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It is not clear whether these countries’ current regimes could survive a substantial and sustained future decline in oil prices.
Time and again, when mass street protest has been sustained for more than a week or two, a regime – even one that has begun beating and arresting protesters –eventually finds it practically and psychologically difficult to sustain its hold.
As things stand now, each country’s financial system is being sustained and supported by its own government.
Whether the Arab and wider Islamic world’s democratic awakening will actually prevail or produce only change at the top of authoritarian regimes, whether it will lead to a stable order or sustained chaos and radicalization, still remains unclear.
Yet they have not always proved sufficient to capture the sustained attention of US decision-makers.
The drop has been a surprise to the many pundits and policy analysts who view China’s sustained massive trade surpluses as prima facie evidence that government intervention has been keeping the renminbi far below its unfettered “equilibrium” value.
In Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, is making a sustained and powerful challenge to the incumbent president in the election due in January 2012.
Few serious analysts still believe that the spectacular economic convergence experienced by Asian countries, and less spectacularly by most Latin American and African countries, will be sustained in the decades ahead.
Perhaps, but most students of monetary policy view quantitative easing as the textbook policy for pulling an economy out of a zero-interest-rate “liquidity trap,” thereby preventing the onset of a sustained deflation, which would exacerbate debt burdens.
Yet as the experience of Belgium and Japan shows, high government debt can be reduced only through sustained economic growth.
Some of the building blocks of durable democracy have been byproducts of sustained industrialization: an organized labor movement, disciplined political parties, and political competition organized around a right-left axis.
A protracted conflict could mean sustained prices of roughly $150 per barrel.
So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed to end communism, whose demise began in Warsaw the previous February.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sustained in office primarily by the calculation of his ministers that getting rid of him would trigger an early election that they would lose heavily.
No response, it must be stressed, would be complete without a sustained commitment to addressing the drivers of mass immigration – and that means a complete overhaul of the EU’s Neighborhood Policy.
All of this will require a sustained commitment, underpinned by a strong sense of common purpose.
If any of this is to be changed, the perception of Africa as single, miserable mass that discourages both investors and global public opinion from sustained engagement must be changed.
The arrival of silver from the New World in the sixteenth century triggered sustained inflation.
At the United States Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker engineered a sustained and successful process of disinflation beginning in 1979.
This can work in the short term, but it cannot be sustained over time.
This system could persist only through sustained public borrowing.
Instead of sustained peace and “ever-closer union,” Europeans are experiencing episodes of disorder and violence almost on a daily basis.
As Carmen Reinhart and I warned in our 2009 book on the 800-year history of financial crises (with the ironic title “This Time is Different”), slow, protracted recovery with sustained high unemployment is the norm in the aftermath of a deep financial crisis.
To be sure, rooting out torture and abolishing the death penalty will require broad, sustained efforts beyond the area of trade.
The sustained focus of the media on him, to the point of near saturation, focused world attention on the Palestinian Question once again.
In my recent book Demystifying the Chinese Economy, I argue that, for any country at any time, the foundation for sustained growth is technological innovation.
Now the fiscal consensus of the 1990s is under sustained attack worldwide.
The Japanese scare story of the 1990s, in which monetary and fiscal policy prove powerless in the face of a sustained deflation, is the economic trauma now used to rationalize Bush's vast 10-year program of tax cutting.
Monitoring external balances can be an effective tool to measure future default risks, since sustained current-account deficits lead to a growth in net foreign debt.
Some of science’s most useful breakthroughs have come as a result of sustained investment in basic research or as by-products of unrelated efforts.
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