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Rather than shove a
weak
opponent into a corner and risk them lashing out, South Korea should formally request an indefinite postponement of this year’s UFG, which would be counterproductive and is not essential at this time.
An unprecedentedly
weak
economic recovery – roughly 2% annual growth over the past nine-plus years, versus a 4% norm in earlier cycles – says otherwise.
In an era of
weak
income growth, QE-induced wealth effects from frothy asset markets provided offsetting support for crisis-battered US consumers.
Second, there is the danger that
weak
European banks will extend risky loans at a time when they should be making their portfolios less risky.
Given
weak
national and regional capacities in the continent’s tax and revenue agencies, there is a need to create a regional transfer pricing advisory body that will bring together tax administrators, accounting and tax advisors, and multinationals, to serve as a platform for experience-sharing and consultation.
But the fact remains that Russia is too
weak
to challenge the West further, at least in the way that it did in Ukraine.
Recoveries are rarely without blips, especially when they are as
weak
as this one.
A weak, partitioned Afghanistan may not be a desirable outcome; but a “soft” partition now would be far better than a “hard” partition later, after years of chaos and bloodletting – and infinitely better than the medieval Taliban’s return to power and a fresh reign of terror.
But there is another way to think about nationalism: in the context of challenges that must be addressed at local and national levels – such as economic inequality, political instability, social schisms, and
weak
governance.
The United States, with a government that can hardly be described as weak, bungled the war in Iraq and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Similarly, it was not Putin who enacted a constitution with an enormously powerful presidential government and a
weak
system of checks and balances, nor did he start the slaughter in Chechnya.
Houphouet’s fondness for money and power was plain from the outset, and his regime offered no exception to the dismal African rule of corruption, fraud, cheating, cronyism, embezzlement, and
weak
law enforcement.
Election-year politics in the US will strengthen these forces further, with President Barack Obama’s administration unlikely to relinquish a symbol of global power, which would invite opponents’ charges of
weak
leadership.
Nonetheless, even in “emerging market” democracies, such as Chile, Mexico, South Korea, and India, a left-right cleavage plays an important role – while those who claim the political center generally remain
weak.
So, given that differences in policies as they are implemented have become largely a matter of degree, why do centrist parties remain
weak?
It is important to resist the urge simply to shut down
weak
or inefficient institutions, and to consider, instead, how they can be reformed and strengthened.
Other major challenges include a bloated and inefficient state sector, environmental degradation, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, corruption, and
weak
rule of law.
The US budget has gone from a surplus of 1.4% of GDP in 2000 to a forecast deficit of 4.6% in 2003, a 6% swing--of which about 5% is due to changes in policy rather than the
weak
economy.
The budget for the Euro area has gone from a surplus of 0.1% in 2000 to a forecast deficit of 2.4% for 2003, nearly all of it due to the
weak
economy, not to changes in fiscal policy.
As a result, capital expenditure – already a fragile proposition, given
weak
demand – has plummeted, triggering a vicious circle of shrinking GDP, lower tax revenues, higher expenditures, and further destabilization of public-debt positions.
So far, the US response appears to be more aggressive than that of the euro zone, as the European Central Bank falls behind the curve on interest rates and the EU’s fiscal stance remains
weak.
Signing IPR conventions, and incorporating them into domestic law, means little or nothing when a country’s law enforcement is
weak.
The weak, when certain that they cannot win, can hurt the strongest – and even make them lose.
The report’s argument is that while the stated motivation for ultra-loose monetary policy might be to guard against deflation and promote economic growth at a time when demand is weak, low interest rates also help governments fund their debt very cheaply.
These rants display a second major feature of the Chinese cult of guochi : the tendency to blame a weak, feckless Chinese government for not standing up to predatory foreigners.
After a gap of two centuries in which China was atypically weak, it is rapidly regaining power, and now wants to restore what it sees as the old order in East Asia.
Making matters worse,
weak
demand and debt overhangs are fueling concerns about deflation in the eurozone and Japan.
If
weak
demand and high debt were the only factors in play, the latest round of monetary stimulus would be analytically straightforward.
And
weak
governments should not be allowed to permit massacres to take place on their own territory even if they are not themselves carrying out the massacre.
A
weak
German economy makes the necessary structural adjustments in the eurozone periphery much more difficult.
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