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If the national consensus around reforms is sustained and enlarged, two great goals could be met.
At this point, an end to current hostilities in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen requires national, regional, and international consensus.
With expectations of less political brinkmanship and lower policy uncertainty ahead, consensus projections foresaw faster, more inclusive economic growth.
The proof is just beneath the surface, where a remarkable bipartisan consensus is emerging around an approach to America’s most serious social problems – including homelessness, criminal recidivism, preschool education, and chronic illness – that combines the best principles of conservatism and progressivism.
Not only does that explain the inability of the British intellegentsia to reach consensus about the issue; it also leaves the Brexit question at the mercy of last-minute developments.
Economic reform was often simplistically understood as only (or at least above all) encompassing macroeconomic stabilisation as promoted by the so-called 'Washington consensus,' now being condemned by demonstrators in the streets of Washington.
At a recent conference in Moscow, however, IMF Deputy Managing Director Stanley Fisher continued to stress the importance of the 'Washington consensus' - ie, macroeconomic stabilisation based on liberalizing prices and trade, currency convertibility, tight budgetary and monetary policy and rapid privatisation B for the success of reform.
That consensus remains important, but it is insufficient for success.
It all began with the death of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods in 1944, which had forged a post-war political consensus based on a “mixed” economy, limits on inequality, and strong financial regulation.
Indeed, the most troubling thing about Europe today is not the United Kingdom’s departure, but the fragility and disunity of the remaining 27 states, where the domestic consensus for Europe has all but evaporated.
Indeed, following a fact-finding mission in 2007, a consensus is emerging within the EU that an African Union country should be the first to recognize Somaliland’s independence.
But parliaments demand a minimal national consensus if they are to function, for they are creatures of compromise in decision-making.
The very election by national suffrage of an executive provides the type of minimal consensus that India's faction-riven parliaments have, sadly, never been able to cultivate.
Yet European countries continue to struggle to reach consensus on foreign-policy measures – a failure that is undermining their international influence.
While early proposals for a settlement called for Jerusalem to be made independent, as per the UN Partition Plan, more recently a consensus on the broad outlines of a peace agreement has emerged.
But while there is a broad consensus on the need to pay more attention – and deliver more resources – to fighting NCDs, the consensus breaks down when it comes to how to carry out the fight.
But, in the absence of international consensus on some key points, reform will be greatly weakened, if not aborted.
The new and old political forces should initiate a dialogue to create a consensus on the rules of political engagement.
Toward a Viable Climate TargetBERLIN – Last December in Paris, 195 governments reached a consensus on how to curb climate change over the coming decades.
Today, however, there is a growing consensus that the efficacy of monetary stimulus has reached its limits.
Yet there is consensus on one deep truth: nothing much will change.
And the Dutch, neither right nor wrong, temper ideology with practicality to forge compromises that have consensus support.
The crack in the global consensus around the prohibitionist approach is widening.
These doubts stand in sharp contrast to the consensus that prevailed for many years after the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989-1991.
The reason why French parliamentarians, ranging from Communists to conservatives, support this ban is a general consensus that wearing the burqa is “contrary to the values of the Republic.”
It created an ideological consensus that would dominate the public sphere from 1980 to 2010.
During the post-war period, the fair-weather argument that market-driven prosperity justifies any collateral social pain was taken as a given; it also came to define the consensus view among the moneyed class and its ideological backers.
For now, the policy consensus seems to be to maintain sanctions, help bolster Ukraine’s economy, and continue to strengthen NATO (an outcome that Putin undoubtedly did not intend).
The crisis of the traditional centrist parties, which have been essential to building and maintaining consensus in the European Union – even as they have struggled to implement needed reforms – is also far from resolved.
As a result, Europeans had shifted their attention to other issues, such as refugees and security, that were threatening political stability and eroding consensus for the European project.
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