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Countries now seem to think that monetary-policy measures are their only option.
Trump’s America may be willing to wall itself off from the world, but in Japan, where talent is in short supply, our only option is to tear the walls down.
If things break down, the possibility of a pre-emptive military strike, whether by Israel or the US, remains an option.
For their part, the Russians have warned informally that this would be “the real nuclear option.”
One option that has been proposed would be to create a single super-regulator, like the Financial Supervisory Committee that was established in South Korea after the 1990s Asian financial crisis.
There are two reasons why, until now, the second option – leaving the monetary union – has been unthinkable.
Even if inaction (or action oriented towards the longer term) is the best policy, it is not an option for democratically elected politicians, whom voters expect to govern, which inevitably means action with the potential for quick results.
Unfortunately, Merkel seems to have decided on the second option, because it entails fewer domestic political risks.
Another option would be an armed intervention led by Venezuela’s neighbors.
A second suggestion, to provide meaningful support to refugees, would be expensive; admitting more is not a realistic option for many countries.
According to the International Energy Agency, decentralized solutions such as mini-grids are the most cost-effective option to deliver electricity to more than 70% of the unconnected, provided that projects can attract new sources of capital.
In unelectrified areas that are vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, and economic migration, mini-grids are often the only option.
In these circumstances, policy inertia is not an option.
The institutional arrangements for this option already exist, in the form of the European Economic Area (EEA), a sort of anteroom to full EU membership, currently occupied by three small but prosperous European countries: Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
It was only last September, three months after becoming prime minister, that May surprised the world by effectively ruling out the EEA option, telling the Conservative Party’s annual conference that those who call themselves “citizens of the world” are really “citizens of nowhere,” and that the free movement of people required by EEA membership was therefore unacceptable.
Some Latin American countries, starting with Brazil, quickly issued statements indicating that this option is off the table.
Doing nothing, Obama added, “is not an option.”
So it seems that the government’s only option is to continue the war, hoping that its longer-term effort to strengthen state institutions’ capacity and integrity will eventually prove effective.
She chose the latter option.
And, given that even high-income countries struggle to meet the cost of cancer treatments, prevention is clearly a far more efficient option.
If the evildoers do not comply, America can exercise the “military option” or impose punitive sanctions to enforce “justice” as the United States defines it.
As much as one might wish otherwise, every other policy option canvassed so far is wrong in principle, nonviable in practice, unlikely to be effective, or bound to increase rather than diminish suffering.
The United Kingdom and France are pressing hard for indirect military intervention: supplying arms to the rebel side, in their view, would be a low-cost, low-risk, potentially high-return option.
Given the unprecedented scale of the threat, business as usual is not an option.
This is what is great about technological solutions to climate change: if an alternative option is cheaper, people will start using it.
Indonesia’s government would undoubtedly prefer to see Ba’asyir languish in jail, but without any legal measure to justify continued detention, it had little option but to release him.
If European and Japanese exporters are facing protectionist barriers in the US, what other option do they have than tapping the Chinese market?
For a significant number of both Palestinians and Israelis, the use of force has come to represent the only conceivable option.
“Economic strangulation” of North Korea appears to be the fallback option.
A broad pattern of self-insurance caused by underinvestment in resilient infrastructure is an inefficient and distinctly inferior option.
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