Particularly important is the growing discontent of economics students with the university curriculum. Undergraduates discontent matters, because economics has long been the West s political lodestar.

Inequality and Discontent

Poverty feeds the discontent.

The Cycles of Economic Discontent

This will generally deepen discontent and hasten conflict.

The 2004 elections for the European Parliament had already shown that the level of discontent with the Union was high. Voters heavily punished almost all national governments.

Most residents said they had not received any support from officials, displaying some discontent in this regard.

I mean, the 20 percent of the car drivers that disappeared, surely they must be discontent in a way.

In several Arab countries, most notably Saudi Arabia, rulers have sought to quell popular discontent by providing a combination of cash, subsidies, guaranteed jobs, and free goods and services. Such largesse betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes of today s discontent, because it assumes that these causes are purely material.

However, protracted delays in payments of salaries of FARDC personnel are causing discontent and increasing desertions and the risk of mutinies within the force.

They are right. It would be imprudent to assume that the French and Dutch no votes were not about discontent with Union policies but that anger was directed against the French and Dutch governments, not Europe itself.

The lack of meaningful development feeds the discontent of the tribal Mee, Moni, Dani, and Damal peoples, who live sprawled across Papua's verdant central highlands.

In reality, Israel can track Iranian missile activity from several sites other than Malatya. Iran s threat, therefore, is an expression more of discontent with Turkey than of genuine concern that the Malatya facility will adversely affect its deterrent capacity.

Discontent with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev s rule is rising. A leadership change or increased Russian and Chinese pressure on Kyrgyz leaders could precipitate calls for a renegotiation of the agreement regarding access to Manas or even demands for its termination altogether.

BEIRUT Revolution across the Arab world has forced the region s peoples and governments to grapple with the need for change. Years of sclerosis have given way to a frantic push for reforms to match the aspirations and discontent of millions.

ONUB also documented at least 30 cases of mob justice, in which suspects were beaten to death, burnt alive and their houses burnt down or destroyed, indicating the extent of discontent with and mistrust of the justice system within the population.

In the advanced countries, dissatisfaction with government stems from its inability to deliver effective economic policies for growth and inclusion. In the newer democracies of the developing world, failure to safeguard civil liberties and political freedom is an additional source of discontent.

For those in developing and emerging market countries who harbor grievances against the advanced countries, there is now one more reason for discontent with a brand of globalization that has been managed to serve rich countries interests (especially their financial sectors interests).

Moreover, globalization and instantaneous communication technologies have made it impossible to contain conflict within national borders. Domestic economic and political grievances can now buttress discontent across regions and continents.

Needless to say, government mishandling of such disturbances, or a decision to repress them with force, would only fuel further social discontent. In fact, the government s success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.

For decades, most Arabs, however unhappy, kept their political grievances private, for fear of persecution if they turned against their leaders publicly. Through private discussions with trusted friends, everyone sensed that discontent was common, yet no one knew, or could know, the extent of it.

With policymaking fully nontransparent and reduced to a very closed circle, and implementation delegated to an unaccountable bureaucracy, the inevitable result of Putin s political model was pervasive corruption. The desire to avoid public discontent and ensure social stability led to a suspension of reform.

Coupled with all this is northern European discontent with the central bankers, specifically with the ECB and the euro. It is not that the end of European Monetary Union is on the agenda it is merely that people have begun thinking about possible low probability futures in which the end of EMU might be placed on the agenda.

The same is true of many other issues. A winter of discontent awaits Merkel, followed by a European election campaign that is likely to bring the CDU back down to earth.

Only long term, market oriented, economically viable, and sustainable energy options can ensure economic growth in both producing and consuming countries. Isolationist policies, by contrast, always lead to shortages and discontent.

And it was also the beginning of our discontent, because if you wanted to distill all of our experience since the Paleolithic, it would come down to two words how and why.

Many of the assessment mission's interlocutors indicated that growing public discontent over corruption in the management of State revenues was a serious problem which needed to be urgently addressed by the Government.

