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Europe’s leading politicians have spoken out, and now it is time for European civil society – its newspapers, critics, curators, academics, and publishers – to declare the failure of multiculturalism and show some courage in defending the values they claim to embody.
But that is unlikely, because lower GDP would be taken as a sign of the government’s failure.
Fortunately, their propaganda campaign has been a failure.
Perhaps he should explain to him that failure to pursue rapprochement with the Vatican contradicts Russia’s state interests.
War is a continuation not of politics, but of political failure.
Perhaps the only failure more glaring than the member states’ refusal to back such reforms is their own failure to act, not least because it has created a legitimacy vacuum that xenophobic populists are now filling.
That explains why some EU member states are keen to resume the negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement, which were suspended a year ago due to Serbia’s failure to cooperate fully with the ICTY.
The failure to reach agreement under such apparently auspicious conditions does not bode well for the coming talks.
Segregated schooling is a barrier to integration and produces prejudice and failure.
And once a timeline is set, the price of failure must be made clear.
It explains the failure in Russia and, quite likely, the coming failure in Brazil.
All I can say is that I feel ashamed for this failure of the German government and – unfortunately – also for the leaders of the red and green opposition parties who at first applauded this scandalous mistake!
A team of New York University professors – building on previous findings from UNESCO and the Brookings Institution – will work with a global network of researchers at local universities in several countries to examine the most appropriate methods for evaluating success and failure in education systems worldwide.
Some even suggest that women are emerging at the top because men do not want to take the blame for impending failure.
That question has been haunting economists ever since, as the recognition has slowly taken hold that, in the supposed “golden age” preceding the crisis, they were blind not only to the potential consequences of failure – but also to the true cost of “success.”
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
If, however, the crisis results from a coordination failure among investors – when each investor refuses to roll over the government’s debt for fear that others will do the same, leading to a default – monetary policy can play an important role.
This attitude is particularly prevalent in India, which recently put trade negotiations with the EU on hold, and it was central to the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.
To my mind, the biggest failure of post-2008 economic policy has consisted in governments’ inability to find creative ways to write down unsustainable debts, for example in US mortgage markets, and in Europe’s periphery.
This includes the failure to issue public debt where necessary to facilitate restructuring, particularly if overall economy-wide (or eurozone-wide) debt could be reduced in the same operation.
The recent failure of the Bank of England’s guidance to move markets in the desired direction might mean that investors are more optimistic about the British economy.
No amount of “transformation” or “partnerships” or anything else will matter much if NATO fails for the first time in its history – even if that failure is not of its own making.
Second, we need to address the Security Council’s insufficient attention to the humanitarian situation, and specifically its failure to implement Resolution 2139.
In 2010, the South Korean public was sharply critical of the military’s failure to retaliate immediately following the North’s sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship carrying more than 100 personnel, and its shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year.
Finance theorists have written reams on the consequences of the failure of the “efficient markets” hypothesis.
Unfortunately, the coalition's neglect of forensic issues reflects its wider failure to devise any strategy to address issues concerning the rule of law and justice, or any central body with the authority to begin building the necessary institutions.
The failure of this latest mini-reform movement suggests that when it comes to politics, fazhi , or the rule of law, has still made relatively little progress in eclipsing renzhi , the rule of men.
But to avoid deep cuts to current consumption, any credible growth strategy will have to put structural reforms before even macroeconomic stabilization, lest failure to deliver growth leads to a financial crisis and even deeper consumption cuts in the future.
Lehman Brothers, of course, went bankrupt – and it was the spreading effects of that failure that caused so much damage in September 2008 and subsequently.
Art Wilmarth of George Washington University Law School has also written persuasively on this point: at $250 billion, a bank’s failure can have major ripple effects.
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