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This would require intense debate and soul-searching, particularly in Germany, which, as the EU’s largest and best-rated economy, has been thrust into the position of deciding the future of Europe.
In late 2012, at the peak of the post-crisis austerity debate, advanced economies were in the midst of a multi-year tightening equivalent to more than one percentage point of GDP annually, according to cyclically-adjusted primary balance data from the International Monetary Fund.
The fact that the reserve fund is now being consumed in this way represents a decisive step in a protracted debate over Russia’s military spending.
That debate began in 2011, when then-President Dmitri Medvedev proposed raising military spending by $600 billion, taking it from under 3% to above 4% of GDP, over ten years.
For too long, the debate has been framed around the concept of “burden-sharing.”
But new analysis by a team from six leading European universities and institutes casts new light on this debate, and shows that Europe can make choices that are in its own best economic and environmental interest.
So why do pundits continue to debate America’s supposedly declining global influence?
These are weighty questions, about which debate will probably intensify in the coming years.
If Cardinal Sgreccia had responded to the teenager’s death by saying that the Belgian law denies that children have a duty to live, he might have begun a useful debate that would have clarified differences between those who believe that there is such a duty and those who do not.
Ahn’s economic beliefs, formed mainly by his experiences as a CEO fighting against the entrenched power of South Korea’s chaebol (vast, politically well-connected industrial conglomerates), has rekindled a debate on both the right and the left about whether the chaebol are still capable of leading the country’s economy effectively.
But when a country’s dysfunctional governance has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and threatens neighboring countries, such complaints have no place in the debate.
Public debate instead highlights the need for restricting government activities and reducing social transfers.
But a "Putinist" government won't have much time for openness, debate, or accountability.
Similarly, after some theological debate, British Muslims have widely accepted that they owe unreserved loyalty to Britain.
Game Changers for GrowthBERKELEY – The recent G-20 meeting of finance ministers in Saint Petersburg confirmed that the debate between growth and austerity is over – at least for now.
The Ambiguous “China Threat”SINGAPORE – For more than a decade, China’s geopolitical ambitions, backed by the People’s Liberation Army’s ongoing modernization, have fueled a debate about whether regional security dilemmas and competition – particularly with the United States – will escalate.
A closer look at the debate reveals why.
Beyond the debate about how to tax today’s tech giants, Western economies confront the more fundamental question of whether markets still represent the most efficient way to allocate resources.
The recent Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation took away some of the Fed’s powers, and the legislative debate surrounding the bill indicated that there could be wide support for further restrictions if Congress becomes unhappy with Fed policy.
Amid the ongoing debate about how the dominant tech firms should and should not be allowed to use personal data collected from users online, many of these firms have continued to decide these questions for themselves – and, by extension, for the rest of us, too.
There is a clear victor in the “lean versus clean” debate.
In fact, exactly the same debate raged then.
Understandably, there is a debate about how to achieve recovery.
Managing the historical forces that are being released requires going far beyond the desultory US debate about what kind of assistance to give to which participants in the conflict.
The public debate in America about whether and how to arm or equip the Syrian opposition is an interesting sideshow.
Yet Merkel’s poor communication of her policy priorities, together with a lackluster debate performance, nearly cost her the election.
This is not an entirely bad approach if it results in sharper public debate.
The error is in neither their prize-winning 2009 book nor in a subsequent widely read paper responding to the academic debate about their work.
While there is a legitimate debate about whether this implies that high debt causes slow growth, Krugman turned to questioning their motives.
Perhaps the paranoid style in public debate, focusing on motives rather than substance, is a useful defensive tactic against rabid critics.
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