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Solutions start at home, which is why developing countries need to begin moving away from conditional aid that restricts health providers’
ability
to work in accordance with local laws.
Even the International Monetary Fund’s forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government’s
ability
to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.
But the impact has been limited, owing to the authorities’
ability
to stuff debt down the throats of captive local banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.
Germany, which has loudly demanded that Greece keep its promises to the EU, is now standing in the way of NATO members’
ability
to meet their commitments to collective defense.
Trade barriers erected by foreign governments reduce the
ability
of US firms to obtain the real income benefits from exporting products made in America.
The larger party has limited
ability
to disarm or destroy the enemy, occupy territory, or use counterforce strategies effectively.
But the EU lacks a coherent strategy for engaging with China, and its ongoing identity crisis over whether it is a single super-state or a bloc of individual states is impeding its
ability
to define a more effective approach.
Furthermore, the EU’s refusal to accept any trade-off on values like the rule of law is impeding its
ability
to become a more pragmatic negotiator.
The answer will depend on developing economies’
ability
to find and tap new, more advanced sources of growth.
What is extraordinary here are not the protests per se, but the sheer
ability
to gather and mobilize so many diverse groups into one giant anti-everything-that-is-wrong-in-the-world howl.
The New Economy may be wonderful for economic performance, but it imposes adjustment, pace of change and strain on many people which appear to be out of proportion to their
ability
to cope.
The
ability
to organize via the Web is mind boggling.
Their
ability
to do so confirms that Iran is not a closed totalitarian state like North Korea.
For example: the seller of a car may know more about his car than the buyer; the buyer of insurance may know more about his prospects of having an accident (such as how he drives) than the seller; a worker may know more about his
ability
than a prospective employer; a borrower may know more about his prospects for repaying a loan than the lender.
From the outset, even before we develop the
ability
to use spoken language, nonverbal communication drastically shapes our personality and sense of self.
At the same time, high oil prices boosted Iran’s
ability
to bankroll its new proxies.
But ratings agencies and analysts who misjudged the repayment
ability
of debtors – including governments – have gotten off too lightly.
Moreover, ratings agencies lack the tools to track consistently vital factors such as changes in social inclusion, the country’s
ability
to innovate, and private-sector balance-sheet risk.
The political economy of California’s budget has taken the progressive tax-and-spend experiment to the breaking point, threatening the state’s
ability
to fund basic services, from prisons and parks to education and health care, even those aimed at helping its most vulnerable citizens.
More fundamentally, Germany has benefited from the extraordinary culture of consensus that it developed in the post-World War II period, with social partners and political parties showing a remarkable
ability
to compromise.
Iran says that it seeks no more than its own
ability
to produce nuclear power.
Have Western democracies lost their self-confidence and their
ability
to deliver a better life for their citizens?
NGO's do not have coercive "hard" power, but they often enjoy considerable "soft" power - the
ability
to get the outcomes they want through attraction rather than compulsion.
Big banks’
ability
to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat: the financial sector – and with it the economy’s payment system – would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.
This impedes their participation in the global economy by restricting their
ability
to buy goods and services, to borrow and save, or to invest in their future and that of their community and country.
This undermines consumers’ faith in firms’ willingness or
ability
to guarantee their privacy, while making it difficult for companies to claim the moral high ground when, say, China’s government restricts their domestic operations.
Zuma is legendary for his
ability
to connect with ordinary people.
Regional administrations also possess their own instruments of obstruction, including propaganda outlets in the regional media, as well as the
ability
to manipulate ballot papers.
Their
ability
to defy the president may be aided by the fact that the Kremlin is failing to recognize the potential of their challenge.
Reading Friedman and Schwartz will remind them that it is better to head off a crisis than it is to rely on one’s
ability
to end it.
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