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But it wasn’t increasing homicide rates that made officials pay attention; it was the realization that the violence hurt the region’s image abroad and made it difficult to attract foreign investment.
Such policies yield substantial political benefits: they help to win elections and attract the admiration and favor of the Bush administration.
More broadly, Putin’s defiance of US hegemony could attract support from countries and peoples worldwide that resent American-imposed values and norms.
While higher US interest rates will attract some investors, others will move away from the dollar if the combination of a more competitive euro, the ECB's enormous monetary stimulus, and an easing of fiscal pressures in France, Italy, and Spain generates a genuine economic recovery in Europe.
That will attract support among many UN members, including those that have major dissatisfied ethnic minorities.
Indeed, given the constraints on the capacity of most African countries to attract private financing, it is critical that the international community increase official development assistance (ODA) if the SDGs are to be achieved.
Rising “soft” dictators – what the journalist Bobby Ghosh calls authoritarian democrats – have used these feelings of unease and alienation to attract votes.
While Romer’s formula is complex, his charter cities will be subject to the ultimate form of accountability: they will succeed only if they can attract investors and citizens who want to live and work there.
But, skeptics ask, will they attract a favorable selection of people?
According to Romer: “A new city can attract the working poor and still succeed as a large-scale real-estate development project.
We describe these events as gatherings of politicians that attract journalists eager to "cover" the events.
But it would be more accurate to see them as gatherings of journalists that attract politicians eager to be voluminously covered - that is, to get days of free political advertising.
The question is how we attract the attention of the European Union and the G8 countries to the malnutrition that experts call “hidden hunger,” which affects one in every three people worldwide.
In recent years, Mexico has been able to attract more than $10 billion per year of foreign direct investment into Mexico, mainly from US multinational firms.
Merkel could attempt this strategy because she knew that her right flank was covered by the FDP, which would attract voters dissatisfied with the CDU’s leftward turn, but then join in a CDU-led coalition.
They should tap into their diasporas, attract foreign direct investment in new areas, and acquire foreign firms if possible.
The Indian states have substantial policy discretion and often compete to attract businesses and achieve rapid economic growth.
Government investment in infrastructure, both alone and in partnership with private firms, will also directly benefit growth and attract larger inflows of foreign investment.
To be sure, the ability to attract and absorb external financing has been an important reason for China’s accelerated industrialization, marketization, and integration into the global economy.
The eurozone is neither appealing enough to attract additional members nor flexible enough to grant troubled incumbents a temporary holiday, in the manner of the currency snake.
But the UN has found it difficult to attract sufficient volunteers for such a force, since foreign governments have acceded to Sudanese demands that the hybrid force remain predominantly African.
The challenge for governments is to improve those less mobile factors of innovation – cost, caliber, and convenience – in order to attract, retain, and encourage free-flowing capital and the most creative citizens.
The European Central Bank would never have allowed Cypriot banks to attract huge deposits by paying above-market interest rates, and then to put all of their eggs in one basket (Greece).
The plan operates through a new finance facility, which will attract $2 billion in guarantees from donor countries and secure an additional $8 billion in loans from the multilateral development banks.
To be sure, no one expects that we can ever attract people like Mohammed Attta or Osama bin Laden.
One senior Asian statesman, an acute long-time observer of both the US and China, concludes that China will not surpass the US as the leading power of the twenty-first century because of America’s ability to attract the best and brightest from the rest of the world and meld them into a diverse culture of creativity.
Each time I publish a scientific essay, I attract the attention of a dozen self-proclaimed messiahs eager to impart their divinely inspired ideas, which invariably lack higher mathematics (or, in the case of the black-hole sentinels, rely on elevated but meaningless mathematics).
Not only might Manafort attract future clients, but he could also help himself with his former wealthy Russian backers – most of them closely connected with the Kremlin – through the campaign itself.
Meanwhile, given that carbon-intensive industries remain profitable, they still attract significant investment.
And, because it forms the basis for responsible policies, it would attract support from centrists.
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