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In order to regain economic competitiveness, European countries will have to abandon many of their social-welfare policies and reform their political institutions.
But will the Fund now abandon its long-held emphasis on government cutbacks, monetary contraction, and overall austerity, policies that – in the opinion of many development economists – do considerably more harm than good?
America’s hypocrisy – advocating free trade but refusing to abandon subsidies on cotton and other agricultural commodities – had posed an insurmountable obstacle to the Doha negotiations.
Dilan and Ahmad illustrate the stark choice that all of us must confront: either we properly educate a future doctor and teacher, or we abandon them.
If Europe is to remain an environmental leader, as well as a center of innovation and competitiveness, it will have to abandon its ideological rigidness and embrace realistic, pragmatic solutions that can deliver environmental benefits without sacrificing economic development.
Though the decision in December to abandon the South Stream gas pipeline is a step in the right direction, it is far from adequate.
Indeed, given competition from low-wage economies such as Bangladesh and Cambodia, Pakistan should abandon its focus on textiles altogether and expend much greater effort to develop its knowledge-based industries.
But if the JOBS Act does not succeed, we should not abandon the idea, but try to modify it.
To this end, governments must abandon their outdated assumption that tapping unconventional water sources would be technically impractical or excessively costly.
In the same vein, the EU’s Africa policy must finally abandon post-colonial thought patterns in favor of the pursuit of Europe’s own interests.
Of course, with 15 countries relying on nuclear power for 25% or more of their electricity, we cannot abandon it overnight.
Hitting bottom is no reason to abandon the strong measures that have been taken to revive the global economy.
The first order of business is to abandon the platitudes.
A government that wants to replace the euro with, say, the “new franc” (which is not to suggest that France or Belgium would be likely to abandon the euro) would have to reverse the process by which its currency was originally swapped for euros.
Unfortunately, the skepticism of the United States’ defense establishment, together with Reagan’s adamant refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative nipped this bold move in the bud.
Will Netanyahu abandon his ideological rhetoric, negotiate seriously with the Palestinians, and make the needed concessions?
The fact that we can quantify so many things means that sometimes we abandon the challenges that are harder to measure – such as corruption, food quality, or education.
As unemployment again rises to catastrophic heights, they will have no alternative, it is said, but to abandon the euro unilaterally.
This makes populist pressure to abandon the euro correspondingly less severe – the key questions, of course, being how much less severe, and whether the political center can hold.
The first is austerity, which even the Conservatives have signaled they will abandon.
Operators could abandon their posts should violence encroach.
Last month, 365 major US companies and investors did just that, issuing a public appeal to Trump not to abandon the Paris climate agreement.
Before the bombing, NATO's aim was to broker a new deal in Kosovo, in which Milosevic would abandon ethnic cleansing, and the Kosovars would get limited autonomy within Yugoslavia, but not independence.
A simple, effective way to buy time would be to abandon the euro and restore competitiveness through a devalued national currency.
The US may now be ready to abandon the monetarist dogmas of central-bank independence and inflation targeting, and to restore full employment as the top priority of demand management.
Given its popularity among Lebanese Shia, Hezbollah could continue as an influential political party, but it would have to abandon its role as a major proxy force for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
But how Trump intends to convince the Kim regime to abandon its fundamental identity as a nuclear state is still an open question.
The country’s new populist government – comprising the Five Star Movement and Lega Nord – intends to increase the country’s debt substantially to pay for its proposed tax cuts and guaranteed-income scheme; and it might threaten to abandon the euro altogether if the EU refuses to play along.
Trump’s trade war will not succeed in driving China to abandon its aspiration to catch up to the advanced economies.
Democracy’s Missing MeaningNEW YORK – The decision to abandon relative peace and prosperity for brutal war and instability may seem irrational.
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