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That leaves Europe’s stronger countries, particularly Germany, with the residual liability.
With periodic bouts of contagion in the eurozone and residual uncertainty about America’s commitment to a strong dollar and fiscal discipline, major reserve holders in Asia and the Gulf need to become a stabilizing counterweight.
Another possibility, which can accompany the first one, is that Mexico’s rapid opening to imports has bifurcated its economy between a relatively small number of technologically advanced, globally competitive winners, and a growing segment of firms, particularly in services and retail trade, that serve as the residual source of employment.
To begin, residual problems from the end of the earlier era of colonization, usually the result of untidy exits by the colonial power, still remain dangerously stalemated.
Aid played an important, but residual, role.
What football really provides is a residual area of confrontation that allows for the controlled expression of animosity, leaving the most important areas of interaction between countries unaffected.
The incident’s timing was particularly unfortunate, as it coincided with efforts to reach an agreement to keep a residual deployment of US troops in Afghanistan beyond the planned 2014 departure of foreign combat forces.
Member countries’ central banks would hold their residual euro balances in accounts with a European Clearing Bank.
The answer explains the unusual consensus among economists, for “technology” is measured as a kind of “none of the above” category, a residual – Nobel laureate Robert Solow called it “total factor productivity” – that remains unexplained after accounting for other production inputs, such as physical and human capital.
As Moses Abramovitz aptly noted in 1956, this residual is not much more than “a measure of our ignorance.”
With this in mind, my company is redesigning its products and considering how to capture their residual value.
But, while GDP growth seems to be returning slowly to potential, the slow pace of recovery in employment and the residual secular shifts in income distribution remain causes of concern.
One can think of the US economy as an 8-cylinder engine running on five, owing to residual deleveraging, fiscal consolidation and drag, public-sector investment shortfalls, and questions about the financial health and security of middle-income households (the backbone of domestic aggregate demand).
To the extent that this is true of other advanced economies, the global economy faces an extended multi-year period of low growth, with residual downside risk coming from policy gridlock and mistakes in Europe, the US, and elsewhere.
As a result, what remains of representative institutions is an empty shell of residual decision-making, with bribery being the only real conversation of government.
Likewise, debt buybacks would be a massive waste of official resources, as the residual value of the debt increases as it is bought, benefiting creditors far more than the sovereign debtor.
One of the best tools we have against malaria is indoor residual spraying.
Although human lives can be saved by this kind of assistance to the "poorest of the poor," efforts to promote economic development might more effectively focus on other modes of intervention, such as environmental management, housing improvement, applications of residual insecticide, and efforts against the mosquitoes that transmit the infection.
In a system where courts cannot be relied upon to protect property rights, letting the government hold residual rights in an enterprise may have been a second-best mechanism for avoiding expropriation.
There is always a residual danger that China will embrace nationalism to ward off domestic problems.
Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia’s external influence in this region remains enormous.
The fear is that so long as Iran maintains residual nuclear capacity – even for civilian use – it could develop atomic arms that would threaten Israel.
The residual suspicion that lingers in countries like China and Korea sets limits on Japan’s appeal that are reinforced every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni Shrine.
Under such conditions, a mere nudge in interest rates by the Federal Reserve should set right any residual problem; if not, a tax cut will do the trick.
Should he choose to exercise his vast residual influence through United Russia (with its inevitable majority in the newly elected parliament), we will know that he means what he says.
Residual guilt about the Holocaust bolstered this attitude.
Moreover, there remains the question of how a residual American-led force, even if sizable, could make a difference in Afghanistan, given that a much larger force failed to secure a clear victory over the past 13 years.
According to Rice, anything less than a residual force of 10,000 American troops will send the message that the US is not serious about helping to stabilize Afghanistan – a message that would embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin further.
But this requires Congress to support President Barack Obama’s administration in three areas: improving the composition and level of aggregate demand; enhancing the economy’s supply responsiveness; and removing residual debt overhangs that continue to inhibit economic activity.
The revelation that Trump and President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan spoke by telephone has probably now shattered any residual hope that the incoming US administration will be anything but a bull in a China shop.
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