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The second pillar of an effective crisis-response strategy is an emergency reserve workforce – established by the WHO, in cooperation with national governments – comprising well-trained health professionals who are prepared for rapid deployment in low-resource settings.
Because he had been convicted of several burglaries over the previous decades, when Ochoa was caught making fraudulent applications for food stamps and emergency housing vouchers in Los Angeles, he was tried under the Three Strikes law and given sentences on thirteen separate counts to be served in one of the toughest, most secure prisons in America.
Indeed, the national central banks’ allocation of emergency liquidity assistance required approval by only one-third of the Governing Council’s members, and the six crisis countries had these votes.
As one emergency medicine physician ruefully admitted to us, “I think about all the women I sent home to their deaths because I was following best practices.”
After years of effort, it is now clear that only a strong, consistent, worldwide commitment to full eradication can end the polio emergency.
To address this, plans are underway for a humanitarian fund that can provide money to keep schools operating through an emergency or to build new ones in refugee camps and settlements.
Normally in an emergency, there are no facilities, buildings, or staff to keep children in school.
In some countries, efforts to increase the retirement age even by just a couple of years – often envisioned as a non-recurring emergency measure – have proven hugely controversial.
In order to secure power in the most turbulent months of his political career, Berlusconi obtained the support of many MPs through patronage, publicly attacked his prosecutors, and tried to water down the emergency budget adopted in July in order to benefit his own companies.
The starting point of the contagion was investors’ realization that Europe’s rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, was designed to provide emergency financial support only to the peripheral countries.
This is why all countries provide emergency liquidity support when a bank run materializes, as was done on a global scale when confidence in the banking sector collapsed alongside Lehman Brothers in 2008.
This requires that fiscal authorities have access to a large pool of liquidity in an emergency.
The same has happened in the case of tight labor laws and looser financial regulations, while European surveillance and global emergency mechanisms have undergone a similar change.
At the start of the crisis, EU policymakers tended to view global financial institutions as sources of emergency funds, not as monitors of EU economies.
A line must be drawn between a time of crisis, when emergency measures are needed to avert economic collapse, and normal circumstances, in which the full force of market mechanisms applies.
We should be running crisis scenarios and preparing emergency plans for upheaval in all of these fields, and taking stronger steps to mitigate risks, including by managing debt levels, which today remain much higher in the advanced economies than they were before the 2008 crisis.
People in Spain, Portugal, and other troubled eurozone countries now fear for their savings should their country need emergency loans from its partners.
Large-scale capital flight from the eurozone’s weaker economies would put them in dire straits, forcing their partners to provide even more emergency assistance, while capital flight from the eurozone as a whole could destabilize even its strongest economies, bringing the monetary union closer to a chaotic breakup.
The alternative is to continue on the current path, which has led to six of 17 eurozone members being helped in some way – such as through emergency lending or large-scale bond purchases by the ECB – since the euro crisis began.
Georgia itself needs all the help it can get, which requires an emergency action plan different from the others.
And while most refugees there have received food assistance, health care, and emergency shelter, only one in ten – some 30,000 children – are currently attending school, because only 5% of the humanitarian aid needed to educate Myanmar’s refugee children has been met.
The international community took a major step in this direction at last month’s World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, where the Education Cannot Wait fund was launched to cope with the inevitable “next” emergency.
Many young street leaders will insist on an emergency meeting of the revolutionary council, or even holding the sixth general assembly (which would be the first since 1988).
But, when an emergency strikes, large-scale policy responses always produce unintended consequences typically sowing the seeds for the next full-blown crisis.
The American RecoveryNEWPORT BEACH – The United States has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room.
British experts from the Malayan emergency tried to help the Americans in Vietnam - obviously without success.
Indeed, Musharraf might be compelled to impose emergency rule again, as he did in November, should Pakistan’s stability further deteriorate.
In these circumstances, a state of emergency could be warranted.
Any subsequent measures, including temporary imposition of emergency rule and full-scale war against the terrorists, require the complete support of the opposition parties.
This, in fact, is also the legal position of those who ratified the Geneva Conventions: “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.”
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