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The barriers to growth in the past were an unholy alliance among oligarchic interests and political parties, scandalous procurement, clientelism, the permanently broken media, overly accommodating banks, weak tax authorities, and a weighed-down, fearful judiciary.
This link was broken by a drop in labor’s negotiating power and companies’ increased financial orientation.
And yet there can be no denying that the relationship with Russia is now broken, with mutual trust having reached its lowest point since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
At a time when so many connections have been broken, this is an opportunity that Europe cannot afford to pass up.
That model has broken down, and will not be replaced soon.
In a war with endlessly shifting priorities, conflicting aims, few credible commitments, and plenty of foreign meddling, any ceasefire today is just as likely to be broken by violence tomorrow.
In fact, since WWII, only George W. Bush’s economic advisers have broken with this consensus.
The Hamas VetoGAZA CITY – The resumption of direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis has broken 20 months of stalemate, and marked the entry of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into this round of diplomacy.
Developed countries have repeatedly broken their promises of aid or trade.
In a report presented to the International Conference on Financing for Development, we unanimously agreed that the current system is broken, and that minor tweaks will not fix it.
They think that representative democracy has broken down, and they see the creative potential of disruption.
Little wonder that Iranian envoy Saeed Jalili, after meeting Assad in Damascus recently, announced that “Iran will absolutely not allow the axis of resistance, of which it considers Syria to be a main pillar, to be broken in any way.”
As Michael Ignatieff has wisely observed, Syria’s crisis has revealed that this is “the moment in which the West should see that the world has truly broken into two.
Rooted in civil-society activism, humanitarian intervention has broken into the normative practice of international affairs during militarized transitions, such as those that followed the Cold War, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the Arab Spring.
In exercising that power, Donald Trump has broken a long-standing pattern, going back almost a half-century, whereby the president reappoints (on a non-partisan basis) the incumbent Fed chair, if he or she has been seen to be doing a good job.
The markets have broken all-time records, come close to doing so, or at least done very well since 2003 ( the case in Japan) by making up for the big drops incrementally, in a succession of smaller increases.
Aside from a humanitarian crisis, with thousands drowning each year trying to reach Europe and thousands more detained, there is the soaring expense of border controls and bureaucracy, a criminalized people-smuggling industry, and an expanding shadow economy, where illegal migrants are vulnerable to exploitation, labor laws are broken and taxes go unpaid.
This suggests that the age-old combination of economic stagnation and cultural stability that I call the "Hindu Equilibrium" seems finally to have been broken.
The content of chlorine (from decay of CFC’s) in the stratosphere has leveled off, and two years ago the ozone hole over the Antarctic was the smallest in decades (and broken up into two).
The system of protections for human subjects worldwide is either non-existent or broken.
But the ongoing legal saga of Argentina’s fight with holdout creditors shows that the international system for orderly sovereign-debt restructuring may be broken.
Competition policy was attuned to deal with individual crises, but a systemic crisis has almost broken its back.
Cory Aquino motivated ordinary Filipinos to peaks of daring and selflessness at a time when their spirit had almost been broken by a 14-year dictatorship.
Now the state has given rise to its own vested, privileged interests which can only be broken by a new combination of public guarantees and private provisions.
Such a policy might assuage the fear – which White does not mention but that for many is the central argument against OMF – that once the taboo is broken, political pressures will lead inevitably to harmful overuse of OMF.
This link between security, democracy, and human development has since been broken and needs to be restored through investment in good governance, regional development, and education.
The EU’s asylum policy has broken down.
Moreover, the political process itself is broken.
This requires a major diplomatic and social investment by the US and the international community to help put out the raging fires in the Middle East, rebuild broken state institutions, and establish national unity governments.
And, because the current bout of high unemployment is self-reinforcing, once the equilibrium is broken for a while, the economy could move to a higher-employment equilibrium permanently, without the need for any further government support.
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