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Moreover, school curricula, often hijacked by state governments to promote their ideological agendas, are largely inadequate for building skills.
In July, Bernanke attempted to calm investors with remarks signaling that, amid inadequate employment gains and persistently low inflation, the Fed would not abandon monetary stimulus anytime soon.
In addition to those who are not in school at all, 500 million children currently receive no more than a primary education, which itself is often inadequate.
And, indeed, as that stimulus wanes, the impact of inadequate advanced-country demand on Chinese growth is becoming increasingly apparent.
The response to the crisis in northeast Nigeria has been desperately inadequate.
Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.
Outdated and inefficient border procedures and inadequate infrastructure often mean high transaction costs, long delays, opportunities for corruption, and an additional 10-15% in the cost of getting goods to market – even more in landlocked countries.
Some social scientists assert that poverty is not just a matter of poor nutrition, lack of medical care, and inadequate shelter; it also means exclusion from global networks of trade, science and commerce.
Those who recommend a unilateral American foreign policy based on such traditional descriptions of American power are relying on a woefully inadequate analysis.
Brazil’s trade in goods also suffers from the country’s inadequate transportation and communications networks.
Certainly, when a war’s timing is a matter of choice, as in this case, inadequate preparation is even less justifiable.
The regional and multilateral dimensions are similarly inadequate.
While Koo applied this framework to Japanese firms in Japan’s first lost decade of the 1990’s, it rings true for America’s crisis-battered consumers, who are still struggling with the lingering pressures of excessive debt loads, underwater mortgages, and woefully inadequate personal saving.
Add to that inadequate regional political-military arrangements, and it is not at all certain that wisdom will triumph over recklessness, or that Asia’s unique decades-long peace will endure.
Thousands of perfectly smart and highly useful people feel inadequate because they are not heroes.
But the two CEOs couldn’t agree on terms, and now the CTO’s company is dead while the other company struggles with inadequate technology.
The implication is clear: The banks’ capital shortfall will be understated, and the amount of new capital they will be required to raise will be inadequate.
Training to respond to severe accidents was inadequate.
Now, the US has shifted its attention to China’s inadequate protection of intellectual-property rights and its policy of appropriating foreign technology in exchange for market access.
America’s soft-power assets were inadequate to compensate for the deficiencies of its hard-power approach.
By stifling economic growth, inadequate land-tenure systems perpetuate poverty and marginalization.
But, as the boom recedes, a deep, debilitating weakness is becoming increasingly apparent: the region’s inadequate education systems.
Joblessness is the main cause of poverty, and the best protection against it is earned income, for which even France’s generous welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.
In October, tens of thousands of villagers protesting inadequate resettlement compensation held a local official captive for several hours before ten thousand People’s Armed Police officers rescued him.
And that, after all, is precisely the point: lack of public engagement – not to mention inadequate professional solidarity and cooperation – means that Russia’s authorities can breathe easy.
So far, security and law enforcement have been utterly inadequate to deal with past abuses.
They may mitigate the consequences of peak prices, but they are inadequate to avoiding the recurrence of shocks, which can be accomplished if the G-20 acts on eight priorities.
IMF surveillance, intended to detect economic vulnerabilities and imbalances, was inadequate.
An inadequate diet makes your children grow up physically stunted and impairs their cognitive development, costing 4-8 IQ points on average.
People save so much because insurance is so inadequate.
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