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More and more Americans are being led to forget how, just a few years ago, a united US government reacted decisively to “market failures” and thus helped to avoid a global economic meltdown that would have devastated millions of lives and undermined future generations’ prospects.
Despite its failures, the UN is probably still the best-placed organization to oversee such efforts.
Leaving aside the hypocrisy of Western governments pontificating on this topic while they are bailing out banks after massive regulatory failures, the proposal is seriously flawed.
As "money talks" in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.
But Havel's domestic failures were more than offset by his foreign policy contributions: persuading America and Western Europe to enlarge NATO -an organization which, prior to 1989, he thought should be abolished, and advocating Czech membership in the European Union.
Too often, international economic commitments serve not to fix democratic failures at home, but to privilege corporate or financial interests and undermine domestic social bargains.
Preventing bank failures and stopping terrorist attacks are important goals; unless we get serious about addressing climate change, we are likely to have more of both.
What happens on the playing field depends on everything that happened before – the failures as well as the successes.
In the United States, the 2011 bankruptcy of Solyndra – a solar cell manufacturer that folded after having received more than a half-billion dollars in government loan guarantees –seems to illustrate both failures.
Good industrial policy does not rely on governments’ omniscience and ability to pick winners; indeed, failures are an inevitable and necessary part of a well-designed program.
Not only are India's economic failures more obvious, in comparison to Asia's revived economic juggernauts; so, too, are the failures of its political system.
His economic failures have highlighted the need for a more moderate and capable president.
Instead, Western central banks have had to confront market failures, fragmented financial systems, clogged monetary-policy transmission mechanisms, and sluggish growth in output and employment.
The transparency mechanism supports this shift, by allowing journalists, activists, scientists, concerned citizens, and climate-friendly businesses to engage in debates, publicize successes and failures, solicit help and advice, and offer support to lagging countries.
The result of such failures is that small elites benefit while the majority suffers.
After a series of (often spectacular) failures, the euro was born to superglue exchange rates together.
One country’s failures can threaten the entire European economy, and can call into question the fruits of 60 years of integration.
He reached lofty heights and suffered humiliating failures – and went through several incarnations.
America’s failures provide important lessons to countries around the world, which are or will be facing increasing problems with their banks:- Delaying bank restructuring is costly, in terms of both the eventual bailout costs and the damage to the overall economy in the interim.
Incompetent leaders blame legislatures for their failures; legislators blame presidents from rival parties.
With the successive failures of IMF bailouts, the Fund has been looking for alternative strategies for handling crises.
Politics is the third and crucial dimension explaining Russia's failures.
And, second, could British universities themselves do more to drive productivity and wealth creation, by enhancing job opportunities and addressing labor-market failures in their own immediate vicinities?
In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.
Large numbers of states and corporations have announced that they will proceed with their commitments – and perhaps go even further, offsetting the failures of other parts of the US.
Failures to promote social solidarity can have other costs, not the least of which are the social and private expenditures required to protect property and incarcerate criminals.
Recent studies by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the CASE Foundation show that geographical distance from centres of development, mountainous terrain, lack of "market memory"- recent historical experience of an entrepreneurial tradition - and failures of economic policy are the main causes of the lack of recovery after the collapse of the Soviet-era economy.
By preventing a new division of the Euro-Asian region into successes and failures, the EU will make a substantial investment in its own long-term security.
So property rights rely on courts and legal enforcement, and markets depend on regulators to rein in abuse and fix market failures.
The successes of populist/right wing parties can largely be attributed to the failures of left-leaning governments.
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