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As South Africa’s politicians and media debate the causes of this crisis, they often focus on climate change – a culprit that cannot talk back.
Austerity is not the culprit.
The second-biggest culprit is methane.
The plight of the US middle class has been framed as a blame game, with China and its alleged unfair trading practices singled out as the culprit.
While Iran’s leaders have often downplayed the sanctions’ impact, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently cited them as the primary culprit behind Iran’s economic turmoil.
And agriculture is also a major culprit in climate change, responsible for 33% of all greenhouse-gas emissions if deforestation for cultivation and pastures is included in the tally.
Should the SPD, which will vote on the coalition agreement in early December, block the formation of the new government (an unlikely development but not entirely out of the question), disputes over security and defense affairs would not be the culprit.
The culprit in this pessimistic view is the so-called "Balassa-Samuelson" effect: rapid productivity growth in the accession candidates' tradable sectors - export manufacturing, for example - is pushing up real wages throughout their economies, including in non-tradable sectors like services.
The main culprit is technological change that automates routine manual and cognitive tasks, while increasing demand (and wages) for highly skilled workers.
His expression of “contrition” may provide some relief that the key culprit has been fingered, but it brought the sealing of the well no closer.
And, when the evidence is confronted, it points to speculation as a culprit.
Germany and other Northern European countries maintain that the culprit is lax fiscal policy and excessive debt accumulation by other eurozone members.
One main culprit was none other than Alan Greenspan, who left the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, with a terrible situation.
The real culprit is the government, which first fanned the flames of excessive investment, then suddenly tried to cut off the fire’s oxygen supply.
Japan was singled out as a particular culprit of the soaring global imbalances, because its current-account surplus topped 4% of its GDP in 1986, while the Bank of Japan amassed record levels of US Treasury securities.
At around the same time, South Korea temporarily emerged as a key culprit behind the US trade deficit.
This suggests that lost innovation, not trade, is the main culprit.
Moreover, problematic elections constitute a specific challenge for the West, which is simultaneously the bearer of a universal democratic message and the culprit of an imperialist past that undermines that message’s persuasiveness and utility.
A final explanation for Britain’s failure to keep up makes economic policy the culprit.
Ultimately, the culprit was precisely identified as a defective O-ring that became too stiff at low temperatures and caused a leak.
The eurozone crisis is a more likely culprit.
Weak demand – especially the post-crisis collapse in consumer spending growth – is a far more likely culprit than China in explaining the recent hiring shortfall.
That, not China's exchange rate policy, is the culprit.
The most popular culprit is the Fed, which has begun to taper its highly experimental policy of “quantitative easing,” or purchases of long-term assets aimed at supporting growth beyond what could be achieved with zero nominal interest rates.
The main culprit in this conventional view is China, although the International Monetary Fund is a close second.
Strong evidence points to television as the major, but not the only, culprit.
They see the US as simultaneously the champion of democracy in the region and as the culprit in their economic woes because of its insistence on the sanctity of capital.
Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990’s – a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left-leaning academics.
If the IMF’s analysis of global imbalances is not balanced, if it does not identify the US as the major culprit, and if it does not direct its attention on America’s need to reduce its fiscal deficits – through higher taxes for America’s richest and lower defense spending – the Fund’s relevance in the twenty-first century will inevitably decline.
In that case, Europe was as much the culprit as America.
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