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In most African countries, the military is
weak
and insufficiently equipped to handle this new threat, whereas terrorist groups are often well-funded and deploy committed combatants equipped with state-of-the-art weapons.
Yet, in a country where capitalism has historically been very weak, there is something to be said for the incentive-driven logic behind the move.
These states are electoral "underachievers" -
weak
political rights despite relative affluence.
The linguistic dominance of Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, together with pan-Arabism, reinforced
weak
national identities.
There are many balancing acts to be mastered: a government that is too powerful might violate citizens’ rights, but a government that is too
weak
would be unable to undertake the collective action needed to create a prosperous and inclusive society – or to prevent powerful private actors from preying on the
weak
and defenseless.
Until now, Merkel had to deal with a
weak
or non-existent opposition.
Of course, it is precisely because domestic tourism and production are disadvantaged relative to tourism and production abroad that many economists prefer a
weak
rupee.
The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital inflows and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.
Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has had a
weak
presidency; ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Leader, first Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Khamenei.
But here, his record is weak, and his pronouncements only exacerbate the problem by increasing Iran’s isolation from the global economy.
People began to note a distinct and deepening disparity between globalization’s winners and losers, with
weak
wage growth accompanied by robust returns for the wealthy.
Unfortunately, the global system of international law and governance remains too
weak
to prevent the determined misbehavior of the president of the world's most powerful country if he is hell bent on starting a war on his own.
One reason for their
weak
growth costs.
But new divisions of labor create problems of acceptance, which in the West are exacerbated by
weak
economic growth.
This means that whenever the next crisis hits, safety-conscious investors will flee from fiscally
weak
countries toward fiscally strong ones that have a proven track record of generating economic growth.
For the first time in its history, Europe has a chance to establish its internal order on the principle of cooperation and equality of the large and the small, the strong and the weak, on shared democratic values.
America should have neither a strong dollar nor a
weak
dollar policy, only a policy of sensible domestic monetary policies, and a belief that foreign exchange markets should determine exchange rates.
Starting with President Miguel de la Madrid in the early 1980’s, however, the PRI responded to free market critics of Mexico’s
weak
economic performance by selling many government-owned enterprises, partially privatizing the Mexican social security system, and becoming a strong advocate of a free trade agreement with its large “enemy” to the north, the US.
Of course, China’s success in the Middle East requires progress on mitigating the region’s tensions, cooling its hotspots, and stabilizing
weak
countries – all of which will require smart diplomacy by many actors.
Although his position was
weak
(on a good day he ranked in the low 90s on a list of Russia’s top 100 politicians, while on a bad day he was absent from the polls altogether), his candidacy in the 1996 presidential elections made casting a ballot worthwhile for at least some Russians.
If America’s competitive position is so weak, what magic is holding up the dollar?
Moreover, growth next year will be so
weak
(0.5 to 1%, as opposed to the consensus of 2% or more) and unemployment so high (above 10%) that it will still feel like a recession.
Given this
weak
outlook for the major economies, losses by banks and other financial institutions will continue to grow.
Second, the profits and earnings of corporations and financial institutions will not rebound as fast as the consensus predicts, as
weak
economic growth, deflationary pressures, and surging defaults on corporate bonds will limit firms’ pricing power and keep profit margins low.
When demand is weak, as it often is in autumn and winter, the market-clearing price will be set by marginal producers of cheap but less accessible oil in Asia and Africa, such as Kazakhstan, eastern Siberia, and Nigeria.
The Federal Reserve appears to care about exchange rates only to the extent that they affect growth and inflation, and right now the
weak
dollar is helping US exports.
Moreover, a common monetary policy combined with independent fiscal policy is bound to fail: the former increases unemployment in weaker economies because the interest rate reflects average eurozone indicators (with large weights on Germany and France), but keeps borrowing costs low enough that
weak
economies’ governments can finance fiscal profligacy.
The party cannot evade demands for a more social Europe and for solutions to
weak
growth and high unemployment.
What appears as a systemically interconnected world will also turn out to be increasingly fragmented cognitively, with
weak
global governance and policy coordination.
Both schools have tried and failed to overcome the high-income economies’ persistently
weak
performance in recent years.
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