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...Part of the failure is due to mismanagement by the U.N., the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other NGOs. Even though stupidity has been rife in implementation, the wealthiest donor nations have defaulted on pledges and must now increase aid by $18 billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access...
...since before the U.S. invasion. He had already been to Basra three times, but the last time he had driven like this, in a "soft"--unarmored--car and without the protection of the U.S. military, was in late 2003. Earlier this year, the route we were traveling was so rife with violence that the trip would have been impossible. In the past year, the roads south of Baghdad have started to stabilize, thanks to the efforts of Iraqi and U.S. troops and a cease-fire declaration by radical opposition cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...
...comments, Warren labeled subprime mortgages “35 cent bananas” that should have been priced at 15 cents, said homeowners had tapped the equity value of their homes with a “sledgehammer,” and described the housing bubble as being rife with “crazy money, free money, we’ll-pay-you-to-take-our-money money...
...abundance of natural resources, Indonesia ought to be a rising Asian powerhouse, mentioned in the same breath as China and India. But its economic-development policies are vague and scattershot; a devolution of political power from the central government to the provinces has created an unpredictable business environment rife with corruption, competing interests and confusing regulations. This not only thwarts the plans of would-be investors like Archipelago Resources but also tends to hold back ordinary Indonesians, who can do little but look with envy upon the upwardly mobile residents of Beijing and Bangalore. The percentage of Indonesia's population...
...Upper and Lower Houses of the Diet have been paralyzed for more than a year now. In July 2007, the LDP lost the majority it held for five decades in the Upper House to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the opposition party. Since then, Japanese politics has been rife with indecision. The government has been paralyzed by issues ranging from the appointment of a central bank governor to an antiterrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. Tack on a scandal over millions of dollars in lost pensions, a resumption of the gas tax, higher health insurance premiums...