It was a losing battle.

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The theory goes that if poor countries simply adopt the right policies, and if they follow the advice of rich countries via institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, all will be right.

This strategy is doomed to fail, however, because it misunderstands many of the root causes of impoverishment.

These punitive policies are self defeating.

But Europe is not doomed to collapse.

But without discussion, democracy is surely doomed.

Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past?

I was destined to represent multiculturalism.

At first sight it seems that this idea is doomed to fail.

Any political force that tries to curb the bidding by promising only what it can deliver is doomed to defeat.

Indeed, fears are growing that southern Africa will be condemned to the role of exporter of raw materials.

On the contrary, when others bear the costs of mistakes, the incentives favor self delusion. A system that socializes losses and privatizes gains is doomed to mismanage risk.

Given this analysis, however, Obama s Afghanistan oriented policy is doomed to failure.

But if prices remain stagnant at current levels, Putin s system is doomed to failure.

Does this mean that Europe at least continental Western Europe is doomed?

A system that socializes losses and privatizes gains is doomed to mismanage risk.

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MAC Mexico is not condemned to be a country defined by corruption and impunity.

If you are really serious about a deal with Iran, Israel has to come out of the closet. A policy based on fiction and double standards is bound to fail sooner or later.

Susceptible to procrastination and evasion by both sides, the road map was stillborn.

A policy based on fiction and double standards is bound to fail sooner or later.

And nature is telling us that our current economic model is dangerous and self defeating.

It was obvious from the outset that the IMF World Bank strategy was doomed to fail.

But a democracy that does not translate into regular dinners is a democracy that is bound to fail.

The experience of successful reform in the Anglo Saxon and Nordic countries shows that Europe need not be condemned to stagnation, provided that it renounces rigid employment protection. The key to overcoming resistance is to give affected workers grounds to hope that they can find a new job.

Extreme fiscal imbalance can also lead to a growth trap in which fiscal consolidation has such a large negative effect on growth as to be self defeating.

Such a posture would be self defeating, because it would reinforce the division of the international community that the Bush administration has initiated.

Establish a new economy link and you are bound to soar, stick to the old economy ways and your stock is trash.

If this trend continues, Sri Lanka will become doomed to repeat its tragic history.

True, against all odds and historical logic, Europe seems poised to maintain the leadership of the IMF.

Any company without a .com in its name or future seems doomed.

America was overstretched because its global liabilities were increasingly out of balance with its national assets, and it was bound to lead because the world as we know it is arranged favorably for it to do so.

But it should have been obvious from the outset that the IMF World Bank strategy was doomed to fail.

But this new form of ersatz capitalism, in which losses are socialized and profits privatized, is doomed to failure.

Of course, if the big countries are not willing to sacrifice any measure of national sovereignty for the overall European good, then a united Europe is doomed.

South America was bound to experience some pain in the wake of East Asia's financial crisis of 1997 8.

Italian, Greek, or Portuguese public debt is so high that any attempt to use fiscal spending as part of a strategy to combat the economic crisis is doomed to fail.

So Russia seems doomed to continue its decline an outcome that should be no cause for celebration in the West.

Without advanced human resources, competent and competitive ones in line with the global demands of tomorrow, Russia is doomed to being dependent and to following instead of leading.

To begin with, the FMLN is short of a congressional majority, which remains in the hands of its right wing opponents, ARENA and its long time allies, the small PCN. Funes administration seems to be doomed to political gridlock, a chronic ailment of Latin America s presidential regimes.

Bush's policy is doomed to fail because, as in the 1970's, America's economic problems are homegrown.

Funes administration seems to be doomed to political gridlock, a chronic ailment of Latin America s presidential regimes.

The underlying question is whether merit as a criterion for advancement is doomed when legacies of racial and caste discrimination exist.