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But it is also a problem when it is removed from wildlands that have adapted to it, because its absence can be as ecologically significant as its presence.
In the absence of better mechanisms for capital allocation, global growth in this century will slow down a lot sooner than it should.
Despite the absence of running water, heating, or any facilities to speak of, they were the privileged ones.
One needn’t accept this Machiavellian view to recognize that trying to cut back on the use of fossil fuels in the absence of practical alternatives is a recipe for economic stagnation.
Are we perhaps pursuing too mechanical an ideal which confuses the absence of privilege and disadvantage with the absence of diversity?
While the relative absence of Facebook-style mega-entrepreneurial successes in Europe is regularly bemoaned, the difficulties of opening hairdressers, basic retailers, and simple mail-order businesses may have an equally profound overall effect.
Outside of the eurozone, the strength of the United Kingdom’s recovery and the Bank of England’s soft forward guidance have led to similar “unwarranted” increases in interest rates, which the BoE, like the ECB, seems unable to prevent in the absence of more muscular action.
This semi-independence partly reflects the absence of linguistic motives in Scottish nationalism, unlike the Quebecois of Canada or Flemish nationalism in Belgium.
Consequently, entrepreneurship of this type--learning what can be produced--will typically be under-supplied in the absence of non-market incentives.
The absence of such outbursts of popular anger in Italy can be explained partly by the savings cushion built by previous generations.
Moderate Arab regimes will not dare to engage in an open and serious process of rapprochement with Israel in the absence of real progress over the Palestinian issue.
So, which is it going to be?Disregard the imminent democratic implosion of Nicaragua, and the absence of any type of democracy in Cuba?
In the absence of growth, Putin has relied on foreign policy to shore up his domestic popularity.
But such plans have not been realized, owing to the absence of a cooperative culture.
In 1979, the Friedmans could confidently claim that, in the absence of government-mandated discrimination (for example, the South’s segregationist Jim Crow laws), the market economy would produce a sufficiently egalitarian distribution of income.
The various European social models have thus been, on average, quite robust – most likely because of the absence of a master plan from Brussels on how to respond to globalization.
A trade agreement that prohibits such beggar-thy-neighbor policies can be useful to all countries, because, in its absence, they could all end up collectively worse off.
The evidence thus suggests that the share of reserves held in dollars would fall appreciably in the absence of this effect.
In the absence of effective regulation, financial integration has made the region vulnerable to a sudden and massive contraction of capital inflows.
With unemployment remaining near record lows, the lack of demand growth is simply dismissed, and the absence of inflation is taken as a sign of success.
In France, the debate has stalled altogether due to bitter distributive conflicts, deep division within the Left, and the Right's absence of an economic and social vision.
Is there evidence directly associating high performance - that is, high employment and high productivity - with the presence of institutions believed helpful to dynamism and the absence of those believed harmful?
Memory of tissue injury rather than new messages of injury might contribute to the formation of pain, and in this way the brain might continuously create pain in the absence of its original cause.
In the absence of this, it is assumed that free economic migration within the EU will produce little net movement of populations.
The problem is that the absence of reliable data can make the need to protect a species seem more abstract and less urgent, weakening governments’ capacity to resist other, more immediate demands, especially the need to protect relevant livelihoods.
But resistance has arisen and will surely increase, so that in the absence of a vaccine, elimination of the mosquitoes that spread the disease is the key to preventing epidemics.
With a notable absence of fanfare, in May 2009 the WHO, together with the UN Environment Program, reverted to endorsing less effective methods for preventing malaria, announcing that their goal is “to achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT worldwide by 2014 and its total phase-out by the early 2020s, if not sooner.”
In the absence of effective vaccines or new anti-malarial drugs – and the funding and infrastructure to deliver them – this decision is tantamount to mass murder, a triumph of radical environmental politics over public health.
The “new classical economics,” as it became known, taught that, in the absence of egregious government interference, economies would gravitate naturally to full employment, greater innovation, and higher growth rates.
History teaches that global economic order is difficult to establish and maintain in the absence of a dominant economic power.
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