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Perhaps no individual has done more to raise the alarm – earning deserved credit for many successes and understanding all too clearly the remaining shortcomings – than James Wolfensohn, the outgoing President of the World Bank.

Such programs are often viewed as contradicting a basic American value, namely that admissions, lending, and hiring decisions should be based on the merits of the individual, not group distinctions.

In the long run, striving only for the latter leads to imbalance and resource depletion not only on the individual level, but also globally.

The country’s pension system emphasizes private saving and individual responsibility.

It has already outlawed keeping veal calves in individual stalls,and, in six months, it will be illegal in all 27 EU countries, from Portugal to Poland and from Britain to Greece, to keep laying hens in the bare-wire cages that today dominate the egg industry around the world.

In January 2013, keeping breeding sows in individual stalls will also be prohibited.

It is a classic public-goods problem: in principle, it is in individual countries’ self-interest not to take action, while the rest of the world does.

But one critical question remains unresolved: How can we ensure that these voluntary individual pledges add up to a collective solution to a global problem?

In short, Putin – who is no economic expert – makes all major economic policy decisions in Russia, delivering orders to top managers of state-owned enterprises and individual ministers in ad hoc, one-on-one meetings.

Continued recession and recurrent speculative attacks in the bond markets will prevent at least some over-indebted countries from attaining their adjustment targets, creating conditions for political crisis within the eurozone and individual countries.

The shift to a single currency meant that the individual member countries lost the ability to control monetary policy and interest rates in order to respond to national economic conditions.

With this separation, private finance can be fully integrated at the European level, while public finance is left to individual member states.

Keynesian stimulus policies might help ease the pain a bit for individual countries acting in isolation.

For Le Bon, “An individual in a crowd” – not only angry mobs on the street, but also other psychologically interconnected groups of people – “is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”

With the subsequent oil boom, one would have expected the fortunes of Chadians and Cameroonians to improve at the individual, local, and national levels.

Liberals do indeed place individual rights at the core of their political communities and believe that, in principle, those rights should extend to everyone.

A pension is a long-term commitment from the state – and, ultimately, the taxpayer – to an individual politician.

Foregoing vaccinations not only puts the health of individual children at risk; it also raises the likelihood of outbreaks that jeopardize the health of entire communities.

Sadly, rather than providing hope to the younger generation of Egyptians who protested in Tahrir Square six years ago, Sisi has stifled individual initiative and made the army the primary actor in the economy.

That left 95% of the variation to be explained by the effects of culture and individual decisions.

Individual countries like Greece have limited incentive to invest in controls insofar as refugees are only passing through.

Chile, which since 1981 has required citizens to save for retirement in individual accounts, managed by private administrators, is supposed to be the poster child in this regard.

The key lesson from Chile is that a defined-contribution, funded system with individual accounts has some advantages: it can stimulate savings, provide a large and growing stock of investible funds (over $170 billion in Chile), and spur economic growth.

But it also leaves individual citizens too exposed to too many risks.

One study estimates that workers treat half of the compulsory savings as a tax on labor income, so too-large an increase (especially in the funds that do not go to the worker’s individual account) could cause a drop in labor-force participation, a shift from formal to informal employment, or both.

Though the Brexit vote is generally regarded as a symptom of rising nationalist sentiment in the UK, it doesn’t follow that the UK – or individual remaining EU member states, for that matter – will stop viewing science and technology as drivers of economic growth.

At some point, the IMF’s strategy, which should be focused on the distressed country’s citizens and its creditors, should depart from that of the eurozone, which is more willing to sacrifice individual countries’ interests for the larger interest of the monetary union.

Worse, beyond the removal of individual autocratic leaders, few of the problems that fueled the uprisings have been addressed.

First, even if each individual debt-holder benefits, he or she will benefit even more if everybody else cuts the face value of their debt and he or she does not.

In either case, the individual would be able to purchase insurance after he or she receives the diagnosis.

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