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And economists have long known that market failures – including poorly functioning labor markets, credit market imperfections, knowledge or environmental externalities, and monopolies – can interfere with reaping those gains.
Having been buoyed by the successful and peaceful 2002 election that brought in the promise of change, the Kenyan public remains loudly outraged by the government’s failures to make good on its promises.
It feels as if we’ve all stepped into a time machine and none of the past couple of years of governance lessons – including the failures of boards in the banking-sector crisis – ever happened.”
So, have we learned anything from the policy failures of governments, institutions, and international diplomacy that occurred in the summer of 1914?
To find it requires taking a step back and considering the most fundamental reason for the diplomatic failures of the last three decades: the high level of mutual distrust, which has made a small and weak country like North Korea, surrounded by big powers, paranoid about its own security.
The MIT School, by contrast, argues that real-world economies are afflicted by pervasive market failures, including imperfect competition and monopoly, externalities associated with problems like pollution, and an inability to supply public goods such as street lighting or national defense.
Consequently, policy interventions that address market failures – as well as widespread information imperfections and the non-existence of many needed markets – can make everyone better off.
They believe that government intervention tends to generate its own costly failures because of bureaucratic incompetence and rent-seeking, whereby private interests try to steer policy to their own advantage.
And the regulatory failures in Europe – consider the German Landesbanks, for example – will become only more obvious in the coming months.
The truth is that a country’s past failures do not influence investors if its current institutions and economic policies are sound.
A fearful public quickly lost confidence in official communications channels after repeated failures, and people looked instead to the news media for information.
Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a willingness to gamble and take risks on innovation.
Becoming involved early in the process of assessment, education, and integration planning would allow the private sector to help shape policy from the outset, rather than complaining about the government’s failures after the fact.
The violence in the North Caucasus is becoming less a serious regional conflict and more an existential threat to the entire Russian Federation – an evolution that reflects almost all of the mistakes, failures, and crimes of the post-Soviet leadership.
Moreover, given their influence over policy and the economy, their ethical and moral failures have far-reaching consequences.
Moreover, large-scale failures of inclusion derail reforms and investments that sustain longer-term growth.
The entire Bush administration has been a succession of leadership failures, so why harp on its poor financial management?
But there have been some serious failures, certainly including Sri Lanka in 2009.
Correcting these policy failures is made more difficult by the rise of populist political forces.
Rather, managers essentially get to set the terms of their own pay, through compensation packages that reflect failures of corporate governance, tax law, and financial engineering.
The policy failures have indeed been remarkable.
Together, these fiscal failures have probably subtracted more than a percentage point from US growth in each of the last three years.
Market failures must not be allowed to undermine the incentive to accumulate knowledge.
While economic development is no guarantor of peace, development failures do often contribute to extremism and violence, as popular anger combines with a loss of institutional legitimacy.
This includes fair and transparent stewardship of resources, anti-corruption safeguards, tools for monitoring progress, civil-society engagement, and accountability for failures.
Moreover, although May was in the “Remain” camp during the referendum campaign, she realizes that, as Prime Minister, she will be held responsible for any failures in the Brexit negotiations.
Given the risks involved, it is not surprising that pharmaceutical companies are very careful in their choice of investments in new drug or vaccine programs, selecting only those that promise financial gains sufficient to cover the costs of both successes and failures and provide a reasonable return on the required investment.
As a system, NASA is resistant to change, but inside there are thousands of people yearning to experiment and learn from both successes and failures.
Critics who take failures in commercial projects in stride find the Bank sloth-like compared with the private sector and become indignant when its projects fail.
Why has it – unlike previous forecasting failures – stoked so much mistrust of economists?
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