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Whether or not the partnership lasts will depend on how Maduro tackles Venezuela’s many problems, including high inflation, a soaring crime rate, pervasive corruption, economic stagnation, low productivity, supply shortages, capital flight, insufficient investment,
weak
institutions, and a lack of respect for the rule of law.
The legal basis for military intervention may be weak, but Syria is no Iraq, either.
There are several ways to recapitalize Europe’s
weak
banks.
Since becoming Supreme Leader 22 years ago, Khamenei has been relatively weak, but has adapted by seeking to encourage weakness in the Islamic Republic’s other high offices.
Most importantly, he has ensured that Iran’s presidents remain weak, regardless of their agenda or popularity.
In other words, weak, unstable, corrupt, and poor states are states where women’s status is low.
Despite the euphoria around shale gas – indeed, despite
weak
global growth – commodity prices have risen by as much as 150% in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
The astonishing thing to me is how
weak
the right’s appraisal of Piketty’s arguments has turned out to be.
Everyone who worries about America’s
weak
fiscal position puts Social Security’s relatively small funding imbalance far down the list of priorities.
But Trump also has to worry about the “Kindleberger Trap”: a China that seems too
weak
rather than too strong.
When Britain became too
weak
to play that role after World War I, an isolationist US continued to be a free rider, with disastrous results.
Trump must also worry about the better-known Thucydides Trap: a China that seems too strong rather than too
weak.
He must worry about a China that is simultaneously too
weak
and too strong.
The absence of antitrust laws, combined with
weak
consumer protection, means that in many countries, only two or three major companies control markets for items like salt, sugar, flour, milk, oil, and tea .
In the non-tradable sector (60-70% of the economy in advanced countries), the main growth inhibitors are
weak
demand, as in the United States following the financial crisis, and structural and competitive impediments to productivity, as in Japan.
Thus, aid for trade, one of the key tasks on the WTO agenda, has
weak
institutional links to trade negotiations.
Though financial markets will calm down when the ruble’s exchange rate settles into its new equilibrium, Russia’s economy will remain weak, forcing the country’s leaders to make tough choices.
While much of the West is bound together by institutions like the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe and NATO, East Asia’s main body, the ASEAN Regional Forum, is too
weak
to play an analogous role, leaving the region beset with unregulated rivalries.
Meanwhile, given that many emerging economies have incomplete or immature PRIs, their influence over market-price discovery is relatively
weak.
One problem is that the public’s appetite for a bailout of the unregulated and hemorrhaging “shadow” financial system, consisting of institutions like hedge funds and private equity firms, is rightly small, yet it too can serve to hold back bank lending if a large proportion of the distressed assets are held in
weak
institutions there.
Unless the regulated financial system is systematically audited, with
weak
entities stabilized through capital injections, asset purchases, or mergers, or liquidated quickly, the overhang of distressed institutions will persist, constraining lending.
Too
weak
to move, she is one of 30 children being treated at a Save the Children emergency nutrition clinic in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State – and the area worst affected by the Nigerian government’s drive to end the Boko Haram insurgency.
A candidate may promise more anti-dumping actions against Chinese goods, vow to press harder on China to change its exchange rate regime, or sharpen criticism of China's
weak
enforcement of intellectual property rights; but over-protectionism may make a candidate look irresponsible in 2004.
But that remains a long-term strategic goal, not the stuff of presidential campaigns, especially when China seems too
weak
to pose any immediate threat to the US on any front in the foreseeable future.
For some
weak
states, internal threats provide clear objectives.
For starters, the US recovery remains
weak.
Some attribute relatively slow growth to demographic factors, which have reduced the labor force, as well as to
weak
productivity levels, which have been low.
But, while technological superiority and confrontation can wipe out the
weak
side, technological diffusion across cultures can be mutually beneficial.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to balance their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is
weak.
Never before in the post-World War II era have American consumers been so
weak
for so long.
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