First, governments and parliaments may be politically unable to take responsibility for distributional choices and prefer to keep them hidden.

The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.

Banks defenses need to be fortified during excessive upswings in asset prices so that they are able to weather the inevitable reversals.

Israel wants an end to the conflict but is incapable of paying the price, whereas Hamas can better reconcile its ideology with a peace agreement with Israel if it is not defined as final.

Another big question for Israel is whether it can accept the consequences if a two state solution disappears completely from the agenda.

The opportunity that Saakashvili presented to him to signal to the world Russia could no longer be humiliated was simply too tempting.

Policy space, which was shrinking, was essential for developing countries to become able to, as was often stressed, take primary responsibility for their own development.

They should not only be able to withstand volatility they should be primed to profit from stress and chaos.

A final lesson is that the test of a secure government is whether it can bear to hear itself criticized, even excoriated.

They can undertake risks that others cannot, knowing that if they fail, they may be bailed out.

After all, rich countries in Europe have increasingly found that they cannot pay for university education, and are asking young people and their families to bear the costs.

But, if another country finds itself unable to bear the fiscal cost of the crisis, will it also shift the burden to its external creditors in some form or another?

Many families now face stagnating wages, owing to the kinds of jobs now available, but are determined to cling to a lifestyle that they can no longer afford.

The high cost of this vaccine, which is grown in live mice, means that poorer countries have not been able to afford to give it as part of a routine immunization program.

With inflation both headline and core now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can t afford to slip further behind the curve.

So, where does that leave the world economy? There is no newly emerging Great Power that can assume responsibility for global finance, as there was in 1914.

Now as then, the issue is whether the US is able to fail in a war without becoming unhinged.

With the Palestinians future at stake not to mention the future of Israel and the Middle East no one can say if Hamas is up to the task.

I have made it clear that we cannot talk about sufficient progress in terms of implementing standards so long as some minorities are still forced to live behind barbed wire and are unable to move.

If you're at all like me, this is what you do with the sunny summer weekends in San Francisco you build experimental kite powered hydrofoils capable of more than 30 knots.

Many rural African communities are not able to afford the high price of pharmaceuticals and can not readily obtain them even if they were affordable therefore, healers are their only means of medical help.

For better or worse, the fact that the most severe political and social turbulence is yet to come at least means that Europe will be unable to afford the dithering and half measures that produced Japan s lost decade.

To meet today's threats, troops must be able to take individual responsibility and initiative, and need to be trained to react resourcefully and at a moment's notice.

It was able but only it was able to organize health care, education, policing, justice.

First, governments and parliaments may be politically unable to take responsibility for distributional choices and prefer to keep them hidden. This is not a good reason, but it does happen.

With foreign direct investment still flowing in, Brazil s lower external vulnerability leaves the country in a much better position than ever before to weather the global storm at least for now.

For Fukushima type risks, analysts are already discussing how nuclear plants can be designed and built to contain earthquake and tsunami risks via passive cooling.

This is a Klein bottle wine bottle, which, although in four dimensions it shouldn't be able to hold any fluid at all, it's perfectly capable of doing so because our universe has only three spatial dimensions.

But today s social, economic, and political systems at least in developed countries are unable to withstand a peacetime decline in output of 15 20 within a short period.

She was particularly concerned at the State party's comment that it would not be able to afford habeas corpus until it had additional resources, as that could take a long time.

The greatest barrier to doing so is that the poorest countries can t afford universal primary health care, even though the cost per person is very low.

One common Mi 28 armament are a pair of 8 Ataka missile racks along with 2 B 13L rocket pods, each able to carry 5 S 13 rockets.

A final lesson is that the test of a secure government is whether it can bear to hear itself criticized, even excoriated. Erdoğan seems outraged, above all, by Turkish citizens temerity to speak up against him.

She's apt to forget her promise.

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Four decades ago, countries not only endured the immediate economic impact of the OPEC embargo they leveraged the potential of the resulting oil shortages to spur innovation.

Emerging countries resilience will not extend to double dip recessions in America and Europe they cannot offset sharp falls in advanced country demand by themselves, notwithstanding their healthy public sector balance sheets.

Your voice can prevent a war. Not guns.

The earth is capable of feeding everyone.

Africa can feed itself.

The chance of a military incident involving China and one of its neighbors be it Japan, the Philippines, or Vietnam cannot be ignored, and it remains to be seen whether the region s diplomatic circuits can carry the load.

But governments can influence the development of productivity.

In the future, even liquid markets will be willing to intermediate fewer transactions than they were two months ago.

The increase in leverage was driven in part by government policies aimed at expanding home ownership among lower income groups that have proven unable to afford that life style.