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The main factors undermining the prospects for US prosperity are mostly the result of its own political decisions.
One hopes that this is the first step toward an integrated approach that addresses the forces impeding technology diffusion, undermining competitiveness, and exacerbating inequality.
Today’s high levels of inequality also impede the structural reforms needed to boost productivity, while undermining efforts to address residual pockets of excessive indebtedness.
But it sustains considerable economic imbalances, which are undermining its ability to achieve high-income status.
And low growth will hurt tax revenues, undermining the proclaimed goal of fiscal consolidation.
By contributing to a shutdown of federal-government operations and repeatedly raising the threat of a technical default, it risked undermining an already-fragile US economic recovery.
In fact, the opposite is true: the logic of national sovereignty has staged a comeback, with major economies consistently undermining cooperation on issues ranging from security to trade to climate change.
Unless failed borrowers and projects exit the system quickly and smoothly, the market will be saddled with bad debt and incomplete projects, undermining its performance.
With no breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Obama is left with the epicenter of the Middle East’s maladies seriously undermining his entire strategy in the region.
But had the London Whale losses occurred then, JPM would not have been on the list of sound financial institutions, undermining confidence further and potentially making the crisis that much worse.
Even if this will not immediately bring Saddam's regime down, such active attempts at undermining his rule will certainly make Saddam nervous, and as Ceausescu and Milosevic have shown, nervous dictators make fatal mistakes.
If the global economy remains on its current trajectory, a period of intense volatility could destabilize a number of emerging economies, while undermining development efforts worldwide.
It is this ideological divide that is undermining the development in East Asia of institutions that establish principles, rules, and decision-making procedures for the region.
It would isolate her from Europe, undermining the international links she has woven over the past decade as well as prospects for successful internal reform.
Failure to equip these children with the opportunities that come with education will trap them in a cycle of poverty, undermining growth, weakening livelihoods, and creating fertile ground for recruitment by militant organizations.
Rote learning replaced critical thinking, undermining creativity.
Australia, India, and Japan – key US allies and security partners in the Asia-Pacific region – may also find it difficult to connect with Trump, further undermining faith in the US-led regional security architecture.
With the political context undermining the right mix of short- and longer-term measures, national policymaking has stumbled into partial approaches and unusual experimentation.
In short, the main factor undermining the EU is not economic, but political.
If privatization displaces too many workers without compensation, a majority of citizens could come to see it as illegitimate, potentially undermining their support for private ownership of productive property.
They don’t need to spend money on prevention programs to address the psycho-social problems –overwhelming stress, poverty, discrimination, child neglect and abuse, and loneliness, to name but a few – that research has repeatedly demonstrated play a large role in undermining mental health.
For example, political obstacles to comprehensive economic policymaking in many advanced economies have undermined the implementation of structural reforms and responsive fiscal policies in recent years, holding back business investment, undermining productivity growth, worsening inequality, and threatening future potential growth.
Moreover, premature and excessive hawkishness would strengthen the US dollar and sharply increase the US trade deficit, undermining Trump’s stated goal of creating jobs and boosting incomes for his blue-collar, working-class electoral base.
For the first time in human history, human society is undermining the environment at the global scale, through climate change, extinctions, and degraded ecosystems.
Will Europe be able to roll back its welfare states’ biggest excesses without economic distress and social unrest toppling governments and, in the peripheral countries, undermining already-tenuous agreements with creditors?
In other words, prohibiting the central bank from acting as lender of last resort can push solvent economies into a needless debt crisis, undermining output and employment.
This threatens to create a vicious cycle in which misconduct and sloppy research are rewarded, undermining both the scientific process and its credibility.
Now, with perverse incentives undermining their credibility and hampering research, scientists must take matters into their own hands.
Comparing the outcomes of these two simulations suggests that large export flows of Palestinian labor to Israel reduce the capacity of the Palestinian economy to export goods by putting upward pressure on wages, undermining competitiveness.
And these cuts have mostly hit public investment, thus undermining future growth prospects.
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