But now Europe s anchor has become a brake, hindering forward movement.

Instability in the Middle East will continue to limit oil supplies, discouraging the expansion of production.

And inequality has reached outrageous levels, preventing society from uniting behind essential reforms.

All aggressively promoted investment and exports while discouraging (or remaining agnostic about) imports.

Male dominance in the marketplace works like a cartel, barring talented women from top jobs.

Private capital flows have exploded since, dwarfing trade in goods and services.

Meanwhile, problematic demand side policies are also in crisis, impeding the deployment of existing renewable energy technologies.

Third, some species of bacteria can inhibit the ability of phagocytes to travel to the site of infection by interfering with chemotaxis.

And green taxes such as on carbon emissions would shift consumption patterns while discouraging energy intensive exports.

The weak and diluted EU Takeover Directive, adopted after more than a decade of debate, fails to facilitate the cross border mergers within Europe that are needed to build world champions. And company based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.

If that country had its own currency, the exchange rate would decline, benefiting exports and impeding imports.

As a result, interest rates would have remained high for a long time to come, impeding efforts to restore growth.

And company based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate flexibility by locking in labor.

He also isolated Turkmenistan from the outside world, forbidding access to the Internet and discouraging international travel.

Thus, the Fed s withdrawal from QE would be accompanied by a capital flow reversal, increasing borrowing costs and hampering GDP growth.

Over the next two decades, the state increasingly impeded Harvard s functioning by, for example, refusing to release funds and obstructing the appointment of professors.

Twenty years of such shortsighted policies, whatever the party in power, have fueled government debt, hindering private investment.

I use my free speech rights responsibly without hindering other peoples rights and I want to practice it everywhere.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

And this is true in many other European countries and industries, where the structure of regulations protects suppliers more than consumers, hampering innovation.

Of course, crime, terrorism, conflict, and political instability severe enough to cause a total breakdown of law and order significantly impede creativity and innovation.

A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and risky energy exploration activities by making them unprofitable.

Oil revenues enable them to bribe the population to remain politically passive, while discouraging the creation of the kind of free market system that breeds democracy.

This is an excellent proposal that would go a long way in reducing the interconnectedness of markets, thereby preventing financial contagion, but it would not regulate derivatives.

Because supplies of donated medicines can be unpredictable, they can create chaos in the market by preventing accurate quantification of needs and thus affecting planning.

But New Deal economic policies, by expanding the role of the state in an often chaotic and unpredictable fashion, probably also played a role in at least temporarily impeding productivity growth.

In my view, this would address the concerns about SWFs, while not generally impeding investment because it would apply only in a very few cases.

Such an approach would be less predictable and eliminate forward guidance, thereby discouraging excessive risk taking and reducing moral hazard.

Such an approach should seek to protect economies from the destabilizing impacts of politically motivated policy changes, without impeding governments ability to correct dangerous imbalances.

Indeed, a sustained decline in oil prices would not only make renewable energy sources less competitive now it would impede their future competitiveness by discouraging research and investment.

But Sarkozy's bailout of Alstom a company regarded as a national champion had all the hallmarks of the old dirigisme , calling for the government to take a bigger stake while ruling out a strategic partnership with Germany's Siemens.

Instead, it could be expected to retaliate by attacking US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, unleashing terrorist attacks throughout the region and the world, and interrupting the flow of tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

These same Republicans also argued for government spending restraint while blocking the institutional changes to Congressional procedures needed to make spending restraint possible.

Convinced that the links between various illegal activities, including terrorism, and organized crime pose an additional threat to security and the quality of life, hindering economic and social development,

Yet French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, with the assistance of his counselor Jean Monnet, announced a plan for the ECSC in 1950, only five years after German troops had left Paris, with the aim of making war not only unthinkable but materially impossible. Schuman proposed putting Franco German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, thereby preventing the two sides from using the raw materials of war against each other, and powering a common industrial economy.

This would obviously pose a much more serious threat, but even an amorphous, disorganized, and nihilistic insurgency can survive and block stability, democratization, and prosperity for many years.

Investors have used ethical grounds in the past excluding, say, tobacco companies or corporations abetting apartheid in South Africa and have been successful in generating pressure on the underlying stocks.

The World Bank is like an old ship in its seven decades, all kinds of barnacles sticky budgetary accretions and transaction costs have accumulated on its hull, steadily impeding its speed and performance.

Schuman proposed putting Franco German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, thereby preventing the two sides from using the raw materials of war against each other, and powering a common industrial economy.

This has severely undermined the Chinese Communist Party s legitimacy, while hampering the kind of market based competition that China s economy needs to propel the country to high income status.

Allowing citizens to choose how to donate may help to tackle corruption in countries where politicians often misappropriate ODA, while discouraging wasteful or impractical projects.

They don t, and won t, because they will strongly influence at least what is written down and circulated, thereby inhibiting the free exchange of information within government.

For your own reasons that have nothing to do with our struggle, you encourage the extremism of Hamas, thus provoking Israel s violent reaction, aggravating our suffering, and pushing back the solution that we all want.

Moreover, he considers three invoices rubber stamped by the Revenue Office to be fraudulent and part of an attempt to reduce the total amount of the funds in question, thereby precluding any charges being laid against the princess for tax fraud.