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In any case, leaders can’t make credible commitments 35 years into the future.
And the plan needs to be credible if it is to influence myriad business decisions made today.
The key to educational progress is to focus on interventions backed by credible scientific evidence.
They lose votes to the populists and demagogues whose promises to shake up the system are more credible.
Although US federal debt is projected to rise at an unsustainable rate in the long term, the right solution is not fiscal belt-tightening now, but rather a credible plan to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio gradually as the economy recovers.
Only bold target-setting demonstrates a credible commitment to the low-carbon vision and can provide much-needed certainty to businesses and markets.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) arguably provides the closest thing to a credible hierarchy of economists, not unlike the ATP’s rankings of professional tennis players.
The G20 owes Africa a credible and effective solution to this problem.
While it may be tempting to bypass government and hope for an easy technology-based solution, sustainable, credible progress will be difficult without public-sector involvement.
If negotiators on both sides view it as a credible broker of a lasting and balanced agreement, they may be more receptive to each other’s concessions.
A credible reserve currency depends on deep capital markets, honest government, and the rule of law.
Despite a 10-year military presence, involving the deployment of more than 100,000 troops at a cost of $550 billion, the US still has not succeeded in creating a credible alternative to the Taliban.
The US issued stern, and apparently credible, threats to restrict Japanese imports, and succeeded in pushing Japan to overvalue the yen, which helped to bring Japanese growth to a screeching halt.
So, to build a credible nuclear arsenal, Iran would need a decade or longer.
In particular, it could affect current plans for a “banking union,” which needs three elements: a single supervisor, a common resolution authority, and a credible system of deposit insurance.
Finally, the revolt of Cyprus’s small savers highlighted the need for a credible system of deposit insurance.
But deterrence requires a credible threat of response against an attacker.
Many economists argued that these clever models were flawed, because the punishment threat was not credible, particularly in the case of a systemic meltdown affecting a large part of the financial system.
The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue “contingent capital” (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to punish banks severely in the event of a crisis.
There is no credible intelligence penetration of these organizations.
But, regardless of how bad Europe’s political and financial leaders may seem, a sudden rise in the number of incompetent or immoral individuals throughout the eurozone’s periphery is not a credible explanation of this crisis.
Only then can they act as credible partners of the international community and the Sudanese government.
The hope is that if investors consider this announcement credible, long-term interest rates will come down further, encouraging spending.
After all, it is an unavoidable human trait that credible and prominently displayed charts and rankings can stir up aspirational spirits.
And voters on the right like proposals that offer a credible way to end the favoritism – if not outright corruption – that has come to define the relationship between the top levels of government and Wall Street.
The eurozone can no longer sustain continued uncertainty and high real interest rates in the peripheral countries, so the ECB must provide a solid and credible bridge to the future.
Despite pleas from the IMF and the OECD, Germany also remains implacably opposed to Eurobonds, which could ease the funding constraints of other eurozone members and bolster the resources of the European Stability Mechanism, which currently does not provide a credible firewall against a run on Spanish or Italian sovereign debt – or on the European banks that hold it.
Deterrence means using a credible threat of serious punishment to prevent an opponent from initiating military engagement.
The consequences of partition, however, remain: Pakistan has not yet been able to evolve an administratively credible government.
Unfortunately, neither projection is credible.
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