Tom tried to prop Mary up with pillows.

In addition, it takes the heat off an undervalued currency as a prop to export growth, giving China considerable leeway to step up the pace of currency reforms.

China s national interest does not require it to prop up the Burmese junta forever.

Above all, the G 20 s decision to prop up systemically relevant banks must be revisited.

Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption.

In the meantime, no one can predict the ends to which Putin will go to prop up his presidency.

Europe, too, will get a bloody nose if it keeps trying to artificially prop up asset prices in the periphery.

In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them.

To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

Initially, the term was used to express the opinion that the Working Group was being used to prop up the markets during downturns.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy.

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.

True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion. But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate balance between private and public sector expansion that has underpinned China s expansion so far.

Cleaning Up Economic Growth

Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.

Do people think it is easy for a 12 trillion dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries reputations for stability?

One example of this was the attempt to prop up heavy industries using an import substitution strategy based on what I call the old structuralism, or Development Thinking 1.0 .

The army was also involved in numerous wars to pacify the borders, or to prop up friendly governments, and thereby keep other, competitive, empires away from the British Empire's borders.

China is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.

Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.

As central bankers and finance ministers ponder how to intervene to prop up the dollar, they should also start thinking about what to do when the time comes to pull the plug.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

And so your body basically has lots and lots of mechanisms for fixing cancer, and we just have to prop those up in the right way and get them to do the job.

French troops have repeatedly intervened in Chad, Gabon, Zaire, Central Africa, Togo, and Côte d Ivoire to prop up and protect complacent, corrupt, undemocratic, and incompetent leaders, remove recalcitrant ones, or curb civil unrest.

But the illiberalism inherent in Russian imperialism is not limited to recent behavior, and, more disturbingly, it extends to the question of Georgia s territorial integrity, as Russian troops continue to prop up secessionist regions.

The federal government under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.

Nor have health indicators kept up with income growth.

Callaghan was told there were three possible outcomes a disastrous free fall in sterling, an internationally unacceptable siege economy, or a deal with key allies to prop up the pound while painful economic reforms were put in place.

Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.

Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender inclusiveness?

Climate change, population growth, and other factors are driving up the risks.

As economies open up, as countries do what they do best, competition and innovation drive up rates of growth.

That said, in the interplay of linkages making up a virtuous growth regime, capital accumulation seems to provide one important link from launching an industrial take off to sustaining catch up growth.

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

T hat has to subtract growth and could cause core inflation to pick up.

One key element in building up a structure for reconciliation must be economic growth.

In Syria a Sunni majority country where, incidentally, a Sunni Muslim caliphate, the Umayyads, once prospered Iran is spending billions of dollars to prop up President Bashar al Assad s regime, dominated by members of a minority Shia sect, the Alawites (historically known as Nusayris).

Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

The claimed increase in jobs has barely kept up with growth in the labor force.

Growth took off in China. The Chinese started catching up very quickly with the United States.

The third option is a pick up of growth in Europe, which would increase US exports.

Rather than owning up to the economic slowdown that current account deficits signal accepting a little less growth today for more sustainable growth in the future politicians and policymakers opt for risky growth gambits that ultimately backfire.

Its economic growth was faster than that of any economy in human history up to that time.

Even China is expected to slow down. Why not give up growth and enjoy what we have?

In principle, foreign demand, especially in high growth emerging markets, could make up some of the difference.