The funding can be corporate sponsorship (as in the United States), state money (as in China), or a mixture of National Lottery and state money (as in the United Kingdom).

Stay the Course in North Korea

As always, however, the problem was implementation.

There can be too little freedom of action (populism) or too little accountability (autocracy).

There are three classic models of democratic executives pure parliamentarism, as in Britain semi presidentialism, as in Charles De Gaulle s French Fifth Republic and pure presidentialism, as in the US.

The tendency is either excessive restraint (Europe) or a diffusion of the effort (the United States).

The result, much like today, was merely to exacerbate market turbulence.

As always, there is no guarantee.

As is often the case in armed conflicts, civilians suffer the most.

Our government is going to set free market prices just like yours.

As always, proof will come only with implementation.

In this case, the choice of CSR spending is focused directly on generating added revenue, much like advertising, and is aimed at sales much the way advertising is.

As with the financial sector, however, crisis can be the mother of reform.

As with China, these concerns are overblown.

As with the other major emerging markets, India s fate is in its own hands.

Even today, tensions over further centralization (e.g., to supranational authority, as in Europe) and devolution (e.g., for Scotland, Québec, or Kurdistan) are intense.

Here, as elsewhere, China has painted its rival as the obstructionist party.

But, as in wartime, one hopes these effects are temporary.

However, in courts, as in the open sea, predictions often prove unreliable.

In international politics, as in education, there is no such thing as care by proxy.

Then, as now, there were differing perspectives on the cause of the global imbalances.

In Greece, as in the US, a new government was left to clean up the mess.

Some adjustments, like in France nowadays, weigh mostly on high income, high wealth individuals others, like in Italy, weigh on pensioners.

Where these conditions exist for example, a vibrant and autonomous civil society, as in Poland, or a strong pre authoritarian tradition of pluralism, representation, and tolerance, as in the Czech Republic the transition is relatively smooth.

But, as with the country s conventional resources, these reserves will not produce themselves.

Then, as now, many people demanded some punishment for the banks and bankers.

This is all the more true in times of rapid fundamental change, as is occurring in China now.

But, as always, elections in Iran are neither predictable nor transparent.

Furthermore, hatred had been generated against persons and institutions, as was the case in all civilian conflicts.

As is always the case, however, resources alone cannot solve problems rooted in weak policies.

But, as with most official pronouncements in Kenya, that story was only partly true.

As always, the Palestinian Israeli conflict stands perched between diplomacy and violence.

But the real case for holding it, then as now, was never a speculative one.

But such leadership was as unlikely then as it is now.

As in people, one of the most common complications of the surgery is hypothyroidism.

But fixed exchange rates often lead to undervaluation (as in China) or overvaluation (as in Argentina at the beginning of the 2000 s, and, in a different context, several eurozone countries now).

In neighboring Slovakia, the penalty for personal possession is, as in Poland, up to three years.

But as in any other debate, once extreme positions dominate, the real problems are trivialized and marginalized.

Discredited regimes may cling all the more ruthlessly and ruinously to power, as in Syria.

Or they may be struggling to introduce democratic accountability while maintaining stability, as in Egypt.

As in any post revolutionary situation, the ongoing transitions are highly complex processes.

In any case, as is so frequently the case in Israel, the Palestinians are given a raw deal.

But, just as with medicine, this demands an accurate diagnosis of a problem s causes.

More generally, fiscal stimulus is unlikely to have much lasting effect, as is the case now.

But, just as with nuclear power plants, progress can go awry in the absence of good regulation.