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Finally, one major deficiency of the current international financial architecture is the lack of an institutional framework – i.e., a court similar to those created to manage bankruptcies in national economies – to manage debt overhangs at the international level.
Its architects were fully aware of this deficiency, but believed that when the need arose, the political will could be summoned to take the next step forward.
According to an analysis by Nobel laureates and other prestigious economists for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, these investments include expanded immunization for children, efforts to lower the price of schooling, and initiatives to end the “silent hunger” of micronutrient deficiency.
This deficiency was on full display last November, when the EU offered Ukraine an Association Agreement that failed to account for the country’s financial vulnerabilities.
But it also depends on the ability and willingness of government to provide a bridging function for the deficiency in aggregate demand, and to pursue reforms and investments that boost long-term growth prospects.
Lackluster productivity growth is prima facie evidence of a supply deficiency.
The US economy’s distinctive features for at least a decade prior to the crisis that began in 2008 were an unsustainably high level of consumption, owing to an illusory wealth effect, under-investment (including in the public sector), and savings that fell short of the investment deficiency.
Iron deficiency, one of the most significant micronutrient problems, causes anemia, which makes people weaker and less productive.
There is also a deficiency in critical “soft” skills, such as communication, teamwork, and problem solving.
This seems to me to reflect women's all-too-common impulse to accommodate the unbridled male ego rather than any deficiency in their creativity or "independence."
One scholar, Farzana Afridi, reported in the Journal of Development Economics that the program “improved nutritional intakes by reducing the daily protein deficiency of a primary school student by 100%, the calorie deficiency by almost 30%, and the daily iron deficiency by nearly 10%.”
We know that iron deficiency leads to cognitive and developmental problems.
Most physicians in North America and Europe never see a single case of vitamin A deficiency in their professional lifetimes.
But the situation is very different in poor countries, where vitamin A deficiency is epidemic among the poor, whose diet is heavily dominated by rice (which contains neither beta-carotene nor vitamin A) or other carbohydrate-rich, vitamin-poor sources of calories.
In developing countries, 200-300 million children of preschool age are at risk of vitamin A deficiency, which can be devastating and even fatal.
Every year, about 500,000 children become blind as a result of vitamin A deficiency, and 70% die within a year of losing their sight.
This reflects both a public-investment deficiency and an information gap: investing in job training in a rapidly evolving industrial structure is like shooting at a moving target.
Micronutrient deficiency is known as “hidden hunger.”
I fear that China’s leaders and people will continue to feel a certain gnawing, inchoate sense of deficiency and incompleteness in their quest for global respect until they find the strength to begin addressing the crucial, but elusive, issue of making China an ethical, as well as an economic and military, power.
Fumonisin also interferes with the cellular uptake of folic acid, a vitamin that reduces the risk of neural tube defects in developing fetuses, and thus can cause folic acid deficiency – and defects such as spina bifida – even when one’s diet contains what otherwise would be sufficient amounts of the vitamin.
As a result of a deep and persistent deficiency in aggregate demand, the US economy has been operating far below its potential output level.
Another major deficiency of the MDGs is their failure to recognize human rights as essential to any sustainable development strategy.
Consider “golden rice,” a GM hybrid that carries the gene from carrots that makes vitamin A. A recent study found that, in India alone, had golden rice been approved when it was technically ready in 2002, it could have saved 1.4 million disability-adjusted life years for those who instead suffered blindness or death from vitamin A deficiency.
For example, scientists have known for decades that certain drugs can cause severe and precipitous anemia in people with a genetic deficiency of the enzyme G6PD.
Creating a euro-zone government bond market would bring immediate benefits, in addition to correcting a structural deficiency.
In developing countries, 200-300 million preschool children are at risk of vitamin A deficiency, which compromises immune systems, increasing the body’s susceptibility to illnesses like measles and diarrheal diseases.
Every year, vitamin A deficiency causes blindness in about a half-million children; some 70% of them die within a year.
But in a world with such huge infrastructure needs, the problem is not a surplus of savings or a deficiency of good investment opportunities.
Moreover, in many cases, it is poverty, not lack of food in the market, that drives hunger and nutritional deficiency.
Today, a deficiency of aggregate demand afflicts almost all advanced countries, leading to high unemployment, lower wages, greater inequality, and – coming full, vicious circle – constrained consumption.
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