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For China, those flaws include a
weak
social safety net, which has raised savings rates, and the backwardness of a state banking system that has lowered investments and sent excess savings abroad.
Meanwhile, international oversight was too weak, with the League of Nations remaining largely silent in the face of dangerous developments, such as Adolf Hitler’s remilitarization of the Rhineland.
Add to that
weak
or non-existent governance in much of Africa (and the concomitant security threats and bleak economic prospects), and it is difficult to imagine how the tide of migrants will be slowed.
None of this would resolve Europe’s fundamental problems, namely
weak
fiscal positions, poorly functioning financial sectors, and lack of competitiveness.
The fiscal and current-account deficits are widening, foreign investment is weak, inflation is rising, and corruption remains rampant.
Though judicial independence and protection of human rights remain conspicuously weak, Saakashvili’s government has increased the civil service’s efficiency, improved public infrastructure, fought corruption, reduced crime, and created an attractive investment environment.
The barriers to growth in the past were an unholy alliance among oligarchic interests and political parties, scandalous procurement, clientelism, the permanently broken media, overly accommodating banks,
weak
tax authorities, and a weighed-down, fearful judiciary.
Bracing for StagnationMUMBAI – As 2015 begins, the global economy remains
weak.
The reasons for
weak
aggregate demand include aging populations that consume less and the growing concentration of wealth among the very rich, whose marginal propensity to consume is small.
Thus, it hopes to divert public attention from still non-existent basic services, continuing sectarianism,
weak
oil production, scant infrastructure investment, and rampant corruption and cronyism.
Critics point to
weak
budget institutions, muddled accounting, and rampant fiscal populism among island politicians.
When social organizations are limited and weak, as in Venezuela, this concentration of resources means that concentrated political power can perpetuate itself by reducing huge parts of the economy to dependent clients.
After all, a weak, isolated Russia is far more dangerous than a strong, internationally integrated one.
But in the current environment of persistently
weak
aggregate demand, below-target inflation, and slow or no output growth, economists worldwide have been desperately seeking deus ex machina – a search that, for some, has led to the heliport.
Unlike the
weak
strategy that the EU has been pursuing so far, an embargo on Russian oil and gas would put real pressure on Russia.
In 2016, we should hope for the TPP’s defeat and the beginning of a new era of trade agreements that don’t reward the powerful and punish the
weak.
But the recession triggered sudden and sustained declines in the LFPR across all age groups in response to
weak
demand and poor job prospects.
The same could be said today, seven years after the 2008 global financial crisis, about the world economy’s many remaining
weak
spots.
People’s
weak
appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.
In that case, maintaining a
weak
renminbi would protect the trade balance from a flood of imports.
At that point, the
weak
productivity and competitiveness of their tradable sectors will become clear.
Perceptions of corruption and inefficiency are high, underpinning
weak
public trust in institutions, while infrastructure investment has recently declined sharply.
When demand in Germany and France was quite
weak
early in the last decade, the ECB reduced interest rates sharply.
The report, prompted by the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, in which more than 1,100 people died and over 2,000 were injured, highlighted poor working conditions, inadequate building inspections,
weak
labor laws, and the need for fairer wage practices and legal benefits.
Among surplus countries, Euroskeptics proved strong in Austria but
weak
in Germany.
Limited power, he said, is often confused with
weak
power, which lacks the tools needed to act within its sphere of authority.
This is what we see in the United Kingdom and the United States, where borrowing costs remain at all-time lows, despite both countries’
weak
public finances and poor growth prospects.
Regional consultation mechanisms remain
weak.
Even were banks healthy, the deleveraging process and the associated loss of wealth means that, more likely than not, the economy will be
weak.
And a
weak
economy means, more likely than not, more bank losses.
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