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But for many emerging markets, external conditions began to worsen around 2012, when China’s growth slowed, commodity prices plummeted, and capital flows dried up – developments that sparked a spate of currency crashes spanning nearly every region.
The third myth is that saving the poor will worsen the population explosion.
It would be useful to know the answer to this question before trying repeatedly to pump up the economy in the short run with costly policies that might worsen longer-run prospects.
Despite these losses, the problem is set to worsen.
This will worsen India’s already massive trade deficit with China, while doing little to boost China’s meager investment in India, which totals just 1% of China’s annual bilateral trade surplus – a surplus that has swelled by one-third since Modi took office and is now approaching $50 billion.
Restructuring the role of Turkey’s army is vital, but if Turkey cannot follow through with the Armenian and Kurdish openings, the country’s own domestic situation, its relations with the two peoples, as well as tensions in the Caucasus, will undoubtedly worsen.
Economic deterioration in Bangladesh would only worsen inter-communal tensions and provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadis, but the reforms needed to head off decline are often blocked by political infighting and opposition boycotts.
Indeed, this scenario could worsen, because Russia is unlikely to sit around idly and watch Ukraine unravel.
The country’s debt problem looks set to worsen as the government neglects its reforms in favor of short-term growth objectives.
In short, falling prices worsen the economy's situation in the short run.
But, given Germany's economic distress, which looks likely to worsen given the country's demographic problems, the Social Democrats are now condemned to give wealth creation priority over redistribution.
Similarly, hard economic times may worsen relations among governments, as well as domestic conflicts that can lead to violence.
Another caveat is that technological change may worsen the income distribution if the jobs that are destroyed are those filled by unskilled workers.
The total number of children ensnared in emergencies – a figure that has grown by five million in just a few short years, and today outnumbers the population of France – will only worsen in 2018 if we fail to act decisively.
And with current economic prospects bleak, especially given low commodity prices, and insistence on fiscal austerity continuing in most places, downward pressure on rural incomes is likely to worsen.
The scenario could worsen if there is a breakdown in commodity prices – one of the most serious threats to Brazil from a global economic slump.
But the solution proposed by some – close the gates to refugees – would merely worsen the problem, by destabilizing countries like Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, which have already absorbed millions.
The economic factors driving these (and other) conflicts will worsen: global climate change is accelerating desertification and depleting water resources, with disastrous effects on agriculture and other economic activity that then trigger violence across ethnic, religious, social, and other cleavages.
Example: countries might seek temporary protection against imports from countries with weak enforcement of labor rights when such imports worsen working conditions at home.
And the problem is likely to worsen.
Now they understand that Macron’s policies will worsen the deflationary, regressive cycle that is Le Pen’s greatest ally.
And with non-Hispanic whites expected to become a minority of the total population by around 2045, America’s ongoing civil war could worsen.
On the contrary, some problems may worsen.
The condition of many humans – not to mention the human condition itself – will improve or worsen depending on how we use this opportunity.
Meanwhile, education goes underfunded, energy and water shortages grow more frequent and severe, economic imbalances worsen, and the government’s policymaking capacity continues to erode.
And though their policies are likely to worsen, not improve, the distribution of income, voters are cheering them on.
According to a recent MIT study, there is a “high risk” that Asia’s water stress could worsen to water scarcity by 2050.
In the policy jargon increasingly heard in today’s political discourse, tax reform will be “revenue neutral” – meaning that it will not worsen the budget deficit or drive up the national debt.
And Thailand’s troubles may be about to worsen: With King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s health failing, his seven-decade reign may be near its end.
This policy would probably also drive up the value of the US dollar, which would undermine the international price competitiveness of US exports and worsen the trade balance further.
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