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There is no substitute for lasting peace in Syria.
Then he explained a better course of action, admonishing that “pique is no substitute for policy,” a line I always remembered – and had many occasions to use.
The IMF cannot substitute for governments’ choices.
Finally, there is no substitute for restructuring.
If you substitute “dog” for “cow,” the numbers get closer – more than eight million for “dog who” and over ten million for “dog that.”
In fact, just a few months ago, Summers himself proposed a reformulation of the production function that distinguished between traditional capital (K1), which remains, to some degree, a complement to labor (L), and a new kind of capital (K2), which would be a perfect substitute for L.
Until recently not much capital could be classified as K2, with machines that could substitute for labor doing so far from perfectly.
Moreover, Africa’s weak states offer the least resistance as a substitute for traditional cocaine smuggling routes in Central America and the Caribbean, which are being blocked.
To be sure, there is no substitute for on-the-job learning; nonetheless, voters need to hear more than tired slogans and political invective to make an informed choice in November 2016.
Though the Palestinian economy in the West Bank has improved greatly under Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, this is no substitute for serious peace negotiations.
Foreign aid is no substitute for insurance.
One common forecast is that as ever-more advanced robots substitute workers, the cost of labor will become less important, and manufacturing will move back to rich countries.
Such a forum will not be a substitute for the activities carried out under various specialized UN agencies, but it will support the work of national academies as well as other science advisory bodies.
But, with financial markets now in turmoil and likely to stay that way, the time has come for the ECB to jettison its use of code words – a poor substitute for real central bank transparency in any case.
But they are no substitute for fundamental long-term reform to make tax systems simpler, fairer, and more efficient.
But privatization cannot substitute for delayed actions.
Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.
And while the US Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing has propped up businesses, it is no substitute for the enthusiasm and anticipation needed to propel investment.
In this sense, they ignore the fact that the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact has been in principle an important component of political union, not its substitute.
To be sure, initiatives at the EU and/or eurozone level cannot substitute for stronger mechanisms of discipline in the member states, which are ultimately the responsibility of national politicians and publics.
But no amount of lofty rhetoric can substitute for the reforms outlined here – or obviate the need for them.
Dollar abundance convinced the ruling clique that the state could substitute for the productive elite, through nationalization and other forms of collective property.
For this large sector, there is no substitute for domestic demand.
And they have made little systematic use of explicit industrial policies that could act as a substitute for undervaluation.
But trade restrictions were a poor substitute for domestic reflationary measures, as they did little to arrest the downward spiral of output and prices.
Summers actually proposed a new form of the production function, whereby the progress of intelligent machines makes capital a perfect substitute for segments of the labor force.
Finally, a remarkable plan to enroll every Indian adult in a program using fingerprint identification as a substitute for bank debit cards will allow more efficient distribution of funds to poor villagers and the urban poor.
Second, GVCs make it harder for low-income countries to use their labor-cost advantage to offset their technological disadvantage, by reducing their ability to substitute unskilled labor for other production inputs.
It also shows that, when a crisis erupts, there is no substitute for effective deterrence and defense.
Both sides will need to give a little to prevent the confrontation in the streets from escalating, with the police forced to provide a substitute for a sensible policy.
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