While a CGE model is capable of assessing structural and technological change effects of policy shocks, this study argues that it is important to study short-run consequences for the purpose of developing mitigation strategies as unwillingness to encounter additional costs usually impedes necessary policy reforms.
Inequality impedes necessary responses to environmental degradation through two dynamics: First, inequality increases the political power of the elite, enabling them to block measures that would be against their self-interest.
Confusion about the precise nature of the relation between ageing and disease is a longstanding issue that has impeded the necessary progress towards the understanding of the intrinsic ageing process [ 7].
But the Bush administration's free-market biases have apparently convinced officials that bold action would impede a necessary economic correction.
It's courageous of France to spurn bogus cultural relativist notions and state the obvious: burqas impede the necessary interaction for learning and working.
Finally, barriers in technology development, restrictions in the capital markets, problems of local acceptance, and protracted approval procedures impede the necessary changeover and cannot be overcome solely by market-based mechanisms [[10],[13],[57]].
This prevents the opening of these channels during myocardial ischemia, impeding the necessary hyperpolarization that protects the cell.
Increasing public education about research and specific targeted information provision could promote trust in research processes and safeguards, which in turn could increase the acceptability of research without specific consent where the need for consent would lead to biased findings and impede research necessary to improve public health.
Usually occurring in the most unfortunate countries, they degrade institutions, polarize politics and impede the continuity necessary for growth.
Barrister and former Labour party politician David Lock will be delivering a lecture, Health rationing: how do legal and political constraints impede politicians taking necessary decisions?, hosted by the Center for Transnational Legal Studies on 7 April Join the Healthcare Professionals Network to receive regular emails and exclusive offers.
