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Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over-exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.
If the severe decline in Europe's stock markets is a guide, the current downturn will be as deep on the Continent as in the US.
The first eleven months of the recession that followed were as severe as the first eleven months of the Great Depression that started in 1929.
Restoring robust growth is difficult enough without the ever-present specter of deleveraging and a severe shortage of policy ammunition.
The value of the Iranian rial has fallen by 50% against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, and the country is suffering from a severe shortage of foreign exchange.
And, because severe hunger still affects many African countries, investors can even contribute to the public good by investing in fertilizers, machinery, water and irrigation systems, and other areas of the agriculture sector.
Both are cases of severe economic crisis, to be sure.
Such regulation should discourage severe surges of short-term capital flows to developing countries because, when these are reversed, crisis usually follows;provision of sufficient official liquidity in when countries face distress.
However, it comes at a time when the Union’s eastern neighborhood faces severe challenges, with the financial and economic crisis hitting many of the partner countries hard.
All of the main capitalist economies have severe budget problems; all need to cut spending or raise taxes.
The InterAction Council, comprising more than 30 former heads of state or government, has called for urgent action to prevent some countries battling severe water shortages from becoming failed states.
The East German voters were not only impressed by his decisive handling of severe floods in August, but also by his ad hoc neutralism with regard to Iraq in September.
In the short term, the situation in Germany is less severe than in France.
Yet the income distribution has lately worsened, with inequality now potentially even more severe in Asia than in the developed economies of the West.
The current focus on austerity and structural reform carries severe social and economic risks, in part because disenchanted electorates are fertile ground for extremist parties.
After all, the overall real taxation level in China is already quite high, which means that doubling social spending from the current level without raising taxes further would require severe cuts in expenditures that chiefly benefit the ruling elites.
Although severe assaults, including some gruesome rapes, may approach some murders in severity, and might conceivably call for capital punishment, I do not support its use in these cases.
We risk a world of suffocating heat waves, severe droughts, disastrous floods, and devastating wildfires.
Taken together, African politics, demography, and the delayed arrival of new technologies imposed severe headwinds against per-capita growth of agricultural output in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
But if nominal interest rates stay positive, while inflation is negative, then real interest rates may become too high for an economy in recession, causing recession to become more severe and prolonged.
At a time when many governments, particularly in the developing world, are faced with severe fiscal constraints, such interventions may seem farfetched.
As China’s growth slows, so does its demand for oil and commodities, with severe effects for other emerging economies that depend on commodity exports.
Companies with a large portfolio of fossil fuels, like coal, will soon face severe uncertainty related to stranded assets, and investors may change their risk assessments accordingly.
The problems of Portugal and Spain might be less severe than those of Greece and Ireland, but this apparently is not enough to induce investors to buy their government debt.
Let me be the first to say that structural unemployment is a true and severe danger.
UNICEF estimates that almost 1.4 million children are already at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition, and urges concerted action to save them.
Even as China’s repression of Tibet’s religious, cultural, and linguistic heritage becomes increasingly severe, Tibetans have not taken up arms.
At its most severe, wasting is fatal.
Niger’s government halved the number of deaths of children under the age of five over a similar period, by making specific budget and operational decisions to tackle severe wasting.
Trump’s usual Senate ally, Lindsey Graham, said, “ISIS has been dealt a severe blow but are not defeated.
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