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This uncertainty must be taken seriously when formulating strategies to combat climate change.
Given the structure of the problem – sequential decision-making with uncertainty about all the relevant parameters (including costs, the efficient pattern of mitigation, and technology) – it would be wiser to adopt a more flexible strategy that provides incentives and regulations to achieve measurable intermediate progress, while generating a lot of useful information along the way.
A mild drop in early 2011 probably reflected frustration over social injustice and a growing sense of insecurity and uncertainty about the future.
But, alongside substantive changes, there is considerable uncertainty and hyperbole.
At this moment of uncertainty, it can be tempting to focus on the high-stakes politics of Article 5.
Uncertainty relating to the future course of prices would be eliminated from business calculations.
He also testified that tax cuts are better than spending increases to keep surpluses from growing too large, but that uncertainty is enormous, so that any tax cuts should be canceled if they threatened to bring us back to an age of deficits.
Moreover, it is difficult to quantify the economy’s potential, given the paucity of reliable data; even basic indicators like population size and historical economic growth are shrouded in uncertainty.
Due to high economic uncertainty, firms are offering only fixed-term contracts.
But the pre-announcement of possible write-downs still led to a major wave of uncertainty about banks.
If Europe could show – in the worst possible scenario of sovereign default – how such a process might operate, uncertainty would be reduced and markets would be reassured.
This more reasonable approach would vastly reduce the risks of destructive trade wars and exchange-rate uncertainty that are all but inevitable with a cash-flow BAT.
For the implication is that right-wing populist parties, like the Front National and its equivalents in Austria, Italy, Denmark and elsewhere may do better in future, not worse, particularly if monetary union prolongs the economic pain and uncertainty that large groups within all electorates are now feeling.
Would it not be desirable just to hide losses until uncertainty passed and confidence returned?
At a time of regional uncertainty about North Korea and China – including the looming prospect of China’s first aircraft carrier – Japan’s participation in the evolving Asian security framework is fundamental to stability.
Today's tensions between Indonesia's secularists, religious believers, and various Muslim extremist groups has taken the spotlight off the Chinese, allowing many to resume their economic role under conditions of growing uncertainty.
These banks need to raise fresh capital, which was already proving difficult before the referendum, and now may be impossible amid the heightened political uncertainty.
America’s current policy combines economic integration with a hedge against future uncertainty.
Price stability, according to this view, reduces uncertainty, thereby enabling firms and individuals to take the right decisions, so it is good, not bad, for economic activity.
But that initiative has not succeeded in reducing the “problem” countries’ longer-term borrowing costs to levels compatible with their projected growth rates: there is just too much long-term uncertainty, and growth prospects are simply too discouraging.
It is therefore unclear whether the current strategy of combining austerity and deflation is politically feasible, which explains the huge uncertainty hanging over the entire eurozone.
The crudeness of the government’s campaign would almost be comical if it was not condemning so many Dominicans of Haitian descent to the uncertainty of statelessness.
During this period of uncertainty, we recommend framing US policy toward Burma on the basis of changes taking place in the country, using both engagement and sanctions to encourage reform.
Such leadership can stymie politically motivated challenges to the referendum’s result and preempt a period of uncertainty that increases tensions on the ground.
It is also important to recall that we pursued the 2000 legislation not because we wanted to deregulate for its own sake, but rather to remove what the career lawyers at the US Treasury, the Fed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission saw as systemic risk arising from legal uncertainty surrounding derivatives contracts.
For India, this uncertainty amounts to a serious security challenge, requiring that it transcend the role of silent spectator.
First, today’s deep economic uncertainty has broadened ordinary people’s awareness of the influence that companies have on politics, policy, and their own daily lives.
Uncertainty and fear are two reasons why many middle-class Chileans report being unhappy about their society.
One of the main arguments for this posture was Russia’s uncertainty about whether later steps in the “approach by stages of adaptation” might be a threat to its strategic ballistic missiles.
The Greek Crisis and BeyondNEW YORK – As euro-zone leaders face growing uncertainty in financial markets about the public finances of Greece and other member countries, their statements, albeit somewhat vague, underscore a much larger story – one that will force firms and investors to question their assumptions about Europe’s economic, financial, and political environment.
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