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The stakes are high: Nation-states can survive a lost decade or more; but the EU, an incomplete association of nation-states, could easily be destroyed by it.
We are binding future generations to our own state of incomplete knowledge.
With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter-productive.
Yet it is increasingly evident that a model of human development based on economic progress alone is incomplete.
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.
Submitting an incomplete tax return, for example, would be tax evasion and is handled through administrative measures, including severe fines if necessary.
In fact, a clear distinction can be drawn between two subsets of legislative achievements: those that, while not meaningless, are incomplete, superficial, or essentially maintain the status quo, and those that will change Mexico (if all goes well).
Both reforms are incomplete and may not be sufficient to jump-start the economy and mobilize a singularly passive civil society.
But Keynes’s theory was incomplete: his was a theory of employment, interest, and money.
And, unfortunately, the difficulty of gathering such data means that many life-quality datasets are incomplete or infrequently compiled.
This is partly because of the never-ending negotiation process with Mercosur, the troubled – and still incomplete – Latin American customs union.
In Japan, long-standing structural problems, such as aging, labor-market rigidities, and a generalized productivity malaise, can be addressed only through the so-called “third arrow” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reform agenda, which remains woefully incomplete.
Integration is thus incomplete, with eurozone countries having abrogated monetary sovereignty, while rejecting the stabilizing mechanisms of shared fiscal and economic policy.
And, while Japan is a country with a long, unified history, and thus could survive a quarter-century of stagnation, the European Union is an incomplete association of sovereign states that is unlikely to withstand a similar experience.
They knew that their brainchild was incomplete.
Internal inertia, incomplete information, risk aversion, and conscious and unconscious biases combine to impede recognition of the urgency and importance of adaptation.
Yet the threat posed by global warming is nonetheless real, and focusing on human CO2 emissions is not necessarily "bad science," just incomplete science.
This scientific understanding is incomplete, and there remain significant uncertainties about the precise magnitudes, timing, and dangers of climate change.
Labor mobility is also incomplete without a common pensions and benefits system: under current arrangements, a worker who spends five years in France, five years in Greece, and five years in Germany is left with a fragmented collection of small entitlements.
A second problem stems from China’s incomplete transition on the world stage.
The European banking union, in its current state, is not only incomplete; its design flaws have made it a source of inaction and instability potentially worse than the ills it was intended to cure.
European authorities are unable to design such a plan, owing to the banking union’s fragmented and incomplete competencies.
But the reforms were incomplete, and some have even been rolled back, with SOEs regaining market share in some cases.
Incomplete knowledge complicates this assessment.
This is one of the costs of the incomplete nature of financial integration in Europe.
To be sure, incomplete data are a common problem for technology researchers.
The risk is that this approach is incomplete – and thus unlikely to be effective.
The final, most intractable aspect of incomplete knowledge is ignorance.
The key question is how to move from the narrow focus on risk toward broader and deeper understandings of incomplete knowledge – and thus to better scientific policy advice.
As a result, the eurozone’s institutional design will likely remain incomplete.
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