As in Japan, such measures would enhance long run fiscal sustainability without weakening demand at a time when the economy has not yet fully recovered from the Great Recession.

All of the major emerging economies face weakening external demand, but India s slowdown has been exacerbated by a drop in investment that reflects a deeper loss of official direction and business confidence.

The Narrative Structure of Global Weakening

So any weakening of the EU in its foreign relations entails a corresponding weakening of the member states individual interests.

These processes demand a broader, far more comprehensive policy approach from Western countries. The approach must take into account the region s synergies and not pretend that the changes that are weakening these states are somehow unrelated.

Today, however, the catalytic power of Deng s initial changes has waned, with rising wages, weakening external demand, and increasing competition from other emerging economies indicating the exhaustion of a growth model premised on exports and investment.

In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

Second, and equally important, the extremist vote is weakening.

Since exports and investment account, respectively, for 30 and 40 of China s GDP growth, its economy is particularly vulnerable to weakening external demand and accumulation of non performing loans caused by excessive and wasteful spending on fixed assets.

Since mid 2007, expectations regarding long term sustainability have been weakening.

But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.

Empowering the Iranian people means weakening Khamenei and his military allies.

The regime has lost all legitimacy, and its effectiveness is weakening.

This worked for three decades, but now the link is weakening.

It recurved toward the southwest while gradually weakening for several days.

Not allowing the necessary consolidation is weakening credit markets, not strengthening them.

It is weakening the West s leading power and strengthening the West s enemies.

Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

In the last decade, Uribe s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.

Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy choices.

Merely weakening this loop, as European officials recently advocated, could prove deeply insufficient.

A5 2 was a deliberate weakening of the algorithm for certain export regions.

Investing in futures becomes both a hedge against a weakening dollar and an investment vehicle that could yield substantial profit, particularly in a climate of vanishing excess oil production capacity, increasing demand, declining interest rates, a slumping real estate market, and crisis in the banking industry.

But these mechanisms are weakening everywhere, and are virtually non existent in European countries.

Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.

Meanwhile, housing in the United States is weakening again the third large global risk.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

One strategy for weakening ties among potential evaders is to introduce various conflicts of interests.

In turn, this risks weakening both the government s fiscal position and the economy s external account.

Our animal spirits, to borrow a phrase made famous by John Maynard Keynes, are weakening.

Amid weakening competitiveness, the rupee was propped up by increasingly unstable foreign sources of funds.

Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.

Ms. Patten observed that the report referred to a weakening of labour unions in Turkey.

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies.

This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.

Indeed, weakening banking conditions are emerging as a major threat to the eurozone s recovery and stability.

America should not pin too much hope on a weakening dollar to correct its trade imbalances.

Sixth, QE can create moral hazard problems by weakening governments incentive to pursue needed economic reforms.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

With global growth weakening, net exports are unlikely to improve robustly, even with a weaker dollar.

The delegation of authority has resulted in procedures becoming progressively streamlined without weakening sound management policies.

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