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In contrast, nearly 80% of the world’s poor do not have access to any social protection to shield them from the effects of unemployment, illness, or disability – not to mention crop failure or soaring food costs.
But it also sees that it has no more use for OPEC, an organization that it foisted on the world with the first Arab oil embargo in 1973 and has since used as a shield for its oil policies.
Governments not only needed to help by providing a combination of public assistance and new legislation guaranteeing deposits, but also were called on to shield their constituencies from destabilizing international influences.
And with the extra income that cooperatives provide, farmers can buy greenhouses to prolong their production season, and shield against erratic weather.
As EU members, the Baltic states would indirectly come under Nato’s security shield, making explicit membership unnecessary perhaps.
Today’s discussions about a limited missile shield and the threat of nuclear blackmail from rogue states should be analyzed in the light of this terrible but realistic thought.
Indeed, as South Korean media speculated about whether the Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean foreign ministers had discussed the shield, a North Korean diplomat spoke proudly of his country’s success in marrying a nuclear device to a missile.
All have flexible exchange rates, a large war chest of reserves to shield against a run on their currencies and banks, and fewer currency mismatches (for example, heavy foreign-currency borrowing to finance investment in local-currency assets).
Providing an additional shield to the peripheral countries is the European Central Bank's plan to begin purchasing sovereign bonds.
While they protect countries excluded from bilateral or regional tariff agreements, thereby ensuring that integrated markets do not receive additional advantages, few safeguards exist to shield third countries from the fallout of agreements on mandatory standards.
Non-state actors – like Hamas and Hezbollah, or the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan – that shield themselves behind a defenseless civilian population expose the widening gap between the traditional rules of war and the realities of today’s battlefield.
By restricting the ivory trade, the UK joined other countries – including China and the United States – in using market deterrents to discourage poaching and shield an endangered species from extinction.
And both make the same economic case for such reforms: to insulate basic banking services from investment banking risks; to make resolution easier and thus more credible; to shield taxpayers from risks that belong in the private sector; and hence to ensure that banks’ risk-taking is subject to adequate market discipline.
First, it does not do enough to shield retail banking from investment-banking risks, of which only a small share relate to proprietary trading.
The euro quickly became the world’s second most important currency, and it proved to be a shield against external financial turbulence.
As an anti-status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.
The Bush administration’s incoherent foreign policy included a plan to build a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, which allowed Putin to revive the Old Europe/New Europe divisions that began with the Iraq war, with this split appearing to enhance Russian influence on the continent.
Once China’s enormous economic and security interests in Afghanistan are left without America’s military shield, the Chinese are bound to play an even larger role there, one that Afghans hope will reach “strategic levels.”
Because these treaties were designed to shield foreign investors from expropriation, they include investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms that allow investors to seek compensation from governments, via international arbitration tribunals, if policy changes affect their business.
Many are seeking to shield themselves from Russia’s capricious embargos – for example, by seeking alternative energy supplies.
Indeed, with sky-high prices of crude oil and base metals like copper, aluminum, and zinc, the rising euro has become a shield for Europe’s ongoing economic recovery.
Should Bush, Bernanke or the new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson cause investors to lose faith in US financial assets at some point in time, the rising euro will help shield European interest rates from the consequences.
The one-sided nature of this alliance rankled little when Japan was just one among many protected by America's global shield.
Zimbabwe’s neighbors also face a choice: they can use their proximity to halt Mugabe’s abuses, or to shield him from international scrutiny and rebuke.
The Market is the Cure for Europe’s Health SystemsNot even Germany’s great success in hosting the recently concluded World Cup competition could shield Angela Merkel’s government from the wrath of the German public for its disappointing healthcare reform proposals.
Southern white male senators play up the culture war in part to shield the Republicans’ mega-rich donors, who feast on corporate tax cuts and environmental deregulation while the party scapegoats African-Americans and Hispanics.
Barbed wire fencing between Hungary and Serbia will not shield Europe from the effects of war in Ukraine, putsches and terrorism in Anatolia, or violent conflagrations in the Levant and Mesopotamia.
No bars against new entrants to shield vested interests.
This system rested on three pillars: a cohesive political-industrial establishment, the mobilisation of resources to achieve national economic ends and America's defensive shield.
Given this, focusing on the threat that Russia poses – especially from behind the shield of American power – is a far more attractive option than the liberal interventionism of the last two decades, with all of its costs, risks, and uncertainties.
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