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And we will pump in another $4 billion in the coming three years to fund activities that help countries improve food security and adapt to climate change.
In fact, the dubious notion that we should select economic activities based on their presumed technical innovativeness has been carried even further, in support of the argument that we should favor semiconductor chips over potato chips.
Moreover, both Kushner, who has been accused of attempting to set up a back channel for secure communication between the White House and the Kremlin, and Ivanka would be subject to prosecution if they were found to have engaged in illegal communications or activities with Russian agents or officials.
BERKELEY – At a recent conference in Washington, DC, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said that US policymakers should focus on productive activities that take place in the United States and employ American workers, not on corporations that are legally registered in the US but locate production elsewhere.
The particularly high domestic shares for R&D and compensation indicate that US multinationals have strong incentives to keep their high-wage, research-intensive activities in the US – good news for America’s skilled workers and the country’s capacity for innovation.
At the same time, their growing sales abroad boosted their US employment in such activities as advertising, design, R&D, and management.
In the day following its original report, the Daily Graphic went further in showing its revulsion over gay activities by publishing a lead editorial that blamed Europeans and Americans for "all the reported cases of homosexuality" in Ghana.
According to the League of Nations, Smoot-Hawley triggered “an outburst of tariff-making activities in other countries, at least partly by way of reprisals,” with substantial duty hikes made almost immediately by Canada, Cuba, France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain.
Participation in civic activities is on the rise.
Advocates for expanding the Alliance’s extra-regional activities stress that, while NATO is a regional alliance, it faces global threats that can be countered only by broad international cooperation.
NATO is, in a way, going global, as it forges partnerships with countries as distant as Japan and Australia to engage in security activities in places as remote as Central Asia, Africa, and the Arctic.
They gave assurances that, while NATO has adopted a global approach to security, its main activities outside Europe and Afghanistan will primarily comprise dialogue with partners or, in special cases, joint defensive measures with other security institutions under a UN mandate, such as in the Gulf of Aden.
Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty.
Simply put, it places the interests of Europe's citizens more than ever at the heart of the European Union's activities.
Rural populations from Africa have the capacity to compete and export greenhouse-gas emission-reduction credits generated by forestry and agriculture activities that improve their livelihoods, ameliorate local environmental problems, and increase communities’ ability to cope with climate change.
The second change would allow forestry and land-use projects that are eligible to issue carbon credits to include such activities as re-vegetation, forest restoration, and improved agricultural management.
That means building mutually beneficial relationships with neighboring countries, which can benefit by taking over some of China’s lower-value-added activities.
For example, to minimize the risks associated with operating in an unfamiliar regulatory and legislative environment, businesses should establish links in advance with a local entity to guide their activities.
Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern-sector activities in low-income environments.
In fact, capital inflows can make things worse, because they tend to appreciate the domestic currency and make production in export activities less profitable, further weakening the incentive to invest.
They need to restructure away from traditional primary products to higher-productivity activities, mainly manufactures and modern services.
The real exchange rate is of paramount importance here, as it determines the competitiveness and profitability of modern tradable activities.
When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed.
The Addis meeting also provides a unique opportunity for a deeper analysis of issues related to illicit financial activities – another big drain on African treasuries.
Indeed, the revenue shortfalls induced by such activities are estimated to cost African countries between $30-60 billion a year, a sum that falls within the neighborhood of total ODA received by Africa ($46.1 billion in 2012 ).
Finally, rather than protesting the way Japan's WWII activities are described in US textbooks or squabbling over the number of people murdered during the Nanjing massacre, Japan should seek to help its own citizens understand and process their country's wartime record.
Other steps include enhanced surveillance of public places and the creation of new units focused on identifying potential terrorists through their Internet activities.
Third, all paramilitary activities should cease, including those of so-called “moderates” backed by the US.
This lends legitimacy to them and the economic activities they facilitate.
Iran may be capable of producing sufficient nuclear material to make one or two bombs within the next couple of years, but such activities would inevitably come into the open, because Iran would either have to enrich the uranium under the eyes of IAEA inspectors or expel them, giving the game away.
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