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Anticipating such an outcome, the new shareholders might try to hide revenues, rather than invest in the company, further impeding efficiency gains and creating a vicious cycle of public distrust in private ownership.
This would help break the vicious cycle of low asset prices and the low legitimacy of private ownership.
Much of the poor majority of the world is mired in a vicious circle of disease, poverty, and political instability.
The only way to break this vicious circle is to replace the regime.
The choice has become Assad’s vicious regime or a fundamentalist Islamist alternative – not oppression or freedom.
By investing not only in systems to provide clean drinking water and sanitation, but also in educational programs that encourage better hygiene practices and toilet use, governments can break a vicious cycle of diarrhea and malnutrition that causes irreversible physical and cognitive damage.
In short, the Arab world is increasingly trapped in a vicious cycle.
In the eyes of most observers, to reach the leaders’ goal of “break[ing] the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns” required centralizing authority for bank resolution and rescue.
By succumbing to fear Americans are doing the terrorists' bidding: unleashing a vicious cycle of violence that may result in a permanent state of war.
In a vicious circle, this mounting isolation only strengthens Meciar's domestic hand even more.
Germany’s recent experience provides a worrying example of this vicious circle.
The alternative is a vicious circle of violence and poverty, exacerbated by rapid population growth.
But this creates a vicious cycle: as young people and workers become increasingly alienated from the democratic process, political leaders continue to implement policies that favor the old, demoralizing producers further.
It is when this image is invoked in politics that critics cross the line between the constructive and the vicious.
As a result, capital expenditure – already a fragile proposition, given weak demand – has plummeted, triggering a vicious circle of shrinking GDP, lower tax revenues, higher expenditures, and further destabilization of public-debt positions.
As markets grasp that a vicious downward spiral is structurally embedded in the euro, the consequences for the next crisis become profound.
So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle: monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange-rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit.
The third factor is the vicious circle of oil prices and the value of the US dollar.
Indeed, regardless of what OPEC or its members decide, the vicious cycles described here will support oil prices around the world probably in the range of $70-$90 per barrel.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has taken decisive action to break this vicious circle.
The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence.
Such action is vital if we are to break the vicious circle of disinformation and political polarization that undermines democracies’ ability to function.
For one thing, the RBI has prevented the rupee from falling further, thereby averting the risk of a vicious circle of capital outflows and currency depreciation.
Europe is trapped in a vicious circle: those employed recoil from more flexibility and the risk of losing their jobs.
This generates a vicious, untenable cycle of deep poverty and social exclusion for the south.
Hence the impasse, with the eurozone becoming mired in a vicious circle of high debt and economic austerity.
First, Kim may be a vicious dictator, but he is not crazy or suicidal.
The process of integration was reversed after the WWI and finally destroyed in the Great Depression, in a series of vicious shocks: tariff protection, contagious financial panics that spread from the periphery to the heart of the world's financial system, and a turn to economic nationalism and autarky.
Rumors abound that because of the Election Court's blatant bias for Serra and his vicious negative ads, Ciro and/or Garotinho may throw their support to Lula.
The Shagari government quickly became mired in corruption and inefficiency, plunging the country into debt and a vicious cycle of unemployment, declining productivity, and social unrest.
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