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Put crudely, it is more beneficial politically for an opposition politician to claim that his country’s problems are self-induced, caused by domestic profligacy, and have little to do with global financial failures.
European leaders, frankly, should know better than to blame EU institutions, hypothetical trade deals, and refugees for their own failures to tackle unemployment and reduce inequality.
The West’s failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by the global economic crisis (which exposed severe structural weaknesses in the US and the EU that their democratic governments have been unable to resolve), accelerated this process.
Post-Soviet Russian leaders have yet to confront those failures.
Ethnic conflicts in that part of the world are at the basis of political instability, and of many economic failures: given that it is now possible to be small and prosper, one of the principal costs of secessions has been removed.
To make matters worse, national failures can no longer be addressed without aggravating the situation.
The price of bank failures should be paid by the banks’ owners and creditors; we should have bail-ins rather than bailouts.
With these documented failures in mind, I worked with colleagues to study policies that might be more effective.
Economists call such situations "coordination failures," if depositors could talk to each other and coordinate their actions, they would be able to avoid a self-defeating run on the bank.
Still, the proportion of government programs that create distortions and inefficiencies, rather than address market failures, is higher in China than in high-income countries.
Furthermore, because of the inevitable failures in the fidelity of the process, replication necessarily led also to variation (in replicable form), hence to competition among variant lineages for available resources.
These threats are often related to economic chaos and basic failures in national governance, and international military action will often be needed to meet them head on.
In short, there are psychological and moral failures at all levels – individuals, firms, unions, insurance companies, and governments.
Vertical policies are also useful in solving coordination failures.
Unlike 1960’s-vintage industrial policy, modern PDPs aim to correct market failures, not do away with market incentives.
It was thought that these measures would help in the short term to accelerate bank repair, and that they would end financial fragmentation, establish a level playing field, reduce the risk of future banking crises, and ultimately contain and share the costs of banking failures.
There is nothing we can do now to compensate for failures to manage risks in the past.
Failures would be faster – and much cheaper – because stakeholders would be less dependent on any one project.
African countries will benefit from reflecting on these successes and failures, and on what they mean for their own development strategies.
A Tale of Two TerminalsBEIJING – Ever since it opened recently, Terminal 5 of London’s Heathrow Airport has been plagued with failures.
The media, unsurprisingly, have feasted upon the failures of T5 in London, while neglecting the successes of T3 in Beijing.
Although recent events call into question local security conditions and transitional governments’ commitment to international agreements, Arab leaders welcome the shift in focus from their policy failures.
With harvest failures, failed crop-insurance schemes that benefited insurers rather than indebted farmers, and inadequate attention to irrigation, credit, price-support, and other needed inputs, farmer suicides have risen to record levels.
Is the Financial Sector Safe Enough Yet?CAMBRIDGE – A decade after the global financial crisis, policymakers worldwide are still assessing how best to prevent bank failures from tanking the economy again.
Failures of large banks must be addressed through intervention by the US Treasury.
This anniversary should have provided ample reason for a heated debate about the successes and failures of German reunification and for offering a vision for Germany and Europe for the next 20 years.
Indeed, the deep and pervasive market failures – in carbon emissions, biodiversity, and ecosystem services – are accelerating environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and undermining human well-being and social equity.
But China’s policy failures should come as no surprise.
Incidents are unforeseen events and technical failures that occur during normal plant operation and result in no off-site releases of radiation or severe damage to equipment.
In short, we need to shift from the CIA to the GFE, from the expensive failures of US-led regime change (including those targeting Afghanistan’s Taliban, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad) to investments in health, education, and decent jobs.
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