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India, China, and a handful of other Asian countries are also witnessing remarkable growth in local
alternative
energy companies and the use of renewable energy.
The
alternative
is a vicious circle of violence and poverty, exacerbated by rapid population growth.
(The economic consequences of military-first politics, the
alternative
path taken by North Korea, have proved disastrous.)
Having failed to pass its first budget – owing to the abrupt decision by the far-right Swedish Democrats (SD) to support the Alliance
alternative
– the government could not simply continue as if nothing had happened.
And, because no other party was prepared to cooperate with the SD, the only viable
alternative
was a minority government.
But the challenge is to provide an
alternative
set of policy guidelines for promoting development, without falling into the trap of promulgating yet another impractical blueprint, supposedly right for all countries at all times.
As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell and others spelled out in the 1960’s, relinquishing nominal exchange rates emphasizes three
alternative
mechanisms to cushion regional adjustment: inter-regional fiscal transfers, intra-union migration, and, most importantly, labor markets capable of adapting to shocks.
But the immediate short-run
alternative
– letting Greece (and potentially others) fall by the wayside – would carry a substantial price.
Although they are permitted to come and go as they please, there are no
alternative
living spaces or food-distribution points.
The
alternative
is further financial repression and, with it, low investment, rising economic and social tensions, and the emergence of a generation of impoverished pensioners.
What is emerging is not an
alternative
paradigm, but rather an expanded, richer, and more flexible version of inflation targeting.
Instead, it should consider a simpler, and more viable,
alternative
that already exists.
Such an approach would need to define the UN vote not as an
alternative
to a negotiated solution, but as an important step towards a viable bilateral peace process.
As the American commentator Matthew Yglesias points out, Europe's major center-left parties at that time recognized that what was being done was not working, but nonetheless failed to offer an
alternative.
The countries currently holding out – within Europe primarily the UK -- must be made to understand that the
alternative
to a EU-wide solution is a radical increase in host country regulation.
As an alternative, we propose a set of common standards for “effect-based jurisdiction.”
There is no real
alternative.
It is not clear that other countries have the will or capacity to develop
alternative
engines of growth.
Tight constraints on the quantity of such monetization would be essential, but the
alternative
is not no monetization; it is undisciplined de facto monetization, accompanied by denials that any monetization is taking place.
Does Islamic finance really constitute a viable
alternative
financial system?
If the ethical values in Islamic finance – grounded in sharia religious law – can further deter moral hazard and the abuse of fiduciary duties by financial institutions, Islamic finance could prove to be a serious
alternative
to current models of derivative finance.
The test of any
alternative
financial system depends ultimately on whether it is – or can be – more efficient, ethical, stable, and adaptable than the prevailing system.
Of course, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acted in 2012 only when she could tell her domestic constituency that there was no
alternative.
Compounding the challenge confronting China is the fact that the economy’s major demand-side driver, real-estate investment, is declining more rapidly than the
alternative
source of demand, domestic consumption, is rising.
New processes and technologies in landscape planning, soil analysis, irrigation, and even
alternative
proteins such as plant-based meat are making agriculture and land use more sustainable.
But
alternative
metrics – for example, focusing on overall production volume, instead of the number of centrifuges – together with robust monitoring guarantees, could facilitate an agreement.
But the only
alternative
is an endlessly recurring cycle of deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Many countries are now planning to develop their own or
alternative
sources of rare-earth elements, and to accelerate efforts to develop technologies that are free of them.
In a world of political oppression and moral corruption, religious values offer an
alternative
moral universe.
This
alternative
is not necessarily more democratic, but it can be.
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