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It was the value of the stock market that fell sharply – which makes sense, given that counter-cyclical policy is now severely constrained.
Anything that violates traditional gender stereotypes is severely sanctioned in Mexican society; therein lies the true foundation of homophobia.
The country’s home developers, local governments, and state-owned enterprises are severely over-indebted.
Runaway growth and development have left about 70% of China’s lakes and rivers severely polluted, many unfit for human use of any kind.
As we have seen in the recent past, protracted tensions – for example, the territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in 2012 – can severely damage economic and diplomatic relations.
Cost inflation is also severely affecting the accessibility of high-quality education for most of the population.
Even though inequality has been reduced in Venezuela (for the time being), the economy’s growth prospects have been severely weakened.
Life in the capital, and many Chinese cities, had been severely disrupted.
Second, it is severely underfunded.
Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.
The only EU-wide operation aimed at helping police the external border, called Frontex, is severely limited in scope.
But chances are that it will not really help, because it trying to reduce deficits in that manner will severely undermine economic performance.
But even if the world economy is on course to a firm recovery, the long-term trend has been severely and permanently disrupted.
And policymakers must explore new ways to address escalating debt, including tackling the most severely affected economies’ liquidity and solvency challenges.
Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving – namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving – multilateral trade deficits will persist.
This approach severely limits rival states’ options by confounding their deterrence plans and making it difficult for them to devise proportionate or effective counter-measures.
Given the likelihood that the Republicans will continue to control at least one house of Congress, Democratic President Barack Obama’s policy flexibility will probably remain severely constrained – unless, of course, the White House and Congress finally find a way to work together.
Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and more than twice as many – a whopping 4.5 billion – lack safely managed sanitation, severely undermining health outcomes and fueling river pollution.
An elected populist demagogue eliminates or weakens the checks and balances on his authority by undermining the independence of the courts and other bodies, severely restricting the freedom of the press, tilting the playing field to make elections easier to win, and delegitimizing and imprisoning political opponents.
Central bank independence, by contrast, has been undermined severely – and possibly forever.
Moreover, in the last few years, the system of checks and balances in place within the Fed’s Board of Governors has been severely hampered by the fact that, in his first term, President Barack Obama had the rare opportunity to appoint or re-appoint almost all of its members, enabling him to replace hawkish governors with doves.
The Achilles’ Heel of TrumponomicsNEW HAVEN – Donald Trump’s economic strategy is severely flawed.
Last year, the standard battery cage for egg-laying hens was banned, ensuring somewhat better conditions for hundreds of millions of hens (though they can still be kept in cages that severely restrict their movement).
Armenia frequently sees skinheads attacking reporters covering opposition rallies and once severely beating a leading opposition politician.
Unfortunately, they tend to leave a severely compromised democracy and a derelict economy in their wake.
The rate of renewal among the 200 most influential economists was as low as 25% – and just 16% among the top 100 – during a decade in which the explanatory power of prevailing economic theory had been found severely wanting.
But the main reason C. auris represents such an acute threat is that treatment options are severely limited.
Yet, in Sub-Saharan Africa – the region with the most potential for progress under the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals – accurate data are severely lacking.
Commodity prices, moreover, are skyrocketing, and the cost of small and mid-size apartments has become prohibitive for a middle class severely hit by unemployment.
Imposing severe restrictions on the growth of their emissions growth would impede their GDP growth and severely curtail their ability to climb out of poverty.
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