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And the scheme would be particularly attractive if it could be implemented on a pay-or-play basis, whereby companies could choose whether to invest in R&D or to contribute to a fund rewarding those whose efforts result in the desired drugs.
After all, pragmatism does not always bring about the desired outcome.
“Tell us engineers the desired ‘specs’ and the timeline, and we’ll get the job done.”
Financial globalization, meaning in essence the freedom to make any desired financial transaction, regardless of the currencies involved and the locations and nationalities of those involved in the transaction, is not an end in itself.
Facing greater challenges in delivering desired outcomes, they have essentially pushed both policies and their brand power to the limit.
If European monetary union is not leading toward the desired end, it – not the goal of ever-closer union – should be altered.
So far, the “bazooka” represented by the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” program has had the desired effect – without having to be used.
Rather, the belief in ideal outcomes is a necessary myth to cover an unwillingness to use force persistently and intelligently enough to achieve a desired result.
And while the Fed’s interest-rate hikes could hardly have been more carefully signaled in advance, there are still concerns that the desired financial tightening in credit markets has scarcely occurred yet, and that, if and when it does, some borrowers could find themselves uncomfortably exposed.
For example, it would be useful for programs to monitor how many people with high blood pressure have been diagnosed and placed on treatment, what proportion of those on treatment have achieved blood-pressure control, and what treatment level would be required to reduce premature deaths by the desired target.
For as long as the issue remained unsettled, the Iranian delegation to the talks could not agree on the desired outcome.
Either the desired service is performed from abroad – telemarketing, for example – or the work is sent abroad for processing and later imported to the home country (in Europe, more and more industrial work is being outsourced from West to East).
Sometimes they never see the desired results.
By this logic, however, West Germany, too, needed a nuclear arsenal; and, given Germany’s twentieth-century history, no one, least of all the Germans, desired such an outcome.
And they both have public services that leave something to be desired – in fact, Ireland’s are much worse than Britain’s.
An important early task in achieving the desired impact will be to create an environment in which private initiatives can flourish.
Vast administrative resources are being used to secure the desired result.
It fails to recognize that neither expanded peacekeeping nor efficiently delivered aid will achieve their desired ends until the Afghan public accepts the Karzai government as fairly representing its interests.
It is highly likely that desired health expenditures will be enormous for some things and trivial for others.
As the world’s population grows, so does pressure to eliminate hunger – but progress so far has left much to be desired.
Worse, direct talks have not only failed to produce the desired results; their continuation has also helped to mask widespread construction of Israeli colonies on Palestinian territory.
But they still insisted that steady increases of demand at a fast enough rate would keep demand one step ahead of the money wage level, so that employment could be kept as high as desired, albeit at the cost of steady inflation.
Summers’s Keynesian argument is that the problem is a chronic aggregate-demand shortfall: Desired investment lags behind desired savings, even at near-zero nominal interest rates, resulting in a chronic liquidity trap.
Perhaps regulators will find that they must require that the regulated have the desired contract provisions.
But, to have the desired effect, the Franco-German vision for Europe must be fresh and bold enough to capture the popular imagination.
The fact is that, despite their importance, sanctions alone cannot bring about the outcome desired by the US or its allies.
Unfortunately, despite an immense expenditure of energy and resources spanning a quarter-century, these efforts have not yielded the desired results.
In the post-socialist countries the oft-proclaimed gender-equality of state socialism left much to be desired.
To have the desired effect, QE should have been accompanied not only by official efforts to restore impaired lending channels (especially those directed at small- and medium-size enterprises), but also by specific lending targets for banks.
For example, Australia’s reforms are reflected in the anti-racism policies adopted in the last decade by the international football governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA (though in many cases the translation of policy into effective, enforceable action at the national level has left much to be desired).
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