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So their governments cling to power while exploiting rivals’ internal weaknesses.
They are fleeing partly because of newly-discovered weaknesses in Asia, but mostly because the other investors are fleeing.
If the goal is to shore up the weaknesses revealed by the global financial crisis, policymakers in the US and other countries should first look elsewhere.
Although there are no precedents that might guide us to a vaccine or cure, we have learned a lot about how HIV works – and its weaknesses – in the last five years.
Sadism means finding pleasure in inflicting pain or humiliating others, especially those who represent a perceived threat or a reminder of one’s weaknesses.
But a second reason is that they each have important weaknesses, which they have not overcome in good times.
Lambert and Butler identify four main weaknesses of European universities that must be addressed.
Why, for example, should a “sound” eurozone member state need to obtain a “contingent credit line” unless it is harboring hidden weaknesses?
Rather than install ever more safeguards, it is time to address the eurozone’s real weaknesses.
Perhaps most importantly, two decades of rapid GDP growth have masked serious weaknesses on the economic front.
And critics do have some valid points about the law’s weaknesses.
On the contrary, it suffers from some fundamental weaknesses – beginning at the highest level of government.
At the company’s annual stockholder meeting last year, five proposals for how to begin addressing some of Facebook’s weaknesses were voted down.
The better-performing emerging markets are those with fewer macroeconomic, policy, and financial weaknesses: South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other Asian industrial exporters;Poland and the Czech Republic in Europe;Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico in Latin America;Kenya, Rwanda, and a few other economies in Sub-Saharan Africa; and the Gulf oil-exporting countries.
Taking advantage of Russia’s weaknesses and the lack of a counterweight, they refused to heed warnings against claiming a monopoly on global leadership.
These data highlight two vital weaknesses in European firms.
Indeed, the North Korean threat nowadays derives more from the regime’s internal weaknesses than from its aggressive external posture – the latter being the authorities’ fearful response to the former.
America’s resilience may contrast with Europe’s multiple weaknesses.
Only by addressing these weaknesses and shifting to an innovation-based, environmentally sustainable growth model can the country continue to prosper – and ultimately achieve high-income status.
But Zoellick is not without his weaknesses.
To avert a crisis, China’s leaders must act now to address the weaknesses in the corporate and financial sectors and to improve macroeconomic- and financial-policy frameworks.
But weaknesses in management or execution should not be allowed to obscure globalization’s far-reaching potential benefits, including its promotion of productivity-enhancing technology transfer and innovation worldwide.
But a more cautious interpretation of the missing defaults is that the protracted nature of the downturn in international conditions has yet to take its cumulative toll, or that lingering weaknesses will only become evident once the major central banks move further along in renormalizing their policy stances.
But China’s markets have developed faster than its regulatory framework, so that now policymakers must close loopholes and resolve weaknesses that are undermining fair competition.
At the same time, they need to tackle the consequences of those loopholes and weaknesses, such as corruption, pollution, excessive debt, and overcapacity.
This false dichotomy blinded US and European leaders to many of the weaknesses that rendered even “moderate” systems unstable.
For all its weaknesses, the EU is a big economic player that participates in shaping the world around it.
The European Central Bank, fixated on inflation, will be slow to lower interest rates, and the European Stability Pact will make it impossible for fiscal policy to offset these weaknesses.
Trump’s recent polling gains say less about his improvement as a candidate than they do about Clinton’s own weaknesses and bad luck.
More Leadership for More EuropeMILAN – The debate about improving economic governance within the eurozone is shedding new light on the system’s weaknesses.
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