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India Stops Turning the Other CheekNEW DELHI – For two and a half decades, Pakistan has pursued a policy of inflicting on India “death by a thousand cuts” – bleeding the country through repeated terrorist attacks, rather than attempting an open military confrontation which it cannot win against India’s superior
conventional
forces.
So “better education and more skills for all” may be less important to productivity growth and a less powerful tool to offset inequality than
conventional
wisdom supposes.
According to
conventional
wisdom, the corporate-tax burden is borne principally by the owners of capital in the form of lower returns.
Contrary to popular perception, nuclear arms are weapons of the poor – extraordinarily cheap compared with
conventional
armaments.
In fact, it was this rationale that drove the Soviet Union’s massive nuclear buildup: Soviet leaders, recognizing that they could not compete with the much wealthier United States’
conventional
weapons, focused their country’s limited resources on creating a potentially devastating nuclear arsenal.
Likewise, North Korea’s focus on nuclear, rather than conventional, weapons may be enabling it to minimize the tradeoff between guns and butter.
In return, North Korea received affirmations from the US and South Korea that no nuclear weapons were deployed in South Korea, as well as assurances that there was no intent to attack North Korea with nuclear or
conventional
weapons.
It is regularly argued (to the point of having become
conventional
wisdom) that cheap and easy portfolio reconfiguration, technical trading strategies, and investors’ moves from one sector to another force managers to pay too much attention to immediate financial results.
As a result, we can no longer rely on
conventional
ways of managing risk that are based on the raw materials alone.
To convince skeptics, the party will have to break with
conventional
Turkish policies on Cyprus, and with
conventional
Islamist doubts about Europe.
Authorities could require that the percentage of biofuels blended with
conventional
fuel be increased when food prices drop and cut when they rise.
If cars are equipped with engines that can run on
conventional
fossil fuels or blends with high percentages of biofuels, consumers can adapt to changes in prices by switching between one or the other.
The
conventional
wisdom still stands: underlying Trump’s election was the median household’s perception that it had been left behind by globalization and technological change, with the gains from those developments having gone to the rich instead.
Indeed, another analysis, including 14 randomized trials with 1,213 patients six months after a stroke, compared the effects of
conventional
stroke rehabilitation with and without acupuncture as a supplement.
More fundamentally, however, Chinese doctors who use traditional medicine argue that outcome measures of acupuncture as a treatment for stroke should be different from
conventional
measures used in Western trials, because the theory of acupuncture is different.
Leading economists, such as Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk-sharing over the
conventional
bias in favor of debt instruments.
John McCain managed to defeat his more
conventional
Republican rivals by seeming to be totally different from them: a maverick who says what he damned well wants, a tough guy with the knowing wink of the old ladies’ man.
But central banks today are influencing asset prices through a very large number of channels and procedures other than
conventional
open-market operations: they are trying to affect not just duration discounts but risk, default, and information-driven discounts as well.
But parts of the airport remained operational after the attack, and Assad’s forces bombed the same sarin-choked town of Khan Sheikhun with
conventional
ordnance just hours after the Tomahawks struck.
The overwhelming majority of Assad’s victims have been killed by conventional, not chemical, weapons.
On the contrary, there probably can be no diplomatic solution or lasting settlement without action that resets the military balance and undermines both the
conventional
and unconventional capacities of Assad and his patrons.
This suggests that capital controls and prudential policies can complement each other, contrary to what
conventional
wisdom often assumes.
Wind energy is now competitive with
conventional
power plants, while rising gas and coal prices and the steady decline in renewable-energy costs imply that, within a few years, fossil fuels will be even less attractive.
More money from the EU budget now goes to nuclear research than to non-nuclear research and development, and more infrastructure funding goes to carbon capture and storage (CCS) and
conventional
energy than to renewable energies.
This mixed record calls into question the efficacy of
conventional
poverty-reduction policies, often identified with the Washington Consensus, which transformed the discourse on poverty in the 1980’s.
For example, the United Nations’ Report on the World Social Situation: Rethinking Poverty,and its companion book Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement, and Policies, havesought to advance the debate on poverty by examining the
conventional
policy framework and assessing popular poverty-reduction programs.
In an industry in which the
conventional
wisdom has long dismissed efforts to “buck the market,” this is a surprising – and welcome – development.
Countries that save too much export too much, according to
conventional
wisdom, resulting in high trade surpluses and growing foreign-exchange reserves.
The Case for Higher Estate TaxesWASHINGTON, DC – According to
conventional
wisdom, inequality is an inevitable byproduct of strong economic growth.
Moreover, sometimes advocates have assumed, without justification, that the new jobs would pay more than careers in
conventional
energy.
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