In this light, the aims of Washington or London can be as inscrutable to a vulnerable, crisis-racked country as the intentions of a half-seen cat are to a mouse.
The consolidation of financial services makes us more vulnerable to crisis.
But with ever increasing debt, the financial system — and the broader economy — became ever more vulnerable to crisis.
Unstable political systems are those that prove vulnerable to crisis pressures and that break down into various forms of internal warfare.
Prior to the first G20 meeting, on December 15 16 , 1999 similar conferences with 22 and 33 participants were held in 1998 99 with the goal of making the global economy less vulnerable to crisis.
If you try to ban banks from, well, banking, all the banking is going to take place in the areas not subject to the ban, leaving you more vulnerable to crisis than before.
Research has shown that greater inequality leads to shorter spells of economic expansion and more frequent and severe boom-and-bust cycles that make economies more vulnerable to crisis.
Babies and toddlers are especially vulnerable in crisis, with the highest rates of both illness and death of any age group.
The 2.5 billion people living on $2 a day are vulnerable to crisis -- especially since their income is far less predictable than "$2 a day" suggests.
Poor families and children are particulary vulnerable to crisis shocks, and an unexpected event like the food price instability can put great strain on already stretched households.
There is also a Call to Action, which specifies an accelerated scale-up of services for mothers and children, early diagnosis and treatment for infants, and protection for those most vulnerable to crisis.
