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Especially instructive is the 2.2% price decline in Greece for the 12 months ending in July – the most severe example of ongoing deflation in the advanced countries and counterproductive to an orderly solution to the country’s problems.
Precautionary AbsurdityPRINCETON – Many people who advocate draconian measures to counteract climate change base their argument on the so-called “precautionary principle,” which holds that when a possible future disaster would be unacceptably severe, action to prevent it is imperative.
It is easy to imagine disasters so severe that drastic action to prevent them would be reasonable, and advocates of drastic action can easily scare the public with imagined disasters.
For example, one of the most immediate and severe consequences of climate change could be a rapid rise in sea level.
Many local currencies in the EBRD region (such as the Hungarian forint, the Ukrainian hryvnia, and the Russian ruble) have suffered severe depreciation since in the last quarter of 2008.
Environmental deterioration is severe, the “Gini index” (the gap between rich and poor) is widening, and official corruption has not been curbed.
But his policies have already caused severe unintended consequences.
Will we see a capital-flow reversal, resulting in severe exchange-rate gyrations?
But a series of recent shocks suggests that macro liquidity has become linked with severe market illiquidity.
And the policy challenges are daunting: the eurozone’s recession is deepening as front-loaded fiscal consolidation and severe credit rationing continues.
The route to a constitution-like arrangement will be severe and complex.
Submitting an incomplete tax return, for example, would be tax evasion and is handled through administrative measures, including severe fines if necessary.
Anyone found to be illegally evading their tax obligations in Switzerland faces severe financial penalties.
Japan’s Nuclear Morality TaleNEW DELHI – The troubles of the Fukushima nuclear-power plant – and other reactors – in northeast Japan have dealt a severe blow to the global nuclear industry, a powerful cartel of less than a dozen major state-owned or state-guided firms that have been trumpeting a nuclear-power renaissance.
Fukushima is likely to stunt the appeal of nuclear power in a way similar to the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, not to mention the far more severe meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986.
Whoever wins Egypt’s presidency will face severe obstacles in challenging the status quo, owing to the dominance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
But if future generations are unable to find productive outlets for their skills, the social fallout could be severe.
It involved a combination of three elements: immediate international assistance, through the International Monetary Fund; severe domestic retrenchment, enforced by the highly unpopular conditionality of IMF programs; and additional financing provided by the banks.
And, in the longer term, we would have a viable international model of how to tackle severe sovereign-debt problems.
We cannot go on reacting to crises as they arise in the Balkans, especially as our actions can have such severe unintended and adverse consequences.
Though Pakistan has not experienced a nuclear breach, and the government insists that safeguards remain robust, the country’s increasingly frequent and severe bouts of instability raise serious questions about the future.
Indeed, the war in Georgia already has thrown Russia into the most severe financial crisis since its virtual bankruptcy in 1998; $17 billion were lost in capital flight in just one week.
Yet global deterioration of coral reefs is severe and ongoing.
Corals grow slowly, so reefs sustaining severe bleaching will not recover before they bleach again.
A pattern of sharp price increases, which peaked around 1990, was followed by declines in cities from Boston and Los Angeles to London, Sydney, and Tokyo, contributing to severe regional recessions.
The consequences could be severe, and not only in the US, where 21% of mortgages last year were for more than 90% of a home's purchase price, up from 7% at the peak of the boom in the late 1980s.
At the same time, rising sea levels will cause severe damage to coastal areas.
Lacking cyclical vigor in the aftermath of severe recessions, today’s economies are finding it especially difficult to shrug off the impact of shocks and break out of anemic growth trajectories.
They should then become incrementally more severe the longer and the more seriously the rules are breached.
When cuts are big, people realize how severe the crisis is, and the politically impossible becomes necessary.
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