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This is a prescription for a future without hope.
Yet such rules alone will not be enough, because in much of the developing world, antibiotics can be obtained without a prescription.
For example, the first of these groups consists of medicines that should always be available to patients, preferably by prescription.
Although some activists still rely on scare tactics – witness the launch of an advertisement depicting the bombing of anybody who is hesitant to embrace carbon cuts – many activists now spend more time highlighting the “benefits” of their policy prescription.
Indeed, outlays for prescription drugs, as a share of GDP, have nearly tripled in just 20 years.
ECB President Mario Draghi claims that “a sustained recovery is taking hold,” while policymakers in Berlin and Brussels latch onto signs of life in Spain and Ireland as proof that their bitter prescription of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms worked as advertised.
In July, the full Codex membership approved various procedures and requirements that are more appropriate to potentially dangerous prescription drugs or pesticides than to GM tomatoes, potatoes, and strawberries.
This is a modern-day variant of the classic prescription to start tightening before inflation sets in too deeply, even if employment has not fully recovered.
Looking back at the crisis a decade later, we can see more clearly how wrong the diagnosis, prescription, and prognosis of the IMF and United States Treasury were.
We live in an age of enormous transformation – an era in which focusing solely on near-term financial results is a prescription for extinction, and addressing societal needs is entirely compatible with long-term profitability.
Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.
The conventional prescription includes improving education (especially the technical kind), modernizing labor markets, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and facilitating foreign investment and technology transfer.
Add to this a 30% increase in prices for prescription drugs, and it is easy to see why Greek society is unraveling.
Even the part that is not government-financed is not a conventional market; most individuals’ purchases of prescription medicines are covered by insurance.
That is why a knee-jerk, simplistic “Washington Consensus” prescription of more liberalization and privatization is inappropriate for the Arab world in 2012.
But the situation is far different concerning the safety of prescription drugs.
This prescription worked for a time in a few countries, but was risky, as Argentina was to show.
Those who defend such widespread use of prescription drugs insist that a significant part of the population is under-treated and, by inference, under-medicated.
These will include not only prescription medicines, but also diagnostics, branded generics, and technologies that support personalized medicine, as well as so-called “neutraceuticals” and other “wellness options.”
Sadly, the European Union seems to be taking Frost's poetic whimsy as a serious policy prescription.
Yes, orthodox economists of (mostly) Teutonic origin peddle a lethal fiscal-policy prescription.
For some European economies, this prescription has caused a needlessly long recession.
This prescription has one problem.
World leaders need to recognize that today’s populist revolts are being fueled by a sense of lost dignity – a sentiment that does not factor into most policymakers’ prescription for economic growth and compensatory payments.
As late as November of last year, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn had thrown cold water on Brazil’s efforts to stem inflows of speculative “hot money,” and said that he would not recommend such controls “as a standard prescription.”
For, unlike diplomatic communications, which are generally an invitation to dialogue, legislation translates into a take-it-or-leave-it prescription, the operational equivalent of an ultimatum.”
In creating new financial regulations, we need to take the medical analogy one step further – by creating the equivalent of the prescription.
Your local bank offers you what is certified to be a teaser loan – a prescription product.
In brief, just as we do not ban steroids because they are dangerous, but require that buyers have a valid prescription, we should institutionalize caution in how financial products can be used – and by whom.
We should, however, avoid the medical convention whereby each product is either over-the-counter or prescription, regardless of who is buying the product.
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