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Monasteries and temples are exploited as tourist attractions, while government agents try to ensure that the monks stay in line.
In the last few weeks, that resentment boiled over, first in the monasteries, and then in the streets, against the Han Chinese migrants, who are both the agents and main beneficiaries of rapid modernization.
Considering the suspect tactics that colonial agents typically used to separate Africans from their possessions, it is unlikely that the Bangwa Queen left willingly.
If we believe that economic actors are irrational, then we will enact paternalistic policies aimed at controlling behavior or bailing out failed agents and institutions, which could be self-defeating and even dangerous.
The motivation is sound: someone needs to do something to keep the world economy afloat, and central banks are the only agents capable of acting.
The same goes for Japan, whose stance on the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970’s and 1980’s was also cited by the Kim regime last June as a reason for walking out of the six-party talks.
Its Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks on America by the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, contains many of the features enshrined in the Patriot Act: an overly vague definition of what constitutes terrorism or unlawful acts, immunity from prosecution for law-enforcement or government agents, and expansion of wire-tapping.
Historically, the principal agents of reef degradation have been over-fishing and pollution, not global warming.
NGOs focused on human rights and peacemaking are scrutinized as foreign agents.
Add to these the fact that many Guatemalan judges have functioned as agents of impunity rather than as servants of justice and a legal system that can be manipulated by the defense through a series of frivolous lawsuits.
These programs produce powerful agents for community development in Burma, and can significantly improve the prospects for better governance.
Women must be able to base their reproductive choices on their own physical and emotional needs and desires, not on the moral judgments of powerful agents or risk of criminal sanctions.
Just consider what must be overcome: economic divergence and deepening recessions; irreversible balkanization of the banking system and financial markets; unsustainable debt burdens for public and private agents; daunting growth and balance-sheet costs in countries that pursue internal devaluation and deflation to restore competitiveness; asymmetrical adjustment, with moral-hazard risks in the core and insufficient financing in the periphery fueling incompatible political dynamics; fickle and impatient markets and investors; austerity fatigue in the periphery and bailout fatigue in the core; the absence of conditions for an optimal currency area; and serious difficulties in achieving full fiscal, banking, economic, and political union.
He also vowed to rid his administration of Habre's security agents and to grant access to the files of a truth commission that investigated Habre's rule.
While insurance industry representatives declare their intent and passion to rein in climate change and ensure a livable planet, in the back rooms their agents are still busy working their financial magic to underwrite new coal-fired power stations, oil rigs, tar sands projects, gas pipelines, and other polluting projects.
Once upon a time, conventional wisdom maintained that curbing governments’ appetite for debt would put an end to over-borrowing, because private agents would know to act prudently and weigh the costs and benefits of one more dollar of debt.
Western governments winked at Saddam Hussein when he gassed the Kurds of northern Iraq in 1987-88, but his agents may yet turn the chemicals he tested there on targets in Berlin, London, or Washington.
They describe it as “an approach to economics that emphasizes growth and income redistribution and deemphasizes the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints, and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive nonmarket policies.”
Their abuse was reserved for “evil parliamentarians” – or any politicians – as vile agents of a crooked state.
Beyond that, the realignment process is best left largely to private agents.
Still more recently, in the 2014 US midterm elections, Republicans emphasized the US’s vulnerabilities, and aired advertisements hinting that the Islamic State was directing Ebola-infected agents to kill Americans.
This cohort views economics as the study of models, in which agents’ expectations can be assumed to be rational and consistent with the model.
The Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), largely sidelined by former President Mohammed Khatami, has re-emerged as a powerful repressive force, using plain-clothes agents, allied with the paramilitary Bassij and non-government vigilantes, to crack down on potential opponents of the regime.
Foreign capital flooded in again, and the new consensus view was that bond-driven capital inflows would impose market discipline on Latin America’s historically profligate governments, because, presumably, only credit-worthy agents would be able to borrow.
Real estate agents have only leftovers on offer.
In a classic paper, Sebastian Edwards of UCLA and the late Rudiger Dornbusch of MIT define economic populism as “an approach to economics that emphasizes growth and income redistribution and deemphasizes the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints, and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive nonmarket policies.”
Bush still refuses to talk to either of them, and has lately been having US troops arrest Iranian agents in Iraq.
Thanks partly to their efforts, the public tends to be knowledgeable and vigilant about encroachment on Hong Kong’s freedoms, such as the recent abduction of five book publishers by mainland agents.
Whether or not that is true – and it may well be – most financial investors don’t care about the long run, and their agents usually do not get rewarded for long-run performance.
Exposure to chemical warfare agents following the detonation of Iraq munitions in Khamisiyah has been discussed as a cause of the syndrome.
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