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An alternative narrative asserts that technological advances, more than globalization, have exacerbated economic inequalities, setting the stage for political disruptions in developed countries.
The alternative – the liability model – requires that each state take responsibility for its own debts, with its creditors bearing the costs of a default.
Over all this time, however, the new political players and the old parties of the left failed to articulate any coherent alternative social/economic agenda to compete with the prevailing liberal one.
Movements and parties of the left have simply failed to offer an alternative and more just model to this.
It would also offer a credible alternative to remaining in the eurozone under current terms, thereby strengthening Greece's hand in bargaining for a deal that ensures that Grexit does not in fact occur.
During the Cold War, social democracy was Western Europe’s egalitarian alternative to communism.
But the bottom line is that they have no alternative policy that can be effective.
The alternative is to capitalize on the unique opportunity that this year's devaluation of the peso offers by making the competitiveness gains last long enough to shift resources into the export sector.
The alternative is to look forward and asks what type of country Argentines want to leave to future generations.
But the alternative could be worse: a populist backlash that destroys much of what Mexico has achieved over the last two decades.
Oregon physicians may write a prescription for a lethal substance on the explicit request of a terminally ill patient, provided they can confirm the fatal prognosis, the patient’s decision-making capacity, and have informed the patient about any feasible alternative such as hospice care or pain-control options.
But a richer alternative was available, one that would guarantee a broad right of private individuals (and their associations and organizations) to be protected from unnecessary interference by public powers.
Two neighbors in Europe, Germany and France, are showing the way forward – or, more precisely, the alternative ways forward – to a low-carbon future.
Many will no doubt argue about which alternative – France’s bet on nuclear power or Germany’s solar pathway – is wiser.
One of the highest priorities of the new Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which I direct on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will be to elaborate alternative pathways to a low-carbon economy, taking into account the specific conditions of countries around the world.
The regime’s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy: an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.
The Olympic Games are being designed to promote this alternative model.
Indeed, in the United States and France, there are even alternative female candidates for the presidency (Condoleezza Rice in America, Michelle Alliot-Marie in France).
So developing CCS or an alternative that allows coal to become clean energy is essential for meeting the 2050 goal.
The problem is not just in emerging markets such as Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil, where an ascendant left has failed to find a viable alternative to the much reviled “Washington Consensus” of economic liberalization.
The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.
In both cases, the patient knowingly chooses a course of action that will lead to her or his death, rather than an alternative course of action that would have led to a longer but burdensome life.
Lukashenko’s only alternative to losing sovereignty to Russia, and thus risking the wrath of his nationalist base, is to go begging to the IMF.
Yet we have not gotten any closer to finding a feasible alternative to GDP.
Still, while no international consensus on an alternative to GDP has emerged, there has been encouraging progress toward a more considered way of thinking about economic activity.
Money market funds are an alternative to banks for storing one’s money, offering somewhat higher interest rates, but without the insurance that protects bank deposits in many countries.
But those who believe in liberal democracy, the rule of law, and European integration still have time to mobilize around an alternative candidate – who would most likely prevail in the second-round run-off with Le Pen and, one hopes, bring about much-needed reforms and uphold France’s proactive role in Europe.
Fortunately, liberal democracy still offers a progressive alternative, and a victory by Merkel or Schulz in Germany, following the defeat of Le Pen in France, could herald the emergence of a global counter-offensive.
Now that some populists have come to power, liberals have a responsibility to hold them to account and offer an alternative vision.
This is an important advance, but, unfortunately, it is qualified by language that allows voluntary approaches as an alternative, and it focuses only on payments transparency.
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