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China will resist deploying its full leverage, lest it undermine North Korea’s stability and end up worse off as a result.
We must resist the temptation to believe that a meddling, paternalistic state is the way of the future.
Yet, when Indians watch Israel take the fight to the enemy, killing those who launched rockets against it and dismantling many of the sites from which the rockets flew, some cannot resist wishing that they could do something similar in Pakistan.
It demonstrates that, even as a country’s ethnic composition changes, as it faces terrorist attacks and a deep recession, it can resist the siren song of extremism.
Similarly, some argue that the country needs a mild dose of inflation, while Japan's central bank continues to resist the very idea that inflation could ameliorate any economic problem.
Then, unless the EFSF pot were tripled – a move that Germany would resist – the only option left would become an orderly but coercive restructuring of Italian and Spanish debt, as has happened in Greece.
The stock market channels restructuring pressures anonymously in ways that managers cannot resist.
Moreover, the non-Taliban and non-Pashtun forces are now stronger, more organized, and better prepared than in 1996 to resist any advance on Kabul, having been empowered by provincial autonomy or by the offices they still hold in the Afghan federal government.
Unless political leaders resist such responses, the past could become the future.
So, unless governments cooperate to stimulate their economies and resist protectionism, the world may find that the current economic crisis does not mean the end of globalization, but only the end of the good kind, leaving us with the worst of all worlds.
To resist the populist backlash, we Europeans should be proclaiming the EU’s virtues more loudly, without descending to the populists’ level.
The Fed vs. the FinanciersIn his August 31 address to the world’s most influential annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke coolly explained why the Fed is determined to resist pressure to stabilize swooning equity and housing prices.
He could not have been the bravest or most decisive man, given that he was unable to resist rising militarism.
Otherwise, the siren song of neo-nationalism will be difficult to resist.
Second, the US – the one country with the muscle to play a decisive role – will continue to resist deeper involvement.
Much of the rest of the world may consider such reforms a perquisite of economic growth, but many of Syriza's leaders view them as neoliberal assaults that Greece should resist.
History shows that when an economy starts to sputter, central banks find it extremely difficult to resist domestic calls for action.
Developing countries should resist a system that evaluates their needs from the perspective of expanding world trade instead of alleviating poverty.
There are at least three reasons why the IMF should resist this pressure, and abstain from increasing its (already extremely high) exposure to Europe.
Today, many French journalists still resist the temptation to expose the private lives of the political elite.
But if China wants a dynamic innovation system, it should resist pressure by Western governments to adopt the kind of unbalanced intellectual property laws that are being demanded.
Most important, Europe and the US continue to resist the full dismantling of a nationality-based appointment system that favors their citizens for the highest leadership positions at the IMF and the World Bank, despite offering the occasional promise of change.
The longer that world leaders resist the overwhelming need for reform, the worse the world’s future economic and financial prospects – not to mention its security situation – will be.
Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.
The remarkable boosts to productivity that have been within America's grasp will ultimately lead to accelerating growth of real profits and real wages, if only US policy makers resist the temptation to pursue politically expedient, but economically damaging, measures to "protect" output and employment.
GM crops that resist certain pests and tolerate herbicides have gained rapid acceptance in many countries.
Moscow has made it clear it will resist.
Poland’s government cannot simultaneously pretend to resist Russia’s energy pressures and yet reject Germany’s offers of help.
For example, fiscal money would have helped Greece resist our creditors’ encroachments in 2015, and it was at the heart of my plan for dealing with a predatory bank holiday enforced by the ECB at the end of that June.
These countries can, of course, resist upward pressure on their currencies by accumulating foreign-exchange reserves, like they did before the global financial crisis.
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