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Such measures may prove wasteful or ineffective, but they do not rise to the level of being reckless.
The problem is that Italy’s local public administration is notoriously ineffective, especially in the south, where unemployment is highest.
The combination of a banking sector squeeze with a paralyzed or ineffective lender of last resort is a potentially very dangerous combination.
The market alone is an ineffective way to stimulate research and development into uncertain technology, and a high carbon tax will simply hurt growth if alternatives are not ready.
Instead, asserting that the US had “erred in supporting China’s entry into the WTO on terms that have proven to be ineffective in securing China’s embrace of an open, market-oriented trade regime,” the USTR focused on complaints about Chinese industrial policy, which is largely beyond the WTO’s scope.
Indeed, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, policies directed at a specific issue, such as hunger, can be ineffective – even counterproductive – unless they take into account related issues.
Unfortunately, those rules have proved completely ineffective.
A country subject to rocket attacks from across its border has a right to defend itself, even if its own actions can be construed as having provoked the attacks, and the attacks themselves are relatively ineffective.
The Louvre agreement was not just ineffective.
In addition to highlighting the scale of the problem, the review is seeking to find ways to reduce drug resistance and to stimulate the production of new antibiotics to compensate for the loss of those that are now or will become ineffective.
But voting technology may not just be ineffective; it could actually be damaging.
There is no overarching explanation for Obama’s successive Middle East failures, but there are a few factors worth considering: the increase in the number of asymmetrical conflicts, in which the traditional use of force is largely ineffective; increasingly blurred lines between difficult allies and intransigent adversaries; and major political differences between a centrist US president and a Congress that is dominated more than ever by extreme ideas.
In a world of divided political sovereignty and diverse national preferences, the push for international harmonization is a recipe for weak and ineffective rules.
No wonder Nelson Mandela, who told me that Gandhi had “always been a great source of inspiration,” explicitly disavowed non-violence as ineffective in South Africans’ struggle against apartheid.
But this top-down approach has proven ineffective, as scandals at Uber and other tech firms have demonstrated.
A formal debt restructuring is often offered as an alternative to ineffective supranational and national fiscal frameworks.
So once again Russians must face how ineffective their military is.
The impact and success of these tools and programs should be monitored and evaluated, with ineffective approaches being improved or replaced.I’ve conducted research in rural communities around the world, and one of the features they all have in common is the difficulty that farmers and pastoralists confront in accessing reliable information about markets, weather, and financing.
The impact and success of these tools and programs should be monitored and evaluated, with ineffective approaches being improved or replaced.
A dearth of well-qualified teachers and ineffective governance exacerbates the situation.
Indeed, any political union that the Eurogroup would endorse today would be disciplinarian and ineffective.
And costly, ineffective programs are notorious for surviving indefinitely because they develop powerful defenders.
Corruption is one facet of poor governance; indeed, it correlates with ineffective public administration, weak accountability, low transparency, and inconsistent implementation of the rule of law.
This approach has not only been ineffective in China; it may prove to be counter-productive, with households, eager to preserve their purchasing power, saving more and hunting for higher rates of return.
And make no mistake about it: the EU’s unilateral emission restrictions are not only economically destructive – likely to cost Europe an estimated $250 billion a year by 2020 – but are also astonishingly ineffective.
As he put it in 1997, “As we move into a new century, the market-stabilizing private regulatory forces should gradually displace many cumbersome, increasingly ineffective government structures.”
Today’s haphazard, overlapping regional integration is proving largely ineffective, and this severely hampers African countries’ ability to compete in international markets.
And, given their concerns about long-term income continuity, traditional policies like stimulus spending or tax cuts would be ineffective.
This implies that intervention is not only unnecessary; it is ineffective: Faced with wide swings and trading volumes of $2 trillion per day, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal.
Liberal Western and domestic circles commonly characterize Vladimir Putin’s government as increasingly authoritarian and ineffective.
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