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On the other hand, productivity growth remains weak, income inequality is increasing, and less educated workers are struggling to find attractive employment opportunities.
But liberal ideology does not demand an incompetent and
weak
state.
In the United States, where markets, the judiciary, and regulation are highly developed, the imperative is not institutional reform, but policy reform – addressing the
weak
fiscal position, income and wealth inequities, unemployment, health care, and deteriorating physical infrastructure.
Unfortunately, many emerging markets have
weak
governments that cannot define credible policies for financing intervention in such circumstances.
But even
weak
governments are not entirely helpless.
Several decades ago, the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that economic prosperity in developing countries with
weak
governing institutions would not necessarily lead to political stability.
Concern about budget deficits has become a burning political issue in the United States; helped to persuade the United Kingdom to enact stringent cuts, despite a
weak
economy; and is the proximate cause of the Greek sovereign-debt crisis, which has grown to engulf the entire eurozone.
If there is a kind of logic, however weak, it seems to revolve around Iran and Israel, rather than Syria per se.
Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America’s
weak
fiscal position.
According to Chinese theorists, the “vital space” of great powers extends far beyond a state’s borders, whereas the “vital space” of
weak
countries is limited to strategic boundaries that do not always correspond to the borders of their national territory.
NEW YORK – I wrote at the beginning of January that economic conditions this year were set to be as
weak
as in 2015, which was the worst year since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.
The fact is that the eurozone’s structure and the ECB’s policies have ensured that banks in the underperforming countries, and especially in the crisis countries, are very
weak.
“Tolerance” is seen as
weak
and elitist, typical of people who live far removed from the harsh realities of the street, where violent and unruly foreigners menace upstanding Dutch folks.
Tolerance is seen as not just weak, but as a betrayal.
Ultimately, the case for the BAT is relatively
weak
– far weaker than the case against it.
Hawks in the West may try to dismiss actions like these as
weak.
Despite the many laws enacted, lawyers trained, courtrooms built, and millions of technical-assistance dollars spent, China’s legal institutions remain weak, especially when the cases brought before them have – or acquire – political implications.
For Argentineans, the diminutive Diego Maradona represented the revenge of the
weak
and the deprived.
Although Europe remains militarily weak, America’s power is now in doubt.
Second, US and European threats to cut off aid or impose sanctions are in any case far too
weak
to accomplish much besides undermining already unstable and impoverished countries.
And they have funded programs aimed at creating and implementing effective policies to secure Russia’s vast nuclear arsenal at a time when the country’s ability to do so was dangerously
weak.
But empirical support for the benefits of capital-account liberalization is
weak.
Catching Up at Different SpeedsPARIS – With
weak
demand in advanced countries now impeding growth in emerging economies, including major players in Asia and Latin America, many are arguing that the era of income convergence has come to an end.
If Russia has trumped the West, the precedent for Georgia and other
weak
post-Soviet states would be a dire one.
If a left party’s economic policy is perceived as a
weak
copy of the right’s agenda, the poorest segments of the population will gravitate to chauvinist forces and their false promises of protection from the consequences of globalization.
Not surprisingly, this pattern has been slow to emerge in the current cycle, largely owing to an unusually
weak
post-crisis economic recovery.
In the future, a
weak
economic recovery and an aging population are likely to increase the debt burden of many advanced economies, including the United States, the UK, Japan, and several euro-zone countries.
Though the financial-market tensions that accompanied the euro crisis had a strong negative impact on investment in the eurozone periphery, investment demand has also remained
weak
in the US, minimizing the overall difference.
Fiat currencies are also protected from value debasement by central banks committed to price stability; and if a fiat currency loses credibility, as in some
weak
monetary systems with high inflation, it will be swapped out for more stable foreign fiat currencies or real assets.
Despite Russia’s
weak
alliances, Putin seems undeterred.
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