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In this sense, the Indian state has been rather a poor agent; it collects little and delivers a pittance – and what it does deliver is of grossly inadequate quality.
Moreover, even congressional Republicans who have distanced themselves from Trump’s more extreme statements – some even before his inadequate response to the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – still support his main policy proposals, and are relying on him to sign conservative legislation that Obama vetoed.
One reason for the inadequate supply of jobs is that Iran’s leaders have failed to improve the country’s environment for private investment.
This, together with an inadequate regulatory and business environment, has raised concerns among companies; since 1999, the largest German multinationals have doubled their employee headcounts abroad, while cutting jobs at home.
For Eastern Europe, this boils down to four major areas: (1) an overdependence on natural resources; (2) export imbalances, in terms of product mix and foreign markets; (3) small, inadequate capital markets; and (4) inefficient production and use of energy.
The same incoherent approach has in the past undermined the EU’s efforts to project a credible foreign policy, ensuring that Europe is all too often perceived as feeble and inadequate.
Even with a significant deepening of ties, however, bilateral relationships alone will be inadequate to counterbalance China.
Too often the Security Council goes missing on the world’s most serious security and human rights problems, constrained by Realpolitik, out-of-date thinking, timidity, institutional limitations, or inadequate resources.
Inadequate human capital makes much-needed productivity growth difficult to come by.
But the solutions on offer reflect an inadequate understanding of the problem – and could have negative unintended consequences.
As long as only its purveyors have the data we need to understand it, the responses we craft will remain inadequate.
After each crisis, an explanation emerges, which the next crisis shows to be wrong, or at least inadequate.
One approach will blame lax regulation, accommodating monetary policy, and inadequate savings in the United States.
With emerging economies (including China) slowing, and with meaningful multilateral policy coordination remaining inadequate, protectionist pressures will mount as major trading powers compete for a stagnant pie.
First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate systems for protecting vulnerable migrants.
It proceeded step by step, setting limited objectives with limited timetables, knowing full well that each step would prove inadequate and require a further step.
But a substantial proportion of cognitively capable people do not respond well to formal education and, even for those who do, it is inadequate to provide the insider knowledge and wide-ranging experience needed to adapt, much less innovate, in a dynamic labor market.
Beyond excessive trade barriers, Africa suffers from inadequate transport links and limits on the free movement of people.
But inadequate understanding of the Iraqi and regional context, together with poor planning and management, undercut Bush’s transformational objectives.
But while some progress has been made, the largely piecemeal approach that has been pursued may yet prove inadequate to support long-term financial stability.
Current scientific knowledge is simply inadequate to face the challenge.
Despite expressions of anguish about widening economic disparities within many countries, policies to address them remain inadequate.
The resulting economic uncertainties are compounding years of inadequate growth and deteriorating public-debt dynamics.
The still-unresolved “doom loop” between governments and banks holding public debt will amplify the existential problems of an incomplete monetary union with inadequate risk-sharing.
Following its inadequate response to the euro crisis, the Fund should admit that the time has come to return to its roots.
Europe’s leaders must act now to minimize the risks, lest they find their shelters inadequate to the extreme weather that could lie ahead.
But, in the years leading up to the crisis, many economists downplayed these models’ lessons in favor of models of efficient and self-correcting markets, which, in policy terms, resulted in inadequate governmental oversight over financial markets.
If that is the case, reducing immigrants’ welfare benefits will be inadequate.
Inadequate education goes hand in hand with the region’s unemployment crisis.
In addition, China’s economy suffers from inefficient state-owned enterprises, a shaky financial system, and inadequate infrastructure.
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