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The lesson here is to fight corruption, market reforms must move faster than the bureaucrats.
The main lesson for dynamic emerging-market countries is that an exclusive focus on GDP growth may ultimately not be good for economic and political stability.
Li, an avid reader of world history and literature, has apparently not taken to heart the lesson that so many Chinese have learned, through great personal tragedies, since 1949.
The lesson from that earlier period is that whenever the national mood finally shifts toward economic and democratic reform, local communities around the country will already have developed a blueprint for action.
What remains unknown is whether they have learned the lesson other postcommunist parties learned - ie, to keep reform going once growth appears.
If there is a lesson to be learned from Turkey’s monetary-policy experiment, it is that domestic prudential regulations and monetary-policy tools should be viewed as complements to – not substitutes for – capital-account management.
This should be regarded as a model for the future and a lesson for the present.
The lesson was simple: the gentiles cannot be relied upon, for Jewish history is one of betrayal and extermination at their hands.
The lesson is simple: We should worry less about debt ratios and thresholds, and more about our inability to see these indicators for the artificial – and often irrelevant – constructs that they are.
The lesson for regulators is simple: capacity for risk is related to the maturity of funding, not to what an institution is called.
The lesson from Turkey is not that the bombs of Incirlik – not to mention other nuclear weapons in unstable regions – are safe.
In 1980, in a famous open letter entitled “The Homeland Is in Danger,” the historian Jacob Talmon tried to share this simple lesson with Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Economic policymakers should heed this lesson so that they can gradually re-arm themselves; otherwise, they could be left with no firepower when they most need it.
And yet, disregarding this lesson, Western powers intervened in Libya to topple Qaddafi, effectively creating a jihadist citadel at Europe’s southern doorstep, while opening the way for arms and militants to flow to other countries.
This is a lesson that countries would do well to learn from the Dutch.
The world has Vladimir Putin to thank for that lesson.
In both cases, the lesson is the same: concentrated financial power is a gift that keeps on giving – but not to you.
Whatever the cause of these shortcomings, the lesson that US and Europe policymakers should draw is that the objective – facilitating democratization and modernization – remains valid, despite the need for a change in tactics.
The lesson to be learned from Hamilton and the US is that the necessary institutions will not function without a greater degree of moral consensus as well.
The third false lesson is that if we could only maintain confidence in the financial system (and by extension the wider economic system), the system itself could be trusted to survive and prosper.
The lesson that confidence-building measures averted a crash in 2000 was precisely the lesson that the financial system did not need to learn.
For the lesson of the years of communist misrule is this: no one man or party can know enough to manage a modern economy.
Presumably having learned their lesson from the Brexit referendum, young Britons contributed to an unexpected victory for Labour in June’s snap general election.
One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.
One lesson should be that a security policy that’s detached from other human concerns is no viable security policy at all.
A key lesson from the Great Inflation of the 1970’s is that central banks can’t afford a false sense of comfort from any dichotomy between headline and core inflation.
There is a lesson in Croatia's seemingly precipitous changes for the Balkans and other troubled regions in post-communist Europe.
But the United States has not learned its lesson.
The lesson from America is that economic growth is no guarantee of wellbeing or political stability.
The second lesson from southern Europe is that muddling through is unlikely to work.
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