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If the production structure had been properly understood, the recipe would have been far-reaching liberalization - as in Poland.
In any case, a properly designed FTT can be no more than a small part of a much larger strategy, whether for reforming the tax system or for regulating financial markets.
If not disposed of properly, plastics can lie or float around for decades.
Neither Haiti nor the world was properly equipped for this, and tens of thousands will die needlessly.
Now, in a low-inflation environment, flexibility is properly regarded as an important tool to avoid misalignments and to shield economies from external shocks.
For NATO to work properly, its members must be prepared not only to supply troops and equipment for NATO-led military operations, but also to fund and sustain these operations until missions are completed.
If managed and supported properly, Africa’s renewables revolution could create jobs far beyond the energy sector itself.
Development aid, properly channeled, also has the potential to mobilize private investment if it is spent to reduce risk.
Why bother with all that complicated integration involving the Schengen Agreement, a monetary union, and EU regulations, which in the end don’t work properly and only weaken the member states’ global competitiveness?
We economists supposedly failed to convey to politicians and bureaucrats what needed to be done, because we hadn’t analyzed the situation fully and properly in real time.
As Patrick Gaspard, the former United States ambassador to South Africa, recently noted, the country has a strong system of checks and balances that, if steered properly, can trump corruption and deliver needed reforms.
In contrast to normal or tolerable stress, which can build resilience and properly calibrate a child’s stress-response system, toxic stress is caused by extreme, prolonged adversity in the absence of a supportive network of adults to help the child adapt.
Until both are addressed properly, the West will remain burdened by sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and excessive income and wealth inequality.
Indeed, the International Energy Agency estimates that the additional precautions needed to ensure shale-gas wells’ environmental safety – including careful attention to seismic conditions, properly sealed shafts, and appropriate waste-water management – add only about 7% to the cost.
So perhaps financial-system risk would increase, not decrease, if we regulated very large non-shadow banks properly.
If household surveys are carried out properly, the number of excess deaths during the war can be estimated within a range of statistical uncertainty.
If she does report the matter to the authorities, the case will almost certainly never be properly investigated, nor the perpetrators ever prosecuted.
So it is reasonable to consider how many targets we could measure properly, rather than how to collect data on a large number of them.
The information must also be managed and evaluated – and doing this properly can be far more complicated and expensive than the effort to collect it.
If the decisions to be improved are not first properly identified and analyzed, there is a high risk that much of the collection effort could be wasted or misdirected.
Furthermore, grave errors can occur when large data sets are mined using machine algorithms without having first having properly examined the decision that needs to be made.
And in the Colombian plebiscite, voters would have needed a deep understanding of faraway South Africa’s truth-and-reconciliation process, and post-apartheid history, to assess the peace agreement properly.
The arrangement would shift more of the financing burden to Europe, where it properly belongs.
This holding pattern is particularly harmful because profound transformation will surely depend on financing from a sound sovereign bond market, which cannot function properly until uncertainty related to the government’s contingent liabilities – all those implicit guarantees – has been resolved.
That is why it is high time for Europeans to abandon their provincialism, launch a common foreign policy worthy of the name, and finally start to invest properly in their future security.
Owing to Putin’s cronyism and incompetent economic stewardship, Russians’ living standards have improved only modestly, the Russian economy is not globally competitive, and the country’s oil and gas fields have not been properly developed.
Rather than being protectionism in the usual sense, saying no to the Dubai takeover would reflect the desire to maximize the public interest more broadly and properly defined.
But the EU can overcome national impediments by developing exemplary universities and research centers that would be properly European, serving as an incentive to quality and reform at the national level.
If the island’s liabilities are not properly restructured, it will remain in a debt trap.
For example, aid financiers should require that security forces hired to oversee a project, or who respond to project-related protests, are properly trained and strictly observe international standards on managing public assemblies.
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