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In order to minimize its
vulnerability
to external hostility, the authorities may need to rethink some elements of their domestic reform agenda.
All of this highlights the need for new benchmarks for performance and compensation that factor in
vulnerability
to periodic systemic risk, with special attention to debt and liquidity.
But China’s
vulnerability
to these factors, as serious as they are, is symptomatic of deeper institutional problems.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and
vulnerability
to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
Finally, it would increase the relative
vulnerability
of America’s main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.
By the time Credit-Anstalt collapsed, the world had been in deep recession for two years, banking systems in a number of countries had become fragile, and tensions were easily transmitted across national borders, with the gold standard exacerbating financial
vulnerability
by constraining central banks’ ability to act.
Egypt’s public debt is around 80% of GDP, very close to the 90% level that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart identify as a harbinger of slower growth and heightened
vulnerability
to financial and fiscal crises.
Branded by their proximity (if not vulnerability) to more powerful neighbors, they have internalized their political and strategic marginalization.
After all, the link between financial integration and
vulnerability
was the main lesson of the crisis that followed the US investment bank Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008.
Politicians began to grasp the potential consequences of financial
vulnerability
only in 1907, when they faced a financial panic that originated in the US but that had serious consequences for continental Europe (and, in some ways, prefigured the Great Depression).
It is a sobering reminder of our
vulnerability
to both natural and human-induced shocks to the earth’s systems.
And that doesn’t even account for its
vulnerability
to American airstrikes.
Solving the Disinformation PuzzleMENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – Ever since the November 2016 US presidential election highlighted the
vulnerability
of digital channels to purveyors of “fake news,” the debate over how to counter disinformation has not gone away.
The
vulnerability
of the sciences that focus on the human body and mind lies in the obligation all scientists have to observe their systems with dispassion.
In these fields, dispassion requires that the medical scientist ignore his or her own
vulnerability
of mind and body.
Lawless leaders, such as those in Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Russia, and the Islamic State, have just been reminded of their
vulnerability
to international justice.
Boosting trade flows between Russia and China, and strengthening political and security coordination, will reduce their
vulnerability
to outside interference and signal the emergence of a new center of world power.
[html1]Thailand’s problem, like Mexico a few years ago, was its vulnerability, meaning that if one thing in the economy goes wrong, suddenly many things go wrong.
2.Avoid
vulnerability
- Good macroeconomic management does not try to get the maximum out of an economy: it avoids using the real exchange rate to achieve disinflation, avoids getting foreign capital on absurdly short maturity, avoids drawing lines in the sand over exchange rates.
The latest financial crisis powerfully highlights this vulnerability, as it destroys any sense that we can put an accurate price on assets.
The resulting
vulnerability
was highlighted by the Russian reduction of gas supplies to Ukraine in January, which resulted in reduced flows to central and western Europe.
Second, empowered by exceptionally generous global financing conditions, a growing number of emerging-market corporates have resorted to external dollar borrowing, materially increasing their financial
vulnerability
to higher interest rates and adverse currency moves.
Just as natural-resource insecurity can cause displacement and vulnerability, effective natural-resource management can support conflict resolution and sustainable economic development.
During the Cold War, the US had been even more vulnerable, in technological terms, to a nuclear attack from Russia, but “mutual assured destruction” prevented the worst by keeping
vulnerability
more or less symmetrical.
Underwriting the PoorBRUSSELS/NEW YORK – Over the last five years, a sharp rise in food prices has highlighted the global food system’s
vulnerability
to supply shocks – and reminded the world how tenuous is the food security of millions of people.
There are steps that can and should be taken to attack or neutralize certain types of viruses or bacteria; to reduce
vulnerability
to infection; and to reduce the consequences of infection if, despite all of our efforts, we become ill.
These structural changes have put most Latin American economies on a sound footing, reducing their
vulnerability
to external shocks, such as deceleration in world economic growth, higher international interest rates, and lower commodity prices.
The more energy-efficient one is, the lower one’s
vulnerability
to price volatility.
Indeed, two years ago, in a meeting with US President Barack Obama, I described the
vulnerability
of the African drylands.
The authors conclude that, by reducing the share of short-term foreign-currency debt in a country’s total liabilities, capital controls can reduce
vulnerability
to financial crises.
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