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According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain drain (loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.
They must tackle, head-on, the deprivations – from unemployment to inadequate access to health care or education – that cause so much harm to the poor.
Over time, as it became increasingly clear that the burden of fiscal adjustment fell on those with the weakest voice - usually the poor - the IMF recognized that a focus on short-run fiscal outcomes was inadequate.
The panel also found inadequate several other objections to legalization, and recommended that the law in Canada be changed to permit both physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
The consequences of choosing this inadequate, if expedient, route are serious.
But the very complexity of what is proposed shows just how inadequate the scheme is.
This is a clear symptom of the dissatisfying conditions back home, where a rigid labor market, inadequate funding for academic research and start-ups, and a socioeconomic system biased toward the old prevent individuals from expressing their full potential.
Today’s Brazil is constrained by inadequate supply of credit.
El Salvador is constrained by inadequate production incentives in tradable goods.
International agreement on robust action to limit global warming remains inadequate: the just-completed Lima climate-change conference delivered some progress, but no major breakthrough.
Moreover, India’s infrastructure is inadequate for a modern economy.
But the main problem is not inadequate aid; the problem is getting access to those who need it.
But Africa’s elder boom will be a disaster if living longer means living sicker because of inadequate health care.
Second, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles.
The Kerner Commission described a country in which African-Americans faced systematic discrimination, suffered from inadequate education and housing, and lacked access to economic opportunities.
Inadequate support for refugees is not just a problem in Greece, with refugee camps in many countries having come under scrutiny for poor conditions.
While laudable, this cause was inadequate to foster a shared European identity.
Inadequate financial regulation left Americans vulnerable to predatory banking behavior and saddled with enormous debts.
A second answer – that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral cycles – may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re-election.
While this approach may be appealing, it is inadequate to address today’s most pressing issues.
While greener economic and industrial policies are vital, they are inadequate; policy and market failures in the financial economy must be addressed as well.
Courts are inadequate to settle such disputes.
After decades of wrenching technological and social change, the old ways of connecting, geared to an agricultural society, were inadequate to addressing the problems plaguing America at the century’s turn.
And now, as then, the level and quality of investment have been consistently inadequate, with public spending on tangible and intangible capital – a critical factor in long-term growth – well below optimal levels for some time.
Even for women who do get on the academic ladder, the climb is slowed by inadequate opportunities for grants, promotions, and leadership.
The best – albeit inadequate and highly tentative – explanation that I have heard is that it fits with our cognitive biases, because it tells us what we want to hear.
But inadequate preparation will exacerbate the problem considerably.
The British had concluded, in the words of the British lieutenant governor of Bengal, that “a sedition law which is adequate for a people ruled by a government of its own nationality and faith may be inadequate, or in some respects unsuited, for a country under foreign rule.”
Today genetic tests yield probabilities and uncertain, inadequate information.
The potential barriers to the BRICS’ growth and development are many, including health threats like AMR, educational challenges, inadequate representation in global governance bodies, and a number of short-term cyclical problems.
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