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Internal operations are dead in the water, as is intelligence sharing with European counterparts.
True, this year is a bit better thanks to having Russia’s Vladimir Putin as host; there is simply too much tension between him and his Western counterparts to keep all emotions under wraps.
Merkel, like her counterparts elsewhere, did little to address the problems.
His Palestinian counterparts are hardly in a better position.
The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the opposition.
Unlike their counterparts in the US, Central American producers lack access to the capital and technology needed for them to expand and innovate.
In confronting harmful stigmas, they have common cause with their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender counterparts.
As the CEO of United Technologies gushed, Mexican workers now do the same jobs to the same standard as their US counterparts, but for barely a fifth of the pay.
With fewer firm-specific skills than their German counterparts, American workers are more susceptible to layoffs.
Despite these benefits, Latin American and Caribbean countries spend a relatively modest 0.1% of GDP on sports programs with broad social goals – about one-third as much as their European counterparts.
On paper, the recipe for success looks straightforward: economic policy should aim at reducing the gap between larger companies, whose performance matches those of their German or French counterparts, and smaller firms, where productivity is half as high.
Indeed, Japan’s G-7 counterparts (including the Europeans who might well blush here, because their own policies are based on a radically anti-Keynesian view) have been urging Japan to adopt Keynesian policies year after year.
Urban workers’ per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.
Change is happening even on the government side, with municipal authorities often significantly outpacing their national counterparts, operating through vehicles like the C-40, a “network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change.”
Likewise, weaker eurozone economies like Greece and Spain, which would prefer stronger monetary stimulus than their more competitive counterparts in Europe are willing to accept, may suffer.
US Fed Chairman Greenspan asked recently, “why U.S. businesses and workers appear to have benefitted more from the recent advances in information technology than their counterparts in Europe and Japan?”
Second, Chinese aid does not require pre-project “missions” by bureaucrats who arrive from distant headquarters for a sort of development tourism that wreaks havoc on the routines of the local counterparts who must accompany them on their poverty excursions.
Indeed, the International Monetary Fund recently reported that developing countries lose three times more of their corporate-tax revenue to BEPS activities than their developed counterparts.
Although the French government, unlike its Spanish and Italian counterparts, has not yet had any difficulty financing itself at low interest rates, currency appreciation as the economy slides into recession is like fuel poured onto an unlit bonfire.
They’re not: If trade negotiators don’t like their Chinese counterparts’ tone, they can’t simply go looking for a more reasonable or more eager partner who can open up China’s markets for US farmers.
The Success of Greek Structural ReformsATHENS – Since July 2015, when the Greek government and its European counterparts agreed to a new bailout deal, my country has made immense efforts to implement structural reforms under tight deadlines.
Now that the Greek government has delivered on its part of the bailout deal, it is time that its European and international counterparts conclude the first review of the program.
But as long as poorer member states grow faster than their richer counterparts, one should not be overly concerned about temporary increases in intra-national disparities.
The charismatic figures of the mid-twentieth century – Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle – have no contemporary counterparts.
The transatlantic alliance will be no less necessary than it was before, nor will European citizens regard their American counterparts with any less sympathy and fellow feeling.
By contrast, in the US, which lacks many of the social protections provided by its northern European counterparts, inequality is very troubling indeed.
Meanwhile, in emerging economies – especially the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) – members of the burgeoning middle class are changing their diets to resemble those of their rich-country counterparts.
Higher-level leaders may have taken up the case against Karma – persuading their counterparts in Xinjiang to resurrect the old antiques case – because he had used his connections in Beijing to complain about the treatment of his brothers by officials in Tibet.
After all, their political impunity stands in sharp contrast not only to the United States, where officials are at least accountable to Congress, but also to China, where one might be excused for thinking that officials are less accountable than their European counterparts.
They suspect that some of their counterparts are weak and vulnerable, and have little confidence in the willingness of national bank supervisors to reveal the truth and demand remediation.
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