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Stop Taxing the SickWASHINGTON, DC – The debate over access to affordable medicines in emerging and developing countries frequently overlooks a critical issue: Governments in these countries routinely slap tariffs and other taxes on vitally important drugs.
Under Macron’s plan, each EU member state would hold democratic conventions to debate citizens’ priorities.
The big, open democratic conventions that he has proposed for the first half of 2018 could inject fresh ideas into a stale debate, provide legitimacy for bold reforms, and put pressure on recalcitrant governments.
Europe's Unity in European ValuesAlongside the debate about the European Union constitution, a debate about European values has also developed.
This debate is important not only for implanting meaning in the constitution, but will also determine the vitality and energy of the EU itself.
A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Conversely, Ronald Reagan’s performance in his debate with Carter in 1980 is often credited with his victory.
Indeed, the debate nowadays is not about what to do, but howmuch to do, and how fast.
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen told me back in the 1990s that, in her view, conducting the Fed’s internal debate within the framework of interest-rate rules had greatly increased the ease of getting from agreement about the structure and state of the economy to a rough consensus on appropriate policy.
So post-referendum Britain needs a more comprehensive debate on how it will cope with the challenges of global change and how it will work with the international community to do so.
Neither of these initiatives is a game changer as regards the depth of economic integration within the eurozone, but both promise to open a new debate on the structural underpinnings of monetary union.
Elsewhere, the ethical debate is not about IVF itself, but the limits of its use.
All of them were, in the parlance of the current immigration and refugee debate, “economic migrants.”
The debate in France is still raging, and nothing is yet lost.
Finally, a new player has entered the nature-nurture debate.
The United States’ early history was dominated by a passionate debate about the issue of solidarity.
An opposing third party would have to shoulder the entire burden of proof, while the patent office avoided taking any real action, in order to avoid “presumptuous” interference in the public debate.
Inclusive, transparent, and effective public debate about these potentially consequential issues demands, first and foremost, that citizens are well informed.
In short, each side in the current education debate is half right.
Dam construction in China has never been open to public debate.
The dam projects have also become a focal point for a broader political debate within the Chinese media.
His proposals are too numerous and vague to judge, and they do not account for the state of debate at the national level, where skepticism is on the rise.
The WHO’s performance has been widely criticized: the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, for example, said on January 12 that it plans to debate “false pandemics, a threat to health” later this month.
A debate has been mounting for some time between policy hawks, who warn that central banks’ asset purchases and near-zero interest rates fuel financial instability and inflation risks, and doves, whose main fear is deflation.
What should the rest of the world think about this debate?
The rest of the UK (called the “RUK” in the current debate), including England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, would quickly and efficiently negotiate the terms of independence with Scotland, agreeing how to share the UK’s public debt and public assets, including offshore oil and gas.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a contentious legislature helped to bring such practices into public debate.
That is the debate that the Obama administration is leading in the US today.
As my talk concluded, I got into an animated debate with my audience on developing global standards for labor markets.
And it has intensified the domestic debate over the death penalty.
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