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From the outset of his presidency, Obama’s defense of a liberal trade regime has been inadequate.
The current debt reduction program is woefully inadequate.
Though girls in the developing world today are much more likely to go to school, they still grow up shouldering a disproportionate burden of poverty, poor health, inadequate education, discrimination, and violence.
Personal retirement savings, another pillar of the US retirement system, are woefully inadequate for most households, partly because the decades-long stagnation in median wages has made it difficult to save.
Modern economies would not be possible without widespread literacy and numeracy: many emerging economies are held back by inadequate skills.
Putting more income into their hands would not only reduce poverty; it would stimulate consumer spending at a time when inadequate demand continues to impede recovery and job creation.
Jokowi, who takes office in October, must implement policies that address rising inequality, unsustainable fuel subsidies, entrenched corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and restrictive labor laws – all while rebuilding trust in Indonesian institutions.
Russia’s generals, we can assume, rejoice each time Trump refuses to endorse NATO’s Article 5 – the alliance’s bedrock collective defense clause – and instead poisons the alliance by railing against its leaders for their inadequate defense spending.
Fully one in three preventable deaths among young children worldwide – up to 2.5 million each year – are the result of inadequate nutrition.
In the case of health care, a national monopoly can forestall innovation and provide inadequate care with long waits.
Second, inadequate macroeconomic policy coordination has resulted in divergences in the international competitiveness of euro-zone members, threatening the very existence of the euro.
France’s most immediate problems are anemic growth and inadequate job creation.
Other major economies – namely, in Europe and Asia – may have a much harder time than the US rebalancing their policy mix (which continues to be characterized by excessively loose monetary policy, inadequate structural reforms, and, in some cases, excessively tight fiscal policy).
In 1914, the US/UK GDP ratio was 2.1, but the US dollar was not an IVC, suggesting that America’s relative economic strength was inadequate.
Moreover, today’s inadequate safety net denies many citizens access to benefits that could prevent homelessness.
Most people in Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland blame excessive public spending and inadequate regulation in countries like Greece, Spain, and Cyprus for destabilizing the eurozone and, in turn, the EU.
If the euro generated these imbalances, the argument goes, country-level solutions are inadequate.
That is why a campaign against “Brexit” that focused just on the economic and financial consequences – which would be serious, to be sure – would be inadequate: It would not reinforce British confidence.
But even asylum is inadequate to enable refugees to rebuild their lives.
Moreover, checks and balances, though still inadequate, have been strengthened in recent years.
And a shortage of investigative resources has led to an emphasis on problematic legislation, instead of the larger issue of inadequate enforcement of laws that promote the CRC’s principles.
The current focus on border security has resulted in inadequate, uncoordinated, and poorly designed policies that force migrants to resort to illegal and dangerous channels.
But the tools and powers available for home country supervisors are inadequate.
His low productivity before emigration was mainly due to inadequate institutions and economic policies of his native country.
Moreover, anxiety over inadequate provisions for retirement and health care is set to intensify as a rapidly aging population now enters the most vulnerable phase of its life cycle.
But the European Commission deemed the proposals inadequate.
In many Arab countries, incumbent public and private firms – especially in critical sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and energy – enjoy significant advantages, including outright protection, onerous regulations that deter market entry by new players, and inadequate limits on natural monopolies.
With Louisiana’s ability to protect itself weakened and the center of disaster relief badly undermined, an inadequate government response and unnecessary destruction were almost inevitable – with the poor paying the price.
This will reduce the danger of excessive capital flows to emerging markets, but the next crisis is likely to arise from inadequate capital flows.
The harm of inadequate patent protection in the financial world before 1998 was clear.
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