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By contrast, many developing economies have insufficient digital infrastructure, weak innovation and investment capacity, and thin skills base.
Worse, the report shows that the Nationally Determined Contributions set voluntarily by signatories to the Paris accord are vastly insufficient.
In today’s highly competitive global economy, European countries’ relatively small size, aging populations, and excessive indebtedness, combined with a lack of energy resources and insufficient investment in research and development, mean that their high living standards and generous social-welfare states are in jeopardy.
If actual output is below potential output, this means that total spending is insufficient to buy what the economy can produce.
Moreover, with excess reliance on domestic demand, the structure of the US economy evolved with a bias toward the non-tradable sector (where all of the new jobs were created) and insufficient reliance on foreign demand and hence exports.
Debt relief for the poorest of the poor is likely to continue at a grossly insufficient pace, even with new proposals that will be launched at the G-8 summit.
If she had acted more boldly, she might have lost even more support, but the steps that she agreed to remained insufficient to reassure markets.
They understood that unemployment would rise if the country’s monetary policy were set by a central bank that focused single-mindedly on inflation (and also that there would be insufficient attention to financial stability).
To avoid this pitfall, policymakers should consider the roots of the eurozone’s low growth potential, which is not a result of insufficient solidarity, but of individual member states abnegating their national responsibilities.
Putin, knowing that the Russian Army’s current logistical systems for supplying Crimea are insufficient, appears to be readying plans to secure a land corridor from the Russian border through southeastern Ukraine.
And, indeed, from Trump’s perspective, the highlights of his recent trip abroad were signing a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, berating other NATO members for their supposedly insufficient military spending, and rejecting the pleas of US allies to continue in the fight global warming.
Then came President George W. Bush, who inherited a legacy of insufficient national-defense spending.
And a temporary increase in defense spending will revert back to insufficient levels after this fiscal year.
For example, the new labor-displacing technologies could make feasible activities for which there had been insufficient skilled labor.
The trouble with this carrot-and-stick strategy is not that it is wrong but that it is insufficient.
It is a necessary – but insufficient – first step for overhauling Egypt’s stagnant political system.
Rather than scraping together insufficient funds year after year, it is time to engage in “surge funding.”
It may be a good start, but it was clearly insufficient.
Along with the Netherlands and the Baltic states, Germany blames that crisis on some member states’ budgetary imprudence and insufficient monitoring of private debt, and thus refuses to examine properly the eurozone’s systemic problems.
While the US external deficit could stand to be reduced, as it partly reflects America’s own lack of savings, trade policy alone would be insufficient to achieve that goal.
Indeed, as leaders of the G-20, the Commonwealth, and the OIF have emphasized in the last two years, national and regional responses, while significant, are insufficient without strong international support.
The challenges of a fast-growing population, inadequate education, insufficient jobs, corruption, bureaucracy, and rising global competition constitute the greatest threat to the country’s future.
But, while it is now well understood that progress in one area improves outcomes in another, such co-beneficial dynamics often are insufficient to spur investment in both areas.
Only 2% of official development aid is earmarked for improving the quality of statistics – an amount wholly insufficient to assess accurately the impact of the other 98% of aid.
Both are insufficient to check Naif.
In short, fiscal adjustment is necessary but insufficient to escape a debt crisis.
If the world’s central banks raise interest rates while the major problem is insufficient global demand, they might cause a depression.
The bottom line is that urbanization, schooling, and Internet access are woefully insufficient to transmit effectively the tacit knowledge required to be productive.
Others, opposing this claim, insist that the country must live up to the legacy of its 1971 secession from Pakistan, in a revolution that proclaimed Islam insufficient grounds for nationhood and asserted the primacy of Bangladesh’s secular culture and Bengali language over its allegiance to Islamabad.
But these are insufficient bases of resilience, particularly given the tectonic shifts occurring next door, in Iraq and Syria.
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