Systematic corruption is eroding confidence in the democratic process and donor support.

There is a sense among young people that the quality of public education is gradually eroding in some parts of the world.

This site was bare and eroding for over 30 years regardless of what rain we got.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere by a combination of forces that can be summarized by the acronym HIPPO, the animal hippo.

An increase in fiscal deficits and public debt places negative pressure on financial systems and growth prospects, eroding country creditworthiness.

Nonetheless, warnings that the Atlantic partnership is eroding are unduly dire. Tellingly, US President Barack Obama s administration has replaced the term pivot, which implies a turn away from something, with rebalancing.

The Secretariat needs to urgently address eroding public confidence through timely implementation of the proposals for improvement in its management and oversight.

In reality, all these explanations are largely complementary none is in contradiction with the others. But the most important cause, the one that should be addressed before all others because it is eroding Israel s very viability, is the near paralysis of the political system.

The most likely explanation for this public investment shortfall is fiscal constraints. And, indeed, debt and unfunded non debt liabilities increasingly weigh down public sector balance sheets and pension funds, eroding the foundations of resilient, sustainable growth.

Furthermore, the decline in the working age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country s economic competitiveness. Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor shortages have appeared.

That is why the work of the International Labor Organization, which was established in 1919, is still relevant today. In a world of increasingly automated workplaces and eroding employee employer relationships, the values encoded in the ILO s labor standards are more necessary than ever.

This was another site where it had been bare and eroding, and at the base of the marked small tree, we had lost over 30 centimeters of soil. Okay?

In 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

To make any progress, however, the concerns of current and future host countries would have to be identified and assuaged without eroding the protections offered to United Nations and associated personnel.

Back then, China bought US Treasury bonds to keep the currency from rising and eroding the competitiveness of Chinese exporters. As a result, it accumulated an astounding 4 trillion of foreign reserves.

Debts and debt servicing, regrettably, are steadily eroding the financial base of these countries, systematically preventing them from providing, and their citizens enjoying, the basic rights contained in the human rights instruments.

Mexico City s middle class residents who wield disproportionate influence countrywide are also incensed, both at the teachers for disrupting their lives and at the federal and local authorities for failing to restore order. Against this background, the credibility of Mexico s political institutions is rapidly eroding.

Although the disadvantages of radical incentive plans were increasing, such as long term low interest rates eroding the profits of financial institutions, the low inflation forced the Bank of Japan to maintain the plan.

Emerging market economies delivered solid growth during the 2000 s, and even survived the global financial crisis without a growth collapse. But the specter of rising corruption is compromising the legitimacy of their economic gains and eroding support for further reforms needed to sustain their growth momentum.

For China, this was the status quo that Japan upended in September. In Beijing recently, Chinese analysts told me that they believe that Japan is entering a period of right wing militaristic nationalism, and that purchasing the islands was a deliberate effort to begin eroding the post WWII settlement.

It collapsed on May 8, 1945, and was replaced by a system based on mutual trust, solidarity, the rule of law, and compromise. But, with the crisis eroding these foundations, trust is giving way to mistrust, solidarity is succumbing to ancient prejudices (and even new hatred between the poor south and the rich north), and compromise is being overwhelmed by diktat.

The regional and multilateral dimensions are similarly inadequate. The absence of well articulated common analyses and policy coordination has accentuated legitimacy deficits, encouraging leaders and publics to opt for partial narratives and eroding confidence in existing institutional structures.

The expansion of Israeli settlements and confiscation of land by the occupying Power had continued unabated, crippling restrictions on movement and the eroding social infrastructure had led to a deterioration in living conditions and the dismemberment of families.

This uncertainty extends beyond countries and regions. Those looking around the next corner also worry about the stability of an international economic order in which the difficulties faced by the system s Western core are gradually eroding global public goods.

To jump start progress, all NPT signatories should re affirm that the Treaty's provisions are mutually reinforcing and must be pursued jointly and faithfully. The most dangerous force eroding the Treaty's credibility is the inclination of some nuclear weapon states to reinterpret at will the package of agreements reached in the past.

And, I think, if we look around the world, as well as the polar ice caps melting, human rights, which have been fought for, for many hundreds of years in some cases, are, also, eroding very fast, and that is something that we need to take a look at and, maybe, start campaigning for.

With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago. Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia s external influence in this region remains enormous.

The globalized economy affects every state, yet no single state can determine the outcomes, because science and technology are borderless. Global companies wish to do business worldwide, eroding not just sovereignty, but also racism and prejudice, as well as significantly weakening nationalism.

