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But if economic conditions worsen, as seems plausible, action will become unavoidable.
And as the methods of manipulation multiply, the problem is only likely to worsen.
Another devaluation of the CFA franc today might deflate France’s debts to the franc zone and boost its African-based export industries, but it would worsen the& franc-zone& countries’ miseries.
Even before the leftist Syriza party’s overwhelming victory in Greece’s recent general election, it was obvious that, far from being over, the crisis was threatening to worsen.
They warned that Trump evidently suffers from a mental impairment that would worsen under pressure, possibly leading him to launch a war, even a nuclear war.
Otherwise, their water woes – along with internal unrest – will only worsen.
If the world continues on its current course, labor-market imbalances will worsen significantly in the coming years.
Iran’s Hardline ChoiceIran’s choice for its next president, the hardline Mayor of Teheran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is likely to worsen relations with the West and the country’s international isolation.
There simply is not enough water for everything these nations want to use it for, and the situation will only worsen.
Ensuring that the region’s already-skewed income distribution does not worsen – and, indeed, improves – is also essential.
And the problem is set to worsen.
For starters, a “recovery trust fund,” much like the one established in Syria, could help to keep more Venezuelans in their homes, while protecting them from the regime’s efforts to worsen their plight.
So, over time, fiscal accounts worsen automatically, creating a vicious circle: monetized fiscal deficits lead to inflation and a widening gap in the parallel exchange-rate market which worsens the fiscal deficit.
Inequality seems to worsen health outcomes, reduce life expectancy, boost rates of mental illness and obesity, and even increase the prevalence of HIV.
If the Republican Party takes full control of the US Congress in November’s mid-term election, policy gridlock is likely to worsen, risking a re-run of the damaging fiscal battles that led last year to a government shutdown and almost to a technical debt default.
And now some analysts suggest that new forms of computer programming will compound these developments, as algorithms, robots, and self-driving cars destroy middle-class jobs and worsen inequality.
In the next few months, Europe’s debt crisis will most likely worsen.
But Burma’s regime actually perpetuates conditions that sustain and worsen the HIV/AIDS epidemic by restricting access to counseling, medication, and other support services.
Meanwhile, an “America first” approach under Trump will likely worsen the longstanding Sunni-Shia proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
After all, IMF programs rarely lead to quick economic recoveries, and sometimes the IMF’s advice is so bad that the economic conditions actually worsen.
And this is not the only problem that Bolsonaro’s agenda will worsen.
The “white lady” is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of denial will only worsen the consequences.
Fiddling at the FirePARIS – Financial markets have rallied since July on the hope that the global economic and geopolitical outlook will not worsen, or, if it does, that central banks stand ready to backstop economies and markets with additional rounds of liquidity provision and quantitative easing.
Mayhew concluded that it is rather difficult to tell whether derivative markets worsen financial-market volatility, because their creation tends to come when existing financial markets already are more volatile, or can be predicted to become so.
After all, the country already accounts for more than 12% of global exports, so expanding its share further would probably worsen its terms of trade.
But there is also keen awareness that the EU’s hope for a special relationship with Brazil must not be allowed to hinder regional integration or worsen asymmetries and imbalances within the bloc.
But the Union could see its reputation worsen if it allows its commitment to Lebanon to become part of the emerging US strategy of isolating Iran by hardening today’s regional Sunni-Shia divisions.
Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low-carbon economies.
And, even as their circumstances worsen and their numbers increase, their plight is going all but unreported.
But the resulting currency wars are partly a zero-sum game: If one currency is weaker, another currency must be stronger; and if one country’s trade balance improves, another’s must worsen.
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