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But, as the market deepened, inadequate legislation and
weak
institutional safeguards facilitated increasingly brazen corruption and administrative abuses.
But it enters such negotiations in a
weak
and somewhat awkward position, because it is required, per its agreement with the EU, to grant to the third country all of the concessions the EU has made, whereas the third country has no legal or political obligation to reciprocate.
On the supply side, permanently lower output makes fiscal adjustment even more compulsory; but, on the demand side, a
weak
private economy lacks the resilience needed to weather fiscal retrenchment.
Theirs is a model that favors the strong and punishes the weak, and that rewards competitors at the expense of cooperators.
But politics, not economics, explains why the Fed chairman changed his tune about America’s
weak
external position.
Regulatory reform is also needed to strengthen support for startup companies – an area in which Germany is notoriously weak, reflected in the difficulties such companies face in obtaining venture capital.
Routine immunization coverage remains particularly low in Africa; indeed, it has stagnated over the last three years, against a backdrop of
weak
and under-resourced health systems.
Beyond inadequately financed health systems, which remain
weak
and inefficient, especially in rural areas, African countries face challenges in affording new, more expensive vaccines.
The Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement has provided only a
weak
boost for new exports.
The distinction is also useful for policy purposes:
weak
potential growth cannot be addressed by demand-side initiatives; supply-side measures are needed.
Let all the heavily indebted southern European countries jointly agree to join a
weak
euro, which would float against the stronger northern euro.
When the
weak
euro reduces the heavily indebted countries’ production costs by 20-25%, they can rejoin the “hard” euro if they accept fiscal reforms that are subject to approval by the European Commission (and thus by the hard-euro creditor countries).
When the Arab Spring revolutions erupted, the US response was
weak
and muddled, oscillating between pro-democracy rhetoric and support for anti-Islamist autocrats.
The Israeli government’s
weak
and myopic attitude toward the Arab spring is puzzling, not least because it has long been the region’s only true democracy.
This is particularly true for India, where elections are vigorous and common people participate in them more enthusiastically than in the US, but other democratic institutions remain
weak
and sometimes dysfunctional, and the judiciary is too slow and occasionally corrupt.
Germany and France are often at odds, and both have
weak
leaders facing re-election next year who could scarcely muster support for an “ever-closer union.”
With a
weak
and divided EU unable to resolve Europe’s many crises, and with nationalism resurgent, we can expect further disintegration in different forms.
For starters, he must work with the US to address commercial and economic issues, including American concerns over India’s
weak
intellectual-property protections and fears within India’s information-technology industry regarding proposed US immigration reform.
In the case of the Rohingya crisis, insufficient funding has been compounded by wider failures by humanitarian agencies, including
weak
coordination, turf battles, and differences over which curriculum should be used – an apparently esoteric issue that has become entangled with questions about Rohingya children’s future status.
A financial crisis is caused by a country’s excessive indebtedness, which generally reflects a combination of mismanagement by the debtor country, over-optimism, corruption, and the poor judgment and
weak
incentives of creditor banks.
Why has the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) been so slow and
weak
in its response to a natural calamity that ravaged one of its own members?
With corporations sitting on cash, governments trying to rein in deficits by cutting expenditure and raising taxes, and households spending less on residential construction, demand is
weak
and uncertainty is high.
And yet, as long as global growth remains weak, Africans cannot count on developed countries to fully honor their commitments to help attain the Sustainable Development Goals.
Weak
health-care systems must also be strengthened in order to tackle the endemic diseases that sap productivity, such as malaria, as well as improving preparedness for outbreaks of deadly epidemics.
Ukraine's relatively
weak
forces did not stand a chance.
From the first day of school, Syrians are taught that America and its ally, Israel, are mortal enemies seeking to keep Syria
weak.
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia all competed to draw the country into their orbit, while scheming to keep Syria
weak
and divided.
Part of today’s good fortune is payback for years of
weak
demand.
Despite a global economy plagued by
weak
growth, persistently high unemployment, and heavy debt loads, the region’s emerging and developing economies grew at an average annual rate of 6.8% from 2000-2010, propping up global output and buttressing recovery efforts.
Faced with
weak
demand in advanced countries, Asian economies are working to rebalance their sources of growth by shifting toward domestic and regional markets.
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