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Breaking Down India’s Internal BarriersNEW DELHI – Of the many economic reforms crying out for immediate implementation in India, the most obvious is the long-pending Goods and Services Tax.
Now, however, these distinctions are breaking down.
We would think differently if Gates and Buffett had enriched themselves not through perspiration and inspiration, but by cheating, breaking labor laws, ravaging the environment, or taking advantage of government subsidies abroad.
But breaking up earlier could allow the survival of the single market and of the EU.
Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement – sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.
And there has been zero progress on breaking the negotiating stalemate on a new treaty to ban production of fissile material for nuclear weapons; negligible progress on a conference to create a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East (a key outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference); and actual acceleration of nuclear-weapons programs in India, Pakistan, and China.
Breaking the WHO’s Glass CeilingTORONTO/NEW YORK – This year, the World Health Organization will elect a new Director-General.
But the Republicans’ opposition to anything that raises revenue means that this key to breaking the budget stalemate won’t be implemented.
Yet the current international standard for breaking up a country is arguably less demanding than a vote for lowering the drinking age.
Breaking Europe’s Climate-Change StalemateLONDON – Europe has a strong tradition as a leader in the fight against climate change.
With his party holding far less than a majority in the National Assembly, Moon may have a hard time breaking the mold.
Breaking the taboo of never mentioning corruption, in 1996 the Bank’s then president, James Wolfensohn, identified the “cancer of corruption” as a major burden for the poor in developing countries.
Breaking the Asia-Pacific region’s glass ceiling will require dismantling several barriers, including cultural expectations that women should prioritize childcare over their careers, a lack of suitable or affordable childcare, unconscious bias in the workplace, and a scarcity of role models and sponsors.
The sale or transfer of state-owned assets would cover liabilities, breaking the state sector out of its debt-ridden status quo.
Prohibiting the Chinese authorities from buying US debt would, of course, be tantamount to imposing capital controls, thereby breaking China’s monopoly on such instruments.
Breaking these taboos need not mean returning to the high tax rates, inflation, and dependency culture of the 1970s.
Breaking the cultural code damages a person’s reputation, and perhaps one’s career.
Protracted wars, environmental disasters, and state failure have stretched the international humanitarian-aid system passed its breaking point.
Back then, the Kremlin was frightened by the possibility of a so-called “color revolution” breaking out in Russia.
Or a British exit from the EU may trigger European dis-integration, with the additional risks posed by the fact that some countries (the UK, Spain, and Belgium) are at risk of breaking up themselves.
Japan’s economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the verge of breaking free from chronic deflation.
So it is not twilight, but a new dawn, that is breaking over Japan.
Multiplying initiatives, being everywhere at once, accelerating the pace of reforms at the risk of confusing quality and quantity, breaking taboos, and blurring the lines between secularism and religion, Sarkozy has reinforced lingering doubts about a brilliant politician’s ability to become a statesman or at least an effective ruler.
Breaking down political resistance may be as simple as packaging proposals together.
The challenge for large organizations is to harness their employees’ knowledge by breaking down barriers and bringing people together to share insights and information.
The ECB’s argument that the OMT program’s primary purpose is to prevent a eurozone breakup is unconvincing to the German court, for only a nearly insolvent sovereign would risk breaking up the union.
The modernizers around MBS know that the revolution’s success will require breaking the power of Wahhabism by replacing it with Saudi nationalism.
Real change means breaking the addiction to a paternalistic and interventionist state and supporting needed policy adjustments, even when they are unpleasant.
The “What If?” of 1989NEW YORK – For weeks, the scene has been re-played on TV screens around the world, as if the events were breaking news: joyous Berliners dancing atop the infamous Wall, toppled 20 years ago on November 9, 1989.
With Pakistan's economy in a tailspin, and with the jihad culture of so many young Pakistanis undermining the country's international credibility, moderate voices are at long last breaking through.
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