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Equally important will be
interventions
that empower local communities to improve their diets.
The economic history of the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, and Asia has been marked by inefficient public investment and misguided government
interventions
that have resulted in many “white elephants.”
Historians know this sordid story, but most Westerners do not (in no small part because many of the
interventions
have been covert).
That framework is based on spending and demand, the determinants of the components of spending, the liquidity-preference theory of short-run interest rates, and the requirement that government make strategic but powerful
interventions
in the economy to keep it on an even keel and avoid extremes of depression and manic excess.
Europe’s fiscal
interventions
would be easier to justify if they were accompanied by microeconomic reforms targeted at increasing flexibility.
Thanks to global health organizations like the WHO, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, vaccination is already one of the most widely available health
interventions
ever.
Findings like these lead many people to conclude that eradicating poverty requires us to rely on overall growth, and that direct government policy
interventions
have little merit.
But on poverty eradication, theory and evidence show that policy interventions, when skillfully designed, can play a significant role.
Poorly considered American interventions, especially the invasion of Iraq in 2003, have exacerbated the region’s myriad animosities and security challenges.
A better approach would be to regulate individual banks, branches, and even loans, while limiting the Fed’s
interventions
to those that serve its original purpose of ensuring an adequate monetary base and acting as lender of last resort during panics, like the 2008 financial crisis.
These kinds of interventions, seeking to reduce the force of transmission, aim at the creation of an environment that is likely to serve as an "engine of economic growth."
As the applicability of a vaccine-based approach to malaria has not yet been demonstrated, what anti-malaria efforts must above all strive to achieve is a balance between
interventions
designed to produce immediate health benefits and those that might eliminate malaria as an obstacle to economic development.
And such plans would include not only life-saving interventions, but also havens of psychological support and learning that protect opportunity and hope.
Their ill-conceived
interventions
– notably the US-backed mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act – distorted market incentives.
The UN will also continue to play an important role, since it is the only body that can legalize
interventions
– be they military or non-military – in all cases that are not just self-defense.
When researchers at the Harvard Medical School analyzed surgical
interventions
in low- and middle-income countries, they found a remarkable disconnect between economic assumptions and reality.
Jack Ma of tech giant Alibaba thinks that China can use Big Data to design perfectly calibrated state
interventions
that enable it to outperform free-market economies.
Similarly, we can envisage a political counterpart to such interventions, perhaps with reforms to global governance institutions and existing democratic frameworks.
But he also observed that bribery may have “replaced diplomatic
interventions
as the main protection of private capital.”
New data from a World Bank study that compares farm policies around the world since 1955 shows for the first time just how far today’s African governments have gone to reduce the cost to farmers of the export taxes, marketing boards, and other
interventions
imposed by previous regimes (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions).
At a time when many governments, particularly in the developing world, are faced with severe fiscal constraints, such
interventions
may seem farfetched.
Perhaps the US airdrops and promised strategic interventions, together with a possible coordinated operation by Kurdish forces (rearmed by the US), may rescue the survivors, but it appears unlikely that they will be able to return to their homes soon.
Ultimately, whether significant changes are warranted should depend on whether the central bank's
interventions
in fact aggravated the recent crisis, as they aggravated the crisis of the 1930s.
It would be easy to interpret this shift as a response to the human and economic cost of America’s
interventions
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Despite the relatively costless overthrow of the Qaddafi regime, America’s prolonged
interventions
in Afghanistan and Iraq have severely strained the public’s tolerance for an active foreign policy.
Quite simply, the ad hoc policymaking that directed
interventions
in the Balkans, Somalia, southwest Asia, and the Middle East in the past two decades will not suffice in this new era of limitations.
Yet the authorities and aid donors alike stubbornly fail to recognize the obvious, and instead continue to pursue costly and ultimately ineffective
interventions.
Both
interventions
sought to oust the governments in place at the time, and both succeeded in that goal.
According to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, donor funds for nutrition-focused
interventions
are stagnating at $1 billion.
Ensuring future advances will require direct policy
interventions
and investments in innovation across the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research, and early-stage company financing.
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