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Japan’s national government and local communities had no emergency plan for the situation that they faced in the contaminated areas, resulting in ad hoc responses marked by inefficiency and poor communication, particularly with regard to radiological risk.
At worst, labor-market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital-market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.
The inefficiency of fiscal-policy control and the lack of economic convergence are a matter of increasing concern to both the European Central Bank and euro-zone finance ministers.
In his speeches, I discovered the brilliant Che, mercilessly railing against inefficiency, false politics, and double standards.
This adds to their complexity and cost, and compounds inefficiency.
Corporatist subsidiarity lets the top of the hierarchy determine its own powers, while banishing competition and lauding private property generates inequality and inefficiency simultaneously.
The erosion of support for the government is due to its inefficiency: inflation is triple official forecasts, and basic foodstuffs and fuel are scarce and their supply irregular.
Solidarity could count on the logic of Gorbachev's recent reforms in the neighboring Soviet Union, the perennial inefficiency of the communist economic system, and the unwillingness of the government, under General Jaruzelski, to go back to the martial law regime.
State banks are supposed to lend generously to India’s rural poor, but their operations are mired in inefficiency and corruption.
The corruption and inefficiency of the state apparatus and the government's incompetence and inertia leave no hope for a real improvement in living standards.
The reaction has been predictable breast-beating about the inefficiency of India’s government services (particularly in rural areas), the country’s woeful standards of hygiene, and inattentive implementation of even flagship national schemes by the country’s 28 state governments.
By sacrificing the needs of growing economies that have met their goals to those of more established markets, the Commission is rewarding inefficiency and reducing the effectiveness of the European Union’s climate change policy and its common market.
Energy inefficiency is a problem not only in the Third World, but also in the developed world.
In view of Ukraine’s ongoing crisis, this starting point – the first pro-European revolution in the twenty-first century, brought about by opposition to Russian influence and post-Soviet corruption and inefficiency – is important to bear in mind.
Chicago economists seem to believe that real-world outcomes are acceptably unfair and, more importantly, that attempts to remedy unfairness are too costly, because tampering with markets causes economic inefficiency.
So, it seems, complexity is not really naturally selected, but instead arises as a short-term fix to the effects of selection inefficiency.
But deep down the crisis was caused by a lot of comprehensive factors, brought to life by the innate inefficiency of the Soviet economy.
But even with all the difficulties of corruption and inefficiency that will no doubt plague its actual implementation, our proposal is superior to the status quo.
Encouraging WorkSANTIAGO – Some policies are economically illiterate, for they cause avoidable inefficiency.
Second, policymakers are prone to “capture” by vested interests, especially in relatively weak policy environments, leading to favoritism, inefficiency, and waste.
Finally, France remains a highly corporatist country, with a multiplicity of health, pension, and family subsidy systems; in an innovation-driven economy where individuals are likely to change jobs and sectors repeatedly over their lifetime, this bureaucratic thicket becomes a source of inefficiency and risk.
So is Berlusconi himself, who favored a weak euro to compensate for Italy’s economic inefficiency and the complete lack of reform during his years in office.
So, in this scenario, unmasking Luzhkov as corrupt and incompetent, and using him as a scapegoat for Russia’s systemic inefficiency, is intended as a way for Medvedev to sway public opinion behind him and make Putin appear out of touch.
But, given the fall in GCC oil revenues – not to mention disappointment with the arrangement’s inefficiency – this route seems increasingly limited.
Part of this effort to fight climate change must involve addressing sources of economic inefficiency, such as fossil-fuel subsidies and inadequate accounting of the cost of pollution.
Overwhelming empirical evidence (provided in large part by the World Bank, a place keen on the idea of aid) proves that the development of the poorest countries is blocked, primarily, by government inefficiency and the corruption.
But punitive measures can easily lead to disputes and inefficiency.
Inefficiency was placed in the service of liberty.
After 50 years of inefficiency, it is time to try something new.
And there have been many indications of financial-market inefficiency in recent years, including continuing anomalies such as the violation of covered interest parity conditions in foreign-exchange markets, bouts of reduced liquidity (partly owing to new regulations), and recurrent flash crashes.
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