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Governments must step up to address market failures, while planning, implementing, and enforcing industrial policies that address the
shortcomings
of previous ineffective versions.
Given such shortcomings, courses on science and engineering and their social applications should become part of the core training and continuing education of those in law, public administration, and official policymaking positions.
This intergovernmental approach lay behind the Lisbon Agenda’s failure to deliver the results needed to make Europe more competitive and dynamic by 2010, and the same
shortcomings
will bedevil its successor, the new “Europe 2020” strategy.
But the
shortcomings
there mostly reflect the fact that central banks cannot by themselves implement the necessary policies to make a negative interest rate policy fully effective.
Whatever the cause of these shortcomings, the lesson that US and Europe policymakers should draw is that the objective – facilitating democratization and modernization – remains valid, despite the need for a change in tactics.
And it was important to expose the societies under Soviet control to their
shortcomings
and to the advantages of outside ideas.
With the lull in net immigration, we now have a window of opportunity to address these
shortcomings.
One of the major
shortcomings
of the global trading system in recent decades has been the absence of an effective constraint on countries that intervene heavily in order to keep their currencies undervalued.
Wolf and Eichengreen would agree that the main
shortcomings
that led to the 2008 financial crisis – and that continue to underpin our inadequate response to it – are intellectual.
But the recent surge in migration to Europe, driven largely by Syria’s intensifying civil war, has brought Schengen’s
shortcomings
to the fore.
And, like past insurgencies, the Iraq conflict is one in which the insurgents use horrific acts to intimidate the public, expose the
shortcomings
of the government, and goad the regime into overreactions that might turn the public against it.
But it does not mean that America’s leaders can continue to ignore the political system’s shortcomings, such as the gerrymandered “safe seats” in the House of Representatives and obstructive processes in the Senate.
The Reform Treaty’s
shortcomings
are obvious.
While Africa’s leaders are well aware of these shortcomings, they lack the resources to address them alone – especially given growing demand from the youth bulge.
The problem does not lie with our shortcomings, but with the way we choose to resolve them.
Efforts to make the rules more flexible are a welcome development, but
shortcomings
remain, particularly given that implementation risks make the macroeconomic effects of rule changes difficult to quantify.
In other words, individuals – usually assumed to be identical – fully use all available information to forecast the future in an environment of perfect competition, no capital market shortcomings, and full insurance of all risks.
For starters, it has allowed international institutions to avoid acknowledging the
shortcomings
of the new development orthodoxy of the last two decades of the twentieth century, when Latin America lost over a decade, and Sub-Saharan Africa a quarter-century, of economic and social progress.
“The recent economic and financial upheavals,” he declared, “have thrown a glaring light on the
shortcomings
of the intellectual tools provided by mainstream economics and its key assumptions regarding the sustainability of self-regulating markets,” especially “largely unregulated global financial markets.”
Indeed, while the various legislative and presidential elections held throughout Latin America reinforced – beyond the outcomes in each case – popular commitment to pluralism and democracy, they also reflected growing levels of political polarization and persistent institutional
shortcomings.
Despite the NPT's shortcomings, the overwhelming majority of non-nuclear states fully comply with their Treaty obligations.
But addressing such
shortcomings
by ostracizing legitimate religious-political options merely reinforces jihadist recruiters’ argument that violence is the only way to secure reform.
Both suffered massive financial crises – rooted in egregious economic mismanagement in Greece and a massive asset-price bubble in Ireland – which were amplified by the eurozone’s structural
shortcomings.
And, given diminishing government transparency in the US and more and more secret law, is it not a serious issue that a presidential candidate will not address his or her mistakes and
shortcomings?
If we are to avoid paying a high economic, strategic, and environmental price for its shortcomings, a better system of developing and enforcing internationally agreed energy rules is essential.
Badly regulated banking sectors, feeble market structures, and weak competition, as well as trade and current-account restrictions, were also among the
shortcomings
identified.
They may reflect deeper weaknesses in economic structures, such as a lack of competitiveness or institutional
shortcomings.
One explanation for this commonality is that launching a public campaign against a powerless, unpopular group like drug users is an easy way for a leader to mask other
shortcomings.
Unfortunately, the new Basel III Accord and the ensuing EU Capital Requirements Directive have failed to correct the two main
shortcomings
of international prudential rules – namely, their reliance on banks’ risk-management models for the calculation of capital requirements, and the lack of supervisory accountability.
In order to overcome these
shortcomings
in international banking regulations, three remedies are needed.
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