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Germany’s youth unemployment rate is under 8%, and a steady supply of skilled labor helps to
sustain
the country’s success as an exporter.
What sets Hong Kong apart is our ability to
sustain
social stability and economic growth.
India has many handicaps and lacks many of the things that are needed to
sustain
rapid growth.
This should prevent the excessive build-up of debt, ultimately making it easier for the eurozone to manage a future in which the only way to
sustain
growth is to capitalize fully on the economy’s declining demographic potential.
From the regime’s perspective, the fear is that providing aid to these areas will
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hostile communities, and could be perceived as acknowledging the rebels as de facto political leaders.
After all, if the USTreasury Secretary does not support the dollar, what would
sustain
its value?
My role was to find a way to
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high-quality pensions that could set a high standard of fairness and adequacy, but that could also remain affordable to taxpayers – who, after all, pay the lion’s share of the costs of public-service pensions.
Can the US
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its occupation if it cannot provide food, health care, and other basic services to Iraq's people?
Deepening social polarization, its use in financial negotiations, and the intrusion of a new security element provide further evidence of what most economists and commentators on Europe have long argued: a monetary union is impossible to
sustain
in the absence of a political union.
In this unstable context, leaders in both Iran and Saudi Arabia seem to believe that continued confrontation will help
sustain
them in power, not least by reinforcing the notion that more change, especially in the form of increased economic or political openness, would be dangerous.
Trump’s administration – comprising largely white male billionaires – lacks the diversity and experience to advocate for policies needed to
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a more equitable and stable system.
Over the last three decades, significant gains in workforce size and quality helped Asia to become a hub of global supply chains – and thus to
sustain
rapid progress toward advanced-economy income levels and living standards.
The rise of new development partners – emerging markets that are channeling billions of dollars to developing countries – opens possibilities for fresh ideas and resources to help overcome poverty,
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inclusive economic growth (including through a dynamic private sector), and address global issues such as food security and climate change.
To
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its vital role, it is working with its shareholders to strengthen its capital base.
Further concessions by Bouteflika’s party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has ruled Algeria since independence in 1962, included decreasing oil and sugar prices, pumping billions of dinars into the ailing economy in order to
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rises in salaries, subsidies, and other income assistance to the population.
May’s government is desperate to
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the prospect, however deluded, that Trump will offer a good trade deal to the UK.
But China does not actually need to limit access to its own markets to
sustain
its growth, because it can increase its bargaining power by merely threatening to do so.
Alert to a worsening tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, Keynesian policymakers tried to
sustain
the boom through incomes policy – controlling wage costs by concluding national agreements with trade unions.
The eurozone can no longer
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continued uncertainty and high real interest rates in the peripheral countries, so the ECB must provide a solid and credible bridge to the future.
To be sure, Putin is nowhere near securing a return to the Soviet Union’s imperial days in the Middle East – not least because Russia’s capacity to
sustain
a military operation beyond its borders remains severely limited.
New and expanding cities
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growth through services-based employment, which in turn boosts consumer purchasing power by trebling per capita income relative to that earned in the countryside.
This leaves them fighting the fires that break out, rather than managing the settings that
sustain
those fires.
But while this change strengthened the central government’s hand, it undermined local governments’ ability to
sustain
their spending, which still amounted to some 80% of total government expenditure.
While Chinese governance undoubtedly has its advantages – in particular, it enables the central government to mitigate risks, including preventing debt and financial weakness from triggering crises – it can hamper the kind of policy experimentation needed to
sustain
economic progress.
Unless the US does so, it must withdraw from Iraq, because the occupation would merely continue to
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a breeding ground for violence against women.
These dramatic shifts and daunting challenges mean that the World Bank’s next president will have to be someone whose primary task is to initiate and
sustain
change while commanding support and legitimacy across the Bank’s membership.
Of course, that rate alone is not enough to
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France’s current population, but it’s far stronger than its European neighbors and almost equal to that of the US.
The problem is that, despite commitment to the talks from all six participants – China, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and even North Korea in recent months (a nominal pledge that is unlikely to be changed as a result of Kim Jong-il’s passing) – the results so far are insufficient to
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the process.
When this number falls as a result of lower fertility rates, and when higher life expectancy swells the ranks of pensioners, the only way to
sustain
PAYG systems is to decrease the level of benefits relative to contributions.
Determining the circumstances that might induce such restraint – and the conditions that would be needed to
sustain
it – is crucial to reinvigorating nuclear disarmament efforts.
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