Slowing growth and rising unemployment would probably foster unrest in both countries.
The national Election Commission has backed the opposition's call for postponement of the vote, fearing the Democrat Party's promise to boycott would mean the poll would lack legitimacy and foster further unrest.
However, the export-led economic expansion also widened the gap between rich and poor, fostering social unrest.
But it could exploit any further unrest.
The arrests provoked further unrest.
It has unparalleled economic power to attack the root causes of terrorism and unrest by fostering human development, regulating the arms flow to terrorists and dictators, and pursuing the dream of a world without nuclear weapons.
He cited not only the rise in drug-related violence, but also a broader atmosphere of crime and unrest fostered by the killing of police officers by black militants and the protest movement that was growing against the war in Vietnam.
Top economists, like Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, and Thomas Piketty, have all argued that acute income inequality leads to declines in consumer demand and investment, job creation, and tax revenue--and fosters social unrest and personal tragedy.
A lack of good jobs and poor working conditions, and the resulting inequality, fosters social unrest, political instability and insecurity that can destabilize governments and create an uncertain business environment.
But the closing of Karroubi's newspaper was part of a wide-ranging censorship drive, in which numerous other publications, including political, economic, and cultural journals, were suspended or banned for such transgressions as provoking "unrest and chaos" and fostering a "creeping coup".
