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The Unexamined CrisisCHICAGO – Three years have now passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
And, indeed, if unemployment pressure had become as acute today as it was in the 1990’s, the prolonged economic slowdown would undoubtedly have precipitated government intervention.
To be sure, this risk was more acute when a larger number of emerging-economy currencies were pegged to the US dollar, which meant that a significant shift in the dollar’s value would weaken other countries’ balance-of-payments position and erode their international reserves, thereby undermining their creditworthiness.
Although Iranian-Saudi enmity dates back many decades, it became acute after the 1979 Islamic Revolution when Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, began to spread his revolutionary brand of Shia Islam across the region.
Threats to territorial integrity, acute just three years ago, have been eliminated, though vestiges are being dealt with in an ugly way -- witness Chechnya.
But, as long as North Korea poses such an acute threat on the Korean Peninsula, China’s opposition to it is pointless – and highly destructive.
This challenge is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean, where many countries have achieved greater GDP per capita, but still face significant vulnerabilities and structural obstacles to long-term prosperity.
As a result, Asia now has two faces: a prosperous and growing middle class, and those who have yet to benefit from the region’s rapid economic development – and whose health and well-being is being adversely affected by acute problems like air and water pollution.
Even in developed countries, acute pesticide poisoning affects one in every 5,000 agricultural workers, and countless more employees are exposed to toxins on a daily basis.
These challenges are particularly acute for people in Sub-Saharan Africa, in remote island states, and in several landlocked countries.
Moreover, though emerging economies are also experiencing acute growth slowdowns, their share of the global economic pie will continue to grow.
The announcement alone would help Ukraine in its acute financial plight.Many of Europe’s leaders will meet this week at the Munich Security Conference.
The announcement alone would help Ukraine in its acute financial plight.
But the main reason C. auris represents such an acute threat is that treatment options are severely limited.
Poor and erratic rains have left 2.5 million people facing an ongoing food crisis; some 400,000 children live with acute malnutrition; food prices are rising; and dry wells have left communities dependent on expensive trucked water.
Brazil’s political legitimacy problem is particularly acute.
Ukraine’s election was shaped by an acute awareness of the risks facing the country.
The problem has become increasingly acute, because 60% of Iran’s population was born after 1979.
The issue is not severe and acute malnutrition, which hits populations suddenly, usually as a result of conflict.
Finally, the risk that fighting terrorism poses to civil liberties is especially acute in Africa, where institution building is still an ongoing process.
This division remains particularly acute in economic and social policy, though it also extends to other areas, like education policy (for example, extended education versus early specialization).
In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.
Originally intended to cut costs, the goal now is to provide more appropriate care for a new era, the premise being that long-term care for many diseases requires forms of medical organization that are different from those geared toward acute care.
Acute episodes and expensive hospitalization can be avoided by providing expert team support for patient self-care.
After 1989, the issue of self-determination became acute again in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
The same lack of security applies to delivering aid: on a recent visit to North Somalia to assess humanitarian needs, a team from the International Rescue Committee of which I was a part spent more time, effort, and funds on security issues than on inspecting wells and evaluating the need for latrines, although the lack of water and sanitation is acute.
Turkey is suffering acute challenges to its democratic institutions, as well as government pressure on the central bank.
Despite this acute awareness of the enduring impact of its own humiliations, China often fails to recognize how its own past actions might have spurred similar feelings in others.
Europe’s Clash of GenerationsLONDON – As Europe’s financial crisis goes from acute to chronic, the dispute over who will bear the costs of resolving it is fueling the emergence of a new generation of political movements.
Political revolutions rarely arise out of brief periods of acute crisis.
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