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Simply put, Europe is overloaded by crises – so overloaded, in fact, that many claim it is too weary to
respond
effectively to new challenges as they arise.
Too large a crisis – or too many crises at once – threatens to overwhelm the EU’s capacity to respond, ultimately leading to breakdown.
We must drive home the message that Third World hunger remains a massive global problem to which we have a moral responsibility to
respond.
China's communist rulers are dithering about how to
respond.
For example, state-owned enterprises, including banks, may
respond
more flexibly than purely private enterprises to a variable mix of public and private incentives and investment returns.
At the same time, the government is seeking to give markets a more decisive role in the economy, unleash the power of entrepreneurship and innovation, and
respond
more effectively to the needs and desires of a young, educated, and fast-growing middle class.
For example, a longstanding debate in macroeconomics has focused on how prices
respond
to news about the economy, and whether companies pass through to consumers changes in import prices that result from exchange-rate movements.
And it has caused an unseemly commotion at a time when the EU must
respond
to the loss of the United Kingdom and the degradation of the transatlantic alliance.
Here, especially, ASEAN members must
respond
to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, tackling issues such as harmonization of rules governing the use of data.
But only about half of those who try antidepressant drugs
respond
to them, and those who do may have to wait several weeks or even months before experiencing relief – a critical failing for people at immediate risk of suicide.
The federal government ordered all state education ministries to ensure that health professionals trained at least two members of staff in every school to recognize and
respond
to Ebola.
And they need to have enough flexibility to
respond
quickly to short-term shocks.
But all public actors, not just the police, must
respond
to urban problems.
But how will China and Mexico
respond?
And the Chinese may be in a better position to
respond
to US attempts to inflict pain on them than the US is to
respond
to the pain that China might inflict on Americans.
But the global environment will not
respond
to isolated national efforts alone.
But if the confidence is indeed mistaken, why
respond
as if it were not?
Moreover, in the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait, Western countries threatened to
respond
with tactical nuclear weapons if Saddam deployed chemical weapons.
Israel, for its part, still reeling from the trauma of its ill-begotten war in Lebanon in 1982, chose not to
respond
to Hezbollah’s attacks and hoped that the attacks would not escalate.
Above all, they should not
respond
to Trump’s populist identity politics primarily with a different form of identity politics.
A single, homogeneous people who can do no wrong and need only a genuine representative to implement their will properly is a fantasy – but it is a fantasy that can
respond
to real problems.
What is needed is mainstream politicians who understand and
respond
to what is fueling popular rage.
A recent New York Times editorial, for example, decried wealthy countries’ “me first” attitude toward a possible H5N1 pandemic, because “[t]he best hope of stopping a pandemic, or at least buying time to respond, is to improve surveillance and health practices in East Africa and Asia, where one would probably begin.”
But if Obama shows that he takes the issue seriously and intends to pursue a policy of containment, these nations would probably
respond
favorably.
Using heated language unusual for a US president, Trump recently warned that if Pyongyang threatens to attack the United States again, the US will
respond
with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
Now it is up to these elites to
respond
effectively to the causes of popular anger, or risk facing the eventual emergence of anti-establishment movements, like their American and European counterparts.
Regardless of how Brexit or the US election plays out, it is very likely that governments in Western democracies will
respond
to voter angst and take measures that imply a return to some degree of protectionism.
But with the world trading system now under assault by the United States, the question for developing countries is how to
respond.
The biggest challenge for all of us, young and old, next year and for the indefinite future, will result from a different sort of change that is unlikely to
respond
simply to technological determinism.
Because a cartel would make these market changes more discernible, labor exporters would be able to
respond
and adjust their worker-training systems accordingly, increasing labor importers’ ability to recruit migrant workers better suited to the available jobs.
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