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This short-circuits competition, undermines the diffusion of general-purpose technology, and blocks the type of adaptation and evolution that underpins a vibrant private sector.
Information that appears to be propaganda may not only be scorned, but may also prove counterproductive if it undermines a country’s reputation for credibility.
It is a very dangerous expedient, one that undermines standards of value, renders economic calculation virtually impossible, and redistributes wealth at random.
Not only will consumers face higher costs for autos; the disruption of existing efficient supply chains may even leave the US auto industry as a whole worse off, as it undermines the international competitiveness of North American output.
Every time the EU acts as a colonial usurper, as it did in 2009, it undermines the legitimacy of its good and proper actions and strengthens the xenophobic, anti-European “Nationalist International.”
The whole exclusion simply undermines the multilateral trading system.
Thus, while White rightly points out that existing policies to increase the monetary base have elicited little or no response from broader monetary aggregates, this in no way undermines the argument for OMF.
Indeed, equating financial liberalization with privileges for cities designated as “financial centers” undermines the very goals of liberalization – namely, to reduce government control and to accelerate the development of financial markets.
This highlights a fundamental problem: the Kenyan state’s endemic corruption constantly undermines its policymakers’ goals.
It also undermines the delivery of public services, stoking mistrust of the very government on which populations depend so heavily.
This impedes competition and contestability, undermines the diffusion of general-purpose technology, and blocks the type of adaptation and evolution that a dynamic private sector requires.
For example, China adamantly opposes the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system in South Korea, claiming that it undermines China’s own security.
It undermines economic growth.
Quite aside from the terrible human and institutional impact, this situation also undermines the long-term economic strategies of Central American governments.
Our experience with authoritarian rule, however, is that it undermines the goal of post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction by its need to maintain our society’s divisions artificially.
Economists have identified six pitfalls that can afflict natural-resource exporters: commodity-price volatility, crowding out of manufacturing, “Dutch disease” (a booming export industry causes rapid currency appreciation, which undermines other exporters’ competitiveness), inhibited institutional development, civil war, and excessively rapid resource depletion (with insufficient saving).
Doping deeply undermines the integrity of elite sports, which are supposed to be a demonstration of what the human body can achieve – not how far extreme pharmaceutical manipulation of the human body can take us.
Both countries recognize the implications of participating in an initiative that undermines the Asian Development Bank and even the World Bank, though South Korea has now announced its intention to join.
European governments are only now reluctantly accepting the need to scale back their over-representation in multilateral bodies, recognizing that it undermines rather than enhances the EU’s overall influence by pushing other powers into separate arrangements.
Denationalization undermines the concept of citizenship generally, by framing it as a privilege that can be revoked without due process, rather than as a basic “right to have rights.”
Obama Undermines the UN Climate ProcessNew York – Two years of climate change negotiations have now ended in a farce in Copenhagen.
Obama’s decision to declare a phony negotiating victory undermines the UN process by signaling that rich countries will do what they want and must no longer listen to the “pesky” concerns of many smaller and poorer countries.
And, because state intervention puts a floor beneath market participants’ losses, it undermines the effectiveness of conventional macro policies.
It undermines the EU’s hard-won gains and poses heavy costs to the world economy.
Because ECB losses result in seigniorage losses for the respective national treasuries in a way similar to ESM losses, the OMT program obviously undermines the ESM ruling by increasing the liability risk beyond the level approved by parliaments.
China is currently pursuing a contradictory set of policies that paradoxically undermines its own economy while propping up America’s by accommodating pump-priming by the Federal Reserve.
Whenever a global or regional power acts in a way that contradicts these values, or allies itself closely with those who do, it undermines the international order, which should deliver security and increasing prosperity (and to some degree has).
This challenging climate undermines the project’s viability, even though the business model – based on lower-cost workers from the North producing labor-intensive goods – makes sense.
Doing so not only further undermines its control of the economy; it also creates the risk of a full-blown financial crisis that could engulf its neighbors and other emerging markets.
There is nothing that undermines confidence in an economy so much as recessions; and there is nothing that undermines confidence in a government's ability to manage the economy so much as ongoing failure to address either the extremes of inflation or persistent stagnation.
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