Forecasting organizations are finally admitting that they underestimated the fiscal multiplier.

That requires better targeted, timely and coordinated financial support and the predictability of assistance.

The Perils of Prophecy

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

The outcome of premature fiscal consolidation is all but foretold growth will slow, tax revenues will diminish, and the reduction in deficits will be disappointing.

(d) Unpredictability of forecasting

8. Notes, in regard to strengthening the overall financial situation of the United Nations Environment Programme, the various available options and the efforts being undertaken to enhance predictability in financing its programme of work and broadening its base of contributions

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

4. Calls for continued financial support to UN Habitat through increased voluntary contributions to the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, and invites Governments to provide predictable multi year funding to support programme implementation

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

And that somehow, prediction leads to intelligent behavior.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.

10. Calls for continued financial support to UN Habitat through increased voluntary contributions, and invites Governments in a position to do so to provide predictable multi year funding and increased non earmarked contributions to support programme implementation

The online discussion followed a predictable flow.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Material foreseeable risk factors

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

H. Establish clear and predictable priority rules

To make sure that national planning is substantiated by more predictable funding, we would encourage donors to make predictable multi year pledges.

But predicting how nature works is a very risky game.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

He performed research demonstrating that his theories could predict behavior.

And I should say, I think this is a rather modest prediction.

Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't.

After all, the good of democratic structures is their predictability.

Traffic that is never ceasing and never predictable

Recurrence intervals of these events are neither regular nor predictable.

It is impossible to predict an exact prognosis during pregnancy or the neonatal period.

The availability of supplementary funds is unpredictable and impermanent.

What is most alarming is that this crisis is predictable and preventable.

They are predictable, widely known and consistently enforced, without discrimination.

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Facilitate enforcement of creditor's rights in a predictable and efficient manner

Unpredictable human psychology also plays a role.

Self reported family histories, by contrast, proved very accurate in predicting the disease.

After his recovery, Carlos became wild and unpredictable in his behavior.

Therefore, this approach will provide stable, predictable and growing levels of funding.

Unpredictable situations made management very complex.

The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas has argued that the crisis was not predicted because economic theory predicts that such events cannot be predicted.

Governments could not provide the Organization with a stable and predictable flow of financial resources unless they were certain that their assessed contributions would also be stable and predictable.

Indeed, the best analysts know that forecasting the performance of any country's stock market substantially means forecasting how well the government wants stock market investors to fare in the current political environment.

Thus, popular secondary structure prediction methods like Mfold and Pfold will not predict pseudoknot structures present in a query sequence they will only identify the more stable of the two pseudoknot stems.

Statement by the Controller on the current financial situation of the United Nations