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While it is well known that a Tobin tax would have little effect on markets unless all major financial centers adopted it, what is true of markets is not necessarily true of financial institutions.
The MDGs, adopted in 2000, will conclude in 2015, to be followed by the SDGs, most likely for the 2015-2030 period.
The World Bank, to its credit, has already adopted the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
If adopted, this policy would set a new global standard and perhaps prompt other nations to follow suit.
If this pledge is adopted and respected, conflicts in the region will be viewed in a wholly different, more tolerant context, marking a historic breakthrough to peace.
Societies that adopted the capitalist system gained unrivaled prosperity, enjoyed widespread job satisfaction, obtained productivity growth that was the marvel of the world and ended mass privation.
The effect of automatic stabilizers in the economic downturn, state support for banks, and the fiscal stimulus packages adopted by governments all undermine fiscal sustainability.
Seven years later, as North Vietnamese tanks crossed the DMZ, he returned and adopted me, taking me out several months before my parents made their own escape.
One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonized people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.
When it is finally adopted, the chances that it will transform the Indian economy for the better are high.
Moreover, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet recently adopted a more hawkish tone in Athens.
But it is just this highly personalized form of politics that the Saudi royals have adopted with defecting Al-Qaeda’s members.
In the late seventeenth century, in the wake of Britain’s Glorious Revolution, when Britain revolted against the spendthrift and autocratic Stuart dynasty, the British government that was formed after William and Mary assumed the throne adopted a new approach to debt.
NATO’s current “Strategic Concept” was adopted in 1999, but since then the world has changed dramatically.
An amendment to Argentina's Constitution giving international treaties constitutional force lay behind an Argentine court's historic decision this month, reversing amnesties adopted under military pressure in the 1980s for atrocities committed during the country's 1976-83 "dirty war."
We will need a true global business plan that spells out how the new technologies are developed, tested, and adopted on an expedited basis worldwide.
Hypothetically, if the US adopted Denmark’s universal free education policy, but kept its tax-to-GDP ratio unchanged, its fiscal deficit would exceed 6% of GDP.
In France, a law adopted in 2005 requires that severance pay for company managers now be subject to a shareholder vote, and the EADS scandal has spurred consideration of further legal changes.
Benito Mussolini’s Italian fascism – a response to Lenin’s movement – also adopted an internationalist stance: colored-shirt movements, imitating Mussolini’s Black Shirts, emerged in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, to elevate authoritarianism as an alternative model to liberalism.
Six years ago, President George W. Bush and other leaders adopted the ambitious goals that constitute the core of the MDGs.
Today, as attacks on the media continue in his adopted homeland, and with his own murder unsolved, the faith he placed in Ukraine is not being repaid.
More recently, the monetary policies adopted by advanced economies, in particular the US, have contributed to the dramatic weakening of emerging-market currencies.
This is the strategy pursued by countries such as Turkey and South Africa, which have adopted more conventional “inflation targeting” regimes.
A large majority of the UN adopted the proposal on 15 November, despite attempts by some member states to obstruct, amend, or bury it.
In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which call for recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work – a measure long proposed by feminist economists and gender-equality advocates.
The reference point for such an effort should be parallel implementation of the 2002 Arab Peace Plan, which addresses Israel’s security concerns, and a regional disarmament mechanism based on United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, adopted in 1991 to enable the elimination of WMDs from the entire region.
The system has also been used elsewhere, including in Canada and Switzerland, but has not been adopted worldwide and is still confusing to some consumers.
Such an approach would reflect and reinforce the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide global development efforts until 2030.
It noted that people increasingly adopted informal means of expressing unhappiness with Hong Kong's government, because they did not think that formal channels were sufficient.
Political rhetoric can stop a good policy from being adopted, but it cannot stop it from succeeding.
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