The Myth of Rising Protectionism

Secondly, declining funding worsened the progress.

Immigration exacerbates both aspects of the problem.

The human effects and the conditions for retaining flood waters are getting worse and worse.

Privatization will only make matters worse.

This approach has ended up exacerbating the segregation of the poor.

These economic hardships are deepened by social tension.

World War II further aggravated the situation.

The collapse of state institutions exacerbates the conflict's impact.

An economic slowdown will exacerbate all our financial problems.

The persistent specter of climate change only compounds public anxiety.

As a result, they risk aggravating the potential challenges.

But fiscal stimulus merely aggravated the problem.

It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.

That will exacerbate the banking crisis.

The resulting supply constraints exacerbated inflation.

The situation was exacerbated by the economic downturn after 2008.

The result has been disastrous, as ethnic rivalries sharpened.

The economic crisis has exacerbated the perceived downside of globalization.

In doing so, they dramatically increased their financial vulnerability.

Other problems have gone unaddressed and some have worsened.

America s position is further weakened in the absence of a strong and united European response.

In fact, the regional security climate has worsened in recent years.

Other factors are likely to aggravate the situation.

Instead, an imperfect answer produced heightened vulnerability.

Fossil fuel and water subsidies have contributed to both problems.

The result, much like today, was merely to exacerbate market turbulence.

Since that time, however, the situation has in many cases only gotten worse.

Bailing in creditors will exacerbate these trends.

The more we pay, the more we seem to owe and the less we have.

This clearly raises the stakes.

Political indecision in some quarters is making matters worse.

Labor migration operated as a safety valve against even worse unemployment.

On the contrary, they make things worse.

There were no casualties, but the attack aggravated and deepened ethnic tensions.

If left unmitigated, these stresses will further exacerbate desertification.

High handedness will only aggravate their difficulties.

Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.

The ensuing losses will aggravate the financial turmoil and economic contraction.

And, throughout Latin America, the situation has only worsened since the 1990 s.

In some cases, good intentions may even aggravate the status quo.

Yet the treatment prescribed for this malady has compounded the problem.

As the statistical manipulation that attends uncertainty increases, confidence is eroded.

But the pattern of economic mismanagement, far from being reversed, has only become worse.

Indeed, local problems are likely to exacerbate regional tensioins.