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A failure to anticipate political revolutions reflects, at least partly, conceptual inadequacies.
While outdoor air pollution is
partly
caused by incipient industrialization, this represents a temporary tradeoff for the poor – escaping hunger, infectious disease, and indoor air pollution to be better able to afford food, health care, and education.
This is
partly
because when I was Governor of Hong Kong, I was made Chancellor of every university in the city.
But here, too, mounting risks have been largely ignored, owing
partly
to the collateralization of real property, which is believed to retain its value permanently, and
partly
to the system of implicit government guarantees that backs loans to local governments and SOEs.
To be sure, Italy’s ruling coalition is responding, at least partly, to real and serious concerns.
World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia’s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised,
partly
owing to a widespread belief that the regime’s collapse was imminent.
H.G. Wells was only
partly
right: the race between morality and destruction encompasses not just war, but economic life as well.
While many of science’s promises have been fulfilled – notably, the dramatic extension of the human lifespan and of leisure time – many others have been only
partly
achieved, or not at all.
With most credit pipelines already
partly
blocked, the shortage of corporate credit will become more severe as regulators finally force banks to embark on a proper mobilization of prudential capital and shrink balance sheets to less risky levels.
“Copenhagen 1” was always bound to fail,
partly
because – and this may sound strange at first – it is all about climate change.
The current-account deficit comes about
partly
because foreigners want to invest more in the US than Americans want to invest abroad.
It may also
partly
reflect that Americans are spending beyond their means.
Rafsanjani was at least
partly
hostage to hardline opponents keen to sabotage his foreign-policy initiatives with precisely timed acts of terror in France, Germany, and Argentina.
Partly
because the United States makes capital increases and governance reforms in global financial institutions so difficult, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have launched their own development bank, to be based in Shanghai.
The best-performing eurozone members, such as Germany, look good, but only in comparison; and their growth model is
partly
based on beggar-thy-neighbor policies, whereby success comes at the expense of erstwhile “partners.”
Globalization is beleaguered
partly
because of decisions made by governments under the auspices of an open international order.
As long as the latter factor plays a significant role, the CEO pay slice
partly
reflects governance problems.
The intention was collective punishment, imposed
partly
in response to Hamas’s political control of Gaza.
Partly
as a result of income growth, the US budget deficit last year was lower than forecast, at about 2.8% of GDP.
Disparities in access to education, training, and health care –
partly
a reflection of those fiscal constraints – exacerbate already rising inequality.
The rich like to blame the poor,
partly
because it lets them off the hook, and
partly
because it gives them a feeling of moral superiority.
But households in the least-developed countries have many children – an average of five per woman –
partly
because fear of high childhood death rates leads them to overcompensate with large families.
Deaths from malaria were soaring,
partly
because poor countries’ health systems were dramatically underfunded, and
partly
because the malaria parasite had developed resistance to the usual medicines.
Thanks to democracy, social struggle, and workers’ unions, together with the political efforts of social democracy, the inhumanity of the system was
partly
softened.
The implication is that hostility toward foreigners in eastern Germany – and perhaps across Europe – may be rooted
partly
in a primordial defensive response by local men, who want to protect their territory, including “their” women, from other men.
That
partly
explains why it is so difficult for many Indians to imagine their country following in Turkey’s footsteps to become a majoritarian illiberal democracy with an autocrat in charge.
That can be attributed
partly
to Prime Minister Theresa May’s new government, which has purposely adopted a gradual approach to the Brexit process.
Yes, post-crisis spending headwinds are an important impediment to growth,
partly
owing to their persistence.
That is
partly
why China’s current “anti-corruption” campaign, for example, is so important.
But it is condescending to refuse to hold many of them
partly
responsible for their own plight.
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