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The alternative to focussing on the essentials is to cede more national sovereignty to the Union level.
Some American leaders then tried to de-legitimize the UN and called for an alternative alliance of democracies.
While the US initially distanced itself from the more autocratic Arab leaders in a bid to support homegrown democratic alternatives, when the only realistic alternative turned out to be political Islam, America quickly returned to its traditional policy of supporting the status quo .
For the past decade, China’s strategy for internationalizing the renminbi has involved greater reliance on the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights as an alternative international reserve currency.
Zhou’s 2009 essay galvanized these efforts, as he pointed to the evident inadequacies of the dollar-centered system (such as the impact of chronic US deficits) and outlined the SDR’s advantages as an alternative means of international financial settlement.
One of the exhibits at the event featured a display of cartoons published during the dictatorship in Pasquim, an alternative magazine similar to the British satirical weekly magazine Private Eye.
In the last debates before the vote, Fillon presented himself as a credible alternative to Juppé and Sarkozy.
Juppé was seen as a sufficiently “soft” candidate, who would provide an alternative to Le Pen for left-wing voters.
For the exporting country, they represent an attractive alternative to tariffs.
Their coalition government enjoys a comfortable parliamentary majority; nor does the political arithmetic imply a viable parliamentary alternative.
In recent years, an alternative view of the EU that can be described as “supra-national multiculturalism” has taken root.
If the answer is no, adhering to a pragmatic approach to the Union as a kind of continuously expanding “Commonwealth” is the most honest alternative to any high-minded visions.
Republican Congressman David Camp, who is leading the legislative effort in the House of Representatives, has proposed an innovative alternative that rests on the “destination principle”: MNCs’ taxable earnings should be based largely on where their products are sold, rather than on where the companies are headquartered, where their production and financing occur, or where their profits are reported.
He may even offer an alternative vision to the bureaucratic bankers' Europe promoted by Helmut Kohl and the Franco-German centre-right.
Dissatisfaction with the myopia of GDP has led policymakers in recent years to explore alternative, more people-oriented aggregate indicators.
This history explains why GDP remains the dominant measure of any national economy, and it poses a challenge for those who believe that a viable alternative exists.
Any alternative indicator, and any measurement strategy other than a rise in production, would require politicians to address difficult questions about the public good – and thus risk alienating one constituency or another.
Will he be remembered as the French Harry Truman – a discreet, uncharismatic man who, when faced with urgent and dramatic circumstances, ended up doing the right things for lack of a better alternative?
A long-term alternative requires some capacity to write down debt where it has reached excessive levels.
France’s Socialist technocrats appear to have concluded from the failed Mitterrand experiment with Keynesianism in the early 1980s that domestic economic management was no longer possible, and that there was no real alternative to financial globalization.
The alternative to an accepted resolution of their problems by the three parties is the permanent fragmentation of the Holy Land, which can only lead to more confrontation and violent conflicts.
So, what might an alternative look like?
Europe, dependent as it is on Russian energy supplies, is not prepared for a new Cold War, and its alternative to Russian oil – Iran – is not palatable to the Americans.
Turkey, for its part, has long been an attractive alternative model for other Muslim-majority countries.
Using BCPs to determine alternative producers means that regional economies will be integrated in a new form, with companies establishing cooperative relationships even with their competitors.
But if voters think the alternative is no border controls, or a wave of dubious asylum claims, they will side with Trump in the end.
Indeed, if there was ever a moment for Congressional approval of the IMF reform package, this was it: the measure would have greatly increased the IMF’s ability to support Ukraine, a key American objective, at a much lower cost than the alternative of a US bilateral credit guarantee.
China has nearly two dozen currency-swap arrangements, which serve as an alternative to IMF liquidity support.
The other alternative is to focus exchange rate policy on the maintenance of competitiveness and let monetary and fiscal policy cope with inflation.
Demand for this alternative vision of aid has increased with the evident failure of the modernization-based development paradigm.
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