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The big question today is whether all these alternative approaches can add up to more than a bit of
desperate
tinkering around the edges.
If Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe leads to a total collapse, millions of
desperate
people might flee the country, enabling AQAP and other extremist organizations to profit from disorder and despair.
Back in the early 1980s, in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, which left its economy in shambles, China was
desperate
for a new source of economic growth.
By contrast, the European Union is heading toward the type of long-lasting stagnation from which Japan is
desperate
to escape.
The new refugee encampments are among the most densely populated places on Earth, and inhabitants are
desperate
for shelter, nutrition, health care, clean water, and sanitation.
There is a
desperate
need to re-establish consensus on how to address atrocity crimes so extreme that they may require a military response.
Plunging oil prices, the dramatic decline in the value of the ruble, ongoing sanctions, and the increasingly bloody images coming out of Syria have left him
desperate
for positive news.
While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone’s survivors remain in
desperate
need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.
It encouraged financiers
desperate
to earn a return on abundant funds to put them to more speculative use.
In the poorest countries, where illiteracy is high,
desperate
people are subject to government manipulation, and there is a lack of independent control through the media and professional organizations, governments face only weak control by society.
Iran was so
desperate
to ramp up its oil exports that it agreed to abandon its nuclear program (strikingly, the Iran nuclear deal mentions the word “oil” 65 times).
Faced with this unexpected challenge, some
desperate
rulers, above all now in Syria, have been using repressive, even terrorist methods against their open people.
Their conventional wisdom is that “the system” – global governance structures ranging from the World Trade Organization and the G-20 to the major central banks – is badly broken and in
desperate
need of repair.
Desperate
actions such as huge tax cuts, or huge cuts in interest rates, almost always fail.
The fledgling textile mills of New England were
desperate
for technology and did their best to steal British designs and smuggle in skilled British craftsmen.
On the other hand, they are in
desperate
need of energy, with some 1.3 billion people around the world – and two out of three Africans – currently lacking access to electricity.
This was partly because, in the fall of 2008, the G20 and the Fund issued
desperate
appeals for debt-financed fiscal stimulus.
In a desperate, last-ditch effort, the IMF is now inventing “spill-over reports” for a few systemically important economies, to be conducted at the margins of its country (Article IV) consultations.
As a result, Syria's various political power centers have embarked on a
desperate
search for a vision to promote change yet allow the existing order to survive.
Like most Syrian refugees, he was out of school but
desperate
to return.
These
desperate
souls are the collective responsibility of the entire world community, as the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees makes abundantly clear.
With vehemently anti-immigrant political forces gaining ground throughout Europe, one must ask whether the newcomers
desperate
for a job are better served by being admitted on a conditional basis (including, potentially, for a limited period), or by not being admitted at all.
Once back in rural Afghanistan, forced into brutal marriages, many
desperate
women – especially returnees from Iran – resort to self-immolation.
In the words of Anne Krueger, the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, “Poor people are
desperate
to improve their material conditions…rather than to march up the income distribution [ladder].”
They are well-off, well-established members of society, not marginal figures whom we might expect to be drawn to
desperate
acts of violence.
We also have a
desperate
need for the global green transition fund that a Keynesian Bretton Woods would automatically create.
And Europe faces a
desperate
need to build pan-European institutions to ensure banking and fiscal union, and to address serious competitiveness problems in France and Italy.
Walser’s stance amounted to a
desperate
call to allow his country to shape a new national identity – one that reflected its resolute repudiation of fascism and adoption of democracy, rather than its highly regrettable (and regretted) history.
Issuing money in this situation would almost certainly be inflationary, but the Fed might conclude otherwise, because the US has never been in this situation before, credit is now imploding, and the
desperate
credit-expansion measures implemented in 2008 proved not to be as bad as the critics feared.
Hundreds of
desperate
children become thousands and eventually millions.
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