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To combat the effect of high oil prices, consuming countries adopt expansionary economic policies, lowering interest rates and increasing government spending.
Why not adopt the same approach to strengthen India’s relationships with Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan?
The Taming of TrumpNEW YORK – Now that Donald Trump has unexpectedly won the US presidency, it is an open question whether he will govern in accordance with his campaign’s radical populism, or adopt a pragmatic, centrist approach.
But that mindset is waning, and government and business leaders now routinely warn of bubbles and adopt policies to counter them.
That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in New York on September 25 to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
But all the hard work these states have undertaken to prepare themselves for EU membership may be squandered should they choose to adopt the euro too soon.
Trump has singled out China and Mexico, and Sanders’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership – the proposed trade deal between the US and 11 Pacific Rim countries – has pushed Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee, to adopt a similar stance.
“It’s not much, but it’s all we’ve got” is just as effective a message as “It will prevent the flu” in getting people to adopt these measures – and truth is far more sustainable than exaggeration.
One of the greatest obstacles to the spread of democracy is the widely held view that religion and democracy are inimical to each other: to adopt democracy means to banish God and religion from the public sphere and make it strictly a private affair.
Their success is compelling mainstream parties to adopt anti-migrant policies as well.
For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.
But US efforts to encourage Europeans to adopt their pragmatic and discretionary approach to economic policy inevitably lead to frustration: the issues confronting the European economies are different from those facing the US--as are perceptions about the challenges.
Those options are not retained by, say, Panama, and will not be retained by countries that adopt the Euro.
All had national central banks with the power to create money that committed themselves to maintain the price of their domestic currency in terms of the U.S. dollar at a fixed level, or within narrow bounds -- a policy that they had been encouraged to adopt by the IMF.
While the concept of enhancing the role of non-CCP forces in Chinese politics is not new, its prominence in the resolution reflects the Party’s willingness to adopt a more democratic political system – as long as it retains its dominant position, of course.
But it is much easier for them to adopt a low profile, get the “Brussels bureaucrats” to do it, and then blame those Brussels officials, indeed the EU, for any and all of the pain.
Foreign investors might fear that the government could adopt policies that reduced the real value of their holdings.
While the US government would never explicitly default, it could adopt policies such as deducting income tax on interest payments, which would disadvantage foreign holders and depress the value of the bonds.
All countries, for example, should adopt quotas requiring that no more than half of parties’ legislative candidates in each district be of the same sex.
In one-third of EU member states, such parties are members of coalition governments, and their success has driven mainstream parties to adopt some of their positions.
We should adopt policies that benefit the economy in the short run at reasonable long-run cost, and reject those that do not.
In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G-20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.
Later this year, the member states of the United Nations will meet in Paris to adopt a comprehensive agreement to combat climate change.
This month, the UN is expected to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of global targets that represent a quantum leap forward from their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, in that they embed sustainability in every aspect of policy and practice.
Taking Monetary Policy to the PeopleLONDON – The United Kingdom was late to adopt central-bank independence, because then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher firmly opposed allowing unelected bankers to control interest rates.
Investors have every reason to adopt a wait-and-see attitude.
There is dismay at the bureaucratic rigidity and gigantism of the 80,000 pages of the acquis communautaire, which they have to adopt before being let in to the club.
To achieve this, the government will adopt new regulations and create “green bonds” to finance remediation and low-carbon energy sources.
These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy flexibility by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.
As a result, while many advanced and developing countries are pursuing far-reaching measures to increase energy efficiency and adopt clean-energy technologies, their existing technologies, incentives, regulations, and commitments imply a sharp rise in total carbon emissions in the coming decades.
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