Problems that cross borders require citizens to find consensus around common solutions. Again, the crisis is itself having an effect. For example, newspapers in some countries now take a keen interest in the welfare systems of other countries. Citizens closely follow the elections of ministers they would previously have never heard of.
These capital inflows were not always productively used. In some cases, for example, developing-country governments borrowed to avoid necessary fiscal consolidation; in other cases, opaque and poorly governed banking systems failed to allocate those funds to the projects promising the highest returns.