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But, as the share of losers has grown alongside the emergence of a postindustrial economy, this model has reached its limits, with the growing amount of redistribution undermining economic efficiency.
2005 saw the return of seemingly buried territorial disputes, such as defining the maritime
limits
between Chile and Peru, as well as the revanchist pressures that are mounting in Bolivia for recovering access to the sea that was lost in the 19th century, an urge strengthened by Bolivia’s growing willingness to perhaps use its gas exports as a pressure point.
Latin America has shown that there are problems with term
limits
for political officeholders, but not having term
limits
is even worse.
First, the world has, for the moment at least, reached its resource limits, and we are seeing a big shift in relative prices as the global economy responds appropriately by making labor and capital cheap and oil and other resources expensive.
In this environment, the Security Council’s frozen composition is imposing significant
limits
on the international community’s capacity to address global challenges.
Bangladesh is a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but within
limits.
Coming in the same week as China’s poorly handled removal of Tung Chee-hwa as Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, the anti-secession law episode illustrates that the mainland’s PR savvy has its
limits
and that Taiwan will remain an emotional and divisive thorn in the side of Sino-US relations.
Of course, pragmatism has its limits, because good government is also about upholding core values.
The structure of the eurozone imposes
limits
on the use of both fiscal and monetary policy.
The
Limits
of Economic OptimismWASHINGTON, DC – As the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund commence, the world’s economic future appears brighter than it has in some time.
But, as its Himalayan border standoff with India’s military continues, the
limits
of this approach are becoming increasingly apparent.
While these issues strike at the core of a country’s values – of what we mean by democracy and
limits
on government intrusion into individuals’ lives – they are also economic issues.
The
Limits
of German PowerBERLIN – In the two years since Germany’s president, foreign minister, and defense minister signaled that their country would take on a larger role in international affairs, the country’s leaders have received a crash course in geopolitical realism.
The
Limits
of Oil’s ReboundLONDON – For the first time since last October, the price of a barrel of oil has broken through $50.
New India, Old EuropeNEW DELHI – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November 7, at a time when Italy was reeling from the euro crisis and Silvio Berlusconi’s impending political demise, offered a fraught reminder of the potential, and the limits, of India’s relationship with the European Union.
We have an intuitive understanding of the importance of
limits
when the loss of our sky is articulated in poetic terms.
Yet, when one considers other successful efforts to improve public health over the last five decades – for example, smoking bans, seat-belt laws, and speed
limits
– one finds that legislation typically supplemented education.
Coercive democratization has its limits, as the US has learned in Iraq.
Germany’s powerful Constitutional Court has already made it clear that eurozone bailouts and other interventions represent the outer
limits
of what is possible under Germany’s Basic Law.
The important things affecting economies take place outside the self-contained
limits
of economic models.
And the G-20 recently asked the Financial Stability Board to consider the risks that a possible “carbon bubble” – caused by markets’ overvaluation of fossil-fuel companies’ oil, coal, and gas reserves, owing to a failure to account for future
limits
on extraction and use – pose to the global financial system.
By inhibiting migrants from working abroad, it
limits
the diaspora remittances that are sent home.
But now, just as the West began to understand decades ago that the natural environment has limits, China is showing the first signs of entering a post-industrial phase.
And the so-called “three principles on arms exports” have placed absurd
limits
on what may be sold or supplied abroad, as even flying boats used for sea rescue have been viewed as banned from export.
The Guideline lifted some of the more foolish
limits
on arms exports by ending the “all-out prohibition policy” maintained since the Miki Administration of 1976.
Nonetheless, this selfish approach to the climate challenge does have its limits, especially at the beginning.
The proclivity of some elsewhere to react violently to what they consider blasphemous cannot be the criterion for imposing
limits
on free expression in the US, the United Kingdom, Denmark, or the Netherlands (or anywhere else).
Although the requirement that all decisions be made by consensus enables disparate member states to unite while protecting their national interests, it also
limits
ASEAN’s effectiveness in dealing with emerging security threats.
But how can we determine when central banks overstep their
limits?
This means that if Trump fulfills his campaign promises – say, to impose severe immigration
limits
and high import tariffs – he won’t actually solve the problem.
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