One involves crisis response.

The exceptional financial crisis called for an exceptional response.

To date, regional response to the crisis have been muted.

Unfortunately, a serious crisis may be required to initiate that response.

The response to the current financial crisis is replaying a similar dynamic.

But European officials hesitant response to the crisis added to the difficulty.

The initial international response to the Darfur crisis in 2003 and the first half of 2004 was limited as the crisis received little international attention, but the response has significantly improved since then.

This is the paradoxical result of the policy response to the financial crisis.

The crisis in Darfur tested the limits of the UNICEF emergency response capacity.

6 Reinforcing EU disaster and crisis response in third countries , Brussels, 20 April 2005.

Clearly, the official response to the 2008 crisis was perverse and detrimental at all levels.

The current problems are rooted in the government s response to the 2008 global financial crisis.

The Government's response has been to establish crisis centers for women (see para 16 above).

In response to the crisis, Asians sought to establish an Asian Monetary Fund, which would help any crisis hit country by providing massive liquidity assistance.

Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.

This global crisis requires a global response, but, unfortunately, responsibility for responding remains at the national level.

The country failed to develop a coherent policy response to the financial crisis of the 1930 s.

The response of governments to that crisis has shaped much of the region s economic policymaking ever since.

In response to this trend, the IMF urges a return to pre crisis debt to GDP ratios.

The boycott was launched in response to the Crimean crisis and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

In response to the global financial crisis in 2008, China introduced a RMB4 trillion ( 634 billion) stimulus package.

That is the nature of the behavioral response to crisis and why a bad status quo can persist.

But what will fall by the wayside is a forceful global response to the gravest crisis since 1929.

At the beginning of the crisis, in 2007 2008, the eurozone s fundamental flaws could have been corrected had Germany been willing to support a joint European crisis response.

Instead, the crisis demonstrated the deep divisions within Europe on everything from financial regulation to the requisite policy response.

If EID s were rare, management through crisis response might be cost effective. But EID s are not rare at all.

A quicker and more concerted response might have limited the fall out from the crisis, and thus its cost.

Oxfam America, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, organized a two step response to the crisis.

At the same time, while getting the crisis response mechanisms right is important, it is not the whole story.

Sometimes, too, the best response to a crisis is this don t just do something stand there and do nothing.

This weakening calls for a strong international public response, including tighter regulation, if we are to avoid such a crisis.

The response to the private sector failures and profligacy that had caused the crisis was to demand public sector austerity!

Unfortunately, the international community as a whole has so far performed poorly in providing an effective response to the crisis.

And for the past few years, the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit has seconded a gender expert to UNIFEM in Kosovo.

Ms. Juul (Norway) said that the Mine Ban Convention had come about as a humanitarian response to a humanitarian crisis.

This will not be a short term crisis, so we cannot think only in the short term in formulating our response.

Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Adviser, tweeted the story of one such elderly who, thankfully, made it out alive

I said then that we faced an unprecedented crisis but one that has a solution an unprecedented response from us all.

The response to the IDP crisis is a collaborative effort under the overall leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator based in Khartoum.

After three decades of sustained growth and a remarkably successful policy response to the recent global crisis, Chinese self confidence is soaring.

The euro is the composite currency of an area with a poor growth record and an inadequate response to the economic crisis.

The ruling group in the Kremlin was variegated and conflict ridden, but its response to the crisis was effective and even creative.

Second, Western central banks should start rolling back the emergency measures put in place in response to the financial and economic crisis.

The programme, called the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit, maintains a roster of civilian experts who can join international missions on short notice.

In the meantime, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, has warned that the Bulgarian authorities lack experience of dealing with similar situations and have failed in crisis planning.