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As long as America economic policy remains focused primarily on deficits, domestic demand, exchange rates, and backsliding on trade openness, its investment deficiencies will remain unaddressed.
But, in addition to the financial cost, there would be huge administrative challenges, along with corruption and institutional deficiencies.
The consequences of maternal malnutrition are far-reaching, including higher child-mortality rates, more birth defects, increased susceptibility to infection, and specific nutritional deficiencies that can lock a child into a vicious cycle of poor health early in life.
If we are to see truly global FDI flows, particularly to those countries that need them the most, we must begin to address the institutional deficiencies of the investment-protection regime.
For example, at the beginning of 2016, it seemed clear that the deficiencies of global aggregate demand that have been manifest for the last several years were unlikely to change dramatically.
Indeed, deficiencies in the global monetary system contributed to several economic failings in recent years: excess global liquidity; over-accumulation of dollar-denominated reserve assets; uneven policy responses to current-account surpluses and deficits; resistance to necessary exchange-rate adjustments in the emerging world; and coexistence of inflation and deflation at a global level.
All of these shortcomings are in some way manifestations of the same international monetary deficiencies.
The narrower agenda – financial reform, stabilizing the housing market, restoring balance sheets, addressing structural deficiencies, and restoring growth and employment – would not have captured the public’s imagination, and almost certainly would have disappointed Obama’s enthusiastic supporters.
The erosion is traceable to several factors, including deficiencies in primary and secondary education as well as poor macroeconomic management.
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election should encourage defenders of a liberal order, which, despite its deficiencies, still represents the most attractive and flexible paradigm for international relations.
But it would be a great pity if, in examining what went wrong, deficiencies in the program’s implementation were to obscure its accomplishments.
With hindsight, one can identify other deficiencies in the euro of which its architects were unaware.
In the wider European Union, countries like the United Kingdom or Hungary are as much afflicted by structural deficiencies as some peripheral eurozone countries are.
As for the EU itself, the debate and final formulation of the March 2011 “voluntary” stress tests, accurately called “stormy” by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, revealed a bewildering array of deficiencies and weaknesses.
Nor does it address deficiencies in existing legislation that prevent challenges to the rules on which agencies base their decisions or to the exercise of discretion by bureaucrats.
For example, micronutrient deficiencies may afflict as many as two billion additional people.
Following the Second International Conference on Nutrition, organized by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and the WHO in Rome last November, some worried that the extent of nutrition issues (including undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and excessive weight), as well as their human and economic burden, were overestimated.
With coordinated and concerted policy action – underpinned by strong political commitment – we can make great strides toward eliminating malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies (or “hidden hunger”), and the diet-related non-communicable diseases associated with obesity.
To grasp the conventional view's deficiencies, begin with the problem of technology adoption.
What is now needed is a more modest debate about how to reconcile the deficiencies of the market with the demands of solidarity.
And, to avoid perpetuating the deficiencies of the Washington Consensus, which were revealed with such clarity in 2016, this dialogue must occur within the framework of a common and democratic public sphere.
Given its relatively small scale, the annual issue of SDRs would only partly offset these deficiencies, but it would nonetheless help sustain and accelerate global recovery without causing inflationary pressure.
The G20 can play a leading role in overcoming the deficiencies that plague the international investment regime.
Using monetary policy to compensate for deficiencies in other policy areas constitutes an institutional breakdown: monetary policymakers are not necessarily getting it wrong, but they are constrained by the configuration of other policies.
By exposing weaknesses in a particular country’s system, PISA assessments help to ensure that policymakers recognize – and, it is hoped, address – remaining deficiencies.
Beyond ensuring that these actions are guided by international law, the EU should foster a global debate on the deficiencies of certain international norms in the face of today’s new conflicts.
Organizational skills – the ability to attract and inspire an effective inner circle of followers – can compensate for rhetorical deficiencies, just as effective public rhetoric can partly compensate for low organizational skills.
To be sure, economic deficiencies still abound in Mexico.
But these deficiencies should not be enough to neutralize Mexico’s powerful geographic advantages and the potent benefits of neo-liberal policies, should they?
Controlling disease requires a health system that can deliver life-saving medications and basic preventive services such as bed-nets to fight malaria and vitamins to fight nutritional deficiencies.
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