Iran s currency, the rial, has fallen roughly 40 in recent weeks, sharply increasing Iran s inflation rate and what Iranians must pay for imports and many staples. The result is the first signs of serious public discontent with the regime since the violent repression of the Green Movement in 2009.

Tony Benn, a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970 s, later revealed that the winter of discontent, which ushered in a Tory government at the end of the decade, had been caused by the severe cuts in public expenditure demanded by the IMF Why did we have the winter of discontent? Because in 1976, the IMF said to the cabinet, You cut four billion pounds off your public expenditure or we will destroy the value of the pound sterling.

Putin s unwillingness to heed popular discontent, and his failure to develop relations with the West during his 12 years in power, has backed him into a corner and he is running out of ideas. In his most recent attempt to restore Russia s empire, he announced the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The main lesson for dynamic emerging market countries is that an exclusive focus on GDP growth may ultimately not be good for economic and political stability. Even with rapid increases in national income, if these countries leaders do not distribute the benefits fairly, they will become vulnerable to popular discontent.

But as health expenses start taking up a third of national income, healthcare socialism starts becoming just plain Marxism to each according to his needs. Even China s authoritarian capitalism will someday feel the pressure, as its rural populations, who currently have little access to doctors or hospitals, eventually explode with discontent.

That situation not only encouraged emigration but also bred discontent, laying the foundation for fundamentalism, as evidenced by the attacks on 11 September in New York and 11 March in Madrid and the attacks in Bali.

The word stagnation suggests a swamp, implying a breeding ground for virulent dangers. In the late 1930s, people were also worrying about discontent in Europe, which had already powered the rise of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Popular discontent over food prices has fueled political instability in some countries, most notably in Egypt and Tunisia. Even agricultural producers would prefer some price stability over the wild ups and downs of the last five years.

Discontent at the grass roots level is reportedly evident at the continued involvement of ceasefire groups in the National Convention process, which to date has yielded them little benefit and has not furthered progress towards national reconciliation.

To begin with, members of the small but steadily growing Saudi middle class have increasingly expressed their discontent publicly. Despite legal prohibition, Saudi women have defiantly driven their cars in the streets of Riyadh, while prominent intellectuals have published open letters to King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah demanding social and political reform.

But, despite the pains my father had taken, the other designers expressed growing discontent about Korolev getting all the publicity, even if anonymously. In their secret world, it wasn t any secret who was behind the title Chief Designer.

Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine. Price rises have been a major trigger of the discontent this year in the Middle East and North Africa.

Alongside the mostly economic arguments about the role of government, many countries are experiencing widespread disillusionment with politics and a growing distance between citizens and government (particularly national government). In many countries, participation rates in national elections are falling, and new parties and movements, such as the Pirate Party in Germany and the Five Star Movement in Italy, reflect strong discontent with existing governance.

Since the twenty first century began, skyrocketing housing prices in China, except for a short respite during the global financial crisis, have caused serious social discontent. After years of half hearted effort, China s government has finally clamped down on housing speculation.

Despite the current favourable security environment in the country, serious challenges remain, which include the limited progress in addressing the root causes of the conflict such as corruption, governance, widespread poverty, including massive youth unemployment, and the resulting public discontent.

Poverty, including massive youth unemployment, and public discontent over slow progress made by the Government in the fight against corruption and the improvement of management of State revenues are issues that urgently need to be addressed in order to sustain stability.

It is by now patently obvious that austerity and domestic reforms are not enough to pull the eurozone s periphery out of deep recession. Growing awareness of the failure of current policies is causing social discontent, civil disorder, and political instability, with the recently concluded Italian elections and the growing popular resistance to Greek reform efforts serving as a bellwether.

Putin regards anti Americanism as an effective tool for short circuiting domestic discontent. Developments like the US Congress s enactment of the Magnitsky Act, portrayed in Russia as an American provocation, have allowed the Kremlin to rally support at home with retaliatory measures such as a ban on foreign adoptions, while providing cover for a crackdown on domestic opponents.