"The main medium-term risk for advanced economies is a further decline of already-low growth into near stagnation, particularly if global demand falters further as prospects weaken for emerging market and developing economies," the WEO said.
The real medium-term risk for Mr Brown is subtler, and perhaps even less soluble.It is that his Scottishness will reinforce the view that, even more than most politicians, Mr Brown is a sort of intellectual Martian.
A Merrill Lynch oil analyst said last summer that Hamburg-born Lord Browne's impending retirement was a "potential medium-term risk for shareholders," reflecting growing jitters in the City over BP's prospects once the Cambridge University and Stanford Business School-educated executive leaves the helm.
In summary, we have demonstrated for the first time the prognostic utility of a single 7-week hs-TnT measurement in routine ACS patients which helps refine medium term risk stratification and medium term treatment strategies in this patient cohort.
For the first time, they also signaled that further "unwelcome" declines in inflation were a greater immediate concern than the medium-term risk of faster growth leading to accelerating inflation.
However some fine tuning would allow to better balance medium term risks and long term goals.
Several studies prove that DSE is a useful tool for short- to medium-term risk stratification of diabetic patients.
"This will be immediately beneficial for our experts, but the medium-term risk is this sees inflation imported with the rising cost of goods and services from abroad," Griffiths explained.
Reflecting that medium-term risk, Ireland's two-year and five-year paper are yielding around 12percentt, more than its 10-year bonds on the secondary market.
"The near-term growth outlook has firmed but at the cost of higher medium-term risks.
"Portugal's relatively weak economic performance poses one of the main medium-term risks".
