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As a result, economic growth and job creation remain lackluster, with the availability of investment finance for long-term productive assets – essential to sustainable growth – severely limited.
The need for security clearances – and the notorious inefficiency of the process for granting new ones – severely restricts competition.
Economic growth can indeed continue to be severely depressed by a debt overhang even when credit supply is unrestricted and cheap.
Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’ balance sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.
But Iran is unlikely to be able to take advantage of the rial’s low value to restructure its economy, or to increase exports in the short run, given that oil remains the country’s most important export, and current sanctions severely limit the quantities in which it can be sold.
Turkey, Egypt, and Iraq are also severely affected.
This severely limits the prospects of women and girls.
Indeed, in many countries, including some of those most severely hit by the financial and economic crisis, voters turned out to endorse both their governments and the European project.
Since fiscal room for maneuver is severely restricted in many economies, and expansionary monetary policies have reached their limits, addressing the global crisis effectively requires global cooperation – by governments, businesses, and employees.
But are complaints that Greek sovereignty has been severely impaired justified?
With the nation-state law in place, however, their legal recourse will be severely constrained.
Until now, the British foreign-policy grandees and former ambassadors warning that Brexit will severely damage the UK’s standing in the world have been dismissed by much of the public as discredited elites and fear-mongers.
But now that competition has intensified, as it encompasses virtually all of Asia, where growing populations and rapid economic development over the last three decades have generated an insatiable appetite for severely limited supplies of key commodities.
So far, regulatory ambiguity has not severely affected developing countries, and the economic costs to the global South have been minimal.
All other local banks have adopted the same approach, severely restricting access to financial services for households and entrepreneurs.
Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad.
Not only has the problem of short-termism been woefully exaggerated, but the policy proposals for addressing it are severely lacking.
This last idea has not been shown to work, and may severely damage the entire ocean ecosystem, but the first two are being worked on.
China, for example, would lose from an attack that severely damaged the American economy, and vice versa.
Moreover, his wife’s conviction of the widely publicized murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has severely embarrassed the CCP.
The prolonged recession and economic malaise have dented the individual savings rate, while banks no longer have the resources to provide peace of mind to many retail investors, whose trust has been severely eroded.
In the early 1970's a major methyl mercury-poisoning catastrophe occurred in which an estimated 10,000 people died and 100,000 were severely and permanently brain damaged.
But we should not act as if reality has not severely tarnished our cherished standard model.
Moreover, it would require entrusting economic policy to international technocrats, insulated as they are from the push and pull of politics – a stance that severely circumscribes democracy and political accountability.
Diarrhea, for example, is a deadly disease for severely underweight children, who are 12 times more likely to die from an ailment that should be easily treated.
And severely underweight children are 9.5 times more likely to die from malaria as well.
The German Chancellor and his "red-green" coalition still clings to power but is today severely weakened.
International agreement to ensure that countries do not prohibit exports, especially of critical commodities, except under severely (and verifiably) adverse domestic circumstances, would help reduce fear of market breakdown.
But the impact is severely limited without external devaluation, which is impossible within a monetary union.
Even if there were a government willing and able to carry out the necessary fiscal adjustment, the political fallout of the Petrobras affair has damaged Brazil’s credibility severely.
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