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Bad news can crowd out good news, especially in times of serious financial crisis and political unrest.
The last thing they want is mass unemployment and urban unrest to call their positions into question.
The likely consequences of North Africa’s youth bulge are thus renewed social unrest and potentially sizeable migration flows to Europe.
Severe unrest in the Middle East has historically been a source of oil-price spikes, which in turn have triggered three of the last five global recessions.
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).
A Fiscal Fix for the GCCABU DHABI – Supported by strong oil revenues and spurred by unrest in neighboring countries, the Gulf oil exporters – especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain, which form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – have lately ramped up public social and investment spending.
And the unrest of the children and grandchildren of Algerian, West African, and Moroccan immigrants in the French banlieues attest to France’s failure to assimilate its immigrant population, despite the Republic’s official egalitarian rhetoric.
Where there is an imbalance between economic growth and social progress, political instability and unrest often arise, as in Russia and Egypt.
But other security challenges – including the presence of mercenaries on the Liberian-Ivorian border, a rise in mob justice, and the potential for unrest tied to next year’s presidential election – risk overshadowing the issue.
And, while the risk of a disorderly Greek collapse is now receding, it will re-emerge this year as political instability, civil unrest, and more fiscal austerity turn the Greek recession into a depression.
Indeed, in recent weeks, “the factory of the world” has become plagued by the closure of thousands of manufacturing plants and the threat of widespread labor unrest.
I believe that China’s innovative model for development is likely to help it weather both the gathering economic crisis and any resulting social and political unrest.
If the economy cannot maintain high growth rates, mounting unemployment could combine with an accumulation of unresolved political and social issues to create a risk of major social unrest.
The Shagari government quickly became mired in corruption and inefficiency, plunging the country into debt and a vicious cycle of unemployment, declining productivity, and social unrest.
And, given a new leadership’s caution as it establishes its power, reforms will occur at a snail’s pace, making social and political unrest more likely.
In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent-seeking boils over into protest.
The recent elections in France and Greece, together with local elections in Italy and continuing unrest in Spain and Ireland, have shown that the public has lost faith in the strict austerity forced upon them by Germany.
Facing tribal unrest and incessant fighting, the British proposed to settle the tribes from Waziristan (present-day North Waziristan and South Waziristan) in British territory.
Recent demonstrations have followed on the heels of the government’s forced relocation of low-income Brazilians from their favelas overlooking Rio de Janeiro into newly built housing far away – an effort aimed at preventing the World Cup from being marred by scenes of poverty and unrest.
BRUSSELS – Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police officer confided to a researcher: “If you consider different levels of trafficking, it is obviously done by blacks and Arabs.
That example, the Saudis fear, could sustain political unrest in the Kingdom’s Shia-majority Eastern Province, where most of the country’s oil production is based.
But the unspoken issue behind Thailand’s unrest is that, with the country’s 82-year-old king ailing, the Palace’s moral force has come into question.
A business-as-usual approach would risk exposing Africa not only to economic underperformance and a brain drain, but also to criminality, political and social unrest, and even armed conflict.
There is now an urgent need to finance existing food aid programs to address mounting food demands, avert further social unrest, and ensure that farmers get the costlier farm inputs they need for the next planting season.
Social unrest and confusion, as well as radiation leaks from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, continue.
Social unrest, huge devaluations, and populist protests loomed.
Contrary to expectations – and to the Greek and French experiences – social unrest has been minimal.
Despite unrest in Bolivia, and populist politicians on the march, Latin America isn’t on the verge of an economic meltdown.
To be sure, this is largely a case of virtue arising from necessity; as export-driven growth has slowed, the risk of social unrest over issues like air pollution, food toxicity, and corruption has risen.
That choice has pushed the country to the edge of bankruptcy, while fueling large-scale social unrest and political turmoil.
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