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Achieving the fourth, along with social and economic measures aimed at creating better jobs and improving people’s standard of living, would at least make it possible to weaken, contain, and control Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations, thereby strengthening civil order and governability.
The new government’s effort to share power with political forces in Myanmar’s volatile regions, and thus weaken local warlords, clearly contributed to the decision to halt construction.
For all of the progress human society has made since the era of the Luddites, a simple truth persists: machines must strengthen, not weaken, our prospects for inclusive growth and broadly shared prosperity.
Strauss-Kahn’s nomination was also an effective strike in terms of French domestic politics, as it promised to weaken the Socialists’ opposition.
But it may weaken Israeli democracy in an even more insidious way.
But the EU should also consider allowing applications for asylum and humanitarian visas directly at EU embassies in third countries, to weaken further the incentive to pay traffickers.
The conclusion of the ASEAN-initiated Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – which includes China, India, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, but not the US – is likely to weaken the TPP’s impact further.
For example, he and his advisers have already made verbal pronouncements intended to weaken the dollar.
If that fails, Trump could unilaterally intervene to weaken the dollar, or impose capital controls to limit dollar-strengthening capital inflows.
Nor can we simply allow free riders to weaken intellectual property.
For example, under the Plaza Accord, the US joined with Japan, Germany, and other G-7 countries in 1985 to intervene cooperatively to weaken the dollar.
But the European Central Bank has not intervened in the foreign-exchange market since 2000 – and that was to support the euro, not weaken it.
The mere fact that a particular policy might weaken the currency does not make that country a manipulator.
But it has done little to weaken Trump’s destructive momentum: just a few weeks later, Trump announced his plan to end DACA, a policy that protected from deportation some 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the US as children.
European arrangements must not weaken countries’ incentives to address the challenges facing them – and that means exercising extreme caution when it comes to bailing out eurozone economies.
Monetary integration would weaken the existing distortions, reduce the scope for political intervention, and force European firms to become more competitive.
A failure to find common ground under these changed circumstances would weaken prospects for cooperation at many levels.
More broadly, a breach in this key bilateral relationship would weaken NATO cohesion in its policy toward Russia, with Turkey seeking to move beyond the confrontational framework set out at the Alliance’s recent Warsaw summit.
A more credible concern is whether efforts to root out corruption weaken the incentive for government officials to promote growth.
And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures – for example, labor-market liberalization and pension overhauls – may boost the eurozone’s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a decade ago).
But the US has argued that arms-control measures banning offensive capabilities could weaken defenses against attacks and would be impossible to verify or enforce.
With Western economic policy prescriptions widely seen as having failed in Russia; with NATO expanding near to the country's borders and old allies like Serbia bombed; with America seen as wanting to weaken Russia even more, breaking it up into pieces and controlling the oil-rich Caspian basin, anti-western sentiments are on the rise.
The region’s countries clearly have vulnerabilities that weaken their individual and collective efforts to combat potential foreign terrorist activities.
If this trend continues, the EU’s waning influence will inevitably weaken its economic position and reduce its competitiveness.
That is why, as the BJP attempts to transform secular India into a Hindu state, it must weaken the role of science.
Looser standards for issuers weaken protection for investors, and there is evidence that lax regulation of new issues may reduce investor demand for them, raising the cost of finance.
Open capital accounts may be replaced not by whimsical ad hoc interventions that heighten uncertainty and weaken confidence, but rather by predictable rules-based constraints on financial-capital flows.
It is an open question whether global economic growth will remain strong, strengthen further, or start to weaken.
Governments suddenly found themselves with much lower revenues than they expected; when markets proved unwilling to lend them the difference, they ended up printing money, causing exchange rates to weaken and inflation to rise.
Governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own credibility and weaken that of their opponents.
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