The phrase "systemic causes" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the underlying or structural factors that contribute to a particular issue or problem. Example: The government's failure to address systemic causes, such as economic inequality and lack of access to education, has led to a rise in crime rates in the city.
This is to say, then, that the revolutions have, in great part, global systemic causes – and as such, the revolutions are potentially threatening to the global system itself.
I asked Birky whether this kind of selective, individualized approach to representing global poverty tends to obscure more systemic causes and solutions.
Clegg's target-setting plan will only intensify the culture of blame, diverting attention from the social and systemic causes of inequality.
The independent commission will be tasked with delivering recommendations to address the systemic causes of violence, as well as looking at ways to honour and commemorate the victims.
One close reading of simplistic mainstream journalism called out the author for habitually ignoring the complex, systemic causes of poverty and exclusion.
There is more that the CCRC could do in terms of reducing waiting times and also in reflecting upon systemic causes of miscarriages of justice.
In a sense, the new opioids reflect the ups and downs of broader efforts to overhaul health care: addressing cosmetic aspects of the problem without thoroughly grappling with systemic causes.
The fight against child poverty was enshrined in law under the Blair government; I saw it as an attempt to avoid looking at the systemic causes of poverty, by sticking poverty in shorts and calling it cute.
While progress has been made in raising awareness and mobilising for action – including new goals, valuation tools, and action strategies on a global scale – we have yet to solve the systemic causes that continue to thwart meaningful, measurable change.
BP is more likely to escape the potentially ruinous charge of gross negligence, according to City analysts, after a powerful US commission blamed "systemic" causes for the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
"If people like the F.A.A., the Safety Board and the airline safety people do their job extremely well," said Charles N. Eastlake, a professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in Daytona Beach, Fla., "then the possibility certainly exists that they will find and successfully control most of the systemic causes".
