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Countries pursuing harmful policies that blunt their development prospects are doing the greatest damage to themselves.
They know that their government is fragile, and they consider criticism harmful rather than cleansing.
They rightly consider many of these rules and regulations to be unduly protective of special interests inside the EU and harmful to a dynamic free market economy.
It seems many Europeans need to be reminded that cocaine is highly addictive and harmful.
Economic equality also challenges accepted beliefs, and dispels harmful myths that perpetuate narrow definitions of gender norms.
The most harmful consequence is the public's loss of trust in the system.
From this perspective, it is not clear whether “technological sovereignty” is a helpful or harmful concept.
This would not pander to the sort of racism that was a shameful feature of some of the “Leave” campaigning in Britain – and which has left a harmful residue of hostility to foreigners of every hue.
He concluded that “not only is there no scientific evidence that we need to drink that much, but the recommendation could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough.”
But as most analysts, including at the IMF, now agree, the troika’s approach was also deeply flawed, as it emphasized wage and income cuts, while neglecting the reform of product markets and the dismantling of harmful public and private oligopolies.
Indeed, while corruption is generally harmful to economic growth, there is a case to be made that in the years since China launched its transition to a market economy in the late 1970s, it was a necessary evil because of the country’s unique initial circumstances: rigid state control and limited international trade.
Second, China’s strictly controlled society has given rise to well-organized corruption, which – as economists Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny argued in the early 1990s – is surely less harmful than the chaotic corruption experienced by, for example, the ex-Soviet countries during their early years of transition.
But, as China has grown into a more internationally integrated, modern economy, pervasive corruption has become more harmful than beneficial.
Similarly, old-fashioned dirigisme – such as attempts to “pick winners,” foster national “champions,” or keep failed business models alive through state subsidies – is both harmful and doomed to fail.
To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.
A policy decision can be positive in the aggregate but severely harmful to some groups – which is frequently the case with liberalization measures.
The next step is for the cell that reproduces a virus, whether useless or harmful, to develop some way to resist it.
This entails finding the optimal balance between spending cuts and tax increases, and identifying the least harmful measures over the medium term.
Such a failure is extremely harmful.
It must cope with entrenched territorial and maritime disputes, such as in the South China Sea; harmful historical legacies that weigh down its most important interstate relationships; increasingly fervent nationalism; growing religious extremism; and sharpening competition over water and energy.
Proper and complete documentation of harmful drug effects is difficult.
Democrats respond that such a one-sided approach would be economically harmful and socially unjust.
The Russian bank system turns out to have been more harmful than useful.
Eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020 is not only crucial for conserving the ocean; it will also affect our ability to meet other goals, such as our promises to end hunger and achieve food security and to reduce inequality within and among countries.
The Global Ocean Commission has put forward a clear three-step program to eliminate harmful fishing subsidies.
In classical nineteenth-century capitalism, politics and economics were idealized as distinct spheres, with interactions between government and business confined to the (necessary) raising of taxes for military adventures and the (harmful) protection of powerful vested interests.
Free markets alone cannot cope with the “externalities” that arise when economic activities produce harmful consequences that impose no direct cost on individual producers and consumers.
And climate change is the biggest externality of all, with the harmful consequences likely to be suffered by future generations worldwide, rather than primarily by those currently producing and consuming fossil fuels.
Thiel maintained that efforts to combat the recession through loose monetary policy and hyper-aggressive fiscal stimulus treat the wrong disease, and therefore are potentially very harmful.
Previously, the parliament’s legislative committee received a proposal to lower the age of marriage for girls from 18 years to 12.Needless to say, this would cut short girls’ education, not to mention other harmful implications.
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