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The bargain then was that the US could pick the president of the World Bank while the Europeans would get the top slot at the IMF (US policymakers in their wisdom believing that the Bank would become the more important institution).
Ecuador needed to go all the way to a “credit event” in December 2008 to be able to purchase the bonds at bargain prices.
Would the EFSF be retiring Greek debt at bargain prices or would it be providing insurance to current bondholders?
Politicians and policymakers should be reminded that a polio-free world would be a global public good, that eradication is by far the best bargain, and that sustained financing and political support is necessary to ensure the GPEI’s success.
In Egypt, subsidies were still above 10% of GDP in mid-2016, suggesting a return to the old authoritarian bargain whereby citizens abstain from political participation in exchange for government economic support.
And, when US forces overran Saddam Hussein’s army in the spring of 2003, the encircled Iranians proposed a grand bargain that would put all contentious issues on the table, from the nuclear issue to Israel, from Hezbollah to Hamas.
Iran’s mood changed by the time America’s entire Middle East strategy had gone adrift, but the grand bargain remains the only viable way out of the impasse.
We believe in a religion that doesn’t bargain with right, or hesitate in creed.
Holding onto territory as a bargaining chip makes less sense if there is no one with whom to bargain.
As with many privatizations elsewhere, there are questions as to whether the foreign investors have kept their side of the bargain.
The sooner Germany fulfills its side of the bargain, the better it will be for everyone.
Moreover, the grand bargain between the eurozone core, the ECB, and the periphery – painful austerity and reforms in exchange for large-scale financial support – is now breaking down, as austerity fatigue in the eurozone periphery runs up against bailout fatigue in core countries like Germany and the Netherlands.
Selling reform to each EU country will be easier if it is part of a grand bargain in which pain and gain are seen to be fairly balanced.
While America will not bargain with Syria over the election, it would probably accept a candidate with whom Syria feels comfortable, provided he is acceptable across the political spectrum.
Despite its apparent success, however, the bargain dealt a serious blow to the legitimacy of the peace process.
While we are phenomenally successful at keeping young people from dying of cancer today, that success comes as a Faustian bargain.
In fact, they have a right and a moral obligation to continue to check on whether China is keeping its side of the bargain – as, to be fair, it has mostly done so far.
But given the slow pace of progress so far, small pragmatic steps by individual countries may be far more productive than attempts to strike a grand bargain that remains forever out of reach.
Regional governments cut deals with Moscow, and regional governors must bargain with local governments.
He needs to strike a new bargain with Belarusians, and he knows it: economic modernization with political “stability.”
Evidence gathered by the OECD shows a strong positive correlation across countries between the degree of competition in the product market and the extent to which labor market regulations increase the powers of workers when they bargain with firms.
In a competitive industry, where there are no excess rents, there is little to bargain about.
But the Haqqanis, it appears, did not keep to any such bargain, and allowed their Uzbek guests in North Waziristan to launch the Karachi airport attack.
With damage so widespread, a broad-based political bargain to correct the flaw is now feasible.
The problem could be solved once and for all if the ECB were willing to risk the following bargain with governments: if you liberalize product markets and make labor markets flexible, we will reduce interest rates and permit higher spending to fulfill the promise of near-full employment.
In fact, Morsi is under fire from both the left and the right for upholding former President Hosni Mubarak’s obliging approach to Israel, as well as for reasserting Mubarak’s authoritarian bargain – diplomatic and financial support in exchange for “stability” – with the United States.
The world must have guarantees that civilian nuclear reactors will not be used for military purposes – a condition for non-nuclear-weapon states’ unrestricted access to nuclear technologies, as proposed recently by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his initiative on a global nuclear bargain for our times.
Syria’s side of the bargain will invariably need to be an end to its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, for which it will likely seek the return of the Golan Heights.
Israel would presumably resist this outcome, and Iran – as leader of the so-called “Shia crescent” spreading from Lebanon to Tajikistan – would strongly, and perhaps violently, oppose such a bargain as well.
But if the restructuring of Europe is to become possible, member governments will, for the first time, have to start talking seriously about an explicit re-adjustment of the political bargain in the European Union, in ways in which voters and citizens will believe that they are being compensated in political coin, for the erosion of the influence of the traditional political structures of the nation states.
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