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Nor do we have a Leonid Kuchma, an ineffective, weak-willed president who was widely hated.
Another sign of change is the basic document (“Constitutive Act”) of the African Union, the regional organization launched in July 2000 to replace the ineffective Organization of African Unity.
Instead of fixing the problem, Maduro’s government has decided to complement ineffective exchange and price controls with measures like closing borders to stop smuggling and fingerprinting shoppers to prevent “hoarding.”
Japan’s Government has been rather ineffective in cleaning up the mess, for example by delaying for nearly a decade the re-capitalization of Japanese banks.
It would take only a few noncompliant banks to render financial sanctions ineffective.
For purposes of both legality and legitimacy, it is vital to ensure that an unwise and ineffective intervention does not undermine the overall balance of legal rights and obligations in the UN Charter and related human rights and humanitarian norms.
Technology and new approaches to public health are important; but they will be ineffective if they are not tailored to meet the real needs of local people.
In the meantime, let’s hope that Messrs. Bernanke, King, Trichet, and the world’s other central bank governors get monetary policy roughly right, and that our politicians don’t waste vast sums on ineffective fiscal stimulus.
But such mass screening is notoriously ineffective in predicting violence, often yielding enormous numbers of misidentified threats.
Even a cursory examination of China’s economic ties with America’s Asian allies illustrates just how ineffective Trump’s attacks on free trade will be.
It is a policy that has proved to be ineffective, and that is illegal under international law because it targets Israeli civilians.
For all of its supposed influence, the UN has proved glaringly ineffective in stopping the violence.
There was no option but to treat her with drugs that I knew would be largely ineffective; she was lucky to recover.
The second tier includes carbapenems, which, as my patient last year discovered, are increasingly ineffective.
When demand begins to exceed supply, demand-side stimulus policies will become increasingly ineffective, and it will be time to launch the third arrow of Abenomics: growth-enhancing structural reforms.
So far, Turkey seems to be falling short, promoting an overcrowded and ineffective agenda.
With three contending parties, a terrible electoral law, no run-off, and condiderable frustration with 12 years of center-right, often ineffective governments, the outcome is highly uncertain.
The fragmented, under-resourced and ineffective system for financing climate policy has failed Africa.
All of this speaks to why we should pity today’s policymakers, who must confront unusually difficult challenges with abnormally ineffective tools.
Ineffective regulation in areas like food safety, infectious diseases, cyber security, energy markets, and air safety, combined with the inability to manage regional tensions and conflict, will undermine global flows and reduce prosperity everywhere.
But the IMF’s own policies can exacerbate the crisis, by bailing out the creditors, by encouraging them to act irresponsibly again in the future, and by linking the loans to ineffective policy recommendations.
But the political process may generate poorly timed or ineffective responses – focused on transfers rather than purchases, infra-marginal tax rebates, and spending that fails cost-benefit tests – that do little good in the short run and cause substantial harm later.
Occupy QENEW HAVEN – The Federal Reserve continues to cling to a destabilizing and ineffective strategy.
Sanctions, however, are clumsy, costly, and often ineffective.
Ineffective governments with weak leadership are at the root of the problem.
An excess of poorly equipped health facilities is not only ineffective; it can actually make matters worse, owing to factors like poor sanitation and weak emergency referral systems.
It is ineffective in apprehending criminals.
Why has the Fund’s surveillance of the US economy been so ineffective?
The government is unstable, ineffective, and plagued by debt.
These transfers have accelerated convergence when put to good use (for example, in several Spanish provinces), but have been ineffective when wasted (as in Greece).
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