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Chinese officials may not be answerable to a democratically elected parliament or congress; but government officials do have a unitary body – the seven-member standing committee of the Politburo – to which they must account for their failures.
German foreign policy from 1890 to 1914, for which the Kaiser bore formal and intermittently actual responsibility, comprised a series of failures and setbacks.
A bankruptcy system that allows entrepreneurs to survive the inevitable failures that accompany innovation, as well as stronger protection of intellectual property and improved access to equity finance, are also needed.
There is much to learn from the diplomatic failures that led to WWI.
Finally, if America wants change, why vote for a ticket that has embraced the very attitudes that gave the Bush years their character, and exemplifies some of the reasons for its unpopularity and failures, from partisan bigotry and the assault on reason and science to the “America First” dismissal of the opinions of the rest of mankind?
If China’s animal spirits are allowed to operate through market mechanisms, distinguishing real value from aspirational prices, China, too, can stay the course toward the new economy, despite the failures and consolidation that will inevitably occur.
However, some events – such as a wave of corporate scandals or a stock market crash – can interrupt the ordinary pro-insider operations of interest-group politics by leading ordinary citizens to pay attention corporate governance failures.
Indeed, scientists predict that India will become significantly hotter over the next few decades, and therefore more prone to a range of weather-related calamities such as droughts, floods, crop failures, and cyclones.
In their eagerness to embrace development policies that are proven failures, all of the candidates in the presidential election scheduled for December 18 appear unaware of this risk.
The Yom Kippur War TodayMADRID – The approach of the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War has been marked in Israel largely by the recurrent debate about the failures of Israeli intelligence in detecting and thwarting Egypt’s surprise attack.
John Maynard Keynes, an architect of Bretton Woods, believed that the true lesson of the failures of the Depression-era 1930’s lay precisely in the character of the large and chaotic 1933 London World Economic Conference.
Still, for now, donor aid remains essential to fill gaps in domestic funding, to address market failures, and to encourage more private-sector investment.
The prospect raised by today's new technologies in finance and information is that some of the "market failures" at the root of state involvement in the economy may cease to exist.
A massive liquidity injection by the government ensured that no major bank collapsed, and minor bank failures were administered in a surprisingly orderly fashion.
On the financial side, however, the magnitude of the chaos is staggering: mammoth failures of risk management on the part of highly leveraged financial institutions that must be first-rate risk managers in order to survive.
The current discussions show little will – on either side – to overcome the failures of the past five years.
We learn from economic policy failures as well as from successes.
In short, when the EU brings subsidies, it receives congratulations; but when it pushes for unpopular reforms, it becomes the scapegoat for political, social, and economic failures.
But, as the Lakhdar Brahimi Panel concluded a decade ago, after reviewing some of the catastrophic failures of peace processes in the 1990’s, the responsibility of the UN Secretariat must be to tell the UN Security Council what it needs to hear, not what it wants to hear.
The response to the private-sector failures and profligacy that had caused the crisis was to demand public-sector austerity!
Yields, on average, barely support survival, and crop failures are common and deadly, while long-term global climate change, caused mainly by high energy consumption in the rich countries, may be exacerbating the frequency and severity of droughts.
Many people attribute these failures partly to an absence of American leadership.
In response to “government failures,” companies face pressure from a variety of stakeholders – including incompetent and corrupt governments themselves – to address broad social and environmental problems.
This means that addressing the distributive effects of market failures requires the construction of new judicial, administrative, and regulatory frameworks – a process that will take time.
His successes and failures were his own.
And his failures are not his alone: the entire country – and much of the world – stands to suffer.
To be sure, these economic problems will require solutions at the national level; but they have also been perpetuated by common policymaking failures.
What we showed is that, as soon as one recognizes that information is imperfect - as it obviously is - then these externalities can be shown to be pervasive, and that market failures are similarly pervasive.
It is an irony of history that just as a host of researchers around the world were developing these ideas and enhancing our understanding of the limitations of markets, international economic institutions were pushing the Washington consensus - based on market fundamentalism - which ignored market failures.
In the real world, failures in privatization were related in part to problems of corporate governance, problems related to asymmetries of information between managers and owners.
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