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At the same time, donors must fund institutions that will help children traumatized by the psychological stress of war.
Stress is generally defined as the state that results when the brain instructs the body to make changes in order to adapt to a new or excessive demand and the individual perceives that the demand will exceed the personal resources which he or she has available.
The response is fuelled by stress hormones that flow through the body, altering every organ and biochemical function, with wide-ranging effects on metabolism, growth, and reproduction.
If animals are under stress, they can have permanently raised concentrations of stress hormones, reduced concentrations of sex hormones, and compromised immune systems.
Central banks frequently stress the limits of their powers, and bemoan lack of government progress toward “structural reform” – a catch-all phrase covering trade liberalization, labor- and product-market reforms, and measures to address medium-term fiscal challenges, such as pension age increases.
But central bankers are right to stress the limits of what monetary policy alone can achieve.
The only powerful argument against helicopter drops is the one that Heise and Hamada stress – the political risk of overuse.
High home prices are already putting great stress on many families, which are struggling to make their mortgage payments.
The liquidity that they apparently offer proved unreliable under stress – that is, when it is most needed.
It is astonishingly naive to think the euro will not face further real-life stress tests over the next 5-10 years, if not sooner.
They are also widely used to treat social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, sexual compulsions, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Existing global stockpiles have a destructive capacity equal to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs, and in handling them there is an omnipresent potential for human error, system error, or misjudgment under stress.
In the past, emerging-market governments defended exchange-rate pegs, which meant that stress was borne first by local interest rates rising sharply, and then through wider external debt spreads as currency pegs came under pressure.
After exposure to extreme stress, some victims report difficulties remembering things in everyday life.
Consider, too, that one symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder is an “inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.”
Occasionally, this sudden, complete memory loss occurs after severe stress, but not invariably.
They will stress that if the lessons of history are not learned, history is bound to repeat itself.
Moreover, because almost half of the parishes overseen by the Moscow Patriarchate are abroad – in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and other regions – Patriarch Alexy II lays increasing stress on the global character of his church.
Any genuine solution must include a fund to help communities whose health facilities, schools, and other public services are under stress because of above-average population growth.
Remarkably, the European Banking Authority’s latest stress test for the eurozone’s banks does not contemplate the possibility of deflation in its adverse scenario.
The stress tests may be flawed, but at least they are better than Europe’s two previous attempts.
I noted that he might be experiencing post-traumatic stress from the loss of his friend.
They don’t need to spend money on prevention programs to address the psycho-social problems –overwhelming stress, poverty, discrimination, child neglect and abuse, and loneliness, to name but a few – that research has repeatedly demonstrated play a large role in undermining mental health.
Most large US banks – Citi is an exception – passed US Federal Reserve stress tests recently, with enough capital to withstand a hypothetical deep recession (13% unemployment, a 21% further fall in home prices, and a 50% stock-market decline).
Europe’s stress tests have been much weaker.
The credibility of Europe’s national supervisory agencies has been irreparably damaged in recent years, owing to financial stress tests that gave clean bills of health to institutions – Laiki Bank of Cyprus and Bankia of Spain, among others – whose balance sheets were later found to have enormous holes.
But Hong Kong is now under stress, as it finds itself at the center of a number of issues and challenges – including how best to balance economic and political freedom and how to engage with an increasingly assertive and ambitious China – that will define its prospects in the century ahead.
The stress tests and recapitalizations of US banks in 2009 were subsequently hailed as crucial to the recovery of both the banking system and the economy.
By contrast, the European Central Bank’s inadequately tough stress tests in 2010 were widely panned for leaving eurozone banks too weak to provide adequate credit.
In the eurozone, it is hoped that this year’s asset quality review (AQR) and stress tests will finally dispel concerns about bank solvency and free up credit supply.
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