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This failure would not have surprised the monetarist economists who observed the high inflation of the 1970s.
Failure may be the mother of success – but only if one makes the effort to learn from it.
The Obama administration’s failure in re-launching the India-Pakistan peace talks over Kashmir is one of the gravest weaknesses of its “AfPak” strategy.
Israel ’s fear that the failure of sanctions might bring the United States to accept coexistence with a nuclear-armed Iran in the way it did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War is not entirely unfounded.
Failure to act now means permitting each new generation that is born to benefit from the same lifetime net tax rate as current generations.
As with most serious issues in India, the problem is not a lack of high-minded laws, but rather the failure to implement them effectively.
EMU's failure would begin a rough ride for everybody, not least Eastern Europeans.
But it is misleading to attribute the failure of the Palestinians to develop an orderly system of self-government only to the pernicious effects of Israeli occupation and American policies.
Expanding education in countries where institutional failure, poor governance, and macro-economic mismanagement stymie investment is a prescription for low productivity and high unemployment.
One background paper for the summit highlights the failure of successive governments in Pakistan, which now has the world’s second-largest out-of-school population, to invest in education.
Creditors, asserting their right to be repaid in full, historically have created as many legal and political obstacles to default as possible, insisting on harsh sanctions – garnishment of income, for example, and, at the extreme, imprisonment or even slavery – for borrowers’ failure to honor their debt obligations.
High tolerance for failure keeps everybody striving to succeed.
Failure to act, they should be told in no uncertain terms, will leave them exposed (like Saddam) to an indictment by in an international war crimes tribunal once Saddam's rule is brought to an end.
The sudden discontinuation of the supply of petroleum and natural resources from Russia in the early 1990’s, the failure of the centrally-planned economy, and the subsequent massive famine in the mid-1990’s left North Korea’s leaders no alternative but to tolerate informal market activities.
In the US and Europe, there is also little sign of an economic calamity resulting from central banks’ failure to reach their inflation targets.
After all, that kind of extremism can even lead to war, based on perverted views that a particular war is God’s will rather than a failure of politics and cooperation.
Increased negative sentiment could have the worst possible result: not just Doha’s failure, but also the raising of trade and immigration barriers.
Although some abuses could have been lessened, the main reason for failure was that reform of the state did not keep pace with economic reforms.
What explains this failure?
My colleague at Harvard, Matt Andrews, has documented the failure of public financial management reforms designed to prevent graft.
Some distressed banks clearly possess large quantities of mortgage-backed securities, and are holding onto them in the hope that their prices will rise in the future, saving them from failure.
But the fear of failure becomes the most reliable ally of success.
By setting deadlines for these decisions, NATO and EU governments increased the costs of failure and heightened their commitment.
The price of failure is a Europe thrown back on past divisions.
These European apprehensions partly reflect failure by the continent’s leaders to capitalize on the sometimes-spectacular successes of enlargement, Poland being the most notable example.
Failure will cost lives.
Failure to equip these children with the opportunities that come with education will trap them in a cycle of poverty, undermining growth, weakening livelihoods, and creating fertile ground for recruitment by militant organizations.
It is not the innocent victims of repression who are losing their dignity, but rather the international community, whose failure to act means watching helplessly as the victims are consigned to their fate.
The world’s dictators, of course, know exactly what to make of the international community’s failure of will and inability to coordinate effective measures.
The US debt-ceiling fiasco has raised doubts in the minds of central bankers about the advisability of holding dollars, while Europe’s failure to resolve its sovereign-debt crisis continues to fuel doubt that the euro can survive.
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