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Fortunately, in his second term, with Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes at the State Department and Rumsfeld’s reputation dented by failures that in the private sector would have led to his firing or resignation, Bush has shown an increased concern about America’s soft power.
While greener economic and industrial policies are vital, they are inadequate; policy and market failures in the financial economy must be addressed as well.
Institutional and political failures will limit the capacity of developing countries to benefit from investments in technology in the same measure as developed countries, even when they actually acquire computers in optimal numbers.
But, as with today’s toxic assets, there was no market, and rapid disinvestment would have triggered fire-sale prices, depressing all asset values in the economy and resulting in more bank failures.
As warnings about the “middle-income trap” underscore, history is littered with more failures than successes in pushing beyond the per capita income threshold that China has attained.
If we are to lock in our progress, we will need to address the failures of our financial system at their roots, putting in place standards, regulations, and practices that make it compatible with the long-term needs of a more inclusive, sustainable economy.
On the contrary, the failures of US policy have contributed to reduce the legitimacy of America’s power further.
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the subcommittee that heard their testimony, evidently seeing eye to eye with Kaufman, was just as tough after a year-long investigation of Washington Mutual, Goldman, and the abject failures of bank regulators and credit rating agencies.
Many people share the blame for the failures that have occurred since communism's collapses.
Although this is largely the case, no one can claim that Africans have a monopoly on governance failures.
Moreover, while the international community is quick to pounce on African leaders for governance failures, it seems less enthusiastic about examining its role in the flight of African assets.
That reflects the small probability that the market is assigning to the occurrence of a full-blown financial crisis with bankruptcies and bank failures.
Compared to these failures, Vladimir Putin’s achievements in Chechnya look like the height of success.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the government expects to focus instead on “targeted interventions” designed to create positive incentives, correct market failures, and address social, geographical, and sectoral imbalances.
While Adam Smith started us on the optimistic belief that an invisible hand would take care of most coordination issues, in the intervening period economists discovered all sorts of market failures, informational imperfections, and incentive problems, which have given rise to rules, regulations, and other forms of government and societal intervention.
Not all succeeded; but the successes (Germany, for example) far outweigh the failures (see Greece).
Yet, despite history’s long train of failures, Hamas’s June 2007 seizure of control of Gaza, and its pariah status in the West, we are repeatedly told by the US that 2008 will be the year of a peace agreement.
After 60 years of failures, and as the generation that lived through the Nakbeh passes from the scene, a political settlement that can provide Palestinians with freedom in an independent state alongside a secure Israel and a fair solution of the refugee problem is more necessary – but also appears less possible – than ever.
Traditional consumer policy, which focuses on correcting market failures, needs to be supplemented by a modern consumer policy that looks to the future to influence the demand side of the market, leading it towards more sustainable behavior.
They reflect power asymmetries and political failures within societies.
International trade agreements can contribute only in limited ways to remedying such domestic political failures, and sometimes they aggravate those failures.
European Financial Regulation’s Wrong TurnLondon – With the crisis in financial systems around the world reflecting massive regulatory failures, calls for more and better oversight abound.
Given the Murdoch companies’ far-reaching influence, the failures of their boards are all the more consequential.
If Chinese companies, both state- and privately owned, are to benefit from the leadership’s new vision, they must learn from past failures, and adapt their priorities for the long term.
Preventive measures should therefore focus on these policy failures rather than degenerating into hostility towards hedge funds and other private-equity devices.
After all, in Trump’s zero-sum “I win, you lose” view of the world, congressional failures that he can blame on the Democrats are almost as good as White House successes.
In no small measure, the failures of globalization can be traced to the same mindset that led to the failures in Iraq: multilateral institutions must serve not just one country's interest, but all countries'.
This does not mean using state power to crush groups that have arisen in part due to the state’s own failures, but rather to uphold law and order by prosecuting only the guilty and understanding why such groups are gaining recruits in the first place.
Successive failures have led to endemic anxiety and rage – and, in turn, to a society-wide quest for redemption.
Given the current fluidity of Egyptian politics, different groups, representing opposing ideologies, deflect blame and responsibility for the various failures and assign guilt to others.
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