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Across Latin America policymakers fear that if insufficient changes are made in the international financial architecture, there is a serious risk that frequent and costly crises will continue to occur.
Consequently, relying on low failure probabilities, national policies, the caution of private actors, and monitoring by regulators seems to be insufficient to prevent catastrophe.
Unfortunately, high-profile arrests like those carried out in China in recent years are insufficient to curb corruption in a lasting manner.
The irony is that, with insufficient aggregate demand the major source of global weakness today, there is an alternative: invest in our future, in ways that help us to address simultaneously the problems of global warming, global inequality and poverty, and the necessity of structural change.
But today’s debt crisis has exposed a fundamental weakness in the eurozone’s architecture: insufficient integration.
Attacks from the air on IS forces are necessary but insufficient.
Yet this, too, may prove insufficient.
All of these options are, however, short-term responses, and will likely be insufficient to bringing about any serious change in North Korea.
The Nobel laureate economists Paul Krugman and Joseph E. Stiglitz argue that Europe’s problems stem from insufficient fiscal and monetary stimulus, and from structural flaws in the eurozone.
Continental Europe has too few elite universities, insufficient venture capital, and too many regulations, with only a half-dozen countries spending enough on research and development.
But this proved insufficient to halt a growing sense of drift and decay concerning his Congress Party-led coalition.
Moreover, for too many investors, Portugal, with its poor growth prospects and insufficient domestic savings to fund the public-sector deficit, looks like Greece.
Then it negotiated an insufficient haircut and ended up dithering again – resorting to accounting tricks to avoid writing down European public-sector loans.
When the ruble tumbled in December, the finance ministry – which holds almost half of Russia’s foreign reserves, $169 billion, in two sovereign-wealth funds – deemed the central bank’s intervention to be insufficient.
And insufficient attention has been devoted to maintaining an adequate social safety net.
Growth would be insufficient to create jobs for the millions of young people entering the labor market.
Though the debate about infrastructure tends to focus on the need for more money and more creative financing, the real problem is not insufficient investment.
Neither the intensity of these arguments, nor mountains of sophisticated data, can relieve me of the feeling that this debate is stuck in a rut and stunted: stuck, because beyond the notion that growth is a necessary but insufficient condition for reducing poverty, our ideas on the matter have changed little over the years; stunted, because two vital things are often missing from these arguments.
Europe has made only insufficient use of its opportunities since 1989 – and could dramatically lose influence in the emerging power structure of the twenty-first century.
Though the Trump administration has yet to propose an adequate response to its crisis – declaring a national emergency and failing to put any new spending behind the order is clearly insufficient – at least it recognizes that using the police to kill dealers and users is not a solution.
Official development assistance and multilateral bank lending, though valuable, remain insufficient.
But Van Rompuy’s minimal proposal may be insufficient.
And, because China chooses its projects according to their long-term strategic value, they may yield short-term returns that are insufficient for countries to repay their debts.
But everyone in the financial markets knows that the EFSF has insufficient firepower to undertake that task – and that it has an unworkable governance structure to boot.
More importantly, the grim stability of the type displayed by Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt is oftentimes insufficient for genuine financial development.
Symbols and gestures are insufficient.
So for-profit schools may deliver low teacher effort and insufficient quality.
But confining discussion about defense commitment to the percent of GDP spent on the military is insufficient because there are economies of scale in defense spending.
But, in a globalizing world, the EU-based companies and industries that are crucial to Europeans’ well-being are less and less national, which means that individual EU governments’ diplomatic strength is insufficient to the tasks at hand.
When standard global public health instruments proved insufficient, for example, we built the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS, and Malaria.
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