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The transition in my country, Slovakia B and, indeed, across Central and Eastern Europe B has turned out to be a more complicated, complex, and longer process than originally expected.
This is a tempting proposition for many ordinary citizens who find globalization complicated and bewildering.
And even if decision-making is handed over to independent bodies to prevent abuse, doing so will make the process even more complicated and time-consuming.
But the 60-year super-boom is a more complicated case.
The super-boom got out of hand when the new products became so complicated that the authorities could no longer calculate the risks and started relying on the risk management methods of the banks themselves.
Increasing overall disease prevalence has hidden decreasing prevalence of late-stage or complicated disease.
Most health problems linked to NCDs – problems such as chronic pain, disordered sleep, depression, disability, and premature death – are associated with late-stage or complicated disease, rather than with early-stage or uncomplicated disease.
The area’s volatile situation provides Pakistan’s government an additional argument to insist that all refugees be repatriated – because, given their complicated tribal loyalties, they may constitute a domestic security threat.
Under those circumstances, identifying the poor can be costly, corrupt, complicated, and controversial.
Moreover, the general image of Iranian women suppressed behind their black chadors is more complicated than it first seems.
Widely viewed as a capable technocrat, Mousavi has often been able to navigate Iran's complicated economic and political maze.
The initiative should also encourage free movement of goods and people within the region, by lifting the customs restrictions and complicated procedures that hinder bilateral and multilateral trade.
Banks’ balance sheets were by then filled with vast amounts of risky mortgages, packaged in complicated forms that made the risks hard to evaluate.
But this seems too complicated to explain to Gabriel just yet.
Moi was a mythical figure to me, because he didn’t live in Nairagie Enkare, yet he was always present through radio, a technology too complicated for a child like me to understand.
Five years ago, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox tried to convince Bush that something had to be done before a nativist backlash in the US complicated its relations with Latin America and made goals such as a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) impossible.
Why bother with all that complicated integration involving the Schengen Agreement, a monetary union, and EU regulations, which in the end don’t work properly and only weaken the member states’ global competitiveness?
In this context, El Chapo’s capture is just a footnote in a much more complicated story.
It has also complicated the work of governments unnecessarily.
The results might be more complicated than anyone wishes.
To get the G-8 to agree on priorities is a complicated enough; building consensus within the G-20 is exponentially more difficult, not simply because of the larger number of players involved, but because many of them don’t agree on the most basic rules of the global economic game.
While some might claim that the poor and middle-class voters supporting the Republican tax plans have simply been duped, the full picture is much more complicated – and much more interesting.
But the definition of FDI protectionism can become more complicated, because measures taken in the interest of legitimate public policy objectives – for example, protecting national security or increasing FDI’s contribution to the host economy – are not necessarily instances of it, even if they make the foreign-investment climate less hospitable.
Likewise, patients with well-controlled NCDs who show no symptoms and are doing well on medications may need only occasional visits to a health-care provider, while those with more complicated cases could benefit from closer medical monitoring and counseling.
Negotiating a complicated divorce and a new relationship with Britain could consume the EU’s political oxygen (especially if, as is quite possible, the UK itself breaks up, with Scotland rejoining Europe).
The information must also be managed and evaluated – and doing this properly can be far more complicated and expensive than the effort to collect it.
Politics on the donor side is no less complicated, with growing aid budgets often viewed by taxpayers as excessive at a time when the anti-aid lobby is becoming more vocal.
To be sure, debt forgiveness is tricky, raising complicated issues of fairness and incentives.
As a result, China’s calculations about North Korea will remain complicated, even as the risks posed by the North’s behavior rise.
By deciding to begin with health-care reform – an inherently complicated and highly divisive issue in US politics – the Trump administration risks losing some of the political goodwill that could be needed to carry out the kinds of fiscal reform that markets are expecting.
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