The populations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Estonia are aging and declining just as quickly as the populations of Spain or Italy.

Water Risk on the Rise

And matters may be even worse.

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And it will get worse.

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And the problems of Pakistan fester next door.

These paralyzing factors could intensify in the years ahead.

Small states nervousness and fear began to increase roughly in 2000.

Time is short, since global problems are mounting rapidly.

The question now is how bad that distress will become.

Blinder is absolutely right that the problem could get worse.

As a result, the economy may worsen and political instability increase.

Without a commitment to a free press and an independent judiciary, these difficulties will only intensify.

Longer term energy security risks are also set to grow.

If these problems go unattended, destabilization will undoubtedly grow.

Moreover, it is likely to worsen in the years ahead.

The potential for a conflict of interest would worsen if Europe were to face another crisis.

Supply control will bring more stability to the region, whose already significant problems are exacerbated by narco trafficking.

So, as manufacturing starts to allow more design options, this problem gets exacerbated, of the whole and the parts.

Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons are likely to increase. Flooding in Europe is likely to intensify, a process that may already have begun.

Ethnic and inter communal tensions are exacerbated by media campaigns against segments of the population.

How much worse can things get before the EU abandons its counter productive policy?

But it would be most imprudent to assume that the turning point is right now, and that things are as bad as they will get.

The concurrent growth of the tourism industry and local populations means this problem will certainly increase.

And here's a map of that condition, showing the contaminants in yellow and green, exacerbated by this new flow of storm surge and sea level rise.

It would be unfortunate if the finance ministers merely sit around and beg Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank head Jean Claude Trichet to rescue them with rate cuts.

The best guideline is to not permit disagreements to spill over and complicate or infect the relationship.

Once a verdict is reached in Dokubu s trial, probably this summer, violence is expected to intensify.

For all of these reasons, India and China are experiencing serious water crises that are likely to intensify in the future.

Differences in health outcomes are exacerbated further by women s tendency to use health care services more than men.

If the world continues on its current course, labor market imbalances will worsen significantly in the coming years.

There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America s huge overseas borrowing.

Like the US, Europe s manpower related difficulties are accentuated by the rise of India and China.

Malaria and dengue are diseases that are difficult to control, and the dimensions of the HIV AIDS epidemic are expanding daily.

All of this calls for courageous and visionary economic leadership otherwise, our problems will fester and grow, and the solutions will become even more complex.

The distortionary effects of a wealth levy would also be exacerbated by concerns that the temporary levy would not be a one off tax.

By contrast, if global populations continue to rise rapidly, the stresses on the world's resources will worsen.

Regional and religious tensions had been growing since Houphouet s death and were aggravated by the new constitution, which enshrined ethnic discrimination.

But, while we focus on immediate concerns, they continue to fester, and we overlook them at our peril.

At the same time, in Africa and Central Asia, water will become more scarce, and drought will reduce food supplies.

The alternative is a vicious circle of violence and poverty, exacerbated by rapid population growth.

Violent conflict is fed and its effects worsened by massive sales of arms by Western governments to developing countries.

Matters may become even worse in the future, because so called vulture funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.

India called upon Israel to show restraint and do nothing to aggravate the humanitarian and economic plight of the Palestinian people.