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His
capacity
to link the tactical task of assisting visiting US businessmen to the strategic goal of managing the coming post-Tito Yugoslavia was extraordinary.
The objective should be, first and foremost, to encourage governments with the
capacity
to reduce fossil-fuel-related threats to designated sites to take action.
As is true of other global problems, much depends on the
capacity
and willingness of the most powerful national governments to find ways to act collectively.
Second, the state’s limited administrative
capacity
must be improved.
This was a remarkable admission: through their transition policies, they had managed, in just a few years, to decrease the productive
capacity
of the world's number two superpower by more than 40%, a devastating outcome greater than that of any war!
For example, even if investors in telecoms become utterly confident in the US economy, they are not going to invest in more fiber optics, given today's huge excess
capacity.
This lack of adjustment
capacity
is crucial.
Given this, it would be wise to spend at least part of the windfall on improving the
capacity
to innovate, which is essential for a long-term growth beyond the fluctuation of international commodity prices.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons program threatens to upset that balance, by giving its regime the capacity, through the long-range ballistic missiles it is testing, to strike the West Coast of the US, thereby raising a new version of an old question: would the US risk Los Angeles to protect Seoul?
Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the
capacity
for “assured destruction” – that is, the ability to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.
Without such a capacity, a nuclear-armed country has a much greater incentive than the US and the Soviet Union did to launch a first strike if it suspects that it will be attacked.
Many governments are debating how to prevent or slow further advances in North Korea’s
capacity
and what should be done if such efforts fail.
It is hard to make sense of such assumptions, and harder still to accept that they could provide a good basis for computing Puerto Rico’s actual repayment
capacity.
The UK economy, while moving forward, is still operating well below
capacity.
It is thus unfathomable that they would dictate to Arab countries in any
capacity.
While debt might be a problem for Chinese companies with excess
capacity
and low productivity, companies in fast-growing, productive sectors and regions may not be in too much trouble.
The key will be to encourage the reduction of bad debts and increases in the stock of safe assets, while taxing excess
capacity
and encouraging innovation, thereby improving total factor productivity.
Down the path less traveled lies greater coordination on both strategic objectives and development of military capacity, particularly within Europe, where governments must better allocate resources among themselves in order to overcome the key deficiencies revealed by the Libya mission.
But he proved that such
capacity
exists, albeit in small numbers.
For any normal country, the build-up of extensive surplus
capacity
would lead to sharp declines in investment and GDP growth.
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), an international initiative launched eight years ago, is based on the principle that local communities themselves are the best trustees of the environment that surrounds them, and that their economic growth will advance their
capacity
to care for nature.
Unless we act to step up the fight against TB, many health-care systems may find themselves facing a less abstract problem: securing the economic resources and organizational
capacity
to ensure treatment for the growing number of patients who want and need it.
In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its
capacity
to project power – no easy feat for an entity that was formed precisely as a repudiation of power politics.
Europe already has considerable normative power – that is, the
capacity
to create global standards through the so-called Brussels effect – which can be seen in its efforts to rein in technology companies.
This both reflects and reinforces weakness in three areas: self-esteem, risk awareness, and the
capacity
for action.
This is where the
capacity
for action comes in.
The Rome Statute also stipulates that “official
capacity
as a Head of State or Government ... shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility under this Statute...”So, there is nothing stopping the Prosecutor of the ICC from launching an investigation against Duterte – and against police officials and vigilante leaders who have collaborated with him in conducting the killings.
But companies, too, have an enormous
capacity
to do harm, and investments in corporate social responsibility initiatives or community projects do little or nothing to mitigate that harm or offset ethical breaches.
By contrast, many developing economies have insufficient digital infrastructure, weak innovation and investment capacity, and thin skills base.
India, with a military staging post and airstrip just south of the Karakoram Pass, has the
capacity
to cut off the highway linking China with its “all-weather ally,” Pakistan.
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