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Once one has thought through the degree of interdependence, not only of the world’s economies, but of the world’s societies, it becomes clear that a strongly fragmented system would be
unable
to deliver the sought-after global public goods and benefits.
Lant Pritchett of the Harvard Kennedy School has coined a new name for India: a “flailing state” – a state where the government’s extremely competent upper echelons are
unable
to control its inefficient lower levels, resulting in poor performance.
The result could be a substantial market-driven rise in long-term rates that the Fed would be
unable
to prevent.
It proved utterly
unable
to stop the wars in the Balkans; and in at least one case--Srebrenica--a Dutch UN peacekeeping force stood by and witnessed the worst massacre in post-1945 Europe, as Bosnian Serbs murdered around 6,000 defenseless Muslim men.
Unfortunately, while visitors to Bethlehem have increased in number during the past year, many are
unable
to explore the city properly.
Unfortunately, many patients will suffer far worse health outcomes than Valeria, simply because they are
unable
to access quality primary health-care services.
If we lose sight of that in our struggle against terrorism and its causes, we will be left
unable
to face successfully the long-term challenge of “Chindia.”
If they were
unable
to foresee something so important to people’s wellbeing, what good are they?
As a result, China’s innovative capacity remains relatively low, with its high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries
unable
to compete globally.
With the collapse of the planned economy in 1991, Russia proved to be not so much a developed as a misdeveloped country,
unable
to sell most of its products in non-captive markets.
Over half of the CEOs surveyed by PwC – and 62% in the Asia-Pacific region, home to the world’s largest workforce and fastest-growing economies – said that being
unable
to find key skills could hurt their ability to grow.
Yet Germans, too, are
unable
to suppress such feelings.
At the end of his political adventure, he lost touch with reality,
unable
to recognize that a depressed economy was causing popular discontent to fester and grow.
The heart of the matter is this: the Sudanese government is either
unable
or unwilling to protect its own citizens from mass violence.
But the challenges are enormous, and we will be
unable
to meet them without strong international support to help rebuild schools and clinics, put children back in school, and provide the foundation for vibrant private-sector growth.
In the 1990’s, its corporate sector was plagued by “triangular debts” (when a manufacturer that has not been paid for its product is
unable
to pay its suppliers, which in turn struggle to pay their suppliers).
And yet we live in a world which seems to legitimize, strongly, all kinds of possible and impossible interests, but which seems
unable
to legitimize universal interests, those which reach beyond the framework of the family, company, party, state or current generation.
True, China’s economy is now growing robustly and is not likely to face actual deflation anytime soon, but if China does fall into a zero-interest rate trap, the PBC, like the BOJ, would be
unable
to offset deflationary pressure in the event of a large exchange-rate appreciation.
As a result, if Italy became
unable
to refinance its debt, it would have to default – a scenario that, while unlikely, cannot be ruled out, especially if political uncertainty pushes bond yields to unmanageable levels.
Europe was
unable
to match America’s significant productivity boost from the information-technology revolution.
He claimed that the ultimate proof of artificial intelligence would be met if a human interrogator were
unable
to figure out that he was conversing with a computer.
In the United Arab Emirates, the Jordanian journalist Tayseer al-Najjar is serving a three-year sentence, which will be prolonged if his family is
unable
to pay the massive $136,000 fine imposed on him for a post he made on social media.
No, Brigitte Bardot – we still anticipate the arrival of Gerard Depardieu any day now – and other celebrities, people
unable
to shed a tear for our unwanted orphans or for the mass poverty left behind by Ceausecu, fly into Bucharest (undoubtedly by first class) to protect the wild dogs and denounce our mayor.
Indeed, since winning Tunisia’s first free election in 2011, Ennahda has been
unable
to choose definitively whether to support a pluralistic or an Islamist state.
But many Western politicians (and, to be fair, their constituents) are
unable
to let go of the syllogism that seemed so unassailable just a decade ago: (1) The Chinese have joined the world economy; (2) their wages are $0.50 an hour; (3) there are a billion of them; and (4) Chinese wages will never be bid up in line with the usual textbook laws of economics, so their exports will rise without limit.
Indeed, the country is rife with reports of desperate university graduates
unable
to find productive employment.
The government created after the January 2006 elections has been
unable
to pay civil servants because of the international banking blockade and the refusal of Israel to transfer millions of tax dollars collected on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Some have argued that the blame for the referendum’s outcome lies with economists themselves, because they were
unable
to speak a language that ordinary people could understand.
But regulators were
unable
to keep up with the innovations, which ended up generating risks that affected the entire economy.
Unable
to keep inflation under control without causing a recession, the country has, since 2010, got stuck not because of bad luck, or any loss of entrepreneurial spirit in its private sector, but because of political failings.
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