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First, for too long, these economies have been obsessed with opening to international trade, attracting foreign
direct
investment, liberalizing prices, and achieving macroeconomic stabilization.
Countries needed to open their economies at a sensible pace; leverage global technology and demand; specialize in tradable sectors; pursue a lot of investment (some 30% of GDP); and promote foreign
direct
investment, with appropriate provisions for knowledge transfer.
The Nobel laureate economist Edmund S. Phelps has described Trump’s
direct
interference in the corporate sector as reminiscent of corporatist Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
China’s system has survived because its leaders have been willing to confront market failures and administrative deficiencies in a
direct
and consistent manner.
Yasir Arafat’s death was followed by the choice of his successor in a
direct
election with universal suffrage, which was accompanied by Israel’s decision – one unique in the world – to help, not hinder the democratic process in territories it occupies.
The corridors will provide a more
direct
transport route for oil and liquefied gas from Africa and the Persian Gulf, while minimizing exposure to sea-lanes policed by the United States Navy.
Moreover, though China is among the world’s leading recipients of foreign
direct
investment (FDI), it has failed to translate all that capital into a current-account deficit that would finance increased domestic investment and/or consumption.
Of course, the existence of a positive correlation between cannabis use and psychosis does not allow us to draw a
direct
causal link between the two.
Both East and West Germany set out to build their collective futures in
direct
contrast to the Nazi past.
It is in Russia's
direct
national interest to craft a special relationship with America, both to underpin its modernization strategy and to deal with the countless security problems facing Eurasia.
But not only the
direct
results of colonialism remain relevant: the indirect ones also matter.
They pose a
direct
threat to the post-war international order that has underpinned prosperity and stability for 73 years.
But Iraq’s current travails are the
direct
result of the war in neighboring Syria, where ISIS has claimed thousands of lives.
No, a large part of the divide is a
direct
result of domestic policies that suppress Internet and technology use.
Indeed, the breadth of the opposition to Morsi reflects a major global tendency toward the empowerment of the educated and connected middle classes, whose members tend to be suspicious of political parties and demand more
direct
political participation.
Then there are the more subtle signals to listen to statistically – whether they are feedback
direct
to your Web site, emails, press mentions, or Twitter and Facebook feeds.
For now, America is keeping a channel open for
direct
dialogue with Iran (as US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned Barak months ago).
As a presidential candidate, Obama spoke of the need for “sustained, direct, and aggressive diplomacy” to deal with North Korea.
At the same time, Obama’s advocacy of
direct
diplomacy caused concern during the campaign, with some questioning whether this meant that he would meet a leader such as Kim Jong-il without preconditions.
But admitting that there was no longer any threat of
direct
attack would have been politically impossible in the aftermath of the Cold War, when the bilateral standoff still seemed to be a cornerstone of international stability.
To prevent this, China needs to create a more straightforward and transparent tax system, with a transition to more explicit and
direct
taxation.
Last August 28, the pro-Christian Democratic newspaper Il-Mument revealed CIA documentation of
direct
financing by the Qaddafi regime for activities organized by the Malta Labor Party during the 1989 Bush-Gorbachev summit held in Malta.
Put another way, for each person saved from malaria by cutting CO2 emissions,
direct
malaria policies could have saved 36,000.
But, for every problem that global warming will exacerbate – hurricanes, hunger, flooding – we could achieve tremendously more through cheaper,
direct
policies today.
Because there are no
direct
elections for the top two federal offices in what remains of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro agreed in 1992 to share them.
So he pursued
direct
engagement with North Korea, and his “Sunshine Policy” was taken up by his successor, Roh Moo-hyun.
German reunification, preceded by West Germany’s policy of
direct
engagement, or Ostpolitik, with East Germany in the last decades of the Cold War, was a source of profound inspiration for Kim.
The funding can be direct, through institutions like the Defense Department or the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or indirect, via tax breaks, procurement practices, and subsidies to academic labs or research centers.
Joint OECD-Eurostat data show that
direct
government expenditures accounted for 31% of R&D spending in the US in 2012.
But Google’s efforts to provide
direct
answers to questions have fueled complaints at the European Commission.
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