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Estonia’s former government may have been too severe with pensioners, but at the same time parties advocating moderate benefit levels have been defeated by parties willing to raise the stakes in populist bids for pensioner votes.
The challenge has proven particularly severe, if not fatal, for those facing intense competition from entrants able to combine disruptive content and big platforms – the most notable examples being Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Uber.
The West’s failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by the global economic crisis (which exposed severe structural weaknesses in the US and the EU that their democratic governments have been unable to resolve), accelerated this process.
Trade in goods may be affected, but the impact on exports of services – including financial services – will be more severe.
In other words, while all indicators point to a severe economic downturn in Europe, the eurozone’s current interest-rate spreads are provoking a shift to austerity.
More recently, my team and I developed a new low-cost system for delivering “bubble CPAP” (continuous positive airway pressure), which keeps air flowing during the process of treating severe pneumonia.
They understand what it means to face severe – and, to some extent, insurmountable – resource constraints.
But, despite vocal support for locally led research and development, severe constraints to developing-country innovation remain – and must urgently be removed.
If policymakers waste time on trickle-down sophistry, as is happening in the US, the world may be headed for severe economic distress.
Otherwise, populists will continue to win support, with potentially severe consequences, as the Brexit debacle shows.
Add to that ever-worsening corruption and a severe liquidity freeze, and a financial meltdown, accompanied by an 8-10% decline in output, appears likely.
With energy shortages usually most severe in water-stressed areas, what are affected countries to do?
So the risk remains that a severe enough financial shock in the EU will affect all other borrowers in the same country in a self-fulfilling manner.
The goal is to combat a severe drought by reducing residential consumption by 20%.
When she was 15, she experienced an episode of severe depression, which culminated in a suicide attempt.
This severe downturn created widespread social discontent, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of US support for military regimes in the region, every Latin American dictatorship except Cuba’s was upended.
As monetary tightening reveals the vulnerabilities in the real economy, the collapse of asset-price bubbles will trigger another economic crisis – one that could be even more severe than the last, because we have built up a tolerance to our strongest macroeconomic medications.
While the goal – to prevent deflation and spur growth – is clear, the policies themselves are setting the stage for severe instability.
Inequality in the Twenty-First CenturyMUMBAI – At the end of a low and dishonest year, reminiscent of the “low, dishonest decade” about which W.H. Auden wrote in his poem “September 1, 1939,” the world’s “clever hopes” are giving way to recognition that many severe problems must be tackled.
But, at a certain point, inequality becomes so severe that it has the opposite effect.
Plenty of people – including many of the world’s wealthy – recognize how unacceptable severe inequality is, both morally and economically.
The reputation of India’s Election Commission (EC) – which has a decades-long record of conducting free and fair elections, despite comprising largely retired civil servants appointed by the government for fixed tenures – also took a severe blow last year.
A broader concept of poverty in the West would help reduce poverty in countries where it is most severe.
By destroying the Palestinian Authority's civil and security infrastructure, Israel dealt a severe blow to the PA's ability to deliver services to this "up-for-grabs" population.
Is Europe’s current crisis severe and dislocating enough to generate an analogous effect?
The risks associated with an overvalued currency are more severe.
Chile’s growth problems are among the least severe in the region.
Horizontal PDPs are relatively uncontroversial, but vertical PDPs can unleash severe criticism, with skeptics claiming that they involve “picking winners.”
This makes populist pressure to abandon the euro correspondingly less severe – the key questions, of course, being how much less severe, and whether the political center can hold.
Severe pension cuts are preventing the elderly from living out their lives with dignity.
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