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As the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.
First and foremost, the left needs to think seriously about the use of force, which is the central issue in foreign-policy debates.
Because it is a process that calls for total reform, it helps them avoid debates about specific changes.
As if that were not enough pressure, female foreign correspondents who are assaulted in the field often find themselves at the center of debates about whether women should be deployed on certain stories at all.
Male correspondents are never the subjects of such debates.
In assessing America’s strength, China follows US debates on the merits of a uni-polar or a multi-polar world with keen interest.
Switzerland, with its generally slower pace and its thorough political debates before votes are held, may be the exception.
That is why the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was designed for maximum flexibility, allowing funds to be channeled into non-profits, directed into private investments, or used to help influence policy debates.
As Arabs confront far-reaching change, they must not be distracted into fruitless debates about the right types of government support for citizens.
SOS for China’s SOEsBEIJING – China’s economic slowdown has been the subject of countless debates, discussions, articles, and analyses.
The Poverty TrapsLONDON: Few debates are more rote -- and more ideologically rigid -- than those concerning economic growth and economic justice.
The deposit-guarantee scheme, for example, shows no sign of progress, and the debates on the single resolution fund and its lack of a public backstop to deal with large-scale banking distress are going nowhere.
Parliamentary debates are often a charade; parliamentary votes an invitation to obstruction.
Such concerns have even made their way into debates about the mega-regional free-trade agreements – namely, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and the European Union, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership – that are currently being negotiated.
Common ground can be hard to find in such debates if both sides disagree fiercely over basic principles.
For starters, applying the precautionary principle to the context of AI would help rebalance the global policy discussion, giving weaker voices more influence in debates that are currently monopolized by corporate interests.
First, the world’s leading climate scientists and most of the world’s governments have brought climate science to the forefront of global policy debates.
The party actively supports Putin, but refrained from appearing in televised debates, possibly because it has no charismatic leaders of its own who can excite the public with sharp polemics.
It is hard to imagine today’s mainstream politicians and public intellectuals engaging publicly in such profound and mutually respectful debates with today’s radicals and upstarts, whether populists, economic nationalists, Euroskeptics, or something else.
So, too, will other groups that focus on similar issues, such as environmental sustainability, which has not been a major focus in the current US presidential campaign (the three debates between the candidates included no discussion of climate change, for example), but surely will be in the future.
Economists, especially those involved in policy debates, need to be held explicitly accountable for their professional behavior.
Moreover, economic debates would benefit from more voices.
At the commanding heights, economic-policy debates remain dominated by a relatively small group of white men from American universities and think tanks, nearly all of them well-versed devotees of mainstream economics.
Debates about government centralization run deep in the history and constitutions of most countries.
There is somewhat greater freedom of expression, with debates and criticism of several aspects of Cuba’s socialist model, such as low salaries and the dual monetary system, which has caused income inequality by favoring those who work in tourism and for foreign companies.
Subsequent debates about financial reform in the US reflected this imperative, with some of the US Federal Reserve’s founders pointing out the military and financial applications of the term “reserve.”
At the same time, Merkel was addressing ongoing debates among pundits and press commentators about what Brexit and Trump’s presidency might mean for the future of transatlantic and European cooperation.
National and international debates about migration are deeply flawed, owing to their focus on security – and so are the policies that result from them.
He will need to demonstrate that France no longer treats Europe as a scapegoat for its own economic troubles – a ploy that merely marginalizes France in economic debates.
If wrong, there will be a safety valve in place to ensure that contending values – the benefits of open economies versus the gains from upholding domestic regulations – both receive a proper hearing in public debates.
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