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In fact, most of the world believes that Germany should adopt a more expansive fiscal policy.
While lending is progressively thinned out and retained only for the poorest countries, the Bank must adopt the lean hub-and-spoke structure of a strategic consultancy or a “knowledge bank.”
The International Monetary Fund, which tends to adopt a conservative posture on such matters (not least to avoid antagonizing powerful governments), estimates that 15% of Chinese loans to nonfinancial corporations are at risk.
In the UK, the diplomatic spat served as an occasion for the British press to air criticism from those who believe that the government should adopt a stronger stance on China.
If countries that adopt standards are defined as “safe” investments, foreign investors can justify their actions even if things go badly wrong.
Such& reforms promise to strengthen the solvency of all governments that adopt them, including those on the eurozone’s periphery.
The world’s governments will adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a special United Nations summit on September 25.
The occasion will likely be the largest gathering of world leaders in history, as some 170 heads of state and government adopt shared goals that will guide global development efforts until 2030.
Of course, goals are easier to adopt than to achieve.
In July, the world will assemble in Addis Ababa for the International Finance for Development Conference, and just weeks after that, at UN Headquarters to adopt the SDGs in late September.
States certainly have the legal authority to adopt policies that are at odds with federal policy.
They will also have to adopt more flexible labor regulations, because firms won’t hire skilled workers who cost too much.
The new paper opens a different path: it suggests revising and harmonizing national accounting, in order to gauge better the vulnerability of eurozone members’ public finances; ensuring that banks’ creditors, rather than governments, pay when crisis strikes; decentralizing fiscal discipline by requiring each country to adopt a constitutional rule on the stability of the debt ratio; and curbing countries’ contingent liabilities by adjusting pension systems to demographic ageing.
They continue to insist that mental illness is an illness like any other, despite many studies showing that the more we adopt this medical model, the more prejudiced and frightened we become.
Even as China continues its economic opening, however, it is looking increasingly inward, at its citizens to serve as consumers and at its businesses to adopt and advance new technologies.
The attractiveness of these assets, and of the American lifestyle that they represent, is that they enable the US to persuade, rather than compel, others to adopt its agenda.
But politics continues to distort discussions, driving leaders to draw red lines on free movement and adopt mercantilist stances on financial services.
We need new and better models – and effective strategies to adopt them.
Given this, it is imperative that European governments adopt cost-cutting measures that do not jeopardize their naval assets.
Fourth, existing national health-care systems in wealthier countries can serve as models for emerging-market economies that choose to adopt similar systems.
One can only hope that “Obamacare,” together with the models being implemented by the US’s future competitors, will nudge the US to adopt a long overdue universal, publicly financed health-care system.
Unsurprisingly, based on the evidence and the opinions presented at the Law Commission’s hearings, there was a general consensus that the courts are unable to adopt a fair and non-discriminatory approach to the death penalty, and support for its abolition was overwhelming.
At a time when Turkish democracy is wobbling, and its leaders are less interested in Euro-Atlanticism than in reasserting century-old claims in the Middle East, the US will, again, need to adopt a tactful approach.
This development forces moderate leaders in these countries to adopt a tougher stance toward China than they otherwise would, in order to preempt attacks from the ultra-right and assuage their generals.
We must take full account of predicates, conditionals, and contingencies in order to specify more completely which countries should adopt what policies.
The key to enabling the EU to meet this potential – to save itself and the world from catastrophe – is for member states urgently to adopt a “European Union first” mantra.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently listed nine measures that the G-20 should adopt under its current French presidency.
Sometimes countries adopt policies that threaten their survival, conscious that they are doing so.
Politicians would adopt the Baptists’ pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.
And all of these coalitions should inspire the broader international community to adopt similar measures to advance the Third Industrial Revolution.
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