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In light of the current debt crisis roiling the eurozone, the
advantages
of a policy of inertia are easy to appreciate.
In such a context, the return of global realpolitik can only benefit Russia and harm the US, despite America’s many
advantages
in terms of hard and soft power.
Unfortunately, despite these advantages, mini-grid power in India and Sub-Saharan Africa remains underused.
In emerging economies, the private sector has some clear
advantages
over NGOs and the state, and this extends to schools.
Reprogenetics can be understood as an extension of parents' fundamental motivation and desire: to protect their children and give them all possible
advantages
in life.
Parents in affluent societies already provide environmental
advantages
to their children after birth; reprogenetics could allow them to pursue the same objectives before birth.
Of course, neither environmental nor genetic
advantages
guarantee healthier, happy, successful children.
If democratic societies allow people to spend money to buy environmental
advantages
for children, how can they prohibit parents from buying genetic
advantages?
Everyone is born with
advantages
or disadvantages across a whole range of physical characteristics as well as innate abilities.
So, in the future the critical question will be this: "Who decides how genetic
advantages
are distributed?"
Ultimately, hyper-human genetic enhancements will become feasible, too, and the economic and social
advantages
that wealthy countries maintain could be expanded into a genetic advantage.
China’s success in this arena points to the possible
advantages
of its heavy-handed system – a conclusion that makes many Western policymakers uncomfortable.
The “life course” approach combines multiple theories to contend that the unequal accumulation of social, psychological, and biological
advantages
or disadvantages over time, beginning in utero, produces health inequalities.
Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, projections based on GDP growth alone are one-dimensional and ignore US military and soft-power
advantages.
While North Korea does not have the agricultural base that initially spurred reforms in China and Vietnam, geographical
advantages
like natural seaports and rich mineral resources enable it to pursue export-led growth.
And, in these areas, France has real comparative
advantages.
In decades to come, China can no longer sustain the cost
advantages
that defined its initial period of export success.
Its workforce stands to suffer, slowly but surely, from erosion of its relative
advantages
in terms of wages and job security.
Despite the gravity of the situation, Hollande has three advantages: excessive austerity is unrealistic, given growing social opposition; public deficits are only a small part of Europe’s problems (and are not necessarily the source of the crisis); and a strong consensus has emerged outside of Germany to change tack.
Competition also puts an end to rent seeking and protection of traditional corporate
advantages.
Advocates of trade liberalization touted its advantages; but they were never fully honest about its risks, against which markets typically fail to provide adequate insurance.
Jobs were lost to China in the first half of the 2000’s, but in recent years – as Chinese wages (measured in dollars) rose quickly – the
advantages
of producing in Mexico reasserted themselves.
Indeed, small shops’
advantages
are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.
Indeed, urging us to sit in darkness will probably only make us realize how unlikely it is that we will ever be convinced to give up the
advantages
of fossil fuels.
Biomass, on the other hand, has several
advantages.
A UNESCO project demonstrated that “each additional year of a mother’s schooling reduces the probability of the infant mortality rate by 5% to 10%”The health
advantages
of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health.
While China’s military capacities are no match for America’s, its current military build-up is viewed as posing unacceptable risks nonetheless, because China also is seeking technological means to negate America’s military
advantages.
For the West, the biggest challenge will be to reconcile domestic pressure for closed borders with the geopolitical
advantages
of embracing migration.
More stable financial markets and a less volatile exchange rate relative to the euro will bring many
advantages.
Nonetheless, given Clinton’s organizational
advantages
(particularly the overwhelming support of other Democratic officeholders), only some dramatic and unforeseeable development could block her path to the party’s nomination.
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