It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.

But such vulnerabilities are not confined to the manufacturing sector.

Restraining immigration leads to anaemic growth and harms employment.

Can Australia strongarm US tech giants into weakening their security standards?

Its strategic relevance, even in the transatlantic partnership, is destined to weaken further.

Nixon s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, was pursuing a brilliant strategy to weaken Communism by exploiting the Sino Soviet split.

If this leads to a weakening of the dollar, it would also have negative effects on trading partners.

All of the steps taken so far have resulted in more European integration, not less.

Combined with strong real exchange rate appreciation, this has led to a dramatic loss of competitiveness and weakening exports.

For the politics of Tanaka and Ozawa produced an enfeeblement of Japan s elected leaders in favor of behind the scenes party bosses.

Although President Obama has now delayed for some months when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must issue his report, the very concept of currency manipulation itself is flawed all governments take actions that directly or indirectly affect the exchange rate.

In that case, Turkey s membership would not, as European federalists argue, lead to a weaker Europe.

Reckless budget deficits can lead to a weak currency so can low interest rates.

We also risk creating competing structures that will weaken the institutions as a whole.

The Ottomans won by a small margin, ultimately securing control over Iraq. But the protracted conflict contributed to the decline of both empires and devastated Iraq, leaving behind a deep sectarian cleavage.

But the protracted conflict contributed to the decline of both empires and devastated Iraq, leaving behind a deep sectarian cleavage.

Likewise, efforts to weaken Iran's disruptive influence in the region must be maintained, while Turkey's regional ambitions must be kept in mind.

Forcibly creating a market for Indian automobile parts eases pressure on these manufacturers to improve quality.

Delaying EMU entry risks weakening the incentive to complete these politically costly but necessary reforms.

Perhaps the administration worries that it cannot simultaneously beg for lower dollar oil prices and help promote a weaker dollar.

Emphasizing, in this context, the important role of development organizations in supporting national efforts to mitigate the consequences of natural disasters,

The pot could be further sweetened by offers to relax existing sanctions and provide a security guarantee if Iran remains non nuclear.

The boom, and the widespread conviction that home prices could only go higher, led to a weakening of lending standards.

Indeed, the Japanese believe that the halfhearted backing of US business groups for a new round of WTO talks reflects the success of the earlier sectoral agreements. So Japan now opposes negotiating a second ITA, which it fears will further weaken political support for broad trade liberalization.

That creed led to deregulation, globalization, and financial innovations based on the false assumption that markets tend towards equilibrium.ampnbsp

Emphasizing further, in this context, the important role of development organizations in supporting national efforts to mitigate the consequences of natural disasters,

In order not to be blown away, they have to accept the interference of bodies like the IMF with the resulting weakening of their own hold on power.

In West Africa or the Middle East, Central Asia or India, this, too, can contribute to abating clashes over water.

In the meantime, if the global economy continues to integrate, will the prospect of Asian unity be enhanced or hindered?

Last month, the Congress also moved to weaken the government s environmental oversight, claiming that this would add 1.5 3 to the economy s growth rate.

But this is the wrong way to go, for it might serve only to erode one of the few effective mechanisms in place to make multilateral agreements binding.

These resignations have sparked outrage from opposition bloggers who believe that the Kremlin is reneging on promises to loosen its grip on central power.

When it occurs, toxic stress can actually damage the architecture of the developing brain, leading to disrupted circuits and a weakened foundation for future learning and health.

The OMT program will cause credit conditions to ease, but without necessarily reversing the financial balkanization of the eurozone that has occurred over the last three years.

But Kan stumbled out of the gate by calling, during his first press conference, for a weaker yen a statement that drew an instant rebuke from Hatoyama.

The inflation may be severe, implying massive unjust redistributions and at least a temporary grave degradation in the price system s capacity to guide resource allocation.

QE raises equity prices lowers long term interest rates causes currencies to depreciate and eases credit crunches, even when interest rates are near zero.

16. Supports the efforts by the High Representative and the Commander of the multinational Stabilization Force to weaken the continued political and economic influence of remaining parallel structures obstructing peace implementation

While terrorism is fought in the name of democracy, the fight has in fact led to a distinct weakening of democracy, owing to official legislation and popular angst.

Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens.

As if that were not enough, the new law, in a reversal of previous legislation, could lead to reduced sentences for offenders, and even allow them to operate with impunity for three years.

Even China briefly allowed its currency to weaken against the dollar last year, and slowing output growth may tempt the government to let the renminbi weaken even more.

6. Commends the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat for its response, and underlines the urgent need for putting in place practical measures aimed at the alleviation of the consequences of the drought in Somalia

The minister of finance, Jun Azumi, called on the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which on Tuesday opened a two day meeting of its monetary policy council, to take every necessary step to weaken the yen.

Victor Vich's book, Symbolic Disobedience Performance, Participation, and Politics at the End of the Fujimori Dictatorship, offers an interesting analysis of the mobilization strategies in Peru that helped weaken the Fujimori regime during those years.