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By ignoring the fact that international trade sometimes – certainly not always – involves redistributive outcomes that we would consider problematic at home, they fail to engage the public debate properly.
In fact, relying on China’s past growth record to predict future performance is inherently problematic, owing not only to important shifts in the labor force, but also to the fact that the speed and scale of China’s pre-2008 growth was unprecedented.
The first strategy is problematic because it is unsustainable.
One of Trump’s most problematic stances relates to trade.
But political control of the economy generally becomes problematic, because those running the state do not have social welfare or optimal resource allocation in mind.
Though the technology still faces more than a few shortcomings, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman Rajendar Pachauri issued a deeply problematic statement last month, saying that, “With CCS it is entirely possible for fossil fuels to continue to be used on a large scale.”
Even more problematic is the revelation that CCS and BECCS would most likely be used for “enhanced oil recovery,” with compressed CO2 pumped into old oil wells for storage, thereby creating a financial incentive to recover more oil.
Growth would reduce this burden, but growth in the short and medium term is highly problematic.
Relying exclusively on UNASUR for election observations is deeply problematic, even if one overlooks some of its heterodox norms and practices, such as the absence of an explicit ban on receiving funding or deploying observers from host countries.
But after the global economy started to recover during the latter part of the following year, the ECB’s moves became increasingly problematic, because they enabled countries to evade structural reform and hindered the necessary disinflation in the southern eurozone countries – or even halted it altogether, as in Portugal and Italy.
That country of 93 million people is one of the only two immediate neighbors the United States have, and a problematic as well as a promising one: it produces a stream of immigrants which cause increasing social problems along the Southern border of the US, and it promises to be a major market for American goods in the future.
The alternative – persisting with the current approach and, in the process, running the risk of turning technical dislocations into much more damaging longer-term economic and financial disruptions – would also prove problematic for other emerging economies.
Following a few problematic episodes in recent years, China’s finance ministry has now issued guidelines to mitigate the risks for SOEs pursuing foreign acquisitions.
Equally problematic, the MDGs implicitly assume that we know how to achieve development targets, and that only resources and political will are missing.
For example, in view of the looming fall of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, the pressure of the Egyptian revolution, and the new role of Islamism in the region, Hamas’s alliance with Iran is becoming increasingly problematic.
But, as the Treasury recognized, eliminating the regulators is a problematic proposition.
This is particularly problematic in the case of Iran.
In fact, this is a highly problematic claim.
Unfortunately, there are two further and even more problematic aspects of uncertainty.
Here, our understanding of both likelihoods and the possibilities themselves is problematic.
When other countries falter, their policies are questioned; when Israel’s behavior is controversial or problematic, its right to exist comes under fire.
But Hamas’s control within Gaza is equally problematic.
The classification “senior state officials” is immediately problematic, owing to its ambiguity in terms of scope and function.
For example, to stop bots from being used to amplify content artificially, platforms may require that users disclose their real identities (though this would be problematic in authoritarian regimes where anonymity protects democracy advocates).
Even if these ethical questions were answered, identifying problematic content at scale confronts serious practical challenges.
The end result will be an information environment that, while imperfect, includes only a relatively small amount of problematic content – unavoidable in democratic societies that value free speech.
While Chinese statistics are problematic, it appears that manufacturing employment peaked at around 15% in the mid-1990’s, generally remaining below that level since.
The rise of high-tech companies like Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba is a step in the right direction, though the fact that the most successful Chinese tech companies are listed overseas, and are thus not available to mainland investors, is problematic.
These gaps are problematic, but, as Lewis emphasized, they also constitute a potential engine for economic growth.
The closer to zero they fall, the more problematic monetary policy becomes.
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