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While 40% of the world’s population are connected to the Internet, 20% are still
unable
to read and write.
The war in Algeria was, for de Gaulle, but another symptom of a dysfunctional state, an analysis that went back to his own experiences in 1940, when the French government proved
unable
to resist invasion by Hitler’s Germany.
There is no question that the crisis left the country
unable
to service its debts.
Griesa, for his part, showed no compunction about upending a financial order in which market-based exchanges of old bonds for new ones are used to restructure the debts of countries
unable
to pay.
By making it impossible for sovereigns to restructure, he effectively rendered them
unable
to borrow in the United States.
It is nonsense to argue that central banks are impotent and completely
unable
to raise inflation expectations, no matter how hard they try.
Moreover, since the government is
unable
to pay providers the necessary subsidy to keep prices low, output collapses, as has happened with Venezuela’s electricity and health sectors, among others.
This is mainly because the region’s labor market is too rigid and thus
unable
to handle external shocks.
If central banks are
unable
to increase inflation, it stands to reason that they may not have been instrumental in reducing it.
Trump’s vow to tear up the rules is a recipe for another Great Depression, with massive unemployment and millions of people
unable
to pay their mortgages, student loans, and other debts.
Eliminate such practices, the logic goes, and officials will be
unable
to reap large rewards from economic growth – and thus will be less motivated to encourage it.
On August 13, 1982 (a Friday), Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog went to Washington to tell the International Monetary Fund and the US government that Mexico would be
unable
to make its scheduled debt payment the following Monday.
Noah Kabbakeh, one of my vision-impaired colleagues in Freetown, Sierra Leone, needed four years to complete a two-year master’s program in the social sciences, not because he is
unable
to grasp the material quickly enough, but because he had to earn money to hire someone to read aloud textbooks and other class materials that any seeing graduate student could have obtained from the university library.
The European Union, after years of refusal, finally agreed in November to support a treaty; it should now press for clear, implementable language that will allow organizations to share braille, large-print, and audio books with each other and with people whose disabilities make them
unable
to read.
The problem was that economists were
unable
to say how much is too much.
Many individual governments, obsessed with compliance, are
unable
or unwilling to consider the negative public health effects of harsh anti-drug policies.
Some mothers are simply
unable
to meet their child’s needs, while others lack the medical or social support to navigate the logistics of breastfeeding.
But he was
unable
to improve the situation or help Iraq’s Shias and Sunnis reach a political compromise.
And the US cannot reach an accord with Pakistan without India’s consent, which America would be
unable
to force, especially given that it relies on India to counterbalance China’s growing clout in Asia.
If party lines are strictly maintained, US presidents may be
unable
to pass any legislation at all, or to make any judicial or other senior appointments.
Europe, however, is
unable
to do much to gain relief.
Unable
to reform their labor markets because of the fear of street protests, French governments of all political stripes seek to protect their ailing firms, only to face limits imposed by the rules of the Common Market.
Rigid as it was, with an extensive welfare system and an over-regulated labor market, Germany was
unable
to react to these shocks and ran into trouble.
This theory recalls that of the British historian Arnold Toynbee, according to which empires collapse because they are
unable
to react to external challenges.
It would be preferable for China to find a way to substitute Chinese for US private consumption demand, but the system seems
unable
to move quickly in this direction.
It should come as no wonder that smallholders and agricultural laborers represent a combined 70% of those who are
unable
to feed themselves today.
And if political and religious leaders are
unable
or unwilling to seek accommodation, it will be up to like-minded individuals, groups, and civil-society institutions to rebuild mutual respect and find ways to cooperate.
Governments have proved either unwilling or
unable
to act aggressively in terms of education and skills retraining or in redistributing income.
The government,
unable
to print money to bail out the banks or increase export competitiveness through currency devaluation, is left with only two options: default or deflation (austerity).
Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, it remains divided,
unable
to unify into a global force.
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