But what, then, accounts for the continuing civil turmoil and government paralysis in the Arab Spring countries?

The real picture of dogged progress is far removed from the perception of a government beset by inaction and policy paralysis.

In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms.

I'm specifically interested in things like autism, and cerebral palsy, these great childhood catastrophes.

An inability to resolve the distributional and fairness problem can produce gridlock, paralysis, and prolonged stagnation.

The decade following the oil crisis of 1979 was marked by a spike in unemployment, fiscal paralysis, and, indeed, frozen accession negotiations for Spain and Portugal.

Yet, given the chaos and paralysis that increasingly characterize Palestinian politics, that opportunity will go untaken.

But America s political system is about to deliver a balance of power in Washington that is likely to produce stalemate and paralysis.

Despite their strong fundamentals, emerging countries still feel vulnerable in the face of the West s economic weakness, policy shortfalls, and political paralysis.

Therapeutic cloning offered the prospect of a breakthrough in conquering diabetes, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, cancer and even HIV AIDS.

Regardless of the EU s political crisis and paralysis, Europeans should not forget how important its existence is and will continue to be.

His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

In 1994, UNICEF has placed special emphasis on the implementation of a campaign for accelerated measles and polio immunization and vitamin A administration for children below the age of five.

To avoid further polarization and paralysis of American politics, Obama must do more to ensure that Americans understand better the urgency of the changes that he promised.

Displaced populations, mobile or concentrated in camps, are extremely vulnerable to measles, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that have reached epidemic proportions in many areas of southern Sudan.

However, what isn't talked about, is how a competition based economy invariably leads to strategic corruption, power and wealth consolidation, social stratification, technological paralysis, labor abuse and ultimately a covert form of government dictatorship by the rich elite.

But uncertainty, lack of confidence, and policy paralysis or gridlock could easily cause value destruction to overshoot, inflicting extensive damage on all parts of the global economy.

The rest of the world needs a strong, self confident, and decisive America. But America s political system is about to deliver a balance of power in Washington that is likely to produce stalemate and paralysis.

We've been here before, paralyzed by fear, paralyzed into inaction, when some probably one of you in this room jumped into the breach and created an organization like Physicians for Social Responsibility, which fought against the nuclear threat,

Europe s debt crisis and its leaders apparent inability to take coordinated action gave the Kremlin additional ammunition. Given that Europe s overall debts and deficits are much lower than those of the US or Japan, the logic went, it should have been able to avoid polarization and paralysis.

The allegations involve the armed forces manipulation of the Mindanao vote underscoring how state failure in the south, a politicized military, and paralysis in the capital reinforce each other in a downward spiral.

They will conclude that two factors motivated Bernanke persistently high US unemployment which, like the inflation problem that Volcker faced, risks becoming deeply embedded in the structure of the economy and virtual paralysis on the part of other policymaking agencies.

Regardless of the EU s political crisis and paralysis, Europeans should not forget how important its existence is and will continue to be. One has only to look back to the first half of the twentieth century to understand why.

To avoid further polarization and paralysis of American politics, Obama must do more to ensure that Americans understand better the urgency of the changes that he promised. Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

The real picture of dogged progress is far removed from the perception of a government beset by inaction and policy paralysis. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh modestly put it I will be the first to say we need to do better.