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The alternative policy would be to let the exchange rate fall.
Otherwise, they could seek alternative relationships with the US’s adversaries or other unsavory players.
Perhaps every country should vote in the UN General Assembly on how to proceed; the option receiving the most votes – with a possible mandatory minimum requirement, such as requiring an alternative to win a majority or some higher number of votes – would prevail.
Neither alternative is particularly charming, which would explain why he preferred to obscure his country’s position.
Hong Kong's people may well conclude that they have no alternative but to use every occasion to protest chief executive Tung Chee-hwa's unpopular government, making it even harder for him to govern.
Clearly, we have to reduce emissions fast, while developing alternative energy sources that allow us to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
But alternative modes of money will offer both governments and non-state actors new ways to assert power or bypass existing power structures.
Fortunately, there are alternative paths forward.
I suggest an alternative strategy, one already embedded in America history, though largely unrecognized.
As CDU and CSU members debate the matter in the coming days, they will find no credible or equally popular alternative to her.
The alternative is to change strategy and focus instead on investors’ incentives.
These initiatives have been presented as complements to the prevailing Bretton Woods system, but it is easy to see how they could also form the foundation for an alternative global-governance framework at some point in the future.
The alternative is the loss of the two-state solution and the perpetuation of a terrible – and terribly perilous – conflict.
It expects bolder moves from the EU, such as explicit endorsement of the Georgian-Ossetian working group, which includes the alternative, pro-autonomy South Ossetian government of Dmitri Sanakoyev, but is boycotted by the pro-Russian separatist government in Tskhinvali.
The government’s opponents can mobilize public protests, as they did in November, but they are much less capable of formulating alternative policy agendas and attracting support for them.
Add to that the declining costs of alternative energy sources and relentless technological advancement, and the world’s carbon-reduction goals do not seem so distant – or costly.
And, indeed, there are serious doubts as to whether there is a viable alternative to today’s frail and sometimes violent status quo.
The choice is clear: Merkel should stand and fight, while also advancing an alternative vision for modernizing the EU.
The only other alternative is direct reduction.
Yet none of us has offered a plausible or coherent alternative.
Fiscal policy is the obvious alternative, but Congress has cut taxes at the worst possible time, leaving no room for stimulus when it is needed.
But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.
There is a growing body of alternative ideas in this area –including work by the Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman – which the IMF and the World Bank should consider.
And, indeed, even Turner has offered an alternative proposal that fits with this scenario.
The prospect of such a drastic reduction in its export revenues would be sobering for the Kremlin, especially given the difficulty of finding alternative markets.
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.
His speech smacked of the fevered, paranoid world of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Demons, conjuring as it did a delusional alternative universe – a place that does not exist and has never existed.
Even if one admits that deception may sometimes be necessary, one can still ask about the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, whether the deception is likely to spread through precedent or example, the damage done to various victims, and the deceivers’ accountability (whether their behavior can be discovered and explained later).
But, in order to save the planet we know, and to preserve the world’s food supply and the well-being of future generations, there is no alternative to shifting to a new, low-carbon energy system.
Robert Mwanga was awarded this year’s World Food Prize for inspiring work that resulted in the large-scale replacement of white sweet potato (with scant Vitamin A content) by a vitamin A-rich alternative in the diets of Uganda’s rural poor.
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