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And they comprise a tightly intertwined network: nearly all forms of energy production require water; energy also is needed to move and treat water; and producing food requires both energy and water.
Credit provision by shadow banks needs to be tightly regulated.
But China’s monetary policy has been hamstrung by the tightly managed exchange-rate regime.
The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.
But if the promises of digitalization are to be fulfilled, the world will need to align financing and investment strategies more tightly to sustainable development outcomes.
Conversely, if an economy is tightly controlled by the state, has protectionist barriers against foreign imports and capital movements, or relies on rents from exhaustible resources to obtain foreign currency, transition to democracy can be plagued by populism and struggles for redistribution, hurting economic growth.
A tightly knit group of political consultants has helped Putin resolve his conundrum.
The PBOC now has three options: it can stop all interventions and let the renminbi float; link it to a basket of currencies; or peg it tightly to the US dollar, as it did during the Asian financial crisis of 1997.
The summit itself tends to be a tightly scripted affair.
Now, the Danish krone is so tightly linked to the euro that Denmark’s central bank has effectively lost its independence.
It may even be the case that we ought to return to the much more tightly regulated financial system of the first post-World War II generation.
These guys are not the “startups”; they are the mentors, carefully solicited by Kelly from within the tightly knit Irish business community.
Even in a tightly managed economy like China, massive capital inflows have been able to find their way around controls over the last decade.
In so doing, it could prove that the decline of religion in Europe is not an inevitable process tightly linked to modernization, but a historical choice Europeans have made.
And other countries – tightly linked to China through global supply chains – may well impose countervailing tariffs of their own.
A more tightly woven global financial system inevitably comes with a higher risk of contagion.
Ismael Hachim, president of the victims' association, described how he was subjected to the "arbatachar," a common form of torture in which a victim's four limbs were tied tightly behind his back until blood circulation stopped and paralysis resulted.
And for countries that do not have that option – such as smaller economies in East Asia – tightly knit regional blocs might provide a serviceable alternative.
Given excess domestic savings, a tightly controlled capital account, and rapid credit creation, interest rates have been low relative to demand since 2005.
Investors may be better protected, for example, when dividend rights are tightly linked to voting rights through the one-share-one-vote principle.
They can help to open minds, even in tightly controlled countries like North Korea.
Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is tightly integrated into the world economy, rendering the country vulnerable to the current global financial crisis.
Ivory Coast’s third key stakeholder is France, which under President Charles de Gaulle had granted independence to its former African colonies on the condition that French troops remain stationed on their territories, and that their economies remain tightly linked to France.
The whole Central Front was tightly coordinated, and even France was involved in NATO planning through a set of special agreements.
Both aggregate data and micro examples confirm that the world has become more tightly linked, with cross-border flows increasing in scope and complexity – and embracing a larger number of countries and participants within them.
Though Mexico is an oil exporter, its manufactured exports have led the way, as the economy has become ever more tightly integrated into North American supply chains.
But it seems more likely that Iran’s radical conservative forces will embrace the nuclear program ever more tightly as the country’s strategic position weakens.
They are tightly constrained by the explanatory substance of Einstein’s theory, which holds that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, that light has the same speed for all observers, and so on.
To be sure, governments should not be given carte blanche; but they should not have their hands tied so tightly, either.
The dots are scattered tightly around a straight line with a slope of 0.36.
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