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In the past, when China’s own innovative capacity was weak, stronger IP protection would have meant merely more rents for foreign firms.
Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the
weak.
Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the
weak.
Today, some states harbor terrorists in order to attack their enemies or because they are too
weak
to control powerful groups.
Those countries whose economies remain relatively
weak
oppose tighter monetary policy.
A
weak
Democratic Party that is little more than an amalgam of myriad identity-based groups, they argue, may well be to blame for the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
Given the Syrian opposition’s manifest ineffectiveness and disunity, so the argument goes, President Bashar al-Assad’s fall, when it finally comes, will incite civil war, massacres, and chaos, which is likely to spill over Syria’s borders, further destabilizing
weak
neighbors like Iraq and Lebanon, and leading, perhaps, to a regional crisis.
Latin America’s educational performance is equally
weak
at the university level.
The Chinese people are no longer satisfied with rule by law and are demanding an end to systemic corruption, inadequate land rights, discrimination against migrant workers, state-owned enterprises’ privileged position, and
weak
protection of intellectual property.
This is necessary not only for the sake of the Bank itself, but, more fundamentally, for the sake of the poor in developing countries, whose access to public services and opportunities for a better life are undermined by
weak
governance and graft.
But it is impeded by slow growth and, thanks to high unemployment and
weak
global demand, persistently low inflation.
The alternative explanation for the persistence of
weak
global growth has been best formulated by the Bank for International Settlements, an organization of central banks.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just
weak
but absent.
In both Israel and Palestine, political leadership is very
weak.
Worse, government help was handed out to strong and
weak
performers alike.
By the spring of 2012, it had become clear that the European banking system was a critical
weak
point in the euro’s architecture.
The UN has been useful as a forum for adopting standards, but its machinery for seeking compliance with those standards is
weak
and has been badly compromised over the years by its failure to address grotesque abuses.
This is not healthy for the development of Armenia’s democracy and
weak
economy.
His position in the nationalist opposition was
weak.
But three years after Qaddafi’s ouster, Libya remains hobbled by
weak
national institutions and roiled by factional fighting.
Finally, as is true in many of the advanced countries,
weak
demand constrains Italy’s short- and medium-term growth.
But these interests are relatively
weak
in comparison with special interests.
Why China Can’t AdjustCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s current economic slowdown has no shortage of causes: Europe’s financial turmoil, sputtering recovery in the United States, and
weak
domestic investment growth, to name the most commonly cited factors.
The best-known feature of China’s macroeconomic imbalances is heavy dependence on exports for growth, which is typically attributed to
weak
domestic demand: as a middle-income country, China lacks the purchasing power to consume the goods that it produces.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints,
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payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
For many countries, the infamous “resource curse” is at work; in others,
weak
leadership and failed institutions are to blame.
The
weak
financial institutions and shady corporate sector that grew from his legacy conspired to make the pain of the 1997 financial crisis even worse.
In economic terms, the negligible level of intra-Maghreb trade can be explained by factors such as small market size and low trade complementarity – the
weak
match, in other words, between exports and imports.
Those collapses and the subsequent problems were symptoms of the same disease: a
weak
banking system.
Similarly, in 2008, the entire financial system was overextended, owing to a combination of
weak
internal risk management and inadequate government regulation and supervision.
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