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Fifteen years ago, the consensus was that America's Social Security System was in huge trouble, that it needed the equivalent of an engine rebuild.
The problem is that there is no consensus in the Middle East, either among governments or civil society, about how to respond to the crisis.
The scientific community rigorously seeks consensus about knowledge produced so far, but it knows that there is still much more to be discovered.
But there is one fundamental issue where contrasts dissolve into consensus: the desire to keep children safe.
But NATO leaders will also lift their eyes from the immediate challenges of the day, and discuss a fundamental strategic question as well: how to use NATO to its fullest potential as a platform for holding political discussions and building transatlantic consensus across the wide range of the issues where Europe and North America share common interests and wish to defend common values.
The emotional debates over “shock therapy” vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a threat.
The White House did all it could for eight years to hide the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are contributing to climate change.
Global scientific processes like the IPCC are critical, because they offer our best hope of forging a consensus based on the scientific evidence.
The US must return to the global consensus based on shared science rather than anti-intellectualism.
Normal limits on access to IMF resources are being doubled – a development consistent with the growing consensus that the Fund’s lending capacity needs to be at least doubled given the severity of this crisis.
Today’s populists, however, demand simple – indeed, simplistic – answers outside the scope of mainstream consensus.
There can be no middle way; on the contrary, searching for consensus or accommodation is tantamount to treachery.
Looking ahead, the hope is that Iraq’s general election in May will deliver a government that is committed to ruling through consensus, maintaining stability, and defending the country’s institutions.
It is far easier to build consensus around efforts, say, to add the renminbi to the basket of currencies that determines the value of the IMF’s reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right – a move that, while appropriate, would do little for medium-term growth.
That consensus will remain credible as long as political reform continues and economic growth accelerates.
This reflects an overwhelming consensus among scientists from around the world.
Polls of climate researchers, as well as analysis of thousands of scientific publications, consistently show a 97-98% consensus that human-caused emissions are causing global warming.
Indeed, these efforts have been so successful that few members of the public are aware of the scientific consensus on the fundamentals of climate change.
Given such sentiments, it will prove almost impossible at the review conference to build a consensus in favor of further necessary strengthening of the non-proliferation regime, with improved safeguards, export controls, security disciplines, and sanctions against withdrawal from the treaty.
The effort should bring together industry, academia, the press, NGOs, and government to alleviate suspicion, facilitate dialogue, build trust, arrive at consensus and agree on good practice guidelines.
Over the past 20 years, the usual culprits seem to be low labor productivity, bad macroeconomic management, and divided governments that make legislative consensus almost impossible.
While the data were hardly devastating relative to a consensus forecast of 8.2%, many (including me) expected a second consecutive quarterly rebound from the slowdown that appeared to have ended in the third quarter of 2012.
There have been two models for such a consensus.
This exercise looks like a dramatic repeat of the interwar story, when it was impossible to obtain consensus about policy and about mutually consistent policy frameworks.
Thanks to falling unemployment, rising home values, and record stock prices, an emerging consensus of forecasters, market participants, and policymakers has now concluded that the American consumer is finally back.
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen told me back in the 1990s that, in her view, conducting the Fed’s internal debate within the framework of interest-rate rules had greatly increased the ease of getting from agreement about the structure and state of the economy to a rough consensus on appropriate policy.
An international consensus has emerged regarding the importance of secure land tenure for development outcomes.
Though all of these elements are essential to an effective strategy, a political consensus will not be easy to achieve.
The harsh economic and security measures that Venezuela needs to emerge from its current debacle cannot be implemented without some form of consensus, which requires an end to repression and polarization.
But to be accepted by other Lebanese, and to some extent even to retain the support of fellow Shia, Hezbollah had to agree to join the Lebanese consensus on the priority of reconstruction and economic recovery after years of civil war.
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