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Unlike the Chinese, the Bank has too often forgotten the most basic lessons of development, preferring to lecture the poor and force them to privatize basic infrastructure, rather than to help the poor to invest in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.
This extreme free-market ideology, also called “structural adjustment,” went against the practical lessons of development successes in China and the rest of Asia.
Instead of learning the lessons of its past mistakes, China is compounding them, forcing a growing number of people and ecosystems to pay the price for its imprudent approach to economic growth.
As a result, they are also bound to yield the wrong practical lessons.
There are at least three lessons to draw from these musings of a one-time university history student.
Only if other countries absorb the lessons of previous periods when revanchist trade techniques were used can they preemptively mitigate the effects of Trump’s measures.
But, as Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economics has argued in his recent book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science , promoting friendship is often easy, cheap, and can have big payoffs in making people happier.
If President George W. Bush’s current troop “surge” fails to produce an outcome that can be called “victory,” what lessons will the United States draw for its future foreign policy?
Meanwhile, cure-focused studies of elite controllers are yielding clues about regions of the virus that mutate less, which could hold important lessons for vaccine researchers.
They gave him lessons in democratic theory, while he gave them tactical advice.
Nonetheless, the importance of remittances to households in poor countries, especially during periods of external shock, holds two lessons.
Lessons of the Lord’s ResistanceNEW YORK – On January 10, a particularly atrocious terrorist attack was mounted in a bustling market in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri: a ten-year-old girl detonated an explosive device hidden beneath her dress, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens of others.
Nigeria’s government and the international community must learn the lessons of the LRA and act immediately to save lives and bring perpetrators to justice.
History offers no clear lessons, though many people like to think otherwise.
Several lessons can be learned from these episodes.
As a recent UN resolution points out, what is needed now is a follow-up conference, where world leaders examine the lessons learned since 2002 to determine how to advance the post-2015 development goals in the context of a changing global economic landscape.
On the contrary, there are lessons to be learned from the demise of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and even – perhaps especially – Czechoslovakia, which negotiated its break-up without violence.
The road to the end of the Cold War was certainly not easy, or universally welcomed at the time, but it is for just this reason that its lessons remain relevant.
Argentina’s Lessons for GreeceNEW YORK – Thirteen years ago, Argentina was in dire straits.
Today, with Greece facing many of the same challenges, it is worth taking a closer look at the lessons learned from Argentina’s crisis.
After the invention of coins, it became easy to sell books, lessons, and instructions.
Other small advanced countries also have lessons to offer.
The results of such experiments – even those that fail – include useful lessons for all of us.
The lessons are too important, and the stakes too high, especially for populations facing systematic discrimination and violence today and in the future.
At its recent Annual Meeting, the IMF was asked to take the lead, draw lessons from the crisis, and come up with proposals for a better financial architecture.
But now it, too, is promising to draw the necessary lessons from the Japanese experience and upgrade its safety procedures, including a reassessment of the potential effects of natural disasters on nuclear-plant operations, conceding that the occurrence of more than one natural disaster simultaneously had not been considered previously.
There may be lessons for Brazil or South Africa in the US administration’s recent creation of early-warning structures for recognizing the threat of atrocities before they occur.
They had clearly not paid enough attention to the lessons of crises in the emerging world.
All of these lessons would have been useful to advanced-economy policymakers ten years ago.
The paper’s seemingly innocuous title, “Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan’s Experience in the 1990s,” makes the fundamental assertion that Japan’s struggles were rooted in a serious policy blunder: the Bank of Japan’s failure to recognize soon enough and act strongly enough on the peril of incipient deflation.
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