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Long-term joblessness and youth unemployment remain far too high, with skills erosion, reduced mobility, and a growing opportunity gap relative to formal educational attainment risking lasting damage in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
In a domestic legal system, an entity whose land was, say, flooded would have a claim to compensation from the entity that had caused the damage.
They pursue self-serving, beggar-thy-neighbor migration policies – such as building border fences – that further fragment the Union, seriously damage member states, and subvert global human-rights standards.
That’s why the temptation for Bush and Blair to limit further political damage at home by prematurely declaring victory in Iraq is so dangerous.
The collateral damage would include a fall in commodity prices, reduced aggregate demand, lower capital inflows, and fiscal retrenchment.
Just as we can choose to damage our health by overeating, smoking cigarettes, and neglecting to take prescribed medications, we can also choose to remain uninformed on policy issues.
If it is closing, it is doing so very slowly; the damage wrought by the crisis appears to be long term.
Though intended to unite Europe, in the end the euro has divided it; and, in the absence of the political will to create the institutions that would enable a single currency to work, the damage is not being undone.
Currency manipulation is a real problem that causes significant damage.
But it can be contained and managed through policies that compensate workers for its collateral damage and costs.
Some bounce back, while others experience long-lasting, even permanent, damage.
Even a serious fracking mishap would be unlikely to cause as much damage as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in 2011, or coal-mining tragedies that play out dramatically in frequent explosions and collapses (and more insidiously in the form of lung disease, water pollution, and soil erosion).
Europe’s most populous country and largest economy cannot base its policies solely on its public opinion without causing further damage to the performance of the EU as a whole.
Second, were China to close itself off, it would damage its neighbors’ economic prospects, thus destabilizing its own immediate region.
Initial damage to the confidence of the business class caused by higher taxes on the wealthy would be balanced by the prospect of higher overall consumption.
Even out of power, populists can do serious damage.
After all, the last big partisan fight (in 2013) over funding the government and raising the debt limit gained little for the Republicans who instigated it – other than significant damage to their reputation for responsibility.
But there would be damage to Europe’s sense of mission and its soft power of attraction.
One might think that addressing child marriage would be high on both national and global agendas, given the powerful evidence of the damage that it causes to individuals and societies.
This is why we and our fellow Elders are committed to drawing attention to the damage that child marriage is causing, and to supporting those working towards ending it.
But transformative social progress will be possible only if the country launches a more comprehensive effort to address pathologies long brushed off as the unavoidable collateral damage of economic growth.
The Yes camp argues that rejecting the Constitution would damage the European Central Bank (ECB) and the euro.
The full extent of the political damage that Germany’s bailout policy for the eurozone, with its austerity, mass unemployment, and economic depression, has caused in southern Europe remains to be seen.
If mishandled, the Osprey issue could cause serious damage to the US-Japan alliance.
In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community’s goals, but it is also failing: opium production last year was at an all-time high.
There is no doubt that investors should be worried – very worried – about political risk nowadays, including the capacity of politicians and bureaucrats to do untold damage to an economy.
No amount of money will undo the damage done.
But adequate investment in mitigating the damage could partly resolve the problem.
But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.
The reason is obvious: the damage caused is many times higher than the compensation being requested.
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