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When looking at Europe’s unemployment problems, it helps to remember that the greatest long-term challenge is not a lack of jobs but the worsening labor shortage sapping EU countries’ economic vitality.
To be sure, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn recently called for a global fiscal response to the worsening recession.
Akin in some ways to Lenin’s doctrine that worsening social conditions would hasten revolution, the Hojatieh believe that only increased violence, conflict, and oppression will bring the Mahdi’s return.
And it will make it even harder to find a medium-term solution to America’s worsening public-debt and deficit dynamics.
And, as the rankings change over time to reflect countries’ improving or worsening fundamentals, the equity markets that “smart beta” investors choose change accordingly.
Mayor Bloomberg’s plan comes at the right time for a city burdened by worsening traffic and pollution problems.
But the Bank is also hampered by worsening resource constraints, as the biggest post-crisis capital infusions went to regional development banks.
Job-eroding technological advances, worsening income inequality, demographic shifts, dwindling natural resources, and environmental depletion are adding even more straws to the camel’s back.
But worsening financial conditions prove that this policy response has failed miserably.
Not only is the humanitarian disaster worsening almost on a daily basis; so are the security risks emanating from the war.
Hardly had the world recovered from the 1997-1998 financial crisis when it slid into the 2000/2001 global slowdown, worsening Argentina's situation.
That said, the earnings before interest and taxes of foreign enterprises in China had been worsening since 2009, but in 2017 the situation improved.
The housing recession – the worst in US history and worsening every day – will eventually see house prices fall by more than 20%, with millions of Americans losing their homes.
With a worsening recession, many LBOs that were loaded with too much debt and not enough equity will fail as firms with lower profits or higher losses become unable to service their loans.
The Bank of Thailand could not raise interest rates to support external financing without worsening the loan problems of Thai banks, nor reduce interest rates without risking an external funding crisis.
In Pakistan, which has long worked with China to contain India and is the largest recipient of BRI financing, the new military-backed government has sought to review or renegotiate projects in response to a worsening debt crisis.
In fact, outside of East Asia, progress has been modest, with the situation worsening in some countries and regions – despite several economic-growth spurts, sustained expansion in some large developing countries, and public commitments by the international community to the 2000 Millennium Declaration, which led to the MDGs.
The plan must recognize that, during this protracted period of monetary expansion, both financial markets and resource-allocation have been distorted, worsening wealth inequality.
The International Monetary Fund estimates that foreign-currency reserves fell by half, to $18 billion, by December 2011, owing partly to the worsening current-account balance, but, more importantly, to withdrawal from Egypt by foreign and domestic investors alike.
Japan’s growing coziness with Taiwan has been accompanied by worsening political relations with China.
While creditors should revise their expectations downward, the real tragedy is for ordinary citizens, for whom the restructuring process implies a protracted period of worsening impoverishment.
The outlook for the future is no less alarming: worsening water stress, increased flash flooding, and the depletion of the country’s water reservoirs.
Moreover, France’s rapidly worsening foreign-trade deficit is boosting already-excessive debt levels, while output is falling and unemployment is rising.
Meanwhile, the emerging NCD epidemic is worsening.
Rivero, who has lost much weight, has circulatory problems, and Espinosa suffers from a worsening liver disease.
The worsening economic outlook has given rise to divergent prognoses.
If we have poor measures, what we strive to do (say, increase GDP) may actually contribute to a worsening of living standards.
But, motivated by rapidly worsening climate conditions – global carbon dioxide emissions rose in 2017 for the first time in four years – negotiators ultimately managed to secure a last-minute deal.
The Swedish economist Axel Leijonhufvud foresaw asset-price inflation – houses in particular – and a worsening of credit quality.
With the risk premium at current levels, there is a real danger that Greece may not be able to extricate itself from its predicament, regardless of what it does, because further budget cuts would further depress economic activity, reducing tax revenues and worsening the debt-to-GDP ratio.
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