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Likewise, monetary authorities have been playing an increasingly active role, with the major central banks’ balance sheets having expanded from about $5.5 trillion in 2005 to $13.9 trillion earlier this year.
Her active involvement since the age of eleven in campaigning for the rights of girls in her region to be educated was well known.
Third, women need policies that support their active participation in the emerging green economy, including better education, skills training, and protections against workplace discrimination.
Changing that – enabling all citizens to meet their economic potential – will require active efforts to promote women’s social and political inclusion.
The conference will advance the “Moscow Process,” an expression of Russia’s desire to play an active role in forging new partnerships to shape the evolving global aid architecture.
A newly-created, active, and sophisticated stock market trades shares in hundreds of companies, not the few dozen traded on other exchanges in central Europe.
Italy ended 70 years of active involvement by the state in industry thanks to the determination of the EU competition commissioners, Karel van Miert and his successor, Mario Monti.
Organizations that 25 to 30 years ago were a community’s focal point -- churches, say, or the American Red Cross, or labor unions -- lost as much as 60% of their active members and volunteers over the years.
The first step toward making SDRs a more active force in global finance would be to remove the division between SDR accounts and normal IMF operations.
But Asia’s other rising power, India, is also becoming more active on this front, as its economic links are moving beyond its traditional partners in the British Commonwealth.
Active citizens who defend the liberal order must thus be its safeguard.
In a modern economy the state is active in many non-economic areas, from food safety to building regulations.
Americans cannot do anything they want, but little can be done without US leadership or active participation.
This meant active encouragement by information, by political education, for example.
The rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system in order to ensure that they will be active supporters.
One reason is that emerging digital media, and the race for scoops among news organizations, investigative journalists, increasingly active NGOs, are providing a constant stream of reasons for mistrust.
An active, engaged, and independent press provides a fundamental public good: the transparency that makes political and economic accountability possible.
My foundations have been active in educating Roma for more than 25 years.
“Politically active women, those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women human rights defenders were increasingly at risk of abuse, including by armed groups and religious extremists,” Amnesty International said in its 2007 report.
One reason is that only a minority of any population is active politically.
Active party members hold more ideologically consistent views – and hold them more strongly – than most of those who are politically less engaged, giving activists disproportionate influence in the political process.
While governments are right to shy away from picking winners, they must remain active in other ways.
After years of relying on America’s presence in the region, playing an advantageous waiting game, China’s next leaders may embrace a more active role.
The European Commission plays an active role in educating consumers and developing their abilities to behave in a more sustainable way.
The most fundamental of these values is democracy, understood to entail not merely periodic elections, but also active and meaningful participation in decision making, which requires an engaged civil society, strong freedom of information norms, and a vibrant and diversified media that are not controlled by the state or a few oligarchs.
In the early 1990s, some new governments in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, underestimating the power of an active citizenry and civil society, failed to regulate adequately advocacy organizations and the space in which they work.
But over the last two decades, as active citizens have toppled regimes in dozens of countries, governments have moved too far in the opposite direction, imposing excessive regulations on those organizations and that space.
Foreign direct investment should be encouraged, not hindered, regardless of whether it will support goods production and job creation or stronger public policies and more active citizenship.
Opposition parties have been active for almost a decade, and have significant representation in the legislature.
As we might expect, sensation-generating areas are active, but so are structures in emotion-generating areas of the brain and structures related to attention and thinking.
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