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China routinely rotates the highest executive positions, as it realizes that a change of power prevents tyrants from gaining excessive power, a lesson learned painfully during Mao's long and often disastrous reign.
This assumption prevents terminating conservation efforts prematurely, even as it underestimates the total number of extinctions.
This prevents full utilization of production capacity and resources, and explains why GDP growth above 7% is simply not possible.
The same mechanism that pours profits into the pockets of global corporations also prevents governments from claiming a larger share of the spoils.
The first creates a permanent dependence on transfers, which, by sustaining relative prices, prevents the economy from regaining competitiveness.
Imagining a New Bretton WoodsAUSTIN, TEXAS – The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows, and prevents systemic contagion.
The Fund can help to prevent future crisis of this kind, but only if it first prevents undue influence on its capacity to scrutinize, and if necessary criticize, influential countries’ policies and regulations.
For example, burning a hectare of harvested willow on a field previously used for barley (the typical marginal crop in Denmark) prevents 30 tons of CO2 annually when replacing coal.
Instead, the self-interest of UN bureaucracies actually prevents the poor from bettering their lives - and even from surviving.
Emotional intelligence involves awareness and control of such signals, and the self-discipline that prevents personal psychological needs from distorting policy.
The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.
What America’s affirmative action programs may not do is set quotas for minorities, as this prevents competition between different groups.
We all pay when that failure prevents women journalists from achieving their full potential.
For example, it can be difficult to lower rates of infection in countries where gender inequality prevents women from making decisions about when, where, and even with whom they have sex.
Nothing prevents us from hoping that a fair and just peace can be achieved by then.
This prevents monetary and credit growth, but, by keeping interest-rate differentials high, sterilized intervention feeds carry-trade inflows, thus contributing to the problem that it was supposed to solve.
Traditional antitrust and pro-competition legislation – which began in 1890 with the Sherman Act in the US – prevents such an efficient system from taking hold.
For example, the dialogue with Iran, and with Muslims in general, remains dependent on resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, the persistence of which pollutes dialogue and prevents progress.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the coalition against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.
Moreover, if peace prevents a slide into war, Hezbollah has another problem.
This prevents the would-be champions of openness from speaking up clearly on a defining issue.
But the three Arab states are already members of the Arab Free Trade Zone GAFTA, which normally prevents participation in another free-trade zone.
This tendency prevents Africa from participating as a legitimate and coequal member of the global community.
Finally, the Islamic financial framework protects deposit balances, and prevents excessive credit growth.
The consensus view is rather that of William McChesney Martin, who served as US Federal Reserve Chairman from 1951 to 1970: a good central bank prevents speculative excess by “taking away the punchbowl before the party really gets going.”
These journalists’ self-interested prejudice against a medium in which they are not the gatekeepers prevents them from conceding that Assange is a publisher, rather than some sort of hybrid terrorist blogger.
Today’s dynamic complexity, in which a science-based, fast-changing global economy makes so many more phenomena interdependent, prevents us from foreseeing the future through linear extrapolations of the past.
Twitter is largely blocked by China’s “great firewall” (GFW), which prevents Chinese people from accessing certain sites.
What, then, prevents deficits from spiraling upward as parties alternate power and borrow to help their supporters?
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