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Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new-comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.
Advocates of stronger action respond that low-carbon investments can generate much stronger, cleaner growth.
Mandela’s approach showed that orderly and inclusive transitions are possible, and that previously suppressed and imprisoned freedom advocates can transform themselves to form a legitimate and effective government.
By contrast, Italy’s economically deprived southern regions – where youth unemployment has, in some areas, reached nearly 60% – voted overwhelmingly for the Five Star Movement, which advocates a guaranteed basic income and condemns the corruption of local elites.
As usual, the pact’s advocates have marshaled quantitative models that make the agreement look like a no-brainer.
Advocates of trade agreements have long maintained that deindustrialization and the loss of low-skill jobs in advanced economies have little to do with international trade; they are the product of new technologies.
(The Petri-Plummer model does indicate that the TPP will accelerate the movement of jobs from manufacturing to services, a result that the pact’s advocates do not trumpet.)
We do not yet have a good alternative framework to the kind that trade advocates use.
But if the Australian people are given the facts, they will be the best advocates for refugees – far better than Australia’s politicians.
The newly elected prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, advocates debt relief and the abandonment of austerity – goals that have broad popular support.
The true advocates of the end of austerity – including the economists Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Simon Wren-Lewis – do so from a European perspective.
Chen had to turn to American diplomats to be his advocates, but it would augur better for China’s future if the country’s legal profession came together to urge the authorities to uphold the rule of law in even the most sensitive cases.
Finally, green-economy advocates promise a surfeit of green jobs.
But animal advocates regard that term as demeaning, and prefer “companion animal.”
First, as advocates of capital mobility tirelessly point out, countries must fulfill a long list of prerequisites before they can benefit from financial globalization.
Advocates of capital mobility assume that poor economies have lots of profitable investment opportunities that are not being exploited because of a shortage of investible funds.
As industrial policy returns to the scene in countries around the world, that is a goal that advocates and opponents alike should be happy to embrace.
Brexit advocates appealed almost exclusively to nationalist myth, whereas the “Remain” side often sounded like accountants.
The business community, by and large, advocates the immediate guarantee that EU citizens currently working in the UK will be able to continue doing so.
Some advocates of a closer Visegrad cooperation criticize Poland's emerging strategy, while euroskeptics in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia applaud the Poles.
For government and non-state advocates alike, this month should be the start of a new chapter in global cooperation to accommodate migrants and refugees.
Human rights advocates began court action to demand his return.
The problem, advocates of this view claim, is a shortage of productive supply rather than a shortage of aggregate demand.
Yet even the most enthusiastic advocates of military action against Iraq have to admit that such steps carry considerable risks, and no expert on the region I know shares the view, popular among arm-chair orientologists, that a change of regime in Baghdad will usher in a period of peace and stability all over the Middle East.
Advocates of austerity argue that debt has a negative impact on growth; proponents of further stimulus counter that it is low growth that generates public debt, not the other way around, and that austerity in times of recession only makes things worse.
In the face of the brutality of Saddam Hussein, Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Assad, some human-rights advocates made common cause with the US security establishment, while China, Russia, and others have argued that R2P has become a pretext for US-led regime change.
The problem, as human-rights advocates should have learned long ago, is that the US security establishment’s regime-change model does not work.
One model for this style of leadership is Robert Zimmer, the president of the University of Chicago, who advocates for free and open speech even when the ideas being espoused are unpopular or distasteful.
They should look to fast-growing Asia, argue advocates of the Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP), the proposed mega-regional trade accord that would bind together 12 Pacific Rim countries.
He simultaneously advocates multiparty democracy and centralized power.
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