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All along, such unconventional policies were viewed as a temporary fix.
The upside of rebuilding – beyond the urgent restoration of normal life for thousands of people – is only a temporary palliative for an impaired economy.
After nine years of quick-fix and temporary solutions, Pakistan and its donors need to recognize that its energy crisis can be resolved only through institutional reform.
Approximately 320,000 people lost their homes, of which more than 90% continue to live in temporary housing.
Local governments worry about how far from the coast new residential areas should be built, amplifying concerns about the future for people who are being forced to live with strangers in temporary housing in an unfamiliar area.
President Ronald Reagan supported US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker’s disinflation, despite a deep recession, a temporary spike in unemployment, and midterm election losses.
That made sense when they needed those reserves to be very liquid so that they could bridge temporary trade deficits.
But one thing has become abundantly clear: their timid efforts so far – personal sanctions, an embargo on weapons exports, and the temporary suspension of Russia’s G-8 membership – have proved to be far from adequate to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down.
This is no temporary or passing phenomenon.
Some people hope Europe’s foreign policy failure is a temporary phenomenon, which could be solved by one more heave, or perhaps by some real leadership from Germany or France.
To be sure, the Fed’s intention to sustain its monetary stimulus is only temporary; it will follow through on its previous pledge to “reduce the pace of its asset purchases” and ultimately exit QE as soon as sufficient growth is restored.
And participation in the Olympics suggests that international isolation is a temporary fact of life, a toll on the road to fully recognized nuclear status.
The resulting job creation, though temporary, lulled policymakers into complacency about what was really going on in the labor market.
Indeed, this move could be more than temporary, with influential voices now calling for Schengen’s demise.
Emergency insurance might also cover the cost of care until the “open enrollment” period for purchasing insurance at the end of each year (if political pressure does not lead to the repeal of that temporary barrier to insurance).
Clearly, the Annan mission gave the regime some breathing space and created a temporary illusion of political and diplomatic progress.
Other factors are temporary.
This is true for actions contemplated by individual nations, temporary alliances, or more permanent alliances such as NATO.
How much drunken conversation will compensate for a drop in IQ (even if only temporary) the next day?
A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict controls on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax avoidance.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
This mechanism should also provide financial support for structural reforms through “limited, temporary, flexible, and targeted financial incentives.”
Indeed, the ECB proclaimed its belief that the stabilization of government-bond prices brought about by such purchases would be only temporary.
A qualitative breakthrough is taking place, and not only a temporary improvement caused by devaluation and higher oil prices.
As things stand, however, it does not take very much imagination to realize that the global open society that prevails at present is likely to prove a temporary phenomenon.
While the move has angered China’s leaders, there remains room for compromise, especially if the system’s deployment is made temporary and linked to North Korea’s denuclearization.
In reality, of course, the civil and guerrilla war under way in the rest of Iraq means that any security in the south can only be a temporary illusion.
Uganda is a cautionary tale: In 2012, so many conflicting digital health projects were in play that the government was forced to declare a temporary moratorium on all of them.
Once the failure of free trade, deregulation, and monetarism came to be seen as leading to a “new normal” of permanent austerity and diminished expectations, rather than just to a temporary banking crisis, the inequalities, job losses, and cultural dislocations of the pre-crisis period could no longer be legitimized – just as the extortionate taxes of the 1950s and 1960s lost their legitimacy in the stagflation of the 1970s.
This is the case in America, where nobody really worries if increased military spending will create a temporary deficit.
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