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On key issues within Brazil, however, a broad political consensus (not unanimity, but no one should expect that!) exists, and this includes all the major contenders in Brazil's forthcoming presidential election in October.
There is a consensus, for instance, on sound fiscal and monetary policies: no one wants to return to the hyperinflation of earlier decades.
There is also a broad consensus that while markets are at the center of a successful economy, there is an important role for government.
It is a weakness that (unlike in America) also carries a broad consensus: most agree that it needs to be addressed, and that government has the obligation to do so.
Moreover, whoever wins the election almost surely will reflect that broad national consensus.
By successfully charting its own course, Brazil has created a broad domestic consensus behind a balanced, democratic, market economy.
In the past 30 years, a remarkable degree of consensus had been established that the primary, if not sole, responsibility of central banks was to ensure price stability.
Specifically, they should revisit the consensus that banks will become gradually safer, and their required capital should amount to no more than 10% of their assets.
Building consensus around a revised unifying paradigm will not be easy.
A New Chance for DarfurNEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY – As the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region worsens and negotiaitions to end it drag on, an international consensus is emerging around a “muscular” policy based on public denunciation, severe economic sanctions, and, increasingly, threats of military force.
Yet the emerging policy consensus contains no positive incentives to resolve the Darfur crisis.
Such policies might include:The emerging policy consensus toward Sudan is predicated on an approach that has already undermined respect for Western values throughout the non-Western world.
Unsurprisingly, based on the evidence and the opinions presented at the Law Commission’s hearings, there was a general consensus that the courts are unable to adopt a fair and non-discriminatory approach to the death penalty, and support for its abolition was overwhelming.
In any case, Europe and the US are nowhere close to a consensus on toughening sanctions.
With consensus seemingly impossible, formulation of any coherent policy to meet the nation’s needs is beyond reach.
This procedure is consistent with the general consensus in research ethics that the control group must receive the best-known treatment for comparison.
Even if Keynesian multipliers are truly at the upper end of consensus, mobilizing private capital for investment has most of the advantages of issuing public debt.
Moreover, because ASEAN must represent ten countries with one voice, and must reach a consensus before it speaks, China has little reason to fear that a common ASEAN negotiating position would be totally unacceptable – particularly given recent history.
From the near-consensus on the virtues of a finance-centric model of the world, the economics profession has moved to a near-total absence of consensus on what ought to be done.
Paradoxically, then, the current disarray within the profession is perhaps a better reflection of the profession’s true value added than its previous misleading consensus.
As a result, the UN Iraqi court's jurisdiction would extend only to the gravest violations of humanitarian law, on which there is a broad consensus, as set forth in Article 3 of the charter of the International Criminal Court.
A third area of some consensus (and some distance from George W. Bush) is climate change.
There is something of a consensus, for example, emerging around the notion that the US should remain in Iraq for some time to come, albeit with a reduced level of military forces.
There is growing opposition to illegal entry, but no consensus about what to do about those who have been in the country illegally for years or those who want to come to the US in the future.
The report rejects claims that the IMF was effectively a junior member of the Troika, insisting that all decisions were made by consensus.
This month’s deal between President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress to extend the tax cuts initiated a decade ago by President George W. Bush is being hailed as the start of a new bipartisan consensus.
I know from experience that reaching consensus in Brussels depends on the sense that all parties are committed to some version of the EU.
But an agenda can be designed and implemented only if there is a broad consensus on the nature of the problem.
But the fact that reforms and actions were undertaken only lately, and under the pressure of acute crisis, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of reaching consensus.
Our second broad conclusion was that sustained growth requires a coherent, adaptable strategy that is based on shared values and goals, trust, and some degree of consensus.
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