Sentence examples for persistent imbalances from inspiring English sources

Because the adjustment mechanisms in the system were inadequate, a number of countries ran large and persistent imbalances in their international payments.

FRANKFURT — Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, argued Friday that currency undervaluation by China and other emerging markets was at the root of "persistent imbalances" in trade that "represent a growing financial and economic risk".

In their declaration they nonetheless strived to appear in the same frame.The leaders asked their technical advisors, including the IMF, to come up with "indicative guidelines" that would help to identify big and persistent imbalances.

Driving these persistent imbalances are what city officials portray as the hidden threat to the city's future fiscal health: the "nondiscretionary" costs, mostly for Medicaid, employee pensions and interest on municipal debt, that the mayor says are largely beyond his control.

"The international monetary system has a structural flaw: it lacks a mechanism, market based or otherwise, to induce needed adjustment by surplus countries, which can result in persistent imbalances," repeated Bernanke, making no reference to deficit countries, the other side of the imbalance.

We found that countries that started programs without treatment of all three conditions suffered from persistent imbalances in the treatment mix, even after the three conditions were eventually introduced.

Rapid growth and a persistent imbalance in China's trade with the United States have turned Chinese exports into obvious targets during an American election year.

What they found is a persistent imbalance between what the city gets and what it spends, a reality that has been hidden for years by one-shot revenue gimmicks, worth more than $500 million since 2004.

Moran's I global index of spatial autocorrelation and LISA cluster maps are used and a persistent imbalance is found between the littoral and the inland areas.

Wonder if any of this has anything to do with the extreme and deplorably persistent imbalance in gender representation in our media?

Experimental and clinical studies suggest that a persistent imbalance in the expression of Th2 versus Th1 cytokines in the lung represents an additional possible mechanism for the progression of pulmonary fibrosis.