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The IMF’s Switch in TimeNEW YORK – The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility.
Viewed from a distance, the war was a succession of conflicts that visited immeasurable suffering upon Europe’s population, ending, with the Peace of Westphalia, only when all of the parties involved had become utterly exhausted.
The greater the distance between the language of elites and ordinary people, the greater the risk of revolt.
There is now a solid opposition in Venezuela and less distance between those who rule and those who want to rule.
First, the level of trade between two countries often decreases as the geographic distance between them increases.
The current distance is rooted as much in ignorance as in hard political issues, many of which go beyond what arts and culture can realistically address.
The IMF has, however, become far more neutral than it is given credit for – though it could take more steps to distance itself from its past.
Bulgaria’s national co-ordinator for the Stability Pact resigned to protest Agov’s rant, and the government has tried to distance itself even more.
And, while his bank had been found in violation of various rules recently, including on products sold to consumers and on how it reported interest rