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The budget deficit has fallen markedly, while companies and households, too, have continued to strengthen their balance sheets.
This has helped cause the exchange rate to strengthen by nearly 10% over the last year against the currencies of Norway's main trading partners, making the tradeables sector even less competitive.
But, in order to coordinate energy strategies and strengthen energy security, last year the organization launched a club that unites energy-producing and energy-consuming states, transit countries, and private companies.
The group’s other members – led by China and Kazakhstan – want to strengthen their already robust levels of economic cooperation with the West.
If, as I believe, US policymakers genuinely want to strengthen the economy, they are in a good position to do so, benefiting not just the stock market, but ordinary Americans as well.
Thus, it emphasizes the need to strengthen the domestic defense industry.
With our neighbors on both shores of the South Atlantic, Brazil is working closely to strengthen the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA), which aims to keep the ocean free from rivalries foreign to it and from nuclear weapons.
Russian membership in the World Trade Organization has the potential to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and give Russia a stake in better relations with the outside world.
Governments should thus strengthen their ministries of infrastructure (including power, roads, water and sanitation, and information and communication technologies), as well as their national development banks, so that they can properly design long-term infrastructure projects and programs.
Meanwhile, the core countries, already running trade surpluses (in some cases as high as 6% of GDP), have no incentive to strengthen the aggregate demand that would relieve pressure on their partners.
Russia's democrats, who have an enormous stake in a peaceful future, are adamant that extending alliance membership to Central Europe will isolate their country from Europe, strengthen Russian political forces that favor authoritarian rule at home and neoimperial policies abroad, and, by appearing to threaten Russia, provide a rallying point for reconstructing Russian military power.
Their common task now is to do everything possible to preserve and strengthen it.
Sports can also strengthen social relationships, by bringing together people from different backgrounds and creating a sense of shared purpose and identity.
Third, the EU must strengthen its defenses to protect itself from its external enemies, who are liable to take advantage of its current weakness.
But to create an international order based on law and not force – economic force having replaced military might – it is necessary to strengthen and spread multilateralism into political fields as well in economic ones.
The events in Iraq demonstrate the failure of democratic processes at the international level--and the need to strengthen them.
The United States and Europe are on track to have thrown away 10% of their potential wealth, while the failure to strengthen financial-sector regulation has left the world economy exposed to the risk of another major crisis.
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences is providing open data and training in research transparency, in order to strengthen the integrity of research and evidence used for policymaking.
One way to strengthen institutional development would be through investment in long-term development projects.
That leads European leaders to double down on authoritarianism in order to stick to their failed policies when recessionary economic forces strengthen.
If that trend continues, it will prevent further erosion of household wealth and strengthen the banks’ capital positions.
Turkey and Syria still have border disputes; for many Syrians, scenes of Turkish troops crossing the border, even behind lines of Syrian opposition fighters, would rally nationalist pride and strengthen Assad’s narrative of foreign-inspired terrorism and insurgency.
What Singh, Lula, and other world leaders really seem to want is to strengthen trust and cooperation even amidst a rapidly changing economy.
Such measures, together with further liberalization of protected domestic sectors, will strengthen Spain’s economic-growth model considerably.
Moreover, Obama should resist the urge to approach the bilateral relationship purely in transactional terms, but instead should seek to strengthen India’s long-term capacity to be a productive partner with the US.
In short, the stimulus will strengthen America’s economy, but it is probably not enough to restore robust growth.
And herein lies the most important principle that must guide eurozone governance reform: changes must be pursued alongside political reforms that strengthen the legitimacy of decisions involving risk sharing among countries.
Moreover, the increase in China’s overall price level – and wage levels in particular – has caused the RMB to strengthen steadily in real terms, reducing (to a certain extent) the need for nominal RMB appreciation.
Yes, China needs to strengthen its social safety net and to deepen domestic capital markets before consumption can take off.
For now, the policy consensus seems to be to maintain sanctions, help bolster Ukraine’s economy, and continue to strengthen NATO (an outcome that Putin undoubtedly did not intend).
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