Problem: Rich countries have proved poor at delivering on their aid pledges.
The £46 billion ($71 billion) that taxpayers pumped into RBS and the £20 billion injected into Lloyds have proved poor investments without, of course, counting the huge economic damage that would have been inflicted had either bank collapsed.At the moment the government seems content simply to recover the money it spent bailing out Lloyds.
While the economy is certainly a factor, financial facts alone have proved poor predictors of political results.
It's Not The Economy, Stupid 08.25.04 It's a cliché that people vote their pocketbook, but financial facts alone have proved poor predictors of presidential elections.
As the Australians had proved poor on the field, Lord Hawke withdrew Peel and Stanley Jackson from the team for the third Test so that they could play for Yorkshire.
Asean itself has proved a poor vehicle for pressing the Southeast Asian claims because only half its members are concerned about the issue.
After easily winning his party's primary election, Bronisław Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, has proved a poor choice.
Since the launch it has proved a poor business for BlackBerry, which has shipped a total of 2.4m over eight fiscal quarters, and it had to take a $485m charge in 2011 against unsold inventory.
While the European convention on human rights is not perfect, it is the best protection that we have against the power of the over-mighty state and business corporations because the very institution that is supposed to protect our liberties, parliament, has proved a poor defender of them.
