Indeed, without profound structural change, the favorable standard of living that underpins the Gulf states political stability is likely to erode.

First, in the past, short term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the expense of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources.

Its structural and thermal stability (i.e., it does not decompose at high temperatures) allows its use under a wide range of reaction conditions.

It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biological molecules could provide the structural stability needed to hold genetic information in cells.

Since then, Turkey has focused on financial stability and structural reforms, which have strengthened economic performance and made the country more resilient to shocks.

And there is a consensus that the EU s stability and prosperity requires completion of the single market and obligatory structural reforms for all 27 members.

Bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism represent the clearest example of this, with the fiscal compact now committing signatories to tight deficit targets and structural adjustment.

Political stability, structural reform, a growing economy, increasing average income and the adoption of new consumption patterns have characterized the Russian market and services in attracting FDI.

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To achieve economic growth, countries need at a minimum three things economic and financial stability, structural policies that help the private sector to flourish, and a supportive external environment.

The deterioration of economic conditions is casting doubt on their governments budgetary arithmetic, undermining political support for structural reform, and reopening seemingly closed questions about the stability of banking systems.

Structural factors included the governance and political stability within the country, the regulatory framework, the legal framework with respect to transparency, and clear enforcement of property rights and contract law.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

One, it is the lateral stability for the entire building it is a structural element. But its dimensions were designed not only for structure, but also for holding on every piece of glass.

Noting the progress made in those countries towards achieving macroeconomic and financial stability and economic growth in the course of structural reforms and the need to sustain those positive trends in the future,

As a result, the new generation of leaders cannot introduce drastic structural reforms, badly needed in several countries, in a way that jeopardizes macroeconomic stability without which none of their promises can be fulfilled.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

What is required is a two pronged approach that targets both problems simultaneously. The prevailing approach targeting debt through fiscal austerity and competitiveness through structural reform has produced unemployment levels that threaten social and political stability.

Finally, an inadequate understanding of structural inflation (the growth in prices for non tradable assets) has generated the false belief that China can maintain similar levels of inflation and exchange rate stability as the OECD economies.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

Structural analysis is often in terms of incompressible dynamic pressure, so that equivalent airspeed is a useful speed for structural testing.

EMU was designed to encourage structural reforms.

This structural shift has enormous practical significance.

This isn t for lack of structural reforms.

Consider stability.

The question, however, is not only one of money it is about whether Haiti s agony is to be addressed as just one more humanitarian crisis or as a structural problem of state building a long term quest for institutional stability and sustainable development.

Onto this fiercely contested terrain marches the United Kingdom s Independent banking Commission, set up last year by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, with a brief to examine possible structural reforms to the banking system aimed at safeguarding financial stability and competition.

In fact, where structural weaknesses are the source of problems, the Fund should still require structural adjustment as the price of its assistance.

Meanwhile, fears of structural decline pervade the country.

China s economic problems are more structural than cyclical.

Structural change does not automatically accelerate economic development.

Let us remember what structural unemployment looks like.

The main structural proteins are collagen and elastin.

(d) Structural elements (e.g., trustee, funds flow, timing)

Structural changes in the Palestinian economy 1995 2004

So, it's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

On floods and storm surges, he noted structural measures such as multipurpose cyclone centres, and non structural measures such as subsurface food and seed storage.

China s Stability Gambit

Engineering Financial Stability

Rising structural unemployment will reduce labor input and efficiency.