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Ultimately, entrenched social and cultural norms remain the most intractable obstacle to female leadership in Asia.
These concerns require that fiscal exit strategies be planned, announced, and implemented soon, before the stimulus programs become permanently entrenched, develop powerful dependent constituencies, and greatly increase the risk of rising interest rates, inflation, and taxation.
While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth-century vision of modernity.
Moreover, impugning populists’ intelligence and seriousness only plays into their hands: See how the arrogant, entrenched elites, they will counter, dismiss the common sense of the people.
Some were blooded in politics during the students revolts of the 1970s who later backed a movement that, over two decades, gradually penned the Thai military back into its barracks and entrenched electoral democracy.
They are a homegrown challenge to an entrenched political order, and they are riding a powerful historical current.
When the fighting ends, these positions will only become more entrenched.
In the space of just a few years, China has become entrenched as the leading destination for private investment and manufacturing of related equipment.
But it was also a prescient recognition of English’s rapid emergence as the lingua franca of global commerce and science, and that once entrenched it was likely to remain so for decades, if not centuries, to come.
With powerful entrenched interests standing in the way of liberalizing reforms, Iran’s economy remains as anti-competitive as ever.
But, as Habsburg history shows, such arrangements create entrenched privileges among the “haves” and grudges among the “have-nots.”
Digital surveys and analytical tools can make the process more inclusive by reducing the influence of narrow but entrenched interest groups.
Without such initiatives, structural unemployment – when the skills available do not align with open jobs – becomes increasingly entrenched.
The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.
It is still too early to gauge the impact of his economic and foreign policies, but there is one area where his government is making palpable progress: taming India’s entrenched elite.
The region’s most populous states – Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco – will maintain the social and political orders that have become entrenched over the last six decades of their post-colonial history.
With radicalism becoming increasingly entrenched, on the one hand, and young Muslims putting forward enlightened understandings of their religion, on the other, a battle for the soul of Islam is raging.
Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, plagued by an entrenched Al Qaeda affiliate, and divided by tribal disputes and a secession movement, the country has become a poster child for everything that can go wrong in the Arab world.
Today, nearly a century after the outbreak of World War I, peace and stability are firmly entrenched in Europe.
As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.
The EU countries are finally accelerating their implementation of structural reforms, but the starting point has become less favorable and political resistance too entrenched, as illustrated by the recent conflicts over reforms of French pensions and the German labor market.
Consider the example of Greek-Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed weight of “establishment” views that were long entrenched in both countries.
But while a majority of Iran’s population and a sizable chunk of its political elite recognize that the “death to America” culture created in 1979 is obsolete, small but powerful cliques – both within Iran and among the country’s Arab allies – have entrenched economic and political interests in preventing a rapprochement with the US.
Then the economy’s stultifying corporatism – clientelism and cronyism in the public sector and vested interests and entrenched elites in the private sector – would gain a new lease on life.
By continuing to nurture terrorist proxies, the Pakistani military has enabled other militants to become entrenched in the country, making the culture of jihad pervasive.
In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent-seeking boils over into protest.
In India, although economic policy changes have been made, state-level government officials need to be convinced that reforms benefit their communities before they drop entrenched opposition.
In many cases, the economy’s bottlenecks are not regulatory in nature, but stem from entrenched ways of doing business.
It is based on a strong, legally entrenched (though never perfect) ethos of gender equality that has typified Zionism from its start.
To succeed, both countries will have to overcome entrenched mindsets.
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