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Its leadership will change next year – at a time when income inequality is on the march and the Party lacks any consensus on how to stop it.
But the WTO’s consensus norm has helped to ensure that such agreements do not undermine the global trading system’s multilateral core.
Though dropping the consensus norm might help deliver agreements and make the WTO more “efficient,” it poses real risks to the organization’s legitimacy.
Moving from consensus to voting, as some advocate, would disenfranchise the WTO’s smallest and poorest members.
The short-term efficiency gains from dropping consensus may well be outweighed by higher long-term costs.
It should come as no surprise that as the Davos consensus has ebbed, a wave of populist nativism – often suffused with racism, religious or ethnic intolerance, misogyny, and gender bias – has rushed in.
The emerging Palestinian consensus was torpedoed and recognition of Israel rendered irrelevant, and the radicals once again proved victorious.
In Israel’s prisons, a consensus has developed among leading Fatah and Hamas Palestinian inmates on accepting a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
Economists of different persuasions find it difficult to reach a consensus about the necessity of any policy.
The requirement of consensus before action can be taken is a recipe for dithering.
But there is widespread consensus that Africa will need a massive increase in educational capacity over the next few decades.
Rising living standards and a broad political consensus have provided the stability needed to allow the economy to grow strongly and diversify.
In just 14 months, he has been able to forge a consensus to enact urgently needed but controversial reforms, overhauling the education system, for example, and opening the energy sector to foreign investment.
The parties’ rivalry is healthy, though there is a built-in tendency to seek solutions that command a broad social consensus.
Today’s consensus among economists is that the recession is already over, that the US and global economy will rapidly return to growth, and that there is no risk of a relapse.
Unfortunately, this new consensus could be as wrong now as the defenders of the V-shaped scenario were for the past three years.
Some European countries apparently believe that they can maintain an EU consensus in support of Ahtisaari’s plan but allow Russian foot-dragging on the grounds that delay is not unreasonable and something better may turn up with additional negotiations.
One reason why some want a tighter group is that the G-20 struggles to achieve consensus.
Daunting as the effort would be, its advocates assumed a sustainable political consensus to support it.
Today, that consensus is unraveling as America’s politicians wrestle with a federal budget that is itself turning into a long war – one with its own casualties.
The budget war is not producing any consensus on fixing America’s infrastructure, but it is beginning to produce a view that Afghanistan and Pakistan are far from being core US national interests.
Instead, lack of opposition to Tudjman points to a broad consensus, in which a wink toward Western values disguises fundamental self-satisfaction with things as they are, or were.
In fact, an unwritten but sacrosanct convention ensures that the Speaker almost never uses the position’s authority to suspend or expel errant members, except when there is a consensus between the government and the opposition to do so – which of course rarely occurs.
Second, if it’s difficult to forge consensus within one country on how best to promote growth, imagine the same argument on a global scale.
To get the G-8 to agree on priorities is a complicated enough; building consensus within the G-20 is exponentially more difficult, not simply because of the larger number of players involved, but because many of them don’t agree on the most basic rules of the global economic game.
So when, as a presidential candidate, McCain said that, if elected, he would seek to work with Democrats and independents, and that he would search for consensus, it was easy to believe him.
Whatever else you say about the governor’s views, no one could call the choice of the “hockey mom” from Alaska a bold bid for consensus.
If Bernanke had then said, “This is what we are going to do,” rather than seeking consensus – that is, if Bernanke’s Fed had been like the old Fed – would better monetary-policy decisions have been made in 2008?
Within Europe’s monetary union, a consensus has been established that everything possible must be done to keep Greece inside.
The virtue of democracy is that debate may lead to just such a consensus.
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