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Women are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of unsustainable practices and climate change, because they often have no independent income or land rights.
If exchange rates cannot depreciate, wages and prices need to fall when a country has an unsustainable current-account deficit.
But the effect was similar: an unsustainable pattern of income and employment generation, and lower productivity and competitiveness in these economies’ tradable sectors, leading to trade deficits, stunted GDP, and weak job creation.
The situation in the ministry is unsustainable.”
Crisis-torn peripheral European economies still suffer from unsustainable debt loads and serious productivity and competitiveness problems.
For starters, while economists are correct to point out that bilateral trade deficits cannot be considered in isolation, the fact remains that China’s surplus with the US – which hit a new record in September – is politically unsustainable.
But this urban-based, export-led growth model also created more challenges than it can now handle: property bubbles, traffic jams, pollution, unsustainable local government debt, land-related corruption, and social unrest related to unequal access to social welfare.
This is unsustainable.
Corporatism elsewhere begat vast inequalities, corruption, and dictatorships that eventually proved unsustainable.
Without such solutions, the system will tend to become periodically unstable, and to go off on unsustainable paths that end destructively.
In the past decade alone, the cost of humanitarian aid has increased 600%, making it practically unsustainable.
Instead of restructuring the manifestly unsustainable debt burdens of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece (the PIGs), politicians and policymakers are pushing for ever-larger bailout packages with ever-less realistic austerity conditions.
Fiscal deficits have been growing at unsustainable levels.
While down from the blistering, unsustainable 12.7% pace recorded during the three years prior to the crisis, this represented only a modest shortfall from the 30-year post-1980 trend of 10%.
One only needs to look at the United States to see how dangerous – and indeed unsustainable – the eurozone’s path has become.
Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.
The lethal combination of these factors thwarts any prospect of economic growth while leading to an unsustainable level of debt.
The dysfunctional system of European fiscal governance should be dismantled; fiscal responsibility should be returned to member states; and, to minimize the risk of excessive future lending, private lenders should be required to bear the losses implied by unsustainable sovereign debt.
The pattern also includes an exuberant expansion of government spending, which can result in bloated public payrolls and large infrastructure projects, both of which are found to be unsustainable when oil prices fall.
Have they suddenly remembered the unsustainable cost of fighting asymmetric conflicts?
For some reason, asset prices get way out of whack and rise to unsustainable levels.
To be sure, this is a dangerous product, and it did cause many families to fall into an unsustainable debt trap.
Ukraine’s budget and external deficits had already become unsustainable and needed radical restructuring, so Russian aggression was enough to push the economy over the edge.
For starters, he created an unsustainable current-account deficit by insisting on an unrealistically high exchange rate for the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia.
The administration needed to see – and to say – that the debt-fueled pre-crisis economy was on a dangerously unsustainable path, and that the challenge now, having averted a depression, was to make a difficult transition to a new path.
For this reason, unless the Karzai government changes course there is no justification for NATO member countries to risk the lives of their soldiers and commit other valuable resources to the struggle in Afghanistan if the Afghan government’s corruption and legitimacy deficit make current progress unsustainable and achievement of NATO’s goals impossible.
Already stressed by extraordinarily high rates of unemployment, twenty-somethings are now awakening to the fact that their country’s growth model – the one they are dreaming to be a part of – is, in fact, completely unsustainable, whatever their political leaders tell them.
Myopic actions on both sides have helped entrench a longer-term pattern of behavior that only makes it harder to move away from today’s unsustainable equilibrium.
So we are caught between a financially unsustainable pattern of global demand and the need for politically difficult changes in many countries’ domestic policies.
These unsustainable high rates are transmitting major risks to the real economy.
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