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So the White House now wants to undermine the WTO’s legitimacy and rescind US commitments to a multilateral trading system more broadly.
But today’s atmosphere of fear and aggressive budget tactics are combining to undermine private-sector confidence and spending power.
Exxon has reportedly been funding so-called think tanks to undermine confidence in the science of global warming, just as the tobacco industry funded “research” to question the validity of statistical findings showing the link between smoking and cancer.
And among German voters, nothing could undermine support for the European project more than yet another set of broken promises.
Succumbing to the temptation of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus, such as that pursued in the wake of the global economic crisis, would not only fail to boost growth in a sustainable way; it would actually undermine growth and stability in the medium to long term.
For example, we found that increased agricultural production can damage the oceans if it adds to nutrient run-off and other forms of pollution; and this, in turn, could undermine health and long-term food security.
But the EU banking union remains incomplete, Greece and the Italian banking sector are facing challenges, and the aftershocks of the euro crisis could still undermine the EU’s stability – or even threaten the common currency.
Otherwise, the eurozone’s current weaknesses will undermine the sustainability of the EMU itself, by generating uncontrollable costs that all EU countries will have to pay.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
The West’s failures then should not undermine its resolve now to work to create democratic states respecting human rights and international law.
If below-trend growth continues, monetary policy may well lack the tools to address it, particularly if tail risks – economic, financial, political, or geopolitical – also undermine recovery.
This would so undermine May’s authority, I anticipated, that she would have to resign.
After all, such views undermine many other important principles – namely, those needed to create and sustain an inclusive, tolerant, and peaceful society.
Putin’s revanchism is an attempt to undermine the entire model of international security – one based on cooperation and dialogue, not military force – that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War, and has long been the animating vision behind European unification.
They do leave bruises and generate tensions that are bound to undermine the confidence and frankness with which individuals interrelate, which can sometimes impede effective cooperative decision-making.
Chinese leaders worry that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will undermine its security and disrupt the regional strategic balance, by monitoring flights and missile launches in Chinese territory.
The problem is that the elaborate credit systems that they have created to underwrite infrastructure or property development – so-called “local-government financing vehicles” – undermine more sustainable borrowing and lending, while weakening state-owned banks’ balance sheets.
Elections across Europe and in the US have repeatedly demonstrated that automated social networks can be exploited to undermine democracy.
Awareness that the platforms can be manipulated to undermine democracy is also growing, but Western governments have yet to devise a defense against it.
There is a “common-sense consensus” among borrowers – in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies – that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.
Protests against these political arrangements were criticized by the ODS and CSSD as attempts to undermine their efforts to ensure political stability.
The problem is that the rate drops sharply from 71% to 57% among women in their 30’s, as inflexible working environments and a lack of affordable childcare undermine their ability to continue investing in their careers.
If Bush and Blair declare victory before the real battles have begun, they will undermine the very process to which both have committed so much at such great cost.
But chances are that it will not really help, because it trying to reduce deficits in that manner will severely undermine economic performance.
The withdrawal of QE, beyond being unpopular among some policymakers and politicians, has highlighted concerns about the risk of increased financial instability and rising inequality – both of which could undermine America’s already weak economic recovery.
But there is also a significant risk that a large and unnecessary dose of fiscal austerity will weaken demand, undermine confidence, and tip the economy back into recession.
The goal should be to take advantage of these trends’ potential benefits, while ensuring that they do not undermine other critical aspects of governance.
Our choice could not be clearer: either we resolve to answer the call of history and provide the Global Fund with the resources that it needs, or we allow political lassitude to undermine a decade of progress and consign untold thousands to preventable deaths.
Poorly designed policies also undermine the accuracy of data.
Putin sees clandestine plots to undermine Russian greatness everywhere, mostly initiated by the Western spymasters, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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