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If they bring Zika back to regions with Aedes aegypti and
inadequate
health-care systems – West Africa or South Asia, for example – millions of infections could occur before effective means of prevention or cure are developed.
But this data cannot hide the fact that the institutional model that made today’s integrated Europe possible is
inadequate
to the problems created by the financial crisis.
In some places, it is entirely
inadequate.
Under the responsibility to protect (R2P) principles that the UN General Assembly unanimously endorsed in 2005, coercive military action to stop atrocities should be contemplated only when peaceful means – from diplomatic persuasion to sanctions and threats of criminal prosecution – prove
inadequate.
Intelligent policy should therefore identify and remove any barriers unnecessarily depressing birth rates, such as labor-market discrimination, limited parental leave, or
inadequate
childcare facilities, which make it difficult for women to combine careers with having as many children as they wish.
Opening the country to a surge of immigrants makes sense, but Japan is not about to become an American-style melting pot, and this solution alone would be
inadequate
to the scale of the demographic challenge.
Today’s political turbulence, indeed, has the same roots as yesterday’s financial storms: inadequate, unsound, and unformed institutions.
On the other hand, poorly conceived and negotiated contracts not only prevent countries from enjoying the full long-term benefits of their natural resources, but also help to entrench poverty, corruption, and even conflict, particularly when governance systems are
inadequate.
By almost any measure, African science and technology is in a dismal state: in terms of the miniscule numbers and
inadequate
skills of its research and technical personnel; the poor and neglected quality of the infrastructure; the low level of instruction in primary and secondary schools; the miserly investments in universities and research institutes.
The root causes of the 2007 violence – rampant poverty, significant income inequality, pervasive corruption,
inadequate
internal security, and an unemployment rate exceeding 40% – remain.
Nor is it surprising that, with
inadequate
foreign exchange, the country is having difficulty paying its bills, or that price controls and police-state regulation have severely worsened food shortages.
As it stands,
inadequate
cross-border coordination and enforcement of international agreements is a major impediment to crisis prevention and management.
This decision partly reflects
inadequate
aid flows; but it may also be rooted in the costs of the WFP’s own operations.
Given this interconnectedness, it is unsurprising that the EU’s compartmentalized responses – such as the European Agenda on Migration, the Eastern Partnership, and the Energy Security Strategy – while important, have proved
inadequate.
The formalistic civil-law systems that prevail in continental Europe supposedly provide
inadequate
protection, so ownership remains concentrated.
Many modern challenges – including tax avoidance, organized crime, cyber insecurity, terrorism, climate change, international migration, and financial flows, both licit and illicit – have one thing in common: the traditional instruments of a sovereign state have become
inadequate
to manage them.
Indeed, while Indians often lament their country’s dysfunction,
inadequate
infrastructure, antiquated industrial processes, and uneven manufacturing record, it rose to the challenge and delivered.
Whether to prevent the appearance of
inadequate
insurance or to avoid losing export share, sizable interventions in currency markets became widely accepted among Asia’s emerging economies as a natural response to large capital inflows – directly contradicting these countries’ commitments to floating exchange rates.
But whichever mechanism is eventually adopted, we must also address the governance question: today’s
inadequate
system allows both economic and ecological losses to persist.
The result is
inadequate
provision of public goods that raise productivity and make everyone better off.
And government intervention to block the exits is
inadequate.
As Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake point out in their new book, Capitalism without Capital, one explanation is that the measurements themselves are
inadequate.
More generally, only a few have decisively overcome the trifecta of maladies that the crisis exposed:
inadequate
and unbalanced aggregate demand, insufficient structural resilience and agility, and persistent debt overhangs.
Given this harsh reality, it is not surprising that the second previously unthinkable outcome concerns
inadequate
policy responses – namely, the large and persistent imbalance between the hyperactivity of central banks and the frustrating passivity of other policymakers.
It described an elaborate spider’s web of committees, councils, and agencies with overlapping responsibilities, unrepresentative memberships, and
inadequate
enforcement powers – a system built up incrementally over decades, with no guiding architectural hand or central authority to promote coherent global regulatory standards.
European policy prescriptions have proven inadequate, and there is no consensus on the right balance of fiscal consolidation and economic stimulus – or on how much fiscal solidarity a functioning monetary union requires.
Water scarcity is largely the result of
inadequate
sanitation and a lack of necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers.
This is frequently the case because the mechanisms established to cope with post-conflict reconciliation, truth, and justice, have proved
inadequate.
The resulting added value will bolster policymakers’ ability to find long-term solutions to persistent problems, including an inefficient health-care system,
inadequate
primary and secondary education, and blatant social injustice.
However, high-handedness and tough talk alone are an
inadequate
response, for this approach further humiliates those who already feel humiliated, and alienates those who might otherwise proffer a more moderate voice.
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