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Isolating the conflict’s impact from that of other
interventions
(e.g., economic sanctions) may be impossible.
This view naturally underpins
interventions
like targeted smoking-cessation services or health-education initiatives.
For example,
interventions
aimed at changing individual behavior are far less challenging to prevailing power structures than those that demand extensive social investment or revitalization of the entire system.
Thus, governments interested in closing the health gap – such as the British Labour government in 1997-2010 – usually end up pursuing such relatively painless “downstream”
interventions.
The same is true of unconventional
interventions
in markets for corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
Some will say that the way for central banks to ensure their independence is to abandon macroprudential and microprudential policies and foreswear unconventional
interventions
in securities markets.
These
interventions
alleviate symptoms, prevent other illnesses from exacerbating them, and help patients continue their normal daily activities.
At the same time, the involvement of a rule-bound international agency would minimize the political poison associated with bank recapitalizations and currency
interventions.
When put in the service of sustainable development, such a model will often involve projecting the impact of
interventions
on livelihoods and the environment over several decades.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been proud to collaborate with these initiatives in reducing the costs of vaccinations and other interventions, thereby boosting their measurable impact on global health.
These differing views explain the uncertainty surrounding France’s recent
interventions
in Africa.
Had the Germans been consulted, they probably would have rejected the
interventions
anyway.
Moreover, international development players – including UN agencies, NGOs, corporate citizenship programs, and other charitable organizations – rarely coordinate their activities, even though their
interventions
are increasingly concentrated in densely populated cities.
Interventions
like rural electrification, the provision of drought-resistant seeds and agricultural technology, and the expansion of micro-insurance are vital not only to rural populations’ welfare, but also to catalyze a new “Green Revolution,” without which city dwellers will face severe food shortages.
The problem is that traditional government
interventions
are an exercise in futility: Taxing free services is pointless.
Before the financial crisis hit in 2008, all of these policies would have been disparaged as unwarranted
interventions
in financial markets.
Policy
interventions
that seem moderate in the moment could turn out to have been excessive.
Thanks to international and national policy interventions, their currencies and banking systems were saved from collapse, but many of them saw massive output drops and soaring unemployment.
I advocate assessing the effectiveness of aid and providing resources for
interventions
shown to be highly cost-effective.
The Life You Can Save recommends proven
interventions
because we think donors are likely to do more good by helping individuals with unmet needs than by aspiring to eliminate the root causes of poverty without a realistic strategy for achieving that goal.
The next target for the 15 economists is the use of randomized controlled trials to test whether
interventions
are effective.
Effective aid programs have almost always been temporary in nature, working – as was the case with the Marshall Plan – through short, sharp, finite
interventions.
Massive government
interventions
during the crisis have undermined this principle, and have probably already destroyed much of the inherited wealth.
How would the EMF finance its
interventions?
But Modi’s
interventions
to calm troubled waters have lacked the leadership and passion he demonstrates elsewhere.
If the money invested in all American foreign
interventions
had been redirected to promoting prosperity domestically, Trump’s candidacy never would have gained traction.
The international system rather quickly adopted (and transformed) this notion, and numerous humanitarian military
interventions
followed--in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone.
While the three low-cost water and sanitation
interventions
discussed here may not always pass a cost-benefit test, they are likely to attract investment in many circumstances, while simultaneously responding to communities’ preferences.
In work with Bruce Greenwald of Columbia University, we demonstrated that within a market economy there exist
interventions
in the market on the part of government that can make everyone better off - even when government is faced with the same information imperfections as the private sector.
That set a precedent that would be replayed in repeated
interventions
in the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico from the turn of the century through the early 1930’s, as well as in
interventions
in China and Russia.
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