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Imperfection

Other Names:
Imperfect
Imperfections
Related Problems:
Inadequacy
Impropriety
Imperfect accounting
Personal physical disfigurement
Limitation of current scientific knowledge
Economic inefficiency
Intolerance of imperfection
Unfinished imperfect universe
Imperfections of capital markets
Unethical practices in politics
Imperfect synthesis of concepts of sustainable development
Congenital anomalies of cranium and face bones
Asphyxia of newborn
Inferiority
Strategies:
Recognizing imperfections
Accepting inevitability of change
Recognizing imperfection
Recognizing moral imperfection
Tolerating imperfect accounting
Appreciating physical imperfections
Recognizing imperfect market operation
Tolerating imperfection
Recognizing moral imperfections of elected leadership
Recognizing imperfect synthesis of concepts of sustainable development
Reducing imperfection
Reducing moral imperfection
Reducing physical imperfections
Reducing imperfections of science
Reducing imperfections of elected leadership
Tolerating moral imperfection
Addressing incomplete state of the sciences
Increasing economic efficiency
Increasing efficiency of financial markets
Subjects:
Type Classification:
D: Destructive values

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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