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Refugees and Reform in EuropeLAGUNA BEACH – There is a simple truth beneath the growing human tragedy of Europe’s refugee crisis, and the European Union cannot address the massive influx of exhausted,
desperate
people in a manner compatible with its values unless governments and citizens acknowledge it.
A bride price or dowry can also be a much-needed windfall for
desperate
families.
The company also embarked on a
desperate
cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.
She points to the
desperate
health conditions of the world’s poor as one of the greatest barriers to economic development, and is mobilizing the world community to do something about it.
But the wave of political repression merely reflects President Mikhail Saakashvili’s
desperate
effort to cling to power.
This will not be easy, but it is worth pursuing, because the alternative—a desperate, hostile, nuclear-armed, and isolated North Korea—should alarm everyone.
The world's largest democracy will soon be in action for the second time in two years in a
desperate
search to find a stable government, an extraordinarily difficult task now that the founding party of India's independence, Congress, is a pale shadow of its original self and the strengths of local, regional, religious and caste parties, not to say the phenomenal rise of the Hindu nationalist, Bharatiya Janata Party, are now the deciding factors in Indian politics.
A possible answer lies in an early election: a new mandate for an India that is in
desperate
need of renewal.
In a
desperate
effort to do something – anything – to defend their economies, they turned to protectionism, imposing “exchange-rate dumping” duties, and import quotas to offset the loss of competitiveness caused by their own increasingly overvalued currencies.
Desperate
times call for
desperate
measures.
The Authoritarian TemptationNEW YORK – Twenty-four years ago this month, Soviet hardliners,
desperate
to stop the country’s nascent democratic transition, arrested Mikhail Gorbachev and declared martial law.
A century later, another refugee crisis is underway, and this time, it is Europe that has the power to provide safe haven to
desperate
people.
But the possibility that Assad’s increasingly
desperate
regime would deploy chemical weapons – as Saddam Hussein’s government did against Iranian troops and civilians, as well as Iraqi Kurds, during the Iran-Iraq War – cannot be discounted.
But over the course of the late twentieth century, these four causes of
desperate
poverty have largely fallen away.
It is the 20 million more who are displaced, desperate, and seeking to escape violence, civil war, state failure, desertification, and economic collapse in large parts of the Middle East and Africa.
On the contrary, the dollar was one of the few clear beneficiaries of the crisis, as foreign investors,
desperate
for liquidity, piled into US Treasury bonds.
Isolated,
desperate
for allies, Syria has been helping Iran in its quest for regional hegemony.
May’s government is
desperate
to sustain the prospect, however deluded, that Trump will offer a good trade deal to the UK.
As The New York Times recently revealed, Facebook is so
desperate
to protect its business model that it hired a shadowy PR firm to spread anti-Semitic misinformation about one of its leading critics, the financier and philanthropist George Soros.
Bolder pensioners,
desperate
to generate higher returns, may take undue risks – for example, investing in junk bonds – that could jeopardize their nest eggs.
QE is a policy for
desperate
times.
Beyond that, we need to end the policies that are contributing to their
desperate
flight.
Many African governments,
desperate
to attract foreign-direct investment, engage in an ill-informed race to offer the most generous tax incentives.
Protecting women migrants – often the most
desperate
of the
desperate
– should top their priorities.
France is also in
desperate
need of a reality check on the nature of its current cultural diversity.
These displaced people and refugees are living in
desperate
conditions, without adequate shelter, nutrition, and health care, and with virtually no access to education.
For Europe, turning our backs on these refugees is not an option –
desperate
people will continue to march toward safety and hope – though many continue to believe that it is.
Among these five billion people, the most
desperate
are highly vulnerable to extremist recruiters.
Amid the current protests, however, the West has an opportunity to push Iran to suspend its regional ambitions and focus on its
desperate
domestic situation.
In the face of the familiar litany of
desperate
global problems – not just financial instability, but also climate change, energy insecurity, potential pandemics, terrorism, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction – the prospect of a rudderless world is more than alarming.
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