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The “troika” institutions (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) have, over the years, relied on a process of
backward
induction: They set a date (say, the year 2020) and a target for the ratio of nominal debt to national income (say, 120%) that must be achieved before money markets are deemed ready to lend to Greece at reasonable rates.
Then, under arbitrary assumptions regarding growth rates, inflation, privatization receipts, and so forth, they compute what primary surpluses are necessary in every year, working
backward
to the present.
Our government’s position is that
backward
induction should be ditched.
Many Europeans regard the use of capital punishment in the US as
backward
and repugnant.
Their choice of name is an ironic one, for Taliban, an Arabic word, means those seeking to be educated, whereas the Taliban’s principal aim is to keep Muslim societies
backward
so that they can be persuaded to adopt a seventh-century version of Islam.
The inability of
backward
domestic financial systems to allocate investment efficiently is a big factor pushing funds out of poor countries and into the US.
Yet this framing gets things
backward.
China, once dismissed as poor and backward, is now the world’s second-largest economy.
No surprise, then, that a backward, developing country in the early stages of “catching up” through learning from the developed world, sees copying the intellectual advances of others as something like a human right.
Without easy access to data or analyses of social trends, some ideas about the workings of nature and society were completely
backward.
As for China’s
backward
educational system, the large number of university graduates is offset by their overall sub-standard quality.
In relatively
backward
economies, where “everything remains to be done,” it is easy, early on, to spot profitable investment opportunities.
The outcome was a major step
backward.
The West was not prepared for global forces to push
backward
and to seek a future in the past.
To be sure, the vision of a United States of Europe, espoused by many of those early federalists, looked
backward
to the founding of the US, rather than forward to a distinctive European venture.
Instead, it must contend with the increasingly powerful forces undermining the integration that has been achieved, attempting to push Europe
backward.
Instead, it is marching
backward
toward the nineteenth century, under the banner of nationalism and reorientalization.
Fortunately, however, the long-term trend seems to be toward inclusion, even if the UK takes a couple of steps
backward
today.
But in today’s factory farms, pregnant sows are kept in crates so narrow that they cannot turn around, or even walk more than a step forward or
backward.
If the economic issues are not addressed, support for such leaders will continue to grow, potentially taking their societies backward, to a less tolerant – and less prosperous – time.
How does one reconcile an isolated retrograde incident such as the disappearance of an elderly Chinese couple with the hopeful progress of the "Chinese economic miracle" that has so transformed this once seemingly desperate,
backward
land?
By contrast,
backward
Asian economies -- Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, and, above all, China -- are confident that they can advance economically by repressing democracy and stressing Asian authoritarianism.
The SCI would enable researchers to follow chains of knowledge
backward
and forward along the citation links embedded in scientific literature.
Given all of this, eliminating regulator-led restructuring would amount to a big step
backward.
In Egypt, too, conservative forces are on the rise, demanding policies – particularly reforms of family legislation – that would represent a step
backward
for women.
Every politician, whether liberal or conservative, wants to move forward, not
backward.
The auto provisions in the USMCA are a step
backward
from NAFTA.
Until 1861, Russia was a
backward
country in which serfdom reigned and royals and aristocrats envied the latest French fashions.
In Russia these voices are seconded by
backward
and leftist elements who cry that Russia should abandon Western democracy and capitalism and take the "Chinese Road", meaning an authoritarian way to economic growth.
Following a legacy initiated by Peter the Great, Russian westernizers promote Russia as a European power, albeit backward, but on the road to normalcy.
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