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Conventional policy advice urges innovative monetary
interventions
bearing an ever expanding array of acronyms, even as governments are admonished to spend on “obvious” needs such as infrastructure.
But
interventions
should never be assessed on the basis of the success or failure of the last one.
Clearly, such uncoordinated
interventions
are exacerbating currency-market turmoil, with the ruble’s value fluctuating by 5% – and as much as 10% – in a single day.
Tackling gender inequality will require us to identify where, how, and why these biases materialize, and to develop systematic strategies and
interventions
to root them out.
To take the most significant example, China staged military
interventions
even when it was poor and internally troubled.
With demand actually increasing, and without a threshold price to encourage breeding, supply-side
interventions
are unlikely to be effective in protecting wild rhinos.
Of course, when the financial crisis erupted in full force in 2008, following the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the ECB’s
interventions
were justified.
To a limited extent, the same applies to the EU bailouts and ECB
interventions.
Will the Fund require the tough policy changes it has demanded of countries in the past, or will Lagarde’s need to show that she is not biased towards Europe mean that future IMF
interventions
will become more expansive and less demanding?
Unlike in Libya, where French-led NATO action saved the revolution in March 2011, Iranian and Russian
interventions
in Syria – bolstered by armed non-state actors (both Sunni and Shia) from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – have saved the government.
His
interventions
diverted attention from the grave policy error being made at the time: deregulation of credit, which led to a deep financial crisis in the 1990s and anticipated the global crisis that erupted in 2008.
Worse, the pretense of independence serves as a fig leaf for
interventions
that are not only politically driven, but that are also utterly inconsistent with the principles of liberal democracy.
That is why successful
interventions
in Spain and Ireland were comprehensive and required large amounts of national and European resources to establish a “bad bank” and ensure a system-wide subsequent triage of assets, recapitalization, and consolidation.
But such
interventions
are complicated – not least because they must account for the relationship between the country’s monetary-policy approach and that of other relevant countries.
In the absence of some military force to protect them (in itself a mixed blessing, as
interventions
from Somalia to Bosnia demonstrated), these humanitarian groups must negotiate access with criminal warlords, oppressive governments, and war criminals.
Such a move is likely to be effective, given the sheer size of Chinese
interventions
(hundreds of billions of US dollars annually), which could not easily be recycled through offshore banks without exposing the China’s central bank to many other risks.
Depending on the characteristics of different products, possible
interventions
would include advance market commitments and market-entry rewards.
Vaccines hold the potential to have a huge impact on drug resistance, if they are included as part of a broad series of
interventions
to combat the problem.
The pretext was that taxes, welfare payments, and other government
interventions
impair incentives and distort competition, reducing economic growth for society as a whole.
If trade, competition, and technological progress are to power the next phase of capitalism, they will have to be paired with government
interventions
to redistribute the gains from growth in ways that Thatcher and Reagan declared taboo.
Among the most effective
interventions
of this type, demonstrated in Germany and Scandinavia, is to spend money on high-quality vocational education and re-training for workers and students outside universities, creating non-academic routes to a middle-class standard of living.
As a result, significant public policy
interventions
are required.
Given the need for such interventions, the belief that climate change is a hoax is comforting to anyone who thinks that government must play no role in the economy.
But the public-policy
interventions
needed to fight climate change pose no threat to responsible private business or to the aspirations of developing economies.
In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and the subsequent refugee crisis and war in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa in the 1990’s, a combination of guilt, economic prosperity, and America’s unique international status led to
interventions
in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and, unfortunately, Iraq.
President Barack Obama’s current security strategy in Afghanistan, Yemen, and elsewhere suggests that the US will seek to mitigate the latter risk by continuing its covert
interventions
– particularly its use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Long-term development aid – which, globally, amounts to eight times the amount allocated to humanitarian
interventions
– must be available to countries confronting large refugee inflows, including middle-income countries like Lebanon and Jordan that are normally not considered eligible.
Viewed from this perspective, selective interventions, such as a proposed ban on internal combustion engines after 2030, would thus be counterproductive.
This is the upshot of an intellectual movement that began almost 35 years ago – and that has facilitated no fewer than a dozen
interventions
in just over two decades.
In a sense, the current wave of armed
interventions
– beginning with the United States-led operation in Iraq in 2003 – resembles the colonization of parts of Africa a century ago.
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