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These changes are simply a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis and of the policies that Bernanke adopted to overcome it.
The international system rather quickly adopted (and transformed) this notion, and numerous humanitarian military interventions followed--in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone.
Similar laws have been adopted in Canada and across Western Europe.
All the real work in corporations is done by skilled immigrants;Ivy League colleges have adopted the names of their Asian counterparts in order to survive; the economy is beholden to China’s central bank; and “yuan-pegged US dollars” have replaced regular currency as the safe asset of choice.
Growth ultimately depends on supply-side factors – investment in and acquisition of new technologies – and the stock of technologies that can be adopted by poor countries does not disappear when advanced countries’ growth is sluggish.
Unless new thinking is adopted soon, Europe’s many unemployed young people risk becoming a lost generation.
A policy is adopted to "fix" one problem, only to create another problem, sometimes one much worse than the original.
The result will be a virtuous cycle of development that benefits everyone – and that moves the world significantly closer to achieving the ambitious goals that it has adopted.
NATO is in the process of working out a new doctrine that is to be adopted later this month in Washington during the celebrations of NATO's 50th anniversary.
Overall, the emerging political players – particularly the Islamist parties – have adopted a rather conciliatory tone regarding engagement with international actors.
Today, many of these countries have adopted more flexible exchange-rate regimes, and quite a few retain adequate reserve holdings.
The situation was so grave that no responsible politician favored the type of policies that Skidelsky argues should have been adopted.
Why Cutting Carbon Emissions is not EnoughTwenty years ago, governments adopted the Montreal Protocol, a treaty to protect the Earth’s ozone layer from emissions of destructive chemicals.
The Swiss central bank recently adopted this position, and the ECB is worrying about higher inflation, not deflation, in the eurozone.
What is important is that the constitution requires a super-majority – rather than, say, the easily reversible “non-bloc” resolution that the Ukrainian parliament adopted in 2010 – to join a military alliance.
Some steps, including the removal of the US trade embargo, are prohibited by the Helms-Burton Act, adopted by the US Congress in 1996.
In September 2011, at the AFI Global Policy Forum in Mexico, 17 financial authorities adopted the unprecedented Maya Declaration – a set of specific, measurable commitments aimed at increasing financial inclusion.
These same lessons can be applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), the targets for fighting poverty, disease, and hunger that the world’s governments adopted in 2000.
The provision, adopted to satisfy countries worried about their own potential breakaway regions (Chechnya in Russia, and Tibet in China), violates the principle, engraved in common sense if not in international law, that genocide nullifies sovereignty – that a state cannot seek to extinguish a people and yet insist on governing them.
The following month, 168 countries adopted an international blueprint for disaster-risk reduction at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, hosted by the city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, the scene in 1995 of one of Japan’s worst earthquakes, with more than 5,000 lives lost.
Above all, much depends on the policies adopted by the two largest economies, China and the United States, and their cooperation and leadership in creating global public goods and maintaining a stable and open economic environment.
In the US, progress is somewhat more decentralized, though new national policies have been adopted, including Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles.
First, the Declaration calls on policymakers responsible for crafting the comprehensive climate agreement to be adopted in Paris to come to “an equitable and binding conclusion.”
Spend in haste, repent at leisure: America’s latest bailout planCambridge – With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style Great Depression, America’s politicians have adopted, virtually overnight, a $700 billon bailout plan to resuscitate the country’s rapidly deflating financial sector.
When Henry VIII adopted the Statute in Restraint of Appeals to Rome, with its declaration that “this realm of England is an empire” – the first clear assertion of the idea of national sovereignty – there followed a brutal campaign to stamp out the old religion.
No one believed it, and the ECB not only withdrew its clumsy threat the next month, but it adopted a policy of interest-rate neutrality.
I am confident that the founders of Facebook, Google, and other major Internet platforms did not intend to cause harm when they adopted their business models.
The special tax regimes and other policies they adopted may make some at the OECD cringe.
Minimum wage standards endorsed by the International Labor Organization (ILO), and adopted by many industries around the world, remain either unenforced in the agriculture sector or do not extend to informal farm workers.
Given this, it is perhaps unsurprising that, whereas Saudi Arabia’s sclerotic leadership pursues reactionary policies rooted in a puritanical understanding of Islam, Qatar’s younger royals have adopted a forward-thinking approach.
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