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The EU could build a more integrated economic-governance model to increase investment and create jobs, while at the same time streamlining its operations to address common complaints about red tape and dysfunction.
Their forced partnership has been plagued by disagreement and dysfunction.
Bo, the former Party chief of Chongqing, has come to symbolize the systemic rot and dysfunction at the core of a regime often viewed as effective, flexible, and resilient.
Indira Gandhi’s brief “emergency rule” in the 1970’s was partly the result of such institutional dysfunction.
And, despite its economic and political dysfunction, Turkey managed to maintain a positive image, owing in part to its ambition to join the European Union.
The current crises in the United States and Europe – the result primarily of US capitalism’s inherent ethical failures, and to Europe’s dysfunction – might be seen as lending credibility to Spengler’s view of democracy’s inadequacy, and to his dismissal of Western civilization as essentially being driven by a corrupting lust for money.
Is there any chance that the snowball of debt, dysfunction, and doubt will fall apart harmlessly before it gathers more force?
The West’s Decline Would Hurt ChinaHONG KONG – Official Chinese media are having a field day touting the dysfunction of Western democracies.
Though stories of democratic dysfunction can give people living under autocratic rule a negative impression of democracy, the effect is most likely short-lived.
Many in Brazil, especially central bankers, have warned that continued litigation of past monetary policies could result in a breakdown of the current financial system, leading to new levels of economic dysfunction, such as insufficient credit.
They can be emotional (anxiety, depression, hypochondria, and alienation), cognitive (loss of concentration or recall, inability to learn new things, be creative, make decisions), behavioural (abuse of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, refusal to seek or accept treatment), or physiological (neuroendocrine and immunological dysfunction).
Unless and until that changes, we will not escape our current cycle of dysfunction and insecurity.
Rather, an important driver is major central banks’ pursuit of experimental measures in order to compensate for policy inadequacies and political dysfunction elsewhere.
The late effects of cancer treatment include permanent organ and tissue damage, hormonal and reproductive dysfunction, and second cancers.
But this answer is too simple, given that such signs of dysfunction are not limited to Greece.
Though monetary stimulus is important to facilitate deleveraging, prevent financial-system dysfunction, and bolster investor confidence, it cannot place an economy on a sustainable growth path alone – a point that central bankers themselves have repeatedly emphasized.
Greece’s failure to implement them has allowed the clientelism, oligarchy, corruption, and tax evasion underpinning its economic and political dysfunction to continue practically unfettered.
But, in other cases, like Greece, political dysfunction aggravated economic problems.
From stymieing medium-term fiscal reforms to delaying needed overhauls of the labor and housing markets, congressional dysfunction would keep US economic performance below its capacity; over time, it would also eat away at potential output.
Is it sustained economic decline, high and long-term unemployment, poverty, rampant inflation, a precipitous fall in the exchange rate, fiscal deficits, high borrowing costs, and political dysfunction?
While the West’s relative decline is almost inevitable, its economic dysfunction is not.
They are not the best at anything, except perhaps dysfunction.
Still, in terms of overall relative economic performance, the US clearly is not paying a high price for political dysfunction.
Indeed, while Indians often lament their country’s dysfunction, inadequate infrastructure, antiquated industrial processes, and uneven manufacturing record, it rose to the challenge and delivered.
Of course, the greatness of America’s democracy should not hide its deep flaws and current dysfunction.
Such political dysfunction has undermined the responsiveness of other policymaking entities, including those that possess better tools than central banks.
The dysfunction of Indian politics in recent years, with its fractious coalitions and disrupted parliament sessions, has made that question seem more relevant than ever.
None of this apparent dysfunction had anything to do with the UN.
And yet, despite the shared roots of these countries’ political dysfunction, their prospects vary.
The Trump White House remains mired in dysfunction, as evidenced not only by Michael Flynn’s sudden ouster as national security adviser, but also by the scarcity of senior appointments to oversee Asia-Pacific affairs at the Departments of State and Defense.
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