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Along with a chronic economic crisis, Europe now has an acute political crisis.
With high levels of inequality already disrupting politics in many countries, the risks of creating a vicious cycle of poverty and poor health are all the more acute.
True, almost all regions of the world are currently experiencing an increase in the prevalence of NCDs – in part because, as deaths from acute infectious diseases and injuries decline, people live long enough to develop these diseases.
People living with a chronic disease may die not only from that disease, but also from other causes – including other NCDs, acute infections, and injuries.
These measures would be sufficient to calm markets and bring the acute phase of the crisis to an end.
Prevention will be critical, though, after 60 years of confronting NCDs in advanced countries, it is clear that acute interventions tend to attract more support.
Until recently, this failing did not pose an acute problem, because dictatorial regimes in the Middle East and Africa controlled the migratory pressure resulting from wars and failing economies.
And now, in the wake of Palestine’s resoundingly successful bid for observer-state status at the United Nations, Israel’s conundrum has become particularly acute.
In Camden, New Jersey, Jeffrey Brenner, a family doctor, has pioneered strategies to reduce hospital stays by “super-utilizers,” a small share of Medicaid patients who are frequently admitted for expensive acute care.
Such differences are particularly acute for middle-ranking castes, which are now called OBC’s, and are observed in all parts of India.
The conflict between democracy and globalization becomes acute when globalization restricts the domestic articulation of policy preferences without a compensating expansion of democratic space at the regional/global level.
As China’s reliance on Middle East energy resources grows – 90% of the region’s oil exports will go to Asia by 2035 – the need to deepen engagement with oil-producing states will become more acute.
These concerns remain acute, even in the aftermath of the decision by the Czech Constitutional Court on November 26 that the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the Czech constitution and can be ratified in the normal way by the Czech Parliament.
The risks implied by Trump’s worldview are particularly acute in today’s fast-changing world.
Future-of-work debates often overlook the question of how the labor market will evolve and either improve or exacerbate the skills mismatch that is already acute in developed countries.
After the Cold War ended, self-determination became an acute issue in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The problem is acute in Britain, not only because of our current troop deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also because of the unfair systems by which NATO-led missions and military operations under the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) are financed.
As a result, these countries experienced a resurgence in vaccine-preventable diseases, malaria, maternal and child deaths, and acute malnutrition.
Indeed, the experience of the eurozone suggests that while concerted fiscal stimulus can make a difference during an acute recession, withdrawing that stimulus when it is no longer vital is preferable to maintaining it indefinitely.
But the headline figure masks a level of inequality that is particularly acute.
When economic problems once again became particularly acute, the country’s leadership embraced a radical approach to achieving price stability.
Katju attributes the talks’ inevitable resumption to America’s “strategic desperation,” which is so acute that the US would be unlikely even to follow through on Kerry’s pledge to call off the talks if any link to Al Qaeda were found.
A determined EU effort to counter Arab fragmentation and tackle problems ranging from acute water scarcity to poor education would pay rich dividends.
Rather, it is a by-product of its own acute fears of regime collapse.
Development Zones for Syrian RefugeesPRINCETON – The Syrian refugee crisis confronts the European Union with an acute dilemma.
Malaise has grown ever more acute after many Bolivian political leaders and their supporters, worn down by the regional crisis of the 1990's, expressed doubts over the modernization process.
Mali, Chad, Niger, the Central African Republic, Somalia, Kenya, and even Ethiopia have all suffered or face acute anxieties about the spread of extremism.
To prevent fraud, an acute problem in the past, the new law established a “right of rescission,” whereby the receiver can ask courts to rescind any action by a debtor that involves fraud, evasion, or unfair liquidation in the prescribed period before a bankruptcy petition is accepted and assets recovered.
Everywhere, long-term unemployment became acute.
The late Chicago-school economist George Stigler would have described the IMF’s role in Europe as reflecting acute “regulatory capture.”
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