Democrats respond that such a one sided approach would be economically harmful and socially unjust. In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America s global credit standing.

Perhaps spurred by the recent appreciation of the dollar and the first signs that it is eroding net exports, congressional Democrats and Republicans are once again considering legislation to counter what they view as unfair currency undervaluation. The proposed measures include countervailing duties against imports from offending countries, even though this would conflict with international trade rules.

Indeed, the second conclusion to be drawn from the US government shutdown is the virtual disappearance of American triumphalism. Chest thumping exceptionalism has given way to a more sober patriotism, in which ordinary citizens recognize the long term trends eroding the promise of equal opportunity, particularly the shortcomings that beset the country s health care, education, and infrastructure systems.

The cost of this election cycle surpassed 2 billion all to reproduce the status quo the same president, and the same balance of power in the US Congress. Money has become a corrosive agent that is eroding and redefining the democratic process, with the mobilization of personal energies giving way to the enlargement of campaign budgets.

The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean. These wars are inflicting heavy punishment on precisely those peoples who have held fully free and fair elections in the region, while eroding the legitimacy of Israel s democracy.

On one side is the danger that today s alarmism will prove self fulfilling that trade officials and investors will turn the doomsday scenario into reality by panicking. On the other side is the danger that a completed development round will fail to live up to the high expectations that it has spawned, further eroding the legitimacy of global trade rules over the longer run.

International inaction on Syria is bad news not only for the country s people it is also eroding the legitimacy of one of the world s most important multilateral institutions. Given that the issues of Iran and Syria are closely connected, internal division among the Security Council s five permanent members (the US, China, Britain, France, and Russia) could be extremely damaging to the search for a solution to Iran s nuclear enrichment drive.

It cannot, however, be achieved through the back door, by eroding members fiscal policy sovereignty. Attempting to compel transfer payments would generate moral hazard on the part of the recipients and resistance from the donors, with the resulting increase in tensions possibly jeopardizing the integration that has been achieved so far.

First, prolonged unemployment destroys not just current but also potential output by eroding the human capital of the unemployed. Second, austerity policies have hit those at the bottom of the income distribution far more severely than those at the top, simply because those at the top rely much less on government services.

The same process appears to be playing out, albeit at a slower pace, in Iraq, amid an ongoing struggle to unite two ethnicities, Arabs and Kurds, as well as adherents of Sunni and Shia Islam, into a single nation state. Central authority is gradually eroding as the country continues to splinter into ethnic and sectarian regions, with a de facto Kurdish sovereign state already well established in the north.

Could the restoration of America s international reputation turn out to be bad for Europe, by eroding its new monopoly on representing Western values and calling it back to its hard power duties? Could it be that a candidate of fear McCain or, increasingly, Clinton really serves Europe s interests better than a candidate of hope?

But this experience also underscores the impotence of monetary policy in a deflationary environment, owing to the unwillingness of banks to lend and of enterprises to borrow. The fact that loss making enterprises were allowed to churn out cheap products, eroding the profitability of high quality enterprises (and thus their incentive to invest), prolonged the deflation.

Just as inflation helps debtors by eroding the real value of their debts, deflation hurts them by increasing the real value of what they owe. While the very modest extent of current deflation does not create a significant problem, if it continues, the price level could conceivably fall by a cumulative 10 over the next few years.

STANFORD A successful society needs effective, affordable government to perform its necessary functions well, and that includes sufficient revenue to fund those functions. But a government that grows too large, centralized, bureaucratic, and expensive substantially impairs the private economy by eroding individual initiative and responsibility crowding out private investment, consumption, and charity and damaging incentives with high tax rates.

Why, for example, does the world pursue a paradigm of economic growth that rests upon eroding the very basis of earth s life support systems? Can wealth be redefined and reframed to include access to basic goods and services, including those provided by nature free of cost, such as clean air, a stable climate, and fresh water?

On April 26, 2007, the entire network of governance professionals in the Bank wrote in an open letter to the Board and the President that the leadership crisis was eroding the Bank s credibility and hampering implementation of this vital agenda. Now, the resolution of the crisis has reassured many that the Bank can practice what it preaches.

In these circumstances, given Russia s continuing failure to meet the G 8 s political and economic standards, the upcoming summit in St. Petersburg could produce a backlash, eroding the legitimacy, credibility, and relevance of the world s most developed countries. Indeed, Russia and the world may well see in the summit the G 8 s silent approval of Putin s domestic and foreign policies.