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But the rapid rise in obesity rates around the world creates a strong case for experimenting with interventions, to see what works.
The key difference between now and then is not income but technical knowledge about the causes of disease, and
interventions
to prevent disease, or at least the most pernicious symptoms.
The greatest successes in prevention involve what has been called “combination prevention,” involving simultaneous and substantial scaling up of multiple interventions, including condom distribution, treatment of sexually transmitted disease, male circumcision, and peer
interventions
among sex workers.
Faced with this success, it might even seem that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.
Strengthening the provision of antenatal care, ensuring safe delivery through skilled birth attendance, and expanding emergency obstetric care are all key
interventions
that can reduce MMRs across the region.
If we are to meet the SDG target for maternal mortality, we must work together to advance targeted, tailored
interventions
that respect the rights of women and girls to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.
A similar majority of the Thai electorate voted for Thaksin’s parties and their pro-poor populist platforms in January 2001, February 2005, April 2006, and December 2007, defying a military coup, a coup-induced constitution, judicial interventions, and army coercion and repression.
Such
interventions
are called "dirty floating," but they are an essential tool of monetary policy.
Iran’s strategy in all of this has not been very clever: its military
interventions
in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen entail major risks.
This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy
interventions
that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).
That idea captured the imagination of much of the elite of the developed world over the course of the 1990’s, and provided the moral rationale for the principal Western military
interventions
of the post-Cold War period, from Bosnia to Iraq.
Given how catastrophic the invasion of Iraq has turned out to be, it is hard even to remember when
interventions
on moral grounds – whether to thwart a dictator, as in the case of the Balkan wars, or to put an end to anarchic cruelty, as in the case of British intervention in Sierra Leone – seemed like a great advance in international affairs.
For Blair, there is a moral unity between the
interventions
in Kosovo and Iraq, both of which he presents as examples of a post-Westphalian idea that powerful states are called upon to defend suffering communities globally, including by military means.
On the contrary, as he has frequently made clear, he considers his critics immoral for not supporting liberal
interventions.
So-called “m-health”
interventions
on issues like vaccinations, safe sex, and pre- and post-natal care have been shown to improve health outcomes and lower health-care costs.
Taylor has undermined a string of peacekeeping
interventions
in the region.
The experts – including five Nobel Laureates – compared ways to spend $75 billion on more than 30
interventions
aimed at reducing malnutrition, broadening educational opportunity, slowing global warming, cutting air pollution, preventing conflict, fighting disease, improving access to water and sanitation, lowering trade and immigration barriers, thwarting terrorism, and promoting gender equality.
Overall, we can typically best help through direct interventions, including micronutrient supplements, fortification, biofortification, and nutritional promotion.
Such factors are symptomatic of larger problems with humanitarian
interventions.
Moreover, prudence does not mean that humanitarian
interventions
will always fail.
Military
interventions
in Sierra Leone, Liberia, East Timor, and Bosnia did not solve all problems, but they did improve the lives of the people there.
Other
interventions
– for example, in Somalia – did not.
Recent large-scale
interventions
in Iraq and Afghanistan, though not primarily humanitarian, have eroded public support for military action.
Interventions
will continue to occur, though they are now more likely to be shorter, involve smaller-scale forces, and rely on technologies that permit action at greater distance.
One implication is that governments should let land and housing markets work, but complement them with targeted
interventions
when necessary, because, when individuals have the right information and the correct incentives, they generally decide well for themselves.
Trump’s own businesses have benefited from such government
interventions.
Canada wins this contest of bureaucracies: government
interventions
are minimal, user friendly and come at low cost;Canada’s performance is even better than the US.
Asian economies were supposedly better coordinated because of strategic
interventions
by the government along the lines of the initial postwar practices of Japan’s MITI.
The Scots, however, saw the utility of circumscribed state
interventions
to broaden opportunity and help enterprise to grow.
But perhaps the most important criticism is a political one: in a world of challenged multilateralism, how would global ecological
interventions
be governed?
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