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Similarly, the monopolistic structure was alleged to render monetary policy ineffective.
But the danger in a weakened democracy is not merely blocked legislation and ineffective government.
India, the government’s critics argue, has taken upon itself the enormous burden of talking peace with a government that, when it comes to addressing the real threats emanating from its territory and institutions, has proved to be ineffective at best and duplicitous at worst.
But America’s sporadic, erratic, and largely ineffective deployment of power is hardly of Martian quality.
There is evidence that in the wake of a financial crisis, when monetary policy becomes ineffective – for example, because nominal interest rates are at the zero bound – deficit spending can have an unusually strong stabilizing impact.
The state in Mexico is ineffective, and democracy has weak foundations.
This strategy, however, is likely to prove as ineffective now as it was for Nixon, who succeeded only in ushering in an era of stagnation.
Or would they become mired in ineffective, poorly-funded attempts to obtain quick results, and then say it couldn’t be done?
But, while government policies, according to this school, are ineffective, that matters little.
Known as the “Barcelona process,” this initiative proved weak and ineffective, because much of its funding was diverted to Eastern Europe for the EU’s ambitious enlargement drive.
The armed forces’ role in fighting narcotics – which has been ineffective in every country where it has been tried – is encouraged by a coercive, misguided, bipartisan US strategy.
The existing institutions were looking increasingly irrelevant in normal times, and ineffective in times of crisis.
The Human CitySINGAPORE – The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few count on it to deliver results anymore.
Without higher aggregate demand, he argued, structural reform could be ineffective; and higher demand requires fiscal stimulus alongside expansionary monetary policy.
They argue that ECB quantitative easing alone, with no fiscal relaxation, would be ineffective.
After expanding its balance sheet to nearly 60% of GDP – double the size of the Fed’s – the BOJ is finding that its campaign to end deflation is increasingly ineffective.
He thought fiscal policy particularly important in situations where monetary policy was likely to be ineffective.
Needless to say, these efforts were ineffective, and European banks’ share prices have declined by 50%, on average, since the initial 2014 assessment.
It would also be ineffective, because developing countries will – legitimately – refuse to assume by themselves the burden of protecting the world’s biodiversity to the detriment of their economic growth.
But the update has proved ineffective, as exemplified by the situation faced by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the secure messaging system used for global cross-border financial transactions.
After all, vision without implementation is ineffective.
Farmer, in his thoughtful commentary, argues that models of the type he has pioneered in recent years are the right way to think about chronically excessive unemployment and that, with the right microfoundations, one can conclude that fiscal policies are ineffective.
Nonetheless, according to the Financial Times which reported the IMF chief’s views, “the IMF would not recommend them as a standard prescription either – as they carried costs and were usually ineffective.”
Strauss-Kahn’s response that taxes on capital flows are costly and ineffective is therefore unfortunate.
Or you can oppose controls because you think that they can be easily evaded and are therefore doomed to remain ineffective.
What you can’t do is oppose capital controls because they are both costly and ineffective.
Some critics add that central banks are failing to hit their inflation targets anyway, so their activism is not only unwarranted, but also ineffective.
The most highly touted change – the separation between proprietary trading and commercial banking (also known as the “Volker rule,” after former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker) – has nothing to do with what caused the crisis, and most likely was approved because it was ineffective.
However, simply providing access to such facilities can be surprisingly ineffective – a significant number are never used.
If banks are driven, for any reason, to reduce lending to the private sector, monetary policy may become less effective, ineffective, or even counter-productive.
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