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The third is vulnerability, or lack of preparedness.
And he did deliver on a major new arms-reduction treaty with Russia, and hosted a summit aimed at reducing the
vulnerability
of nuclear weapons and materials to theft or diversion.
The Hidden Debt Burden of Emerging MarketsLIMA – As central bankers and finance ministers from around the globe gather for the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings here in Peru, the emerging world is rife with symptoms of increasing economic
vulnerability.
Given that the lending was denominated primarily in US dollars, it is subject to currency risk, adding another dimension of
vulnerability
to emerging-economy balance sheets.
But, since the Ukrainian revolution, the local Russian population’s alleged
vulnerability
to “fascists” has become an emblematic issue – and an excuse for Russian military intervention.
The new paper opens a different path: it suggests revising and harmonizing national accounting, in order to gauge better the
vulnerability
of eurozone members’ public finances; ensuring that banks’ creditors, rather than governments, pay when crisis strikes; decentralizing fiscal discipline by requiring each country to adopt a constitutional rule on the stability of the debt ratio; and curbing countries’ contingent liabilities by adjusting pension systems to demographic ageing.
Those firmly in Trump’s camp are willing to indulge the fragile bromance between Trump and Putin, despite its obvious
vulnerability
to exploitation by both sides.
But a sense of strategic
vulnerability
breeds interdependency, which has always been the key to successful US leadership in Asia.
By demolishing the arrangements that provide British firms with seamless access to the world’s largest services market, and by closing itself off to immigration, the UK has embarked on a path of greater economic vulnerability, and lower-skill, lower-wage jobs.
Although these factors insulate the US from the inflationary pressures stemming from exchange-rate fluctuations, they increase the
vulnerability
of other countries, especially emerging economies.
There is no suggestion that Third World patients are deliberately being made ill when research is outsourced – unlike in the Guatemalan case – but that does not attenuate the inherent
vulnerability
of populations lacking basic medical care or experiencing epidemics.
Of course, developing as a potential reserve currency created a substantial
vulnerability.
Portfolio investment, often called “hot money" because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's
vulnerability
to the vagaries of international finance.
The blood-soaked politics that have prevailed since September 2000 exposed the extreme
vulnerability
of this development strategy, making urgent the need to rethink the economic foundations of the Palestinian territories.
A terrorist attack could remind Americans of their fundamental
vulnerability.
Finally, the region should address its exceptional
vulnerability
to environmental degradation and its overdependence on hydrocarbons, especially in view of the global shift to low-carbon energy.
If one dates the cyber-security problem not from the beginning of the Internet in the 1970s, but from the late 1990s, when burgeoning participation made the Internet the substrate for economic and military interdependence (and thus increased our vulnerability), cooperation is now at about the two-decade mark.
In any case, the UK’s isolation and
vulnerability
are now abundantly obvious.
But there will be a price to pay for increased
vulnerability
to Chinese and Russian encroachments.
One important reason for these countries’
vulnerability
is the consistent lack of investment in their populations, which has prevented ordinary citizens from reaping the benefits of economic growth.
Rock-bottom borrowing costs also spur excessive reliance on leverage, weakening the will to undertake reforms needed to boost potential growth – and further exacerbating the economy’s
vulnerability
to a shift in interest rates or investor sentiment.
Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and
vulnerability
to supply disruptions.
The recent escape of the drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from a Mexican prison highlights another
vulnerability
of border walls: tunnels.
Along with rising interdependence and economic opportunity, however, came
vulnerability
and insecurity.
Renewable energy from wind and sun can certainly play a role in decreasing the EU’s energy
vulnerability.
Population, exposure, and vulnerability, not greenhouse gasses, are the main factors underlying future damage as well.
China’s territorial grab, a triumph of brute power over rules, exposes the
vulnerability
of the current liberal world order.
The first concerns the complexity and
vulnerability
of our world.
However, in cases where buyers and sellers are not equally dependent upon the relationship, the greater
vulnerability
of the more dependent party can be used as a source of coercive power by the less dependent party.
But, with some three billion or so users on the Web nowadays, that very openness has become a serious vulnerability; indeed, it is endangering the vast economic opportunities that the Internet has opened for the world.
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