They trust their government to deal with problems over time.

Fortunately, as we have become aware of these problems, we have learned much about what can be done about them.

Europeans have a shared appraisal of many of the world s problems, and often put forward common methods and strategies for coping with them.

Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own.

Identifying and addressing problems when intervention is not urgently needed is much easier than working them out under the threat of a pending sovereign default.

But all of them would be easier to manage with calmer financial markets.

Between 2001and 2006, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi aggressively tackled Japan s fiscal problems.

But a more comprehensive Euro Atlantic approach will be required to deal with the region s problems.

Each of these innovations helped create an institutional infrastructure capable of dealing with the problem of work accidents and, indeed, with the wider social problems of disability, sickness, old age, and unemployment.

Second, in order to understand how to cope with the problems that plague us from terrorism to nuclear proliferation it is sensible to know how and whence they emerged. Why are we faced today with worldwide economic blizzards?

That has left the government locked into a reactive and often misguided approach to unexpected problems.

To tackle global problems, we need to strengthen and democratize international institutions like the United Nations.

Yet practical solutions are at hand, because simple and low cost technologies can address specific problems.

And when the world starts to work together, with better early warning systems, then you can deal with some of these problems in a far better way.

Years later, he spoke of his own rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems.

If only such practices were used to tackle the vast majority of the problems that overwhelm Somalia.

The United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions no longer reflect the world s power balance, and, even as the scale of problems common to all countries has increased, their willingness to share sovereignty to tackle them has diminished.

She has yet to deal with the major problems of the day financial instability, Europe s sluggish growth, the Middle East and she cannot avoid them during her campaign.

Political competition makes it necessary for all politicians, whatever their age, to stay on their toes, anticipate new problems, and remain open to new ideas aimed at addressing them.

Developing countries, in turn, would gain greater voice, but would also be forced to contribute ideas (and resources) to deal with global problems.

These measures will fail to reduce interbank spreads significantly, because monetary policy cannot address the core problems underlying the crisis.

If policymakers are to address today s problems, they must think more broadly.

Of course, the other G8 leaders might be less enamored of some of Russia s other approaches to addressing budget problems.

Despite these errors, in the past few years, the IAEA has demonstrated its worth as an effective nuclear sleuth.

It s not surprising that those who helped create the problems and didn t see the disaster coming have not done a masterly job in dealing with it.

Good times and these are good times for the global economy are rarely the moment for concrete initiatives to deal with difficult problems.

Ironically, Germany might provide the most useful template for the problems facing US policymakers.

The sectors are highly interlinked, illustrating the complexity of the problems they seek to deal with.

Because the longer I deal with these problems, the more convinced I am that we have to whether it's economics, health, education, whatever we have to build systems.

Yet, to understand the difficulty of responding to the problems that Iran s nuclear ambition and anti Israel obsession now pose, it might be helpful to analyze the three analogies that are most commonly used.

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They do not address today s social or economic problems, nor do they signal a new society oriented approach by Europe towards its Mediterranean neighbors.

At the same time, the main parties find it hard to address the country s problems, because they are reluctant to call for sacrifice before an election.

What is to be done? Because the elixir of growth in policymakers forecasts cannot be counted on to solve the problems, dealing with financial excesses becomes even more urgent.

Any Egyptian democracy that was truly accountable to its popular base would have to address the country s colossal domestic problems, and a state of war with Israel would hardly advance that goal.

And with that growth comes some severe practical problems, one of which is our transportation system simply won't be able to deal with it.

The development challenges in Africa are just one example of how tough societal problems can be addressed by the design and spread of improved technologies.

Surely a more competent administration would be worried about addressing these more severe and urgent fiscal problems.

But forcing such changes on his coalition partners could be as difficult for Prodi as tackling Italy s daunting economic problems.

The American sociologist Daniel Bell once famously said that the state is too big for the small problems and too small for the big ones.

International donors should support regional cooperation to deal with these problems, and developing countries should make such cooperation an integral part of their national strategies.

But unless you learn how to mix hard power with soft power into strategies that I call smart power, you're not going to deal with the new kinds of problems that we're facing.

To be sure, managing a melting pot is not easy, and many of America's social problems are related to difficult race relations.

Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own. In fact, development plans in China may be heading in the opposite direction.

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