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All of these changes are negatively affecting traditional social structures that communities depend on for survival, and insufficient attention is being paid to these structures’ role in ensuring food security.
But, at a time of industrial upgrading and ever-increasing technological sophistication, the knowledge and skills gained in school are often insufficient.
According to the directive’s preamble, the state cannot cite insufficient assets as a reason to refuse a residence permit, as this would be inadmissible discrimination.
As long as powerful financial actors profit from this short-sighted approach, insufficient financing will flow toward developing and deploying renewable energy.
Merely “weakening” this loop, as European officials recently advocated, could prove deeply insufficient.
The G-8 countries’ agreement last year to a debt write-off for the 18 poorest states – 16 in Africa and two in Latin America – is a splendid, but insufficient, beginning.
However, such legal guarantees of rights are often insufficient.
But the BEPS program has proved to be insufficient, particularly from developing countries’ perspective, because it failed to address the core problem: the transfer-pricing system.
The problem is that, despite commitment to the talks from all six participants – China, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia, and even North Korea in recent months (a nominal pledge that is unlikely to be changed as a result of Kim Jong-il’s passing) – the results so far are insufficient to sustain the process.
The achievements are notable, if insufficient.
While accusations of insufficient oversight over hackers’ activities have been leveled specifically at China, the challenge of tracking potentially disruptive cyber activities extends to all current and future cyber powers.
Where regulations to prevent dumping are insufficient, they should be strengthened and enforced.
The gravity of Venezuela’s situation and its effects on the entire hemisphere have thus far proved insufficient to mobilize a majority of OAS governments to convince Maduro that the region’s democracies will not stand by idly while a totalitarian dictatorship and base for international organized crime emerges.
Yet, instead of supporting farmers, African governments have erected even more obstacles to growth, including excessive taxation, insufficient investment, and coercive policies.
Such general institutions as the rule of law and provision of enough personal and national security to safeguard earning, saving and investing are needed for any market economy, even market socialism; they are insufficient for dynamism.
That was the case in Russia in 1998 and in Argentina in 2000: in both cases, public opinion largely blamed previous reforms for the crisis, even though both crises were caused by fiscal irresponsibility and insufficient reform.
Modest progress has been either sabotaged or insufficient, even as thousands of innocent people, both in the Middle East and beyond, have fallen victim to violence, hatred, and vengeance.
On the contrary, most forecasters expect 2005 to be weaker than 2004, with growth insufficient to eliminate the "job deficit" - the gap between the number of jobs needed during the past four years to provide employment for new labor-market entrants and the actual number of jobs created.
But, though it can explain why capital spending has been weak and interest rates have been low for the last three years, it cannot account for why capital expenditure has been insufficient to prevent rates from trending down for more than three decades.
Even 'job-creation', whether by the market or by the state, is insufficient without institutions that enable women to take up a paid job.
There is insufficient incentive, even at local levels, for taking the long view, and for restraining our tendency to consume in order to benefit all of humanity.
In a currency union, however, central-bank credit may play this role if private capital flows are insufficient.
The main risk factors for developing these conditions – smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, being overweight, and insufficient physical exercise – reflect deeply ingrained unhealthy behaviors.
A commitment to public investment and open trade are, however, necessary but insufficient conditions for sustained prosperity.
As in continental Europe, productivity has suffered from a combination of insufficient profitability and dysfunctional capital markets.
That same study found that, in many low- and middle-income countries, immunization budgets are currently insufficient to sustain vaccination programs, much less incorporate the new costlier vaccines.
This suggests that macroeconomic policies, though necessary, are insufficient without parallel institutional reforms in planning, regulation, and bankruptcy procedures to enforce credit discipline for all borrowers, regardless of whether they are in the private sector or state-owned.
Yet, although some 60% of the displaced are children, education provision for Myanmar’s youngest refugees remains woefully insufficient.
In the case of the Rohingya crisis, insufficient funding has been compounded by wider failures by humanitarian agencies, including weak coordination, turf battles, and differences over which curriculum should be used – an apparently esoteric issue that has become entangled with questions about Rohingya children’s future status.
Scraping together insufficient funds year after year won’t do the job.
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