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One hopes that most countries will have the good sense not to implement inflation targeting; my sympathies go to the unfortunate citizens of those that do.
That promise seems to have contributed to his electoral success, pointing to an unfortunate historical trend in Southeast Asian politics.
The situation is unfortunate for all involved.
Strauss-Kahn’s response that taxes on capital flows are costly and ineffective is therefore unfortunate.
This is unfortunate.
Put another way, most Europeans consider the poor unfortunate, while most Americans consider them indolent.
It is unfortunate that precisely when loosening restrictions on immigration would help labor markets, the world is experiencing a spike in xenophobic attitudes and politics.
This is unfortunate, because the EU cannot survive without a comprehensive asylum and migration policy.
The unfortunate Irish tradition for referenda should have been addressed after that dismaying experience.
The unfortunate paradox in Georgia – and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world – is that self-serving pro-Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in favor of a new dictatorship.
There should be no place for such unfortunate double standards.
Is that crisis an unfortunate exception, or, rather, a symptom of the failure of Obama’s Middle East diplomacy, from Egypt to Afghanistan?
The symbolism of the location is unfortunate, as it carries a reminiscence of the main abortive attempt to manage the world economy during the Great Depression.
This is not only unfortunate; it also was avoidable.
All of them share the unfortunate likelihood that their situation will become worse before it improves.
It would be very unfortunate if other African states chose to follow the Burundian and South African governments’ lead.
Rather than seeing shame as an unfortunate byproduct of living in poverty, human development planners should consider how poverty undermines human dignity.
Until 75% of Greece’s public debt is repaid – in 2060, at the earliest – the country, we are told, will be subject to “enhanced surveillance” (a term with unfortunate echoes of “enhanced interrogation”).
The latest increases in oil prices – and the related increases in other commodity prices, especially food – imply several unfortunate consequences (even leaving aside the risk of severe civil unrest).
This is unfortunate, because what little is known about it suggests that it could play an important role in transforming development finance.
The lack of such a treaty between the US and China is a glaring exception, with the unfortunate effect of limiting of US companies’ opportunities to participate in the rapid expansion of China’s domestic consumer market.
This is unfortunate, and could turn out to be so dangerous that even die-hard anti-Americans end up longing for the passé American century and the US role as a global force for order.
This is unfortunate for both Turkey and Europe.
Turkey suffers from nationalist sensitivity, and extremist groups have orchestrated several unfortunate incidents, including attacks on minorities and harassment of cultural figures like the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
While the specifics vary by economic region and sector (housing, labor markets, credit intermediation, etc.), it is a combination with a common and unfortunate outcome: it inhibits economies’ ability to grow, and thus to overcome debt overhangs in an orderly way.
Assault on the OASMEXICO CITY – These last few weeks have been unfortunate for Latin America.
It would be unfortunate if China and India were to impoverish themselves by ceasing to burn coal, only to have the resulting decrease of snowfall over Greenland and Antarctica cause sea levels to rise faster.
Though Wall Street interests have long been well represented on the board of the New York Fed, under Timothy Geithner, its president from 2003 to 2009, the big players became even more powerful – with some rather unfortunate consequences for the rest of us.
This is unfortunate, because the government cannot fix Japan’s ills on its own.
The two misconceptions about the crisis have the unfortunate effect of preventing us from learning a key lesson: economic policy prior to Lehman Brothers’ collapse should have been more aggressive.
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