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And evidence of worsening antagonisms among disparate social groupings and classes is mounting.
But conditions in the country were worsening.
The two crises have created immense human suffering worldwide: thousands of families have lost loved ones in wars, and the financial crisis has taken people’s jobs, livelihoods, assets, pensions, and dreams, as well as worsening fiscal and debt conditions in most industrial countries.
That wisdom remains the best advice to date, especially given that the consequences of a worsening bilateral relationship would extend far beyond China and Japan.
Governments undoubtedly merit praise for stabilizing expectations, and thus preventing crises from worsening.
Today’s key global problems – terrorism and extremism, poverty and inequality, climate change, migration, and epidemics – are worsening daily.
Not only has China’s labor-intensive, investment-led growth model run out of steam; bureaucratic inefficiencies and pervasive corruption – not to mention severe and worsening pollution – are also damaging China’s long-term prospects.
Russia’s worsening credit rating and the tougher borrowing terms in the international market are forcing Russia to compete harder for capital.
By worsening Italy’s already fragile fiscal position, the higher deficit will limit the scope for adjustment in the event of future shocks.
What is at issue is the justification for the drug of income tax cuts, with its worsening counter-effects and serious side effects.
This escalating market concentration – which, to be sure, is not limited to China – can lead to worsening inequality of income, wealth, and opportunities.
ASEAN and the Rohingya CrisisDHAKA – The worsening plight of Muslim Rohingya communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state could soon imperil the country’s government, as well as the reputation of its leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
The fact that the unemployment rate is declining while GDP growth slows suggests that China’s labor productivity is actually worsening – a trend that is likely to lower China’s long-term potential growth rate.
In most cases, this means that they will continue to cut back on lending, worsening the impact of the financial crisis on the rest of the economy.
A worsening economy and widening inequality have spurred more people to become more engaged and take an interest in the activities of companies and those who run them.
The outrageous increases in financial executives’ remuneration in recent years, which cannot be attributed to increased productivity, have exacerbated the financial sector’s focus on the short term, while worsening its risk exposure in the longer term, thereby exacerbating systemic vulnerability.
Second, cross-border banks are charging higher interest rates to firms in southern Europe than they are to comparable firms in northern Europe, which is worsening the situation for crisis-hit economies.
The net result goes beyond the weak growth, worsening income inequality, high long-term unemployment, and alarming youth joblessness of the here and now.
Indeed, there is no greater threat to humanity’s well-being than the ongoing water crisis, which is worsening as pollution and climate change, combined with accelerating growth in human population – forecast by the United Nations to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 – fuel a widening gap between supply and demand.
To answer these questions, we must understand that a vicious circle of economic contraction and worsening financial conditions is underway.
Though tensions between China and its neighbors over territorial claims in the East and South China Seas have receded somewhat in recent months, the prospect of worsening Sino-Japanese relations, in particular, remains worrisome.
There is, of course, another explanation of why Putin’s popularity is still growing in the face of a worsening economy: those unable to fend for themselves naturally look to the state for help – and are hardly likely to bite the hand feeds them.
The cause of this great acceleration in the loss of the planet’s biodiversity is clear: rapidly expanding human activity, driven by worsening overpopulation and increasing per capita consumption.
Puerto Rico’s fiscal situation was also worsening before the crisis.
Asia’s Troubled WaterNEW DELHI – Asia’s water woes are worsening.
Yet the continent’s water crisis is only worsening.
The fact that the Fed responded quickly prevented the 2001 recession from worsening.
Worsening the injustice, in at least one case the Court's decision came too late for the companies involved to go ahead with their plans.
The long-term costs of a worsening security confrontation with the US would exceed the short-term tactical benefits to be derived from continuing to support the North as a buffer state, especially given China’s deepening relationship with South Korea.
The recipients will spend some of that additional income on foreign goods, boosting imports and worsening the trade balance.
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