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But there are two reasons to be confident that India will weather the storm.
In the US, for example, Goldman Sachs is advising investors to put their money in “domestic-facing” firms to weather the trade-war storm.
The Trovan trial nonetheless caused a storm of controversy, for two reasons.
What's new this time is that the current storm came out of the blue.
And when the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, conditions were ripe for a perfect storm.
As the crisis deepens, even those developing countries that weathered the storm far better than most developed countries are showing signs of strain.
Fortunately, many emerging economies are better prepared to weather the storm now than they were then.
It is the combination of all three of these factors that has created a “perfect storm” for super low interest rates.
But how long can the storm last?
That means better risk management, including stricter building codes and improved wetlands to slow storm surges.
Haitians were a hundred times more likely to die in an equivalent storm than Dominicans.
If the only limits on Cristina are her own, Argentina will not weather the coming storm well.
But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.
So we should take early stock of the fact that there is another problem coming our way, which may be called (to give it the resonance of a coming storm) Edward – the “European Debt Wall and Repayment Deadline.”
The Berlusconi ParadoxROME – One storm has passed in Italy.
Another, perhaps bigger storm, has yet to begin.
Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of coastal regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful waves.
Although Sandy, at its peak, was only a post-tropical cyclone when it hit the US, its winds spanned an area of 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles), leading to extreme storm surges and waves that decimated the Jersey Shore, flattening communities and destroying the casinos and boardwalks on which the local economy largely depends.
Seven years earlier, Hurricane Katrina struck the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the US as a Category 3 storm.
Clearly, the combination of storm surges and large waves causes major devastation in coastal areas.
They provide immediate protection during storm season, but can be removed at times of year when extreme storms are unlikely and recreational beach use is most important.
For one such area, New York City, an alternative has been proposed: massive storm-surge barriers across the entrance to the harbor region that could be closed when a major storm approaches.
The subprime-induced storm ended that fair-weather complacency.
The priority for Africa and the international community must be to ensure that the continent weathers the global financial storm, preserves the significant achievements of the past decade, and continues to make decisive progress in combating poverty.
As Africa and its partners navigate the financial storm together, we must ensure that the most vulnerable are not forgotten.
But we must not lose sight of the longer-term challenges that will remain after the storm abates.
Our shared objective is clear: to ensure that Africa not only weathers the immediate storm, but emerges from it stronger.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable coastal reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
His casual suggestions that US debt might be renegotiated could trigger dramatic losses in the value of Russia’s foreign-currency reserves, which have been its anchor in the economic storm that has hit the country since 2014.
We will create a new mechanism for coordinating additional financing for food security to help vulnerable nations weather the storm.
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