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But health is also about wellness, the security of life, and the
capacity
to work and learn.
The speed of urban growth and the resulting concentration of poverty have overwhelmed the
capacity
of some national and municipal governments to provide services – sustainable and affordable housing, clean water and sanitation, and education – essential to urban public health.
So successful industrial upgrading and economic diversification requires first-movers, and improvements in skills, logistics, transportation, access to finance, and various other changes, many of which are beyond the first-movers’
capacity.
If we take the view that every person on this planet is entitled to an equal share of the atmosphere’s
capacity
to absorb our greenhouse-gas emissions, then the US is emitting 3.5 times its fair share.
Thanks to decades of low investment in statistical capacity, no one trusts the Greek government’s figures.
Moreover, huge waves of migrants from developing countries to OECD countries challenge the assimilation
capacity
of the latter and deprive the former of its educated work force.
Likewise, while there are green shoots of insurance-industry growth in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, global insurers must constantly adapt to regulatory changes in their primary or home markets, and it is unclear if they have the
capacity
to expand meaningfully into low-income countries.
And lest we forget, Western electorates have demonstrated a unique
capacity
for self-harm.
As China’s markets expand – the capitalization of the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets is on the order of $11 trillion – they are increasingly outstripping policymakers’
capacity
to manage prices and valuations.
Indonesia and the Philippines are weaker, overwhelmed by policy incoherence and fire-fighting at home, and with insufficient
capacity
to deal with the WTO's burgeoning and increasingly complicated agenda.
Donald Rumsfeld’s dogma of military “transformation” – the technological upgrading of an army’s
capacity
to enable decisive victory with fewer troops – failed resoundingly in Iraq.
When it comes to tackling complex political and cultural conflicts, forging international and regional alliances around a legitimate objective is more important than sheer military
capacity.
Distrust will continue, signals will be confused, setbacks will be frequent, but the results could well lead over time to greater mutual understanding and a learned
capacity
to work on some of the most pressing problems, just as the US learned to do with the Soviet Union and China.
Its economy is still highly dependent on coal, implying sizeable costs as it shifts
capacity
to other resources such as natural gas and renewables.
Though it is entirely normal for a country at China’s stage of economic development to absorb and imitate foreign technologies, its size and market power dramatically increase its
capacity
to encourage technology transfer.
The Marshall Plan was a macroeconomic strategy involving massive capital transfers to help reconstruct the war-ravaged industrial
capacity
and infrastructure of economies with well-developed institutions.
A few months later, Sinai insurgents shot down a Mi-17 helicopter that belonged to the Second Field Army, an unprecedented display of military
capacity.
By controlling the sea lanes, China hopes to gain leverage over India’s
capacity
for economic growth.
This is a high-stakes issue, as it will determine the
capacity
of states to remain fiscally solvent in increasingly digital economies.
Some experiments have had less clear results, making, say, a positive contribution to GDP growth, but also contributing to problems like excess industrial capacity, pollution, corruption, and the creation of ghost towns.
Without growth, tax revenues will remain stagnant, and the
capacity
to service debts will continue to erode.
What local constituents need is the resources and
capacity
to take the lead.
Best of all, when such emergencies abate, local
capacity
remains.
If a shadow falling over JPM from its trading desk had extended to its
capacity
to settle government debt properly, the economic fallout could have been severe.
Technically, the main change was to end “single capacity,” whereby a stock trader could be a principal or an agent, but not both.
And, in fact, there is no reason to believe that these megacities have reached their capacity, in terms of population or contribution to economic growth.
The priority in fighting terrorism should be police and intelligence service cooperation, which produces much faster results and limits the
capacity
of extremists to mobilize.
Clearly, deficient aggregate demand has played a role by reducing the incentive to expand
capacity.
Climate change, for example, poses dire threats to the planet that must be assessed according to prevailing scientific norms and the evolving
capacity
of climate science.
And, for developing countries that lack supply-side capacity, greater access to the global market is a moot point, as they remain far from even considering what size their share of it should be.
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