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In some EU states, electricity prices for industrial customers are twice what their North American
counterparts
pay.
Denmark’s social democrats are a step ahead of their Austrian counterparts: in preparation for next year’s elections, they have adopted a new position paper on immigration titled “Just and Realistic.”
That is why, beyond advancing Trump’s pro-growth economic agenda at home, the newly appointed members of his economic team should be establishing direct contact with their German, Chinese, and Japanese counterparts, with a view to improving international policy coordination.
When the Social Democrats were sniffing victory last summer, they went out of their way to assure their foreign
counterparts
not to worry about Green participation in the new government; no Green would get his hand on the levers of foreign and security policy.
For example, the averages for German (34%) or French (35%) companies are markedly lower than for their Spanish (56%) or Italian (65%)
counterparts.
From the newest privates to the most experienced generals, US soldiers have developed strong ties with their
counterparts
and deep pride in their shared security mission.
Second, an internal transfer mechanism between eurozone member states is needed in order to ensure that less credit-worthy countries compensate, at least partly, their more economically sound
counterparts.
The fact that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was joined by his French and Polish
counterparts
in brokering last week’s agreement in Kiev could confirm that Germany is not planning to go it alone.
In fact, corruption and its implications must inform the way Western officials interact with their
counterparts
in the developing world.
The Chinese have never been eager to discuss with their US
counterparts
what the two countries should do in the event of a North Korean implosion.
But, as European leaders prepare to meet their Balkan
counterparts
in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, things have begun to look a lot less certain.
If young children do not receive high-quality care from educated professionals who understand how to stimulate and shape brain development, the next generation of Americans will suffer from an ever-widening achievement gap relative to their
counterparts
in other advanced countries and emerging competitors.
Many European banks, however, have less equity than their US counterparts, which creates an important source of vulnerability going forward.
Developing-country finance ministries and tax authorities must cooperate with one another and with their OECD
counterparts
to close existing loopholes and establish effective tax policies that support their shared interests.
By contrast, more than half of their European
counterparts
inherited their wealth, and 20% of those fortunes are more than three generations old.
Few parts of Asia are structurally exposed to the credit implosion, and the balance sheets of Asian banks and companies are on the whole cleaner than their
counterparts
elsewhere.
But even if progressive center-right and center-left forces manage to overcome their backward-looking counterparts, it will not be enough.
European leaders are already meeting with their Indian and Chinese
counterparts
to find areas where they can cooperate on developing clean energy and green infrastructure.
He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
But that updated form of social democracy – called “New Labour” in the United Kingdom – had little to offer center-left parties’ traditional core voters, who began to look for alternatives, just as some of their center-right
counterparts
did.
Pessimism Amid PlentyMILAN – A few years ago, I wrote a book called The Next Convergence, about how developing economies were “catching up” to their advanced
counterparts
in terms of income, wealth, health, and other measures of wellbeing.
This implies the continued globalization of finance, which will be essential to allocate money from capital-rich regions to their poor, capital-scarce counterparts, as well as to develop local capital markets that can facilitate capital formation and protect countries from the vagaries of global sentiment.
For mainstream parties in France, the Conservatives in the UK, and Trump’s more internationally minded Republican rivals in the US, there is nothing to be gained from copying the arguments of their extremist
counterparts.
Many new Russians, working like machines 16 hours a day, seven days a week, look at their more relaxed Western
counterparts
with the contempt often found in the tiger economies of Asia.
Although Egypt’s generals are by no means as threatened as their Algerian
counterparts
were in December 1991, they do have enough power to flip the tables.
On the other hand, ordinary men and women in the West seem to feel an instinctive sympathy toward their
counterparts
in the Middle East and North Africa, many of whom are paying the ultimate price in fighting for their rights.
No mention was made, then or now, of the need for peace initiatives; of the state of mind of the now-invisible (to Israeli eyes) Palestinians, now relegated to their side of the security wall; or of the growing inequalities that separate Israel’s Arab citizens from their Jewish
counterparts.
As a result, the Israeli state seems to be moving closer to its Asian counterparts, with their emphasis on economic innovation and their indifference to universal values or, for that matter, peace.
While it is true that realistic microeconomic models are more complex than their idealized textbook counterparts, grasping them does not necessarily require years of research experience.
Now it is up to these elites to respond effectively to the causes of popular anger, or risk facing the eventual emergence of anti-establishment movements, like their American and European
counterparts.
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