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For some, globalization is a pretty reliable ticket to success; for others, it will have little effect by itself, since the most pressing social and economic crises hitting those countries can’t be solved by free trade or market reforms alone.
In the globalized world of the twenty-first century, in which crises in one part of the world spread like wildfire to others, selective modernization, based on suppression of the conflicts and tensions that modernization generates, is likely to be even more dangerous.
Recognizing that progress toward capital-account liberalization would imply its eventual demise, SAFE has made numerous excuses (to which the recent financial crises in the West have lent credence) for retaining tight control over foreign-exchange transactions.
Yet, when it comes to efforts to avert such crises, African women often get left out.
Yet they do tend to wait for crises to erupt before they invest in fighting infectious diseases.
As in the past, during and after financial crises and wars, central banks increasingly resort to a form of “taxation” that helps liquidate the huge public- and private-debt overhang and eases the burden of servicing that debt.
Moreover, the mood in the West swings between a realization that this crisis will not be resolved without fundamental commotions and changes, and hope that it will be resolved in the normal, cyclical way of other crises – Mexico, Asia, the Internet bubble, etc. – and that in the not-so-distant future things will start to pick up.
Post-modern crises entail post-modern risks, resulting in disintegration and implosion of power vacuums, not the danger of classical wars.
Not only have wealth and currency effects failed to spur meaningful recovery in post-crisis economies; they have also spawned new destabilizing imbalances that threaten to keep the global economy trapped in a continuous series of crises.
On the contrary, it promises more asset bubbles, financial crises, and Japanese-style secular stagnation.
Unless we start discussing economics in a Keynesian framework, we are doomed to a succession of crises and recessions.
But the timing of the immigration talks held by European leaders in Brussels last month was more a reflection of domestic political crises than a response to a spike in new arrivals.
But Europe should have learned from its lackluster response to the financial crisis that postponing essential but painful reforms only leads to more dramatic and complex political crises down the road.
Putting aside the Israeli government’s well-known skepticism about Iran’s sincerity and intentions, to suggest that Saudi Arabia’s opposition simply has to do with geopolitical competition with nearby Iran is to overlook one of the main factors driving the current crises in the Middle East.
Whether Iraq’s switch from a Sunni-minority regime to Shia-majority rule is a cause or a symptom of the current regional churn, it is clear that the sectarian divide has underpinned the crises in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, and parts of Saudi Arabia.
In countries where non-recourse loans allow borrowers to walk away from a mortgage when its value exceeds that of their home, the housing bust may lead to massive defaults and banking crises.
Some countries, the UK among them, continue to bear “the social costs to the general public from banking crises.”
Early marriage, sexual assault, a lack of sanitary facilities for menstruating girls, and humanitarian crises are just some of the factors that make completing an education more difficult for girls than for boys.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
We saw this before in the events precipitating the financial crises that engulfed emerging markets in the late 1990’s.
Emerging from a series of macroeconomic crises in the mid-1990s, Mexico undertook bold reforms that should have put it on track for rapid economic growth.
Where it led, others soon followed, forcing humanity to endure the decades of weapons development, arms races, proliferation, and nuclear crises that followed.
As they pursued this agenda, emerging economies experienced stuttering starts and numerous crises, often associated with excessive debt, currency traps, and high inflation.
Xi and Wang are seasoned politicians with extensive experience dealing with crises and managing complex institutional and social challenges, from the local to the global level.
These deepening crises on several fronts – some attributed to poor governance – raise the question once again as to whether Pakistan can sustain its democracy.
The mutable source, nature, and character of the North Korean security threat has hampered the ability of South Korean defense strategists to minimize the risks and anticipate the costs of potential confrontations, spillovers, or crises.
In other words, three interconnected crises – a resource crisis, an environmental crisis, and a climate crisis – are threatening Asia’s economic, social, and ecological future.
While Museveni and his cronies preside over what one American diplomat has called an “all-you-can-eat corruption buffet,” the West’s continued support for him prevents the region’s people from controlling their own destinies and fuels further crises.
According to Brexiteers like British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, because EU member states are too divided and consumed by their own crises to defend the integrity of the European project, “There is only one way to get the change we want – vote to leave the EU.”
Serious crises are defining moments in history.
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