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In view of the need for structural adjustment, the PBC should maintain a tight monetary stance.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are highly disciplined organizations, exercising tight control over their political and military wings.
While this new strain of global pressures on US inflation reflects the impact of aggressive trade policies on GVCs, the domestic pressures stem from a more familiar source: an extremely tight labor market.
The second conclusion to draw from an extremely tight US labor market is that, unlike earlier periods of low unemployment when domestic wage pressures were constrained by GVCs, today’s mounting wage inflation will be tempered by a smaller GVC offset.
Absent an unlikely acceleration in productivity, it is the confluence of these two forces – a tight domestic labor market and new global pressures – that spells trouble on the US inflation front.
So monetary policy has since remained tight, with high interest rates contributing to slowing investment and consumption.
For me, a compelling hypothesis is that workers, shaken by the 2008 financial crisis and the deep recession that resulted, have grown afraid to demand promotions or to search for better-paying employers – despite the ease of finding work in the recently tight labor market.
These include affordable-housing crises; tight public budgets that make it necessary to squeeze more out of every dollar in infrastructure projects; and lower oil prices putting pressure on capital costs in the hydrocarbons sector.
To those who believed that monetary policy had been too tight, the ECB was right to do whatever it could to push inflation up toward the target range.
In some ways, that is understandable: the US has a war to wage on a tight, self-imposed deadline.
It is funded not by infusions of foreign aid, but by refugees operating on a tight budget.
When market liquidity becomes tight, as it is currently, sales decisions and valuations based on mark-to-market accounting reinforce the downward spiral by causing further forced sell-offs, which amplifies the decline in mark-to-market prices.
At a recent conference in Moscow, however, IMF Deputy Managing Director Stanley Fisher continued to stress the importance of the 'Washington consensus' - ie, macroeconomic stabilisation based on liberalizing prices and trade, currency convertibility, tight budgetary and monetary policy and rapid privatisation B for the success of reform.
Policymakers must understand that the eurozone has turned into a straightjacket: tight budgets restrict growth in the peripheral countries that need it the most.
He regarded himself as a hero who liberated Georgia from Russia’s tight embrace.
The misplaced fear that allowing opioids to be used in hospitals will fuel addiction and crime in the community has led to tight restrictions on their use, and clinicians are not trained to provide them when they are needed.
But if her story is true, she is also a victim of the excessively tight restrictions on opioids that prevented her boyfriend from obtaining tramadol legally.
Ongoing fiscal consolidation – and thus strong pressure to keep a tight rein on the budget – will, however, restrict public-sector investment.
Bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism represent the clearest example of this, with the fiscal compact now committing signatories to tight deficit targets and structural adjustment.
Punishingly tight sanctions alone will not change his mind.
The Success of Greek Structural ReformsATHENS – Since July 2015, when the Greek government and its European counterparts agreed to a new bailout deal, my country has made immense efforts to implement structural reforms under tight deadlines.
Some observers attribute the current "high" level of the Euro (and thus low growth in Europe) to tight monetary policy on the part of the European Central Bank (ECB).
The technology of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, by which shale and other tight rock formations at great depths are bombarded with water and chemicals, has released major new supplies of both natural gas and oil.
And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.
Housing payments are higher because mortgages are of short duration (an average of ten years) and tight loan-to-value restrictions force borrowers to seek additional higher-cost loans from second-tier deposit institutions and non-financial companies.
If too tight – a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, for example – the rule could create rather than solve problems: think of the economic and political chaos that would ensue if Spain, with unemployment at 21%, were forced to eliminate its huge fiscal deficit overnight.
And it can be impeded from moving in, through, for example, South Africa’s tight immigration and labor policies.
They run monetary and fiscal policies that are so tight that current-account deficits are impossible, or they hold large stocks of international reserves.
Belatedly and somewhat reluctantly, EU leaders have now accepted that they need to deal pragmatically with Lukashenko if they want to promote reform in Belarus and shift the country from its tight orbit around Russia.
That share fell further, to 9% because of misguided macroeconomic policies, especially during the Reagan era, when deficit spending and overly tight monetary policy caused the dollar to soar, undermining competitiveness.
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