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The introduction of measures to cool the property market, and new
direct
regulatory controls over shadow-banking credit, represent a step in the right direction.
In the modern era of globalization, export-led growth is supplemented by policies to attract foreign
direct
investment (FDI), a combination that has been particularly successful in China.
The
direct
explanation is that the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy tight, so that the currency did not weaken alongside the economy.
This corporatist structure - labor unions, workers councils, employer confederations, and big banks - facilitates
direct
interventions in economic decision making to give interest groups protection and veto power.
Ferdinand Marcos’s main opponent, Cory Aquino, actually boasted of having a
direct
pipeline to the Lord.
Trump and his advisers believe that international trade is a zero-sum game, and thus that tariffs are a
direct
route to smaller trade deficits.
The West should learn from the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who did not travel to Iran until he was allowed a
direct
meeting with Khamenei, during which Putin is reported to have made a proposal to end the nuclear stand-off.
Khamenei would be hard-pressed to ignore a
direct
invitation from the US to negotiate on Iran’s most vital concerns.
For many observers, populism is unthinkable without a strong,
direct
bond between an anti-establishment leader and citizens who feel neglected by mainstream political parties.
Indeed, given populism’s importance as a political phenomenon, that view, along with two others – that populism is somehow a call for
direct
democracy, and that populists can only protest, but never govern – needs to be challenged.
But cries for political inclusion are different from demands for
direct
democracy.
Where
direct
democracy is very much a part of normal politics – in Switzerland, for example – populist parties have been doing better, not worse, than elsewhere.
Therefore, it is more important than ever that heads of state attend the Copenhagen conference, as this two-step solution will only work with strong,
direct
intervention by leaders.
That number has grown over the years, as Soviet officials broadened the definition of wartime deaths to mean total “population loss,” rather than
direct
military casualties.
Alongside targets like eliminating poverty and measures to protect the environment is a commitment to reducing mortality caused by NCDs – the first time the UN’s official development agenda has taken
direct
aim at the problem.
Other provisions include curbing the far-reaching powers granted to the President in the 1971 constitution and introducing
direct
presidential elections with multiple candidates.
One alternative, called “parliamentarized presidentialism,” retains
direct
presidential elections, which many societies still demand.
So how can countries ensure that putting public policy to a
direct
vote does not undermine the quality of decision-making in a representative democracy?
One way to help counter that priming – supported by past surveys – could be to
direct
voters, first, to consider what they actually know about the topic, including what they understand by the key terms.
As long as young people
direct
their efforts accordingly, they can acquire these skills in virtually any of the major courses of university study.
Both sides in these disputes usually omit to mention the key idiosyncratic characteristics and specific starting conditions that can make
direct
comparisons meaningless.
Here an irony intrudes: usually prompted by civil movements, removal of such biases only becomes effective when these movements have their goals implemented by
direct
state action.
This means less control and
direct
oversight of the bureaucracy, and an increased incentive to spend the day thinking up big plans rather than concentrating on targeted improvements.
Direct
US-Iran talks should be convened if they are required to bring about any such agreement.
In the short term, however, financing should not be a problem: foreign-exchange reserves have reached more than $250 billion; foreign
direct
investment, which has fallen elsewhere, still looks promising.
For its part, the US is in an uncertain position now that rebel factions have regrouped and its
direct
cooperation with Russia is on hold.
In Qureshi’s view, more
direct
redistributive policies are too “controversial and divisive.”
The key choice for this group is simple: should they
direct
their efforts solely at preventing failure (including open-ended fiscal support), or should they also prepare for the failure of a member state in order to mitigate the consequences if that should happen?
The other major advantage of such regional groupings has been their ability to attract foreign
direct
investment.
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia could hardly be worse, absent
direct
military confrontation.
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