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Most governments are poorly equipped to deal with serious water challenges.
But, if independent technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives that cannot be influenced by democratic majorities, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy.
He was not considered a serious contender until quite recently – just as few saw Trump coming until it was too late.
Labor rules that favor job creation – what Scandinavian countries call active labor-market policies – are needed: a combination of information, training, and subsidies that help overcome what are typically serious failures in the market for young workers with limited skills and experience.
Otherwise, he would face a serious domestic backlash from both the left and the right.
Hence Keynes gave governments two tasks: to pump up the economy with air when it starts to deflate, and to minimize the chances of serious shocks happening in the first place.
The result is the first signs of serious public discontent with the regime since the violent repression of the Green Movement in 2009.
If China is serious about reform, it will need armies of people like these, fighting for their rights, in order to balance the overwhelming political power of its entrenched elites.
But, with some three billion or so users on the Web nowadays, that very openness has become a serious vulnerability; indeed, it is endangering the vast economic opportunities that the Internet has opened for the world.
As most countries have started making serious investments in renewable energy, and many are implementing carbon prices and regulations, critics complain that such policies may undermine growth.
These are serious economic debates, but too often they have become entangled in ideological disputes about the appropriate response to the economic crisis and the value of government intervention in markets.
Manafort apparently calculated that he could neither bet on a pardon later – what if Trump himself was in serious legal danger by then?
This view that a president is above the law is unique (so far as is known) among serious legal scholars.
If so, financial markets could conclude that public-debt sustainability is in serious danger – a perception that could have highly adverse effects on financing conditions.
In one study of mothers and their babies in Bangladesh, researchers recorded a staggering 63% reduction in influenza cases among infants born to vaccinated mothers, a 36% reduction in the number of serious respiratory illnesses for mothers, and a 29% reduction in such illnesses among infants.
If the international community is serious about meeting the health targets set by the SDGs, it must redouble its efforts to encourage more mothers to be vaccinated against preventable illnesses and to feed their newborns breast milk.
The hoped-for break with the past did not occur, as political infighting among the country’s new leaders blocked the implementation of any serious reform agenda.
Jobs, in particular, will help young people to create new lives through serious work.
But his administration’s actions – including serious blunders in Iran and Afghanistan – made the US appear weak and indecisive.
In the end, people do not want to be sold the same old toothpaste when what they really need is serious dental work.
As a result, the period since the financial crisis of 1998 has generated serious problems for monetary and exchange-rate policies.
Meanwhile, over the course of three televised presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate, climate change, the signature issue of our time and the most serious problem confronting our planet, was not mentioned even once.
The soporific federal elections, the breakdown of coalition talks among the CDU, its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Greens, and the Free Democrats (FDP), and the timid dance between the CDU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since then all point to a serious deficit in German politics.
By holding an election three years ahead of schedule, May seems to have made a serious, though hardly unprecedented, miscalculation.
Not only will politicians’ influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose primary mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.
He was released near the end of his term after contracting pneumonia (a source of serious health problems for the rest of his life).
We also need additional measures to ensure that perpetrators of serious international crimes are brought to justice.
They have been directed toward increasing aggregate demand without any serious concern for the unintended longer-term consequences.
We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.
Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round’s “failure” is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self-fulfilling.
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