First, the burden of economic dislocation was borne unequally.

Consider Afghanistan, which faces yet another phase of internal dislocation.

In the past, it was war, immense dislocation, and suffering that could weld nations.

But stock prices tend to move much more closely together at times of market dislocation.

Such changes, caused for example by a dislocation, changes the trabecular patterns inside the bones.

Asia s leaders must move to better insure their countries against the risk of economic dislocation that comes with de facto regional integration.

However, as virtually all contracts for offshore employment are for unaccompanied workers, there is a significant social burden because of the dislocation of families.

Letters from Indian soldiers in Europe to their families back home bespeak cultural dislocation and tragedy. The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon, declared one.

In the past, it was war, immense dislocation, and suffering that could weld nations. Is Europe s current crisis severe and dislocating enough to generate an analogous effect?

There is no alternative to this approach, because China s rise has been accompanied by massive social and economic changes in some instances dislocation across the entire region.

The success of reform efforts can never be assured in advance. But one factor that can guarantee failure and lead to political and economic dislocation is financial instability.

First, they must be as commensurate as possible with the degree of market dislocation and disruption of market that they aim to counter, which is always a matter of judgment.

In response to the growing corruption, the economic dislocation, and the sense that reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were leaving China behind, the Tiananmen Square protests erupted in 1989.

Moreover, massive economic dislocation could destroy the cohesion of the ruling elites and make them more vulnerable politically. Indeed, members of the ruling elite will be the most immediately affected by financial deleveraging.

The renewed patriotism seen in many places a response to the unfairness and dislocation that globalization can generate must be reconciled with human solidarity, respect for diversity, and the ability to work across national borders.

But the dangers that Ukraine faces are serious, stemming from problems particularly fragile institutions and economic dislocation that are common to every young post communist democracy, as well as from some special problems of its own.

The Government and, indeed, the people of my country were profoundly touched by the unprecedented scale of the disaster the catastrophic loss of human life, amounting to over 170,000 persons to date, and the magnitude of displacement, devastation and dislocation.

A constant amongst them all, however, is the sense of dislocation and often vulnerability, expressed in words and questions and requests for reassurances, in the tensing of shoulders and tight inhalations of breath as painful memories from the past both distant and recent are recalled.

The criminalisation of abortion and prostitution have been a factor in the infliction of great harm and suffering upon women and results in social dislocation, exposure to grave health and safety issues such as HIV AIDS, drug use, and violence as well as life threatening underground abortion clinics.

Despite the reduction in major conflicts throughout Africa, civil strife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the Darfur region of the Sudan have resulted in great and horrific loss of life, brutality and human dislocation moreover, the international community's response to these crises has thus far been slow and inadequate.