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The first option is to defend the wages of the low skilled through minimum-wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply minimum wage demands against the private economy.
But with workers increasingly unable to meet the demands of the labor market, the region’s remarkable development success could be derailed.
Game theory suggests that rational actors, recognizing how damaging a trade war would be for them, would see the merit of abandoning a retaliatory strategy, and instead accede to many US demands.
It also demands sustained political leadership focused on ending conflicts and building inclusive societies in refugees’ home countries.
Lebanese adversaries of Syria have resisted such demands, but the Egyptian and Saudi stance highlights how, for reasons of self-interest, Arab regimes rarely like to see fellow despots fall.
Inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has interpreted UN demands for its disarmament as a plot by the Bush administration to weaken the party, and as a means of affirming American supremacy in the region.
After all, political careers depend on acceding to the demands of the central government.
And, in China, though the demands of economic growth and job creation will force the country’s new leaders to develop new ties to other regions, they are far too preoccupied with the complexities of economic reform to assume unnecessary costs and risks outside Asia.
In the 1990’s, the FARC was on the rise, and presented a maximalist list of demands.
A uniquely gifted performer in the digital circus, he lacks the vision, consistency, and perceptiveness that today’s fast-changing and deeply interconnected world demands from its leaders.
Arab youths were a major force behind demands for change.
The current Ukrainian government would happily hand over half of its pipeline system to Gazprom in exchange for a lower gas price, but Putin demands that Ukraine also join the customs union.
Although it surrendered control of its gas pipelines to Gazprom, it is still charged a usurious price in the face of Russian demands that it, too, join the customs union.
In a situation that demands fast and bold decision-making, someone has to be in charge.
A strong civil society that monitors and demands more of its leaders is vital to improving Africa’s governance.
That is why the Trade Representative is wisely trying not to add macroeconomic policy into the bargaining, despite demands from powerful voices in the US Congress.
This is why there is unanimous agreement in Asia, including China and India, that any just solution for climate change demands greater sacrifice from rich Western countries.
To be fair, the Bank has embraced the message of eclecticism, but a new leader will have to go further, paying greater attention to the specific contexts and demands of individual borrowers and learning from a wider set of successful development experiences.
What China’s government is not yet prepared to do is respond effectively to increasingly loud demands for political participation – if not democracy – that tend to accompany rising per capita GDP.
The central pool of resources is designed to increase the responsiveness of one ministry’s back end to the demands of society as identified by another ministry’s front end, without these resources competing with the priorities that each ministry has for its “own” budget.
This demands a concerted effort to take advantage of opportunities for achieving sustainable growth, including by ensuring adequate investment.
Indeed, the Arab states have come nowhere close to matching the level of US and European aid to the Palestinians, much less the even higher level of Western support – political and military, as well as financial – that has been the key to Israel’s ability to withstand Palestinian demands for freedom.
While such an approach would certainly fall short of maximalist Palestinian demands, it would embrace the parameters outlined in May by US President Barack Obama.
The US and Europe will make their usual demands to close down the country’s hate-spewing madrassas, and to reform a public-school system that, unhindered by the government, churns out young militants burning to kill and die for Islam.
Each of these groups is making different, if not contradictory, demands.
They could not formulate coherent positions and practical demands.
In talks with the opposition, the monarchy will find seasoned politicians ready to bargain over long-held demands.
But a policy like that demands a deeper explanation.
That system has also failed to meet the population’s legitimate demands for justice, democracy, human rights, and social services, particularly in education and health care.
The problem is that the absence of reliable data can make the need to protect a species seem more abstract and less urgent, weakening governments’ capacity to resist other, more immediate demands, especially the need to protect relevant livelihoods.
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