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The best hope to tackle the profound structural problems came with the May government’s pre-election announcement of its intention to adopt an industrial strategy.
They will soon adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will help guide the world to a safer and fairer twenty-first-century trajectory.
Few are eager to self-disrupt, a process that takes us out of our comfort zone, forcing us to confront our long-standing blind spots and unconscious biases and adopt a new mindset.
This is why Obama must adopt a bold diplomatic initiative that encompasses the entire region and help resolve longstanding disputes between Afghanistan’s neighbors.
National governments should adopt a European social-security identifier (similar to the US Social Security number or the National Insurance number in the United Kingdom) and regularly exchange information.
Moreover, they should balance the demands of the marketplace with the need to nurture ethical values and social skills, and adopt admissions and financial-aid policies that give socially disadvantaged students access without compromising standards.
Mention the issue to a banker or a mainstream economist and you are likely to get a vehement reply: capital controls do not work, because speculators can evade them at little or no cost, but countries should never adopt such controls, because doing so is very costly.
In a world of mobile capital – especially profitable intangible capital with R&D externalities – the US should adopt a “hybrid" territorial system that includes base-protection measures consistent with those successfully used by other developed countries.
Unlike the failure to adopt a European Constitution, Europe’s leaders cannot blame their lack of foreign policy cooperation on hostile public opinion.
Today, the US cannot adopt the same approach with China, largely because China is also a military and political power, and the US depends on Chinese support on a host of international issues – from North Korea and Burma to Iran and Pakistan.
The new complex mechanisms for economic-policy coordination that dominate the European Union’s agenda might be useful in pushing eurozone member countries to adopt more sensible policies to increase their economies’ competitiveness and strengthen their fiscal positions.
After all, many sorts of bodies, even the loosest aggregations, can adopt majority decision-making.
As for financial supervision, stability would be guaranteed by ensuring that individual financial institutions adopt sound prudential rules that preserve capital cushions commensurate with their risk exposure.
If Europe were a single country with a single government, it would adopt a two-handed strategy, combining ambitious pro-growth reforms with fiscal-policy support.
Governments will adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals, work together to draft a meaningful climate agreement, and craft a framework to provide the financial resources needed to deliver on a global sustainable development agenda.
My advice is to take a deep breath and adopt the long view, because this story is far from over.
Some poor countries -- those that adopt good economic policies and institutions -- enjoy more rapid, catch-up growth: because they are short of their potential, their per capita incomes can increase not only because of genuine innovations, but also because they utilize their economic potential better.
At three back-to-back global summits – the conference in Addis Ababa, September's meeting at the United Nations to adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December – 193 governments will attempt to ensure that global growth and poverty reduction continue within a safe natural environment.
And the Norway option would simply assume away the problem by requiring Britain to adopt passively any economic legislation adopted by the EU.
To them, Britain’s quest to adopt its own rules and standards amounts to a frivolous inconvenience.
The Hartwell group proposes that we adopt three basic climate-related goals: ensuring secure, affordable energy supplies for everyone (which means developing alternatives to fossil fuels); ensuring that economic development doesn’t wreak environmental havoc (which means not just reducing CO2 emissions, but also cutting indoor pollution from burning biomass, reducing ozone, and protecting tropical forests); and making sure that we are prepared to cope with whatever climate changes may occur, man-made or natural (which means recognizing, at last, the importance of adapting to climate change).
Populists typically adopt a governing style that mirrors the very accusations that they leveled against the previous political establishment.
There is no reason to doubt that the member states will follow through and adopt national rules by the end of the year.
Reflecting the fear that the Fed’s current policy of sustained low interest rates will lead to higher inflation, the law would require the Fed to adopt a formal procedure for setting its key short-term interest rate, the “federal funds rate.”
More specifically, the law suggests a specific interest-rate rule (the Reference Policy Rule) while giving the Fed the opportunity to adopt a different rule if it explains to Congress why it prefers the alternative.
Forsaking socialism, China did not adopt capitalism, but kept the Communist Party atop a self-legitimized hierarchy.
I have often argued that Turkey should not intervene in the internal affairs of its neighbors or adopt a Middle East-centered policy.
Tax havens make economic crime more profitable, and the only way to fight them is to adopt global agreements on transparency in financial transfers, which should also cover companies on a country-to-country basis.
If voters want to limit the cross-border movement of goods, services, and people, companies will have to adopt a new model that builds in more redundancy within borders; and investors will need to look for firms that can profit with minimal border crossings, or that can still generate a profit despite increased protectionist friction.
Such policies spurred firms to adopt capital-intensive technologies, obscuring labor’s natural comparative advantages.
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