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With investigations and prosecutions ongoing, many outsiders have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, while they weigh acquiring existing assets from corporate liquidations as an alternative to green-field investment.

Denmark’s social democrats are a step ahead of their Austrian counterparts: in preparation for next year’s elections, they have adopted a new position paper on immigration titled “Just and Realistic.”

While recognizing that every country is different, the practices we adopted, the successes we had, and the lessons we learned have a broader relevance.

Fifteen years ago, the world adopted the Millennium Development Goals to achieve specific targets for improving human welfare in the new century.

Indeed, by sharing knowledge, methods, and research with their peers and partners, organizations like the AfDB are better-placed to ensure that the highest standards and best practices are widely adopted.

Attacked for being shallow, indiscreet, and flashy by the Hillary camp, he has toned down his revivalist rhetoric, and adopted a more sober, more cautious, more professional air.

When sectarian violence erupted there following the removal of Hosni Mubarak, the revolutionary coalitions adopted the slogan, “You won’t gloat over this, Mubarak.”

If this provision is adopted, Sinn concludes, there will soon be "twenty Mezzogiornos in Europe."

Since then, the political left has adopted it and added its own theory.

There is also bipartisan agreement that the foregone revenues from a rate reduction should be covered mainly by broadening the tax base – the same approach adopted in the 1986 tax reform.

As part of the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations last September, the international community has pledged to end preventable deaths of children under the age of five by 2030.

In fact, Alexander Hamilton adopted this approach more than 200 years ago, when he decided to mutualize the debts that individual US states had incurred during the Revolutionary War – a decisive move toward further political integration.

This is one reason why, after Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China in 1949 and other Asian nations gained independence, most Asian countries adopted protectionist inward-looking economic policies aimed at building domestic strength, keeping the “imperialists” out, and achieving self-reliance.

China has adopted some policies to reduce its trade surplus, such as lowering import tariffs, withdrawing tax rebates for exported goods, and gradual exchange-rate appreciation.

China seems to have adopted the same approach to Pakistan today, as the United States Congress threatens to cut off all aid.

At the end of the summit, delegates adopted the New York Declaration, which includes commitments to address migrants and refugees’ common needs and challenges, and outlines processes for developing global compacts to share responsibility for helping refugees, and to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration.

If former debtors, facing diminished pressure from major creditors or risk premia, adopted less prudent fiscal policies, their public debt would continue to accumulate.

At that time, the ECB confirmed the definition of price stability it adopted in 1998, but clarified that it aims to maintain the inflation target over the medium term, while recognizing that a central bank cannot control inflation with enough precision to establish a specific rate.

This is not the first time that Western media have adopted a perspective on Chinese political developments that runs completely counter to the prevailing view in China itself.

It has adopted plans to boost the company’s growth while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive societal impact.

In 2007, Mexico’s government adopted the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, which defined and codified the term femicide in Mexico.

And we will have to engage major companies in a new way, giving them ample incentives and market rewards for success, without allowing them to hold a monopoly on successful technologies that should be widely adopted.

Its new databases will catalogue which policies countries have adopted to promote learning in each part of the education system, in areas ranging from teacher policies to student assessment to school financing mechanisms.

But, because the United States adopted the position it did three years ago, after President Barack Obama chose not to punish Assad for using chemical weapons (a red line that Obama himself had drawn), I fear that the responsibility falls chiefly, if not exclusively, on Europe.

Countries have also adopted incompatible solutions, making it extremely difficult to integrate national energy networks.

As he put it, “Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”

But Asia not only has the type of stable common ethical foundations that were so important to European integration; it also has a well developed set of moral principles, some of which were an established part of Asian culture long before similar principles were adopted in Europe.

And the Norway option would simply assume away the problem by requiring Britain to adopt passively any economic legislation adopted by the EU.

The new Strategic Concept, adopted at the Alliance’s 2010 Lisbon summit, established collective defense as one of its three main tasks, underscoring the importance of developing contingency plans, organizing joint exercises and training, and creating “visible assurance” within member states.

And if an outcome-based regulation is adopted, innovative entrants may well influence the competitive structure of other platform markets that remain underdeveloped, such as health care, real estate, and professional services.

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