It is important to keep enterprises alive as going concerns, in order to preserve jobs and growth.

Of course, some of the better managed emerging market economies will continue to experience rapid growth and asset outperformance.

In such cases, war, as the Egyptians showed in 1973, might still serve as an avenue to resolving a conflict.

Public institutions are likely to remain only partially able to finance and implement large scale social assistance programmes in the near term.

Japan s high tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world s second largest exporter. It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.

But it remains questionable whether the region s new faces can end the old patterns of mismanagement and abuse.

When these two accounting standards diverge, the popular standard must prevail if democracy is to survive.

While the US remains the world s most powerful single country, it cannot maintain, much less expand, international peace and prosperity on its own.

In decades to come, China can no longer sustain the cost advantages that defined its initial period of export success.

Yesterday s treaties, particularly those with the United States and Israel, will no longer inspire the same type of confidence they have long had as instruments of state policy.

In order to remain a country that punches above its weight diplomatically, it is in France s interest to operate through international organizations rather than to rely on bilateral relationships.

While some of France s largest companies like Michelin, LVMH, and Air Liquide remain successful, they cannot offset the economy s lack of a solid base of small and medium size enterprises.

Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system, unable to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.

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.

This suggests that taxpayer assets will no longer back government debt, at which point confidence in the JGB market is likely to shatter.

Other countries cannot simply copy these achievements but they can still learn the main lesson that is too often forgotten in a world of stimulus, bubbles, and short term thinking.

But, unless Greece is able to increase its rate of economic growth, the budget will remain in deficit and the debt will remain at nearly its current share of GDP.

India s political system is built on the idea that even a country with profound differences of caste, creed, color, and culture can still rally around a democratic consensus.

Many local Spanish banks can thus stay afloat only because they refinance a large share of their mortgage book via the European Central Bank.

As a result, whenever they do hire staff in Europe or North America, they often need to be able to fire them quickly and keep costs as low as possible, to remain competitive.

The fear is that so long as Iran maintains residual nuclear capacity even for civilian use it could develop atomic arms that would threaten Israel.

Thus, even modest portfolio shifts can still lead to big price swings, perhaps even more so when traders are off on their August vacations.

They are convinced that, even if Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime falls, Iran will be able to destabilize the country in such a way that would pose a major security threat to Israel.

The Security Council s permanent members thus remain legibus soluti , i.e., sovereign in the seventeenth century sense of the word, meaning able to do evil with impunity.

Moreover, Asia remains a continent defined by balance of power diplomacy, border conflicts, and historic mistrust, with no multilateral security structures to soften regional tensions.

It was able but only it was able to organize health care, education, policing, justice.

The US will remain the most powerful country in 2020, but, paradoxically, the strongest state since the days of Rome will be unable to protect its citizens acting alone.

Such a war will always be without rules, always a total war.

But, while there is much to celebrate, questions remain about whether the IAEA can increase its capacity both to combat proliferation and promote nuclear power plant safety.

But risks remain.

But that information remains hidden.

It is important to keep enterprises alive as going concerns, in order to preserve jobs and growth. But it is also important to keep families and communities intact.

But growth prospects remain grim.

But practical challenges remain.

Nonetheless, three major problems remain.

But outside help is essential.

But questions remain.

But differences will remain.

Major challenges remain.

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The picture is mixed.

However, his conviction stands.

While the majority of family remittances will always be used to meet immediate needs, IFAD s experience shows that rural families would seize opportunities to save and invest, even small amounts, if they had better options.

She's apt to forget her promise.

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