Government intervention is justified only in a very limited sense. Many countries enact legislation to stop people from inciting others to commit violent acts, though some go further.

Government intervention is justified only in a very limited sense.

Foreign Interference

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In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again.

Indeed, the pace of foreclosures would be set to increase were it not for government intervention.

But military intervention in Darfur without the Sudanese government s consent is not an option today.

Government interventions to date, mainly in the form of enhanced education, have proved largely ineffective.

Surgery was required.

If a government can step in to bail out failing banks, why not to protect its failing businesses or farmers as well?

This is an obvious misconception, because it was the intervention of the authorities that prevented financial markets from breaking down, not the markets themselves.

In fact, the involvement of the highest level of Russia s government is almost a guarantee that the killers will never be found.

This led some to support the Algerian government's military crackdown after Islamists won the first round of 1991 legislative elections.

Temasek s independent operation has been guaranteed by the legal system of Singapore, basically fending off government and officials interventions.

Intervention is even less plausible.

Well, acts of God.

And how multilateral?

Until now, the main worry for most experts on globalization has been excessive government intervention in the economy.

Sometimes intervention might save lives.

Government intervention distorts the prices, leading to inefficient allocation of resources in areas such as healthcare, education, and agriculture.

Some governments and individuals are likely to resist these suggestions, believing that such intervention constitutes an unwarranted intrusion into Iran s sovereignty.

The King s intervention would put an unconditional stop to the street confrontations.

Sometimes intervention might save lives.

Radical surgery usually follows.

But how far should such interventions go?

Subsidies, of course, interfere with free trade.

However, proximity has also meant US meddling.

An even better intervention addresses migration.

So you can rightly criticize the actions or overreactions of Egypt s new military government but it is difficult to criticize the intervention that brought it into being.

Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

The right of humanitarian intervention limits the sovereignty of all other countries.

There is another side it is an intended interference in the man s life.

This intrusion of the state into virtual life, has stirred up the blogosphere.

Many Nepalis have not taken lightly India's intervention.

But even if government intervention can affect exchange rates in the short run, in the longer run, it is market fundamentals that matter.

In the early stages of a crisis, European intervention through political and financial assistance, diplomatic intervention, and even military action can prevent it from erupting into violence.

The economic Washington consensus took for granted the presence of institutions necessary for functioning free markets or assumed that once government intervention was removed such institutions would emerge.

Beberapa diantaranya menjalankan ideologinya sampai sampai menyangkal ilmu pengetahuan yang sudah mapan oleh karena intervensi pemerintah buruk, mereka mengatakan pada dirinya sendiri bahwa ilmu pengetahuan tidak mungkin benar.

In the end, intervention was necessary anyway.

(If chemical weapons are deployed, intervention will become inevitable.)

But spending by the central government is such a small percentage of the country s total GDP that policymakers have a lot of room for maneuver if intervention becomes necessary in these areas.

Unlike moral hazard, market failure highlights circumstances in which government intervention is both socially desirable and economically defensible.

And where will all this intervention end if it continues unabated?

Resolving Libya s agony will take more than military action.

No amount of American intervention will turn the tide against bigotry and ignorance.