Theory and empirical evidence Have already taught us.

Not much, the empirical evidence suggests. This might appear surprising.

Empirical evidence yields no clear answer concerning which hypothesis is correct.

Empirical evidence supports this transition, and international human rights obligations compel such a move.

There needs to be a strategy, priorities must be weighed, and empirical evidence analyzed.

There is scant empirical evidence for this set of conditions, because such cases were rare until recently.

Second, empirical evidence is rarely reliable enough to settle decisively a controversy characterized by deeply divided opinion.

However, analytical and empirical evidence regarding the correlation between OFDI and enterprise competitiveness, especially SMEs, remains limited.

Not surprisingly, the empirical evidence that trade imbalances can be resolved through exchange rate changes alone is unconvincing.

But there is little empirical evidence that public sector wages have a significant impact on private sector wage growth.

So called evidence based medicine entails a hierarchy of empirical proof that ranks medical studies according to their quality.

Global standards pertaining to transparency, broad representation, accountability, and use of empirical evidence, for example, do not constrain the end result.

The empirical study of happiness has produced evidence that the satisfaction from buying objects is short lived and depends on continued repetition.

In the United States, for example, insiders enjoy protections from takeovers that, according to a substantial body of empirical evidence, actually decrease company value.

There is no empirical evidence to support these claims, nor the claims that drinking ionized water will have a noticeable effect on the body.

As for fiscal measures, the empirical evidence suggests that three quarters of consumption is based on longer term economic prospects, not short run disposable income.

So, too, with religious values. Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in religion is good because it boosts economic performance.

Empirical evidence supports the idea that the success of a democracy depends on the openness of the underlying economic system at the time of political transition.

A large body of empirical evidence indicates that corporate governance and investor protection are better in countries that are more advanced in their economic and political development.

But economics is not evidence based in selecting its theoretical paradigms. Economic policy initiatives are often taken without all the empirical pre testing that could have been done.

There are institutional deficits in other weapons of mass destruction regimes, but conventional wisdom and empirical evidence suggest that multilateralism offers both longevity and legitimacy of such regimes.

A failure to provide the file could constitute prima facie evidence of deliberate and knowing failure to provide redress.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.

The issue is an empirical one.

But the evidence that Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley provide has weakened that defense.

(The public case descriptions do not always provide details about how evidence was obtained.

This is being done on a large scale in Greece and Spain, for example. But there is little empirical evidence that public sector wages have a significant impact on private sector wage growth.

This crude recipe is based on little economic theory or empirical evidence there is no reason to expect that regardless of the source of inflation , the best response is to increase interest rates.

Bhagwati argued that this fusion played a role in turning liberalization of short term capital flows into an article of faith, despite sound theoretical reasons for caution and slim empirical evidence of benefits.

It is therefore important that, in order to develop a more common database of NTBs that could be utilized by all interested parties, a relevant classification system be established reflecting today's empirical evidence.

Second, empirical evidence is rarely reliable enough to settle decisively a controversy characterized by deeply divided opinion. This is particularly true in macroeconomics, of course, where data are few and open to diverse interpretations.

The other discourse is found in clinical practice, non academic literature and on the Internet where claims are made which have no basis in attachment theory and for which there is no empirical evidence.

It is now widely recognized that, in order to develop a more common database of NTBs, which could be utilized by all interested parties, a relevant classification system must be established reflecting today's empirical evidence.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

These, in our view, provide evidence of an Organization that is flawed not one that is irrelevant.

In order to prove that they are ineffective, it is necessary to provide evidence to that effect.

There is simply little or no empirical evidence that inflation, at the low to moderate rates that have prevailed in recent decades, has any significant harmful real effects on output, employment, growth, or the distribution of income.

He did not provide the Committee with any new or additional evidence or sufficiently substantiate that the evidence is reliable for the purposes of article 22 of the Convention.

In fact, empirical data suggest the significance of this danger.

But proof of causation in infectious diseases is limited to individual cases that provide experimental evidence of etiology.

They may provide valuable evidence for policy dialogue and scaling up, including for use in PRSs and SWAps.

In recent years, however, neither economic theory nor empirical evidence has been kind to the presumed tradeoff. Economists have produced new arguments showing why good economic performance is not only compatible with distributive fairness, but may even demand it.

The data provide initial evidence that an increase in some cancers occurred following Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

The fruit of palm trees and vines which provide you with sugar and delicious food also provide a lesson and evidence ( of the Truth ) for the people of understanding .

The fruit of palm trees and vines which provide you with sugar and delicious food also provide a lesson and evidence ( of the Truth ) for the people of understanding .