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The recent panic over the renminbi’s depreciation highlights another compelling reason for collective action.
Finally, collective action is needed to make unconventional monetary policy more effective.
By enabling countries to eliminate excess capacity, reduce leverage, and balance tax policies – all while reducing geopolitical uncertainty – collective action to escape deflation and boost growth would mitigate financial institutions’ risk aversion, thereby improving the transmission mechanisms of unconventional monetary policies.
The new members have not agreed to a collective Kyoto goal, but as a group they are projected to reduce emissions relative to 1990 by around 20% by 2010.
The motion implicitly adopted the yardstick of collective punishment and a distinctly McCarthyite tone, demanding a sort of “disloyalty oath” from Israeli academics.
This will require a more acute collective awareness of the violence and chaos threatening territories and people worldwide, including in Somalia, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and, most recently, Mali.
Regulatory technocracies do the opposite: by diluting accountability and privileging collective decisions, they stymie the individual talent that populate them.
For some time, the rich countries have argued that it is in everyone’s collective interest to demonetize gold.
Our collective belief that markets are efficient helped make them wildly inefficient.
The short answer is a “new normal,” with slower growth, a de-risked and more stable core financial system, and a set of additional challenges (energy, climate, and demographic imbalances, to name a few) with varying time horizons that will test our collective capacity to improve management and oversight of the global economy.
Pragmatic, steady progress at the national and international levels in improving the regulatory architecture and increasing our collective ability to avoid non-cooperative behavior and suboptimal equilibria, is the best course to follow.
As women gain collective rights, and especially as men accept women’s changed roles, many of the disruptive effects of family change are ameliorated.
How we adapt to and guide their trajectories will determine our collective future.
It was not so long ago that the majority of citizens in the Western world had their own unquestioned symbols of collective faith and identity.
While demonstrations of collective identity have not entirely disappeared, they are largely confined to football stadiums, where celebration (and disappointment) can quickly boil over in violence and resentment.
Neo-conservatives, for their part, see the European malaise as a form of typical Old World decadence, a collective state of nihilism bred by welfare states and soft dependence on hard American power.
Though this notion of a collective religious obligation is largely consistent with traditional Islamic law, most Muslims consider such injunctions irrelevant in the modern age.
And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America’s collective imagination.
Gays and the New Public PhilosophyLONDON – With humanity’s millennia-old focus on collective survival no longer a primary concern, a few fortunate societies in the West have become preoccupied with matters of human, or individual, rights.
But since the 1960’s, the passions expended until then on righting collective wrongs have been increasingly channeled into securing the rights of humans as individuals.
Those plans, in turn, require funding, manpower, collective will, and enforcement capability.
We believe that the best investment in our collective future is to scale up the green, low-carbon economy.
Numerous flaws and points of erosion in existing collective security structures have been revealed over the past year.
So, from Deng’s retirement in 1992 until Xi’s selection for the top job two years ago, China’s leadership was collective and consensual.
Begin was the best proof that Israel’s critics needed that the Zionist revolution, although it created a state out of the ashes of the Holocaust, had failed to eradicate the collective self-image of the Jew and the Israeli as victim.
The pendulum of history is swinging back toward the United Nations and collective action.
On this view, risk aversion both reflects and reinforces a divergence between individual incentives (the desire to be reelected, reappointed, or promoted) and collective needs (fixing problems).
Together, these plans (known as “intended nationally determined contributions,” or “INDCs”) will represent a collective global effort to invest in a prosperous, low-carbon future.
In the collective imagination, this idea was expressed in the phrase, “The country that we all deserve.”
If the EU suddenly were to make collective decisions by simple majority, the problems confronting it would no longer seem intractable.
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