economic harm in 2013 had it been reached on November 10, 2012.
If no deal is reached by June 30, America’s likely 2013 real GDP growth rate will be -0.5%, with the likely unemployment rate returning to 8.9%.
Failure to take all four steps outlined above all but guarantees renewed recession in America, even if a good agreement is reached on stretching out the tax hikes and spending cuts.
And if no agreement is reached on that, undertaking the last three steps would at least reduce somewhat the subsequent damage.
If, during this dialogue, a consensus is reached on the need to elect a new president, so much the better.
In 2010, only 8% of some $400 billion in fossil-fuel subsidies reached the poorest 20% of the population.
Venture capital (VC) investment has reached near-record highs.
After ten hours, we reached an agreement that would end the siege, after more than three years of war.
Concern about such divergences has also reached the task force headed by European Union President Herman Van Rompuy, which is supposed to devise fundamental reforms to the rules for economic policy coordination within the EU.
Managers' salaries - including bonuses for failed or departing directors - have reached new highs.
A Big Bond for AfricaLAGOS – The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have reached a critical juncture.
The Middle East and the Return of HistoryBERLIN – Ever since Francis Fukuyama argued, more than two decades ago, that the world had reached the end of history, history has made the world hold its breath.
The migrants from North Africa who have reached the shores of Italy fled war in Iraq and Syria, forced conscription in Eritrea, permanent conflict in Afghanistan, and criminal violence in other parts of Africa.
Read More from "Zone Defense"The Net-Zero ImperativeOXFORD – The world has reached an historic agreement on climate change.
In fact, China has already reached the per capita income level at which nearly all autocracies in non-oil producing states fall from power.
If a deal can be reached between the world’s two greatest polluting nations, which together are responsible for more than 46% of all greenhouse-gas emissions, an international accord on climate change would be easier to reach.
The non-binding political commitments reached in principle at Copenhagen already have run into controversy as well as varying interpretations, dimming the future of the so-called “Copenhagen Accord,” an ad hoc, face-saving agreement stitched together at the eleventh hour to cover up the summit’s failure.
Although the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua did win a semi-legitimate election in 1984, it had reached power five years earlier by overthrowing the Somoza dictatorship.
This time last year, Oxfam predicted that the wealth of the top 1% would overtake that of the rest of the population by 2016; that milestone was reached two months ahead of schedule.
The Geneva ConversionDENVER – The agreement on Syria’s chemical weapons reached by Russia and the United States is important not so much for what it could mean on the ground – which remains to be seen as inspectors begin to flow into Syria and, we hope, chemical-weapons stockpiles begin to be destroyed.
After a three-month journey through the mountains, the British reached Magdala, released the hostages, and burned the capital to the ground.
And ice in the Bering Sea has reached record lows.
France has not adopted a balanced budget in the last 30 years, and its public debt reached an unsustainable €1.7 trillion ($2.2 trillion) in 2011.
People aged 60 or more represent almost 20% of the population in rich countries today, whereas in the world as a whole this ratio is not expected to be reached before 2050.
If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about.
In the ten years since the fall of the wall, I believe that both goals, although not in their entirety, have been reached in their essence.
With the approach of winter, the Euromaidan revolution has once again reached this point, and the challenge is the same now as it was a decade ago.
The UN appeal for South Sudan, which faces famine after fighting prevented farmers from planting crops, has reached only half of its funding target.
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