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Syria may well become a second Iraq, not by design but as an unintended
consequence
of current policy.
In Iran, the regime pushes ahead, but is clearly being hurt by an economic crisis (largely a
consequence
of international sanctions), popular protest, and internal bickering – and has turned bellicose as a result.
Coming as it did on the eve of the cataclysmic Arab Spring, the Obama administration has struggled with this unintended
consequence
of the pivot ever since.
But this is an inevitable
consequence
of the Bush administration's own haughty manner, with leading spokespersons, such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, proclaiming their own righteousness in leading the effort to abrogate rights.
As a consequence, we end up doing remarkably few things and buying everything else from others.
There is a strange, though little-noticed,
consequence
of the failure to distinguish value from price: the only way offered to most people to boost their incomes is through economic growth.
What is moderately bad news at the moment will become terrible news only if economic distress in the advanced countries – especially the US – is allowed to morph into xenophobia and all-out protectionism; if large emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil fail to realize that they have become too important to free ride on global economic governance; and if, as a consequence, others overreact by turning their back on the world economy and pursue autarkic policies.
Few member states would spontaneously have gone for a Single Currency; but they found that this was the almost unavoidable
consequence
of the Single Market which they had already set in train.
Technological change, Spence and I point out, has also had another inequality-enhancing consequence: it has “turbo-charged” globalization by enabling companies to source, monitor, and coordinate production processes at far-flung locations quickly and cheaply, in order to take advantage of lower labor costs.
Another uncomfortable
consequence
of globalization is its tendency to put people and capital on the move.
This visceral focus on ECT has almost certainly led to ever more people ending up on drugs, and ever more brain damage and memory problems as a
consequence.
A lasting
consequence
of the most recent leak is circumspection when sharing intelligence with the United States.
The
consequence
is unlikely to be transparency.
Such attempts at blame-shifting are misguided: one can understand the default as the
consequence
of economic mistakes made over a decade.
It encouraged a contractionary fiscal policy, the same mistake it had made in East Asia, and with the same disastrous
consequence.
This fall in GDP, though a natural
consequence
of lower imports of consumption goods, is often mistakenly perceived as something to be avoided, because it seems to imply that output is below its “potential.”
In the eyes of the Arabs (and some other Muslims), Israel’s strength and resilience is a direct
consequence
of their own weakness, divisions, and corruption.
Shortages of medicines and basic foodstuffs such as milk, sugar, eggs, beef, and chicken abound as a
consequence
of price controls and mounting inflation.
As a consequence, developing countries are starting to de-industrialize and become more dependent on services at much lower levels of income than has been the pattern for developed countries – a phenomenon that I have called premature de-industrialization.Can service industries play the role that manufacturing did in the past?
Instead, the
consequence
was a corrupt, militarized Palestinian Authority, with competing security services proved incapable of providing security.
An immediate
consequence
is that developing countries are turning into service economies at substantially lower levels of income.
At root, low morale is just a
consequence
of the indifference of medical scientists, busy in their labs, allowing the social and emotional foundations of their field to rot away beneath them.
Without question (and without much precedent), interest rates are extraordinarily low in advanced economies, pulled down partly by the slowdown in longer-term output growth, but also as a
consequence
of official efforts.
One
consequence
of high interest rates is that the exchange rate of the pound is far higher than the economic fundamentals would justify.
In a way, this turnabout is a logical and probably unavoidable
consequence
of Franco-American cooperation in working to resolve the war in Bosnia.
But it is only too easy to imagine what would be the
consequence
of holding a referendum: enlargement would almost certainly be rejected in practice and in principle by a large majority.
This is far more likely to be the result of a warming climate – a
consequence
of this decade being, worldwide, the hottest for a thousand years.
Their opponents, meanwhile, exaggerated the phenomenon’s likely impact – and, as a consequence, dogmatically fixated on drastic, short-term carbon cuts as the only solution, despite overwhelming evidence that such cuts would be cripplingly expensive and woefully ineffective.
France has some of the highest labor costs for hourly employees in the EU, and a natural
consequence
is tepid hiring.
Another positive
consequence
is the demonstrated effect of counter-terrorism operations carried out by US soldiers.
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