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With many citizens now struggling, political leaders face a daunting task: adopt credible medium- and long-term reforms without derailing the economy in the short term.
The increased international competition associated with globalization may also contribute to overall prosperity, as it strengthens incentives to adopt new technologies and to innovate.
Does this mean we should adopt the third system, a fragmented multilateralism, with not much room for global institutions?
In the field of Justice and Home Affairs, for example, the UK has so far played a major role in shaping EU policies that all member states must adopt in less than two years.
Given this, investors seem likely to adopt a wait-and-see approach, at least in the near term.
Instead, Fillon wants to make it harder for same-sex couples to adopt children.
Once companies recognize these benefits and decide to adopt a purpose-driven approach, they need help monitoring and reporting outcomes.
But today the US Congress and President are tripping over themselves to adopt an ill-advised giant fiscal stimulus package, whose main effects will be to tie the hands of the next president in simplifying the US tax code and closing the budget deficit.
Cash-strapped governments adopt these taxes because ICT goods and services are an easy target for revenue authorities.
It is up to them to adopt a few simple strategies to reduce salt intake and improve children’s chances at long, healthy lives.
And Asia must adopt three core principles to avert environmental and social crises.
China’s leaders thus have an additional imperative to support international cooperation and adopt forward-thinking policies that account for environmental realities.
It is thus unlikely that the Grand Coalition will adopt a different political approach towards Turkey than the previous Red-Green government.
Little doubt exists that the re-entry of the Middle Kingdom on the world stage is having great repercussions, nor that an increasing self-confident China will resist pressures to adopt Western values.
A politically more successful plan would be to adopt the "big bang" approach: implement quickly a broad set of reforms that will break the opposition of special interests and leave enough time before the next election for the benefits of reform to be felt by voters.
Development’s Digital DivideSTOCKHOLM – On September 25, world leaders will gather in New York to adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals.
Something similar to this complaint is now made by critics who say that countries like Indonesia and the Philippines are too sprawling and undisciplined to adopt democracy.
In addition, governments and regulators should adopt policies ensuring sustainable financial-sector practices, including annual reporting by companies and investors on environmental, social, and governance issues and due diligence and risk models regarding environmental hazards.
From the US approach, the common Western strategy should adopt the principle of quid-pro-quo: If Iran wants favors -- like credits, lifting of trade sanctions -- it will need to earn them.
They adopt a “your success is my success” mentality.
Meanwhile, people would be asked to adopt as many dogs as possible.
To do that, it wants China to eliminate subsidies, mandatory technology transfer, and other forms of “cheating”; level the playing field for foreign investors in the Chinese market; and even adopt more Western-style governance practices.
New innovations, such as pebble-bed reactors, promise to increase safety further, but will be vastly more costly to adopt.
Within Ukraine, a government capable of truly governing should seek to adopt EU laws and norms in exactly the manner that the countries poised to join the Union have done, thus helping to clean up the murky system in which Kuchma's criminal cronies flourish.
Ireland Decides, AgainMaynooth, Ireland – On October 2, Irish voters go to the polls for a second time to decide whether to adopt the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty.
Russia did adopt an anti-crisis stimulus package; but, at 3.5% of GDP, it was just one-third the size of the 2008 package.
As new issues arise the need and the ability to adopt a cross-sector perspective generates novel regulatory responses.
The draft Protocol does not yet require China to adopt rules to govern administrative procedure or the standards of evidence to be used by administrative agencies.
And Macron’s government also seemed to adopt a proposal I made in 2015, when I was Greece’s finance minister, for restructuring public debt via GDP-indexing.
Second, there is a large inventory of technologies that the developing world is yet to acquire, adopt, and adapt.
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