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Washington Consensus reforms – including macroeconomic stabilization
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as low-single-digit inflation) and market liberalization – were supposed to reduce poverty by accelerating economic growth.
Indeed, these reports challenge the prevailing approach, which has left more than one billion people living below the poverty line
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as the purchasing-power-parity equivalent of $1.25 per day in 2005), and has failed to prevent economic growth from stalling in most countries.
The only certainty is that the future will be
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by scientific progress and innovation, which cannot be known ahead of time.
There may be a certain trade-off between these two aspects, since the EU's accession criteria were
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at a time when the eurozone did not exist and when best practices in exchange rate and monetary policy regimes differed from current ones.
The problem is that ECB officials have become excessively focused on ensuring price stability by meeting a short-term inflation target,
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broadly as “below, but close to, 2%,” with the specific goal being 1.9%.
Internally, it is limited by a conservative wing
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by views that are not compatible with long-term progress in Europe.
The CBE allowed the exchange rate, which is formally
defined
as a “managed float,” to depreciate by only 3%.
In a modern economy, money has a well-defined real value because governments accept it as payment of taxes and issue debts in
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monetary amounts, and because central banks ensure that total monetary creation, by either the state or the private banking system, grows at a pace compatible with relatively low and stable inflation.
In 2007, Mexico’s government adopted the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, which
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and codified the term femicide in Mexico.
China is exploring gas fields close to the border as
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by Japan.
Leadership is
defined
by the way people use such moments.”
The number of Ugandans living in extreme poverty, as
defined
by the World Bank, fell from 53% in 2006 to 34% in 2013.
Why?Contrary to much conventional wisdom, populism is not
defined
by a particular electoral constituency – such as the lower middle class – or by simplistic policies pandering to the masses, as liberal observers often argue.
Under Italian law, for-hire car services are strictly
defined
as those that start from the garage where the car is parked, and they must be booked in advance.
The ECB
defined
price stability to be annual inflation of less than but close to 2%.
While full employment has not been defined, many economists believe it is equivalent to an unemployment rate of about 5.5%.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen makes a convincing case that development should be
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in terms of freedom, not in terms of gross national product.
The Middle East today is
defined
by three central conflicts: the Israeli-Arab conflict, Iraq, and Iran.
While nearly one billion people have been lifted out of poverty
(defined
by the World Bank as an income of less than $1.25 per day, in purchasing-power-parity terms) in the last 20 years, such progress will prove more difficult for the next billion.
Governments across the region have been identified as the problem, and yet the state is being called upon to address a social and political agenda that has not yet been fully
defined.
The lack of a
defined
enemy makes reporting on and understanding the conflict difficult for journalists, diplomats, and government officials.
And, as Brookings expert Robert Einhorn explains, the Nuclear Posture Review includes another doctrinal provision with a similar effect: the statement that the US could use nuclear arms in response to “non-nuclear strategic attacks” that are only ambiguously
defined.
This is telltale populist rhetoric: there is a “real people,” as
defined
by the populist; only he faithfully represents it; and everyone else can – indeed should – be excluded.
I cannot recall any occasion at that time when the West or any of its organizations (NATO, the European Community, etc.) issued some public appeal, recommendation, or edict stating that some specific group of independently-minded people – however
defined
– were not to be invited to diplomatic parties, celebrations, or receptions.
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well
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relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for appointment and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
The term was never
defined
in any formal setting, but the concept was not difficult to decipher.
Unfortunately, like "applying pressure," the Geneva conventions were never
defined.
One instructor joked that although the Geneva conventions barred firing a 50-caliber machine gun at an enemy soldier - an act
defined
as "excessive force" - we could aim at his helmet or backpack, since these were "equipment."
But, in the case of “high-intensity” conflicts or wars
(defined
as entailing 1,000 or more battle deaths in a year), the trend-line has been sloping unequivocally downward.
We are in the age of oil’s “new normal,”
defined
by plentiful alternative energy sources.
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