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For the international human rights movement, this is a severe setback.
Property sales have fallen, particularly outside the largest cities, and slower construction growth has left heavy industry facing severe overcapacity.
Regardless of the details of the ultimate deal, the risk is that the ghost of Russia’s bailout of Cyprus in 2011 could provoke severe side effects across Southern Europe, both for governments’ borrowing costs and for small savers.
Even then breakdowns will occur, because public policy is often faulty and if they are severe enough, breakdowns may give rise to totalitarian regimes.
That might also help mitigate the impact of larger shocks and increase the net return potential during severe shocks (though it might also lower the return potential for more mild shocks).
Authoritarian regimes, especially those with severe income and wealth inequality, inherently create a risk of arbitrariness, unpredictability, and instability.
In fact, if a financial crisis were to occur today, its consequences for the real economy might be even more severe than in the past.
Mozambique, Somalia, and Tanzania on the African side of the Indian Ocean have also reported severe damage to their fishing.
The Global Economy’s Inevitable Hard LandingIn recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe.
So it is no surprise that central banks have become increasingly desperate in the face of the most severe crisis since the advent of financial globalization.
The build-up of real and financial problems – the worst US housing recession ever, oil at $90 a barrel or above, a severe credit crunch, falling investment by the corporate sector, and savings-less and debt-burdened consumers buffeted by multiple negative shocks – make a recession unavoidable.
There is little chance that banks will re-lend to these non-banks the funds they borrowed from central banks, given these banks’ own severe liquidity problems and mistrust of non-bank counterparties.
In fact, despite a consensus that ECT is the most effective treatment for severe depressive disorder, it comes at the bottom of the list in most treatment regimens for mood disorders.
To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti-regime activities.
Even without sanctions, the Iranian economy would have been under severe strain.
Nevertheless, Hezbollah faces severe political trouble, too.
The phrase “Great Recession” creates the impression that the economy is following the contours of a typical recession, only more severe – something like a really bad cold.
Carried by contaminated floodwaters to sources of drinking water, transported by unsuspecting travelers, or brought into homes on produce irrigated with untreated sewage, the Vibrio cholerae bacterium settles in the small intestine after it is ingested, causing severe diarrhea and dehydration.
Most of Egypt’s Islamists, particularly those who returned from exile in Saudi Arabia, adhere to the Wahhabi sect, with its severe restrictions on women, implying that women’s status would be much worse than it was before the revolution.
A price of $60 a barrel would create severe problems for Russia in particular.
Even so, because any new treaty’s terms will inevitably be dictated by Germany, a severe economic slowdown would be almost certain.
Incidents are unforeseen events and technical failures that occur during normal plant operation and result in no off-site releases of radiation or severe damage to equipment.
Accidents refer to either off-site releases of radiation or severe damage to plant equipment.
The higher the volume of eurobonds a country seeks to issue, the more severe the conditions the Board would impose.
But favorable economic indicators have made little difference to the standing of Cameron’s Conservatives in opinion polls, and have done nothing to save their coalition partner, the centrist Liberal Democrats, from a severe slump.
Finally, Brexit would be a severe setback to European integration.
The prevailing strategy in Europe remains simply to force internal devaluation on the southern countries, with excessive austerity aimed at causing severe wage and price deflation.
Moreover, the asylum battle that Merkel has courageously fought is being lost: two years after claiming that Germany was strong enough to open its borders, she suffered a severe electoral setback, followed by tensions within her coalition and retreat on the European front.
Growing cross-border mobility has put Germany under severe competitive pressure.
Russia lacks diversified exports, faces severe demographic and health problems, and, in former President Dmitri Medvedev’s words, “greatly needs modernization.”
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