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Lack of ability


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Inability
Narrower Problems:
Illiteracy
Learning disorders
Incorrect spelling
Insufficient personnel
Inability to compromise
Inadequate sense of time
Limited functional abilities
Inability to make use of evening time
Inability to teach unwritten language
Inability to distinguish right and wrong
Inability to reduce petroleum consumption
Paralysis of elders faced with the future
Inability to resolve problems realistically
Inability of governments to regulate family size
Inability to negotiate effective multilateral safeguard systems
Inability of countries to adopt appropriate exchange rate policies
Inability of elected representatives to process feedback from constituents
Inability of educational systems to keep pace with technological advancement
Aggravates:
Lack of time
Unpreparedness
Loneliness of children
Avoidance of decision-making
Failure to conceptualize large scale problems
Strategies:
Improving ability
Providing sufficient ability
Doing without adequate ability
Values:
Ability
Disability
Inability
Lack
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject(s):
Scarcity
Educational level
Date of last update
11.05.2000 – 00:00 CEST

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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