Iran's near term political future remains unclear.

Nevertheless, Japan faces serious long term challenges.

The near future will present a growing list of challenges.

Governments will not sacrifice near and medium term economic growth for long term environmental benefits.

As a result, Iran's near term political prospects appear ominous.

Price deflation is far more likely in the near term.

Moreover, infrastructure investment not only creates jobs in the near term, but also promotes long term competitiveness.

Such principles can lead to the identification of both near term precautionary actions and medium term initiatives.

The recent recession has presented challenges, but European leaders were right to avoid becoming intoxicated with short term Keynesian policies, especially where these are inimical to addressing Europe s long term challenges.

For Chinese manufacturers, a long term trend of rising costs coupled with a short term export slump were unprecedented challenges.

Even when enacted, their near term effects on job creation would be minimal.

So the near term outlook for the US economy is weak at best.

In the near term, at least, cash transfers seem to be the best option.

At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long term investment in research.

Nothing could be worse for Maliki than explicit authorization for attacks on Shi a militias, and the near term survival of his government is crucial if any progress is to be made on the political challenges facing all of Iraq s factions.

In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further. Over the longer term, however, this situation is definitely not stable.

Russia is hypersensitive about challenges to its influence in what it calls its near abroad of former Soviet satellites.

America s current budget negotiations should focus on achieving a credible long term decline in the national debt, while protecting economic expansion in the near term.

One of the challenges in Africa is to define the term indigenous in this context, the Working Group identified important elements for clarifying the term.

In fact, evidence shows that building cities right generates near term benefits, while reducing the longer term costs associated with sprawl, congestion, pollution, and climate change.

These issues can be addressed only through systemic reform over the medium term, while the recovery effort should remain the global priority in the near term.

UN leadership will be instrumental to proposing and forging solutions to such daunting long term global challenges.

But mounting environmental challenges, and the limited availability of commodity substitutes, suggest that a reprieve on commodity prices is not near.

Is this extraordinary situation stable? In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further.

Indeed, in January, the IMF revised its near term outlook for eurozone growth downward, to 0.2 in 2013.

Thus, nothing dramatic will happen to the RMB exchange rate in the near term unless something dramatic happens.

To establish such a system would require the commitment of significant resources in the near and long term.

So, while bringing down short term T bill rates to near zero has failed, the hope is that bringing down longer term interest rates will spur the economy.

While aimed at reducing long term environmental damage, cap and trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

Inflation fear was already present before the new challenges of 2011 raised questions about long term energy prices.

But we must not lose sight of the longer term challenges that will remain after the storm abates.

Say I do not know if what is promised you is near , or if my Lord prolongs its term .

Say I know not whether what you are promised is near or whether my Lord will prolong its term .

That trend will continue and increase in the near term as Iraqi security forces become more and more capable.

The Quartet's Special Envoy, James Wolfensohn, has identified six short term and three longer term challenges to economic recovery and is working closely with the parties on those issues.

Don t look to central banks most are likely to manage the near term risks to inflation and growth reasonably well.

This led to a plan to keep short term interest rates near zero until late 2014, as well as to massive quantitative easing, followed by Operation Twist, in which the Fed substitutes short term Treasuries for long term bonds.

Likewise, they cannot fix debt overhangs, repair broken home financing, or address medium term fiscal reform challenges on their own.

Fortunately, if we plan for the long term on a global scale, we can find our way through these challenges.

Nonetheless, Europe needs to be much more generous in permanently writing down debt and, even more urgently, in reducing short term repayment flows. The first is necessary to reduce long term uncertainty the second is essential to facilitate near term growth.

In them ye have benefits for a term appointed in the end their place of sacrifice is near the Ancient House .

In them ye have benefits for a term appointed in the end their place of sacrifice is near the Ancient House .

It must, in the near future, resolve the significant challenges of organizing the elections and promoting mutual understanding among the various factions of Iraqi society.

It is sad to note that European leaders sometimes adopt such narrow positions, too, responding to the short term demands of electoral politics instead of facing the challenges of long term strategic thinking.

But, in the near term, what they promise is primarily tax cuts their entire practical program is front loaded in that direction.