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The administrative difficulties in implementing a Tobin tax are not insurmountable, as long as all major advanced countries go along.
But the main reason why wind and solar power cannot be a major solution to climate change stems from an almost insurmountable obstacle: we need power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
These obstacles are neither insurmountable nor unique to sub-Saharan Africa.
But in practice there is an insurmountable difficulty with this approach.
Even the special one-time issuance of SDR’s, agreed upon in 1997 to ensure that all Fund members receive an “equitable” share of cumulative SDR allocations, has still not been activated, owing to insurmountable opposition.
Unfortunately, the problem of making a smooth and convincing transition to the new target is perhaps insurmountable.
None of these shortcomings – the lack of globalization-friendly institutions, rules, corporations, and talent – is an insurmountable obstacle.
Of course, cultural barriers are not insurmountable: democracy has taken root in Japan, South Korea, and in other Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.
In the early 1930’s, monetary-policy incoherence paralyzed US policy, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York locked in insurmountable conflict with the Chicago Fed over monetary easing (at that time through open-market securities purchases).
While the challenges facing Afghanistan are immense, they are not insurmountable.
But the core of the argument comes in the first 400 pages, which is not an insurmountable challenge for the intellectually curious – particularly given that Parfit, in the best tradition of English-language philosophy, always strives for lucidity, never using obscure words where simple ones will do.
And the challenge of ensuring adequate surveillance appears insurmountable when one considers that polio can suddenly reappear out of the blue in a so-called wild-type form.
But while the barriers to women’s leadership are formidable, they are not insurmountable.
All of these issues are urgent, but none of them is insurmountable.
Ultimately, whatever barriers Italy, with its debt-laden economy, poses to greater EU integration are unlikely to be insurmountable, if France and Germany exercise decisive leadership.
One of the driving forces behind Brexit was the belief that Europe was breaking apart under the weight of insurmountable debt and uncontrolled migration.
Indeed, some have begun to ask whether the collection and control of large amounts of data by a few huge firms with commanding market shares can be an anticompetitive force, creating insurmountable entry barriers for would-be innovators.
This might prove to be an insurmountable obstacle to realizing the Obama administration’s vision of a nuclear-weapons-free world.
Clearly, issues relating to liability and insurance will have to be addressed in all sharing-economy models, especially financial ones; but these are hardly insurmountable obstacles.
I may disagree with the liberal Grigory Yavlinsky and his Yabloko Party, or with Anatoly Chubais (who continues to serve Russia by heading the national electricity company), but both faced insurmountable obstacles to gaining seats in the State Duma (the lower house of parliament).
All this would seem to be insurmountable if the basic economics were not clear.
In principle, none of capitalism’s problems is insurmountable, and economists have offered a variety of market-based solutions.
The European Commission spent the last three years trying to tighten the exchange rate criterion, which would make it an insurmountable obstacle for eurozone candidates.
If the need to “start over” after years in a certain job or field is demoralizing, after decades it can seem like an insurmountable challenge.
The numbers are staggering, but the challenge they represent is by no means insurmountable.
This emerging values gap is not an insurmountable obstacle to geostrategic rapprochement.
In the meantime, students in impoverished rural schools that currently lack books, electricity, and trained teachers would be connected online – via solar panels and wireless broadband – to quality educational materials, free online courses, and other schools, thereby closing a resource gap that, until recently, seemed insurmountable.
At one extreme, some view Russia as an industrialized banana republic whose corrupt institutions and insurmountable demographic and health problems make decline inevitable.
Pessimists argue that the world economy suffers from an insurmountable shortage of aggregate demand, leading to a new “secular stagnation.”
But those problems will be inconvenient and costly, not insurmountable.
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