The call went unheeded.

But that hope was short lived.

Calls for immediate debt restructuring went unheeded.

After a few months everybody seemed to have forgotten about Ali's story.

Today, this economic miracle is up in the air.

If you don t have the resources, all your work is for nothing.

Revolutionists filling the steps of the church in their white shirts, holding their red roses up high, screaming freedom in silence and with reverence.

Nor have the more drastic calls for the suspension of some of our activities gone unheard.

Just like that, Ukraine s chance to transcend its tortured history appears to have been thrown away.

Moroccan feminists have protested vigorously, but to no avail.

But the Taliban s assurances of a lower profile were upended by two incidents that exposed its real face.

The call went unheeded, in keeping with the general atmosphere of self denial surrounding the issue.

But we have a wish for the Middle East one that, while perhaps not bringing peace, can create one of peace s preconditions goodwill.

True, government infrastructure spending is often wasted.

In countries coming out of war or other conflicts, efforts at inclusion are futile in stagnant economies.

But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

But if basic research is neglected, attempts to produce quick innovations through applied research will be futile.

Estimate by the World Bank report suggests that twenty forty percent (20 40 ) of water sector finances are being lost to dishonest practices.

In one fell swoop, the hard won gains in stabilizing the financial system would be blown away.

Economic activity is thus even more volatile than commodity prices, and much of the gains made in a boom unravels in the bust that follows.

Heraclitus's warning against bathing in the same sea twice is lost on our economic ministers, who insist on bathing regularly in contaminated waters.

Gaidar died last year, his unheeded warnings having come true, proving once again that no man is ever a successful prophet in his own country.

Frustrated by the reality that much of our advice went unheeded (so many free market solutions still waiting to be taken up!), we turned our analytical toolkit on the behavior of politicians and bureaucrats themselves.

Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.

Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.

Hopes for a development round in world trade opening up opportunities for developing countries to grow and reduce poverty now seem dashed.

For example, when US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Islamabad in early March, threatening an aid cut and direct US action against Islamic militants, his message was not lost.

NEW DELHI The second anniversary of the Arab Spring in Egypt was marked by riots in Tahrir Square that made many observers fear that their optimistic projections in 2011 had been dashed.

Due to the fact that mobile social media run on mobile devices, they differ from traditional social media by incorporating new factors such as the current location of the user (location sensitivity) or the time delay between sending and receiving messages(time sensitivity).

PRINCETON During the early years of the global financial crisis, exchange rates were the least interesting part of the macroeconomic debate. A French proposal in 2011 for a sweeping reform of the international monetary regime went nowhere.

But missing from this array of arguments is the damage a bankruptcy of the Big Three would do to financial markets. In one fell swoop, the hard won gains in stabilizing the financial system would be blown away.

Echoing comments by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Deputy Economics Minister Mario Baldassarri said in Il Sole 24 Ore last week that all efforts to boost growth are in vain if someone is pushing on the brake pedal.

If you have an energetic extension worker, you only need to change the mindset of the people, she says. When that happens, change can occur very quickly.

The mountains of evidence in its records make the horrendous crimes committed in the wars in ex Yugoslavia comparable in the extent of their documentation to those by the Nazis. Inevitable efforts by demagogues to revise the history of what took place in ex Yugoslavia in the 1990 s will be complicated by the availability of that evidence, including the facts compiled during the Milosevic trial.

If people focused efforts begin to eclipse regulators core responsibilities, much of the progress that has been made in recent years toward bolstering banking safety will be lost.