Alternative
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So much, then, for the CRA as an
alternative
to the IMF.
An
alternative
approach is to use a GDP-weighted benchmark.
A fourth alternative, favored by China and other key players, is an evolutionary process that combines economic reform with increased interaction with the external world, focusing initially on South Korea.
Of course, China stands to gain much from the renminbi’s emergence as an
alternative
international reserve currency, sharing in the “exorbitant privilege” that the US currently enjoys by virtue of the dollar’s global status.
Perhaps, as a third alternative, European welfare states should check their priorities.
No doubt these will be difficult discussions, but the
alternative
is far worse than a few bruised egos.
To find a sustainable alternative, one need only look to nature, where nothing is wasted.
At the same time, it offers an
alternative
store of value, and its use as a medium of exchange is steadily growing.
An
alternative
minimum tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.
But the
alternative
is not just the hardening of divisions and estrangement of communities; it is widespread dehumanization, a tendency that current technologies seem to encourage.
In repealing Obamacare, for example, Republicans are likely to be stymied by the absence of an
alternative
that does not take away the health insurance of 20 million Americans or raise health-care costs.
Asian governments are in a position to take the lead in developing
alternative
energy sources.
In view of the dramatic global changes and the direct military threat to Europe posed by Putin's Russia, these alternatives are no
alternative
at all, and the Greek “problem" looks insignificant.
The
alternative
is to stand by idly and watch Europe's nationalists become stronger, while the European integration project, despite six decades of success, staggers ever closer to the abyss.
The new Modi government should therefore consider
alternative
ways to solve India’s food crisis.
The
alternative
is to continue relying on what Deng Xiaoping, the father of China’s institutional breakthrough more than three decades ago, called “feeling the stones.”
Now that Xi’s eponymous political ideology, which proposes an
alternative
to liberal democracy, is part of the school of thought around which the CPC coalesces, challenging Xi is tantamount to challenging the Party’s very belief system.
While Sarkozy’s popularity remains low, a majority of the French want him to succeed, for he has four more years to go, and there is no
alternative
around the corner.
Green and Galiana examine the state of non-carbon-based energy today – nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc. – and find that, taken together,
alternative
energy sources would get us less than halfway toward a path of stable carbon emissions by 2050, and only a tiny fraction of the way toward stabilization by 2100.
If Germany’s half-hearted efforts to stabilize Europe somehow turn out to be successful, America’s position will be further eroded, and central banks around the world will begin to regard the euro once again as a reliable
alternative
to the dollar as a reserve currency.
The alternative, as China has suggested, would be to develop a new reserve currency.
The
alternative
to this price-oriented approach – continued dependence on the quota system – would incur considerable administrative expenses, efficiency losses, and social costs stemming from rent-seeking and corruption.
Looking around the world, populist economic policy appears to be in retreat, even though no clear
alternative
is visible.
The
alternative
would be a showdown that brings the debate to the European public.
The
alternative
is to create financial hype by aggressive privatization, overshadowing problems with foreign enthusiasm.
Although North Korea has doggedly stood behind its outmoded model of state control and central planning, Kim’s visits to the boom cities of Dalian and Tianjin reflect his tentative but ongoing interest in
alternative
ways to achieve “strength and prosperity” for his country.
This argues not simply for keeping nationalism in check, but for allowing greater political and religious freedom so that there are
alternative
sources of legitimacy and allegiance in Chinese society beyond that of economic advancement.
Not only have oil prices themselves failed to spur a reduction in consumption; they have undermined incentives to develop
alternative
energy sources.
The additional supply, however, ultimately causes prices to fall, reducing the incentive to invest in
alternative
energy sources or energy efficiency.
He may be right, but the
alternative
is no military makeover, and no likelihood of winning a war that perhaps should not have been declared in the first place.
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