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In the early 2000s, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s government took aggressive action to tackle underlying problems in the financial and corporate sectors.
The problems underlying Japan's decline are legion.
I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
The assumption underlying such nationalist bombast – that a country’s interests are better served by being closed rather than open – is extremely dangerous.
When asked not about day-to-day governance but about the underlying constitutional framework, the public is positive.
The most worrisome underlying threat is the increase in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Second, there is an underlying historical tension between the large Sunni majority and the Alevi-Bektashi minority, loosely linked to Shia Islam.
But it does help to understand the dynamics underlying each approach, and to make trade-offs explicitly rather than blindly.
Those of us who are active in building a pan-European progressive political movement believe that only transnationality-in-action can counter the sectarian, nationalist narratives that conceal the underlying struggle.
In short, poverty is about politics, and the need to devise political solutions to its underlying causes, which involves more than providing money.
They occurred despite a tripling of the population, which put extraordinary Malthusian pressure on the economy underlying natural resource base, and despite the mobilization of an unprecedented proportion of national income for nearly a century of intensive war against France, a power with three times Britain’s population.
As a background note prepared by the World Bank Group for the G-20 explains, governments should pay more attention to the selection, quality, and management of infrastructure projects, as well as to the quality of the underlying investment climate.
The water crisis in Gaza is a cause of disease and suffering among Palestinians, and is a major source of underlying tensions between Palestine and Israel.
By focusing on the underlying challenges of sustainable development, our governments could more easily end the current crises (as in Darfur) and head off many more crises in the future.
In making these forecasts, I have relied more on analysis of underlying economic forces than on complex econometric models.
In 1991, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who is perhaps the world’s leading Keynesian today, showed that whether or not expectations are self-fulfilling depends on underlying economic conditions.
Politicians, in general, are experts at winning votes or building alliances, rather than at understanding the underlying global processes of climate, energy, disease, and food production that affect all of our planet’s inhabitants.
It presupposes a profound process through which institutions and the assumptions underlying them come to be widely shared.
Most of the tools and policies underlying this success are cheap, but not widely implemented in developing countries.
Unlike conventional indicators, which capture inequality in outcomes like education and employment, the OECD’s Social Institutions Gender Index (SIGI) evaluates the underlying drivers of such outcomes, comparing factors such as preferential treatment of sons over daughters, violence against women, and restrictions on property rights.
The underlying explanation lies in the culture and prejudices of France’s governing elite, the so-called grands commis formed by the National Civil Service School of which Hollande – like virtually all of his predecessors, except Nicolas Sarkozy – is an alumnus.
Both authors based their arguments on an assessment of the underlying context – that is, the structure – of world power.
The underlying problem remains that, while both central banks and finance ministries are unhappy about the excessive volatility of real and nominal exchange rates, they do not understand very well what causes it.
Perhaps people will see that the underlying message being spun is one of criminal hatred, and perhaps the violence will subside.
But these agonizing pictures represent only the symptoms of an underlying - and largely unreported - malady: capital flight.
It would be costly to apply the analogy of Munich in 1938 to a specific international conflict when the underlying situation is more reminiscent of Sarajevo in 1914.
The underlying assumption is that more investment is always better, because it increases the capital stock and thus output.
Much of the sentiment expressed by political leaders today – which has much in common with that underlying the intense anti-trade protests of the 1990s – reflects the reality that every trade deal costs some people their jobs, and that some of the displaced will not find other work.
Going further, the EU should institute a joint foreign and defense policy to address the underlying causes of the migration crisis – namely, the conflicts in Libya and Syria.
But the debate in the United States highlights an underlying issue that will worry almost every developed country in 2010 and beyond: the struggle to control health-care costs.
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