It might even yield a positive return.

This is false and it could backfire.

Rapid fiscal consolidation thus can be self defeating.

It is counter productive in the campaign against terrorism.

Indeed, as we have seen in some Andean countries, it can be counter productive.

More spending or regulation does not always lead to better outcomes.

Buchanan concluded that politicians pursuit of self interest inevitably leads to poor outcomes.

Currently, however, it is downright counter productive.

Within the parlance of Icon, the evaluation of an expression or function results in a result sequence.

In general, bleeding often indicates a worse outcome, and blood loss may result in death.

This may be good on efficiency and even equity grounds.

Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

The identification of clear follow up responsibilities could facilitate implementation of the outcomes of the Commission's thirteenth session.

That is a shining example of how supporting separatism has a boomerang effect and ultimately winds up supporting terrorism.

Coordination will surely deliver more satisfactory outcomes than what any one country can achieve on its own.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

This softer approach will prove counterproductive, as it will not strengthen democratic forces in Serbia.

Europeans hope that the recent publication of the results of stress tests that were applied to their own banks will have the same effect.

Referendums on this issue in other European countries might well produce startlingly similar results.

The benefits of tax evasion may far outweigh the risk of getting caught, but imagine if everyone decided to evade taxes at the same time.

Iraq also asserts that the study design is flawed and unlikely to produce reliable results.

On the other hand, setting the rule of law standard too high will also misfire.

Examples of humanitarian intervention illustrate, that in some cases intervention can lead to disastrous results, as in Srebrenica and Somalia.

Unfortunately, however, hyper rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned. Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

From Israel s viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome.

Inaction or delay would be disastrous for the climate, but it would also be disastrous economically.

Reliance on street mobilization and army intervention to bring down an elected leader who has support on the ground is unlikely to lead to a positive outcome.

But if they continue to resist, China may face hot trade disputes with the US, which could be even messier.

This will lead to better outcomes for the global financial system, the global real economy, and, most important, the people who have been excluded from both for far too long.

For the large majority of the children, English medium education does not lead to the promised outcomes, as countless research results show.

The High Commissioner hopes that the Government and the State, beginning as early as possible in 2005 with the integral implementation of the recommendations, will obtain consistent and sustainable results.

GATS incorporated the basic principles of non discrimination, most favoured nation treatment, national treatment and transparency, but the progressive liberalization called for in GATS could have both very negative and very positive consequences for small vulnerable economies such as those of the Caribbean.

While this may be useful in some situations, the general application of this in all situations, would, in our view, be counter productive.

Extensive bycatch by longline vessels has significant, negative consequences for recreational fishing and other industries that rely on a healthy marine ecosystem.

Only substantive results in the areas of the economy, security, ethnic reconciliation and the establishment of a society based on multi ethnic, peaceful coexistence can lead to the definitive settlement of the question of Kosovo.

Not surprisingly, the submersion form of education, just described, to which indigenous children are generally subjected also has profound consequences for their life chances.

An analysis of the information on the participation of women in the Brazilian education system, based on race and ethnicity, leads to much more complex results. Black and indigenous women (and men) are under represented.

Unchecked, leprosy disfigures and can result in permanent disability.

It showed that persistent pressure works better than the constructive engagement that it had pursued, to no avail, for the eight years since Burma joined the organization.

But there is a big difference between a low quality result and one that is more comprehensive.

Good social science turns our unexamined intuitions into a map of causal arrows. Sometimes it shows how those intuitions lead to surprising, unanticipated results when extended to their logical conclusions.

To many observers in Russia, however, the regime s post electoral offensive against unfriendly forces seems certain to be counterproductive in the longer term.

What does not help and in fact backfires is for outsiders to view the political crisis of Middle Eastern societies as the result of an Islamist secularist divide.

All that this accomplishes is to discredit multilateral cooperation on non proliferation and disarmament with serious repercussions for the integrity of this Treaty.

All of this would slow the recovery, perhaps even causing it to stall.