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The
inability
to answer this question clearly exorcised and angered both the senior expert and the committee.
The costs of corporatism are visible all around us: dysfunctional corporations that survive despite their gross
inability
to serve their customers; sclerotic economies with slow output growth, a dearth of engaging work, scant opportunities for young people; governments bankrupted by their efforts to palliate these problems; and increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of those connected enough to be on the right side of the corporatist deal.
During a meeting, which I attended, with a delegation from the International Press Institute to obtain the release of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza in March, Abbas explained the PA’s
inability
and weakness.
The
inability
or unwillingness of either side to put itself in the other’s shoes, a precondition for any compromise, kept both locked in a spiraling arms race.
Distrust of politicians is mounting, manifested in weak electoral turnout (except for the last presidential election), protest votes for extremist parties, and the state’s
inability
to reform itself.
There are greater forces at work than his exotic private life and
inability
to connect with voters.
Sagging public infrastructure and an
inability
to attract foreign capital have made the economic outlook even worse.
There are several reasons for this regulatory failure, including the
inability
to acquire and process all relevant data, the political difficulty of enforcing strict judgments, and the difficulty of modeling tail risks.
One contributing factor to this poverty is the
inability
of people to feed themselves effectively.
French leaders have demonstrated an
inability
to communicate effectively or apply past experiences in analyzing current threats.
The
inability
to achieve a consensus on acute issues, such as Syria’s internal repression, or on chronic problems, like climate change, highlights the (increasing) complexity of global governance and responsibility.
The Indian state’s fundamental
inability
to redress grievances, correct mistakes, and attend to its citizens’ most basic needs has given rise to a ruinous level of corruption, as citizens, despairing of obtaining their due fairly, try to buy it instead.
But America’s
inability
after the Great War to overcome Old World politics at Versailles and isolationism at home marked a failed opportunity to promote a positive watershed.
In fact, Putin’s recent address was replete with references to Russia’s weaknesses – specifically, “interethnic tensions,” local-government authorities “constantly shaken by corruption scandals,” an incompetent administration, capital flight through economic “offshore activity,” and the
inability
to achieve “technology breakthroughs.”
But, judging by Iraqi politicians’
inability
to form a new government months after national elections, their failure to provide essential services, and, above all, the continuing deadly violence, nation-building in Iraq is far from complete.
Summers emphasizes the inadequacy of aggregate demand, exacerbated by the
inability
of central banks to reduce nominal interest rates below zero.
But the Soviet Union’s demise was the result of a long string of missteps, beginning with pre-Soviet Russia’s
inability
to come to terms with modernity.
Regrettably, the Union’s
inability
to agree on a common policy has not only weakened its role on the international level, but has also become a major obstacle to determined action in the country itself.
If we add up these three factors – the enormous economic challenge of reducing greenhouse gases, the complexity of climate science, and deliberate campaigns to confuse the public and discredit the science – we arrive at the fourth and over-arching problem: US politicians’ unwillingness or
inability
to formulate a sensible climate-change policy.
The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and, to some extent, Morocco, epitomize Arab regimes’ seeming
inability
to escape the autocracy trap – even as current circumstances suggest that another popular awakening is imminent.
But, given the
inability
of participating states to control their borders with non-EU countries, Germany and other Schengen members have temporarily reinstated controls.
At some point, the
inability
to deal with domestic economic problems within the EMU framework may lead one or more countries to conclude that those costs are simply too high to bear.
Though Bush has long sought to blame others, it is clear that America’s unbridled consumption and
inability
to live within its means is the major cause of these imbalances.
Humbled by its
inability
to control United States military operations, including the one that killed Osama bin Laden, the army is struggling to play a hand in the country’s evolving relations with India and the US.
If negotiations stall, financial and liquidity stress, resulting from Greece’
inability
to borrow at current interest rates – ten-year bond yields have reached 9.5 % – will weaken the fiscal position and banking system further.
As a result, their
inability
to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.
By demanding better state services, rather than an “Arab Spring,” Algerians have walked a fine line, highlighting the regime’s
inability
to deliver security and economic prosperity, despite its efforts to stifle all debate.
The most telling indicator was the
inability
of George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016, to achieve any of his budget targets.
The data linking democratic political instability and financial backwardness in the modern era, which Jordan Siegel of the Harvard Business School and I analyze in a forthcoming article, show unmistakably that instability powerfully predicts an
inability
to develop financial markets.
Conservative leaders’ collective
inability
to insulate South Korea from the events of 1997 cleared the way for a liberal opposition leader, Kim Dae-jung, to assume the presidency in 1998.
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