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But the idea that transparency will restore public trust in democracy rests on several problematic assumptions, primarily the belief that “if only people knew,” everything would be different.
Despite open borders, scientific contacts, participation in conferences, even the exchange of publications, remain problematic.
The $100 billion in finance has always seemed problematic.
The agreement with Turkey was problematic from its inception.
It was not long before some Chinese economists began to categorize the growth pattern brought about three decades ago by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms as “extensive” – and thus problematic.
The consequences have been problematic, to say the least.
In order to meet this demand, meat producers have had to adopt an extremely problematic approach to raising livestock.
Given the scale of the world’s ecological challenges, our leaders’ incapacity to cooperate effectively on the environment could not be more problematic.
Even if Imanishi's ecological and evolutionary ideas were problematic, he and his followers were right about quite a lot.
In this fragile context, EU threats to halt business with Israeli companies present in the country’s West Bank settlements are problematic, as are academic and scientific boycotts against Israel.
Except for Russia’s brief war with Georgia in August 2008 (a conflict generally seen as instigated by reckless Georgian leadership), Russia’s acquiescence and commitment to the “new world order,” however problematic, was one of the great accomplishments of the post-Cold War era.
This is all the more problematic at a time when the world’s states and people are more intertwined than ever, as ideas, information, finance, migrants, and problems flow ever more seamlessly across borders.
What is most problematic about the eurozone’s situation is that unemployment in some of the crisis countries – Spain and Greece – remains above 20%.
At first glance, this may not seem problematic.
In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.
But it becomes problematic when these conditions don’t exist, such as in civil wars.
Now, however, a new credit would serve only to make the burden of government debt unsustainable; what is needed is a purchase of all or some of the problematic Cypriot banks.
Paradoxically, we have found that working-class women (and women of color) rarely harbor such economically problematic structures of denial.
As I wrote in my chapter, “Some problematic areas identified in the Kerner Report have gotten better (participation in politics and government by black Americans – symbolized by the election of a black president), some have stayed the same (education and employment disparities), and some have gotten worse (wealth and income inequality).”
But May’s problematic approach to immigration extends back further.
The US tax code has long been biased toward low saving and debt-financed consumption; the deductibility of mortgage interest, the absence of any value-added or national sales tax, and a dearth of saving incentives are especially problematic.
In the 1990’s, differing visions of European integration led to a problematic compromise.
It is also important to examine which types of clusters of preference rankings are problematic for different types of voting procedures.
Turkey is, of course, highly problematic.
More problematic, the disregard for spillovers could put the global economy on a dangerous path of unconventional monetary tit for tat.
Given that food and energy prices respond to monetary developments, and thus are not exogenous, the concept of “core inflation” obviously becomes problematic, to say the least.
The problematic features of the British-drafted Indian Penal Code include the prohibition of “sedition,” defined loosely as speech or actions promoting “disaffection against the government established by law”; the criminalization of homosexual acts; and the uneven prosecution of adultery.
Indeed, the British, who created these problematic offenses, have since eliminated all of them at home – a reflection of the changing times.
The extraordinarily high proportion of foreign labor within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is often considered problematic, because, as some see it, it threatens local cultures and national identities, holds down wages, and impedes the development of domestic skills and talent.
And that could well make the lessons noted above all the more problematic for the US economy.
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