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Bad loans worsened the balance sheets of the Asian banks.
Meanwhile, as the Syria crisis has worsened, pressure has mounted to improve humanitarian-aid delivery in rebel-controlled areas, and the UN has pursued a number of options.
Health conditions have worsened as well, owing to nutritional deficiencies and the government’s decision not to supply infant formula, standard vaccines against infectious diseases, medicines for AIDS, transplant, cancer, and dialysis patients, and general hospital supplies.
Meanwhile, deficit and debt indicators have worsened, both in absolute terms and relative to emerging economies, and the average risk premium on advanced economies’ debt now exceeds that for emerging economies.
Premier Wen Jiabao confirmed that a major effort was being made to extend and implement the previously announced four-trillion-yuan plan, and that more funds were available if conditions worsened.
Indeed, in areas outside the zone or nature reserves, populations of elk and wild boar underwent steep declines, as major socioeconomic changes after the fall of the Soviet Union worsened rural poverty and crippled wildlife management.
Greece’s prospects for debt sustainability have worsened because the eurozone’s authorities have refused to accept significant debt write-downs.
Austerity might have worsened the slump temporarily, but it did deliver fiscal sustainability without permanent damage to the economy.
These internal conflicts have worsened with the country’s domestic political crisis and the global economic crisis.
Credit terms worsened abruptly, and what was left was the thoroughly overpriced rump of economies that had become excessively dependent on foreign financing.
For example, if the US hadn’t provided essentially unconditional support to Citigroup in 2008 (under President George W. Bush) and again in 2009 (under President Barack Obama), the resulting financial collapse would have deepened the global recession and worsened job losses around the world.
Indeed, the financial crisis has worsened in recent weeks, reflected in the US Federal Reserve’s takeover of quasi-government mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – which may cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars – as well as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch.
Unfortunately, the problem has only worsened.
In some countries - say, Nicaragua and El Salvador - economies had so worsened that nearly all business people joined in opposition to the status quo, though disagreements existed about future goals.
The anti-reform lobbies reacted by arguing that poverty and inequality had worsened.
Although she returned with excellent grades, her position within the company worsened, because she did not have a boss who could use her skills.
Yet the income distribution has lately worsened, with inequality now potentially even more severe in Asia than in the developed economies of the West.
According to the study, 45% of survey respondents believed that the economy had worsened over the previous year, while only 24% thought that it had improved.
Unfortunately, effectiveness actually worsened in the other half, suggesting no overall effect.
Stagnant productivity in the services sector has hampered overall productivity growth, while the skills mismatch has worsened, with the education system failing to prepare students for a rapidly evolving labor market.
Our data showed that traffic congestion worsened significantly after the policy was rescinded.
But perhaps not: muddling through has in some respects worsened the underlying problems, making the inevitable adjustments all the more painful.
And, because eurozone banks hold a substantial part of their assets in the form of eurozone sovereign bonds, the sovereign-debt crisis became a potential banking crisis, worsened by banks’ other losses, owing, for example, to the collapse of housing prices in Spain.
Allowing Zakaev’s return would have worsened matters by increasing Kadyrov’s prestige at home, as well as his international visibility and legitimacy.
Likewise, long-standing tensions between Bahrain’s ruling Sunni minority and Shia majority have worsened since the country’s Shia-led pro-democracy movement was crushed in 2011.
Turkey’s internal politics have worsened by the day, and the country’s deep divisions, which reflect entrenched historical and sociological fault lines, show no signs of narrowing under a president who seems temperamentally incapable of winning over anyone who is not already a follower.
This crisis absorbed almost all of the European Union’s political attention this summer, even as famine in Africa has worsened.
In 2011, the situation worsened on virtually all fronts.
Assessments of the current economic situation and expectations for the next six months have worsened everywhere.
Their situation, always tenuous, dramatically worsened.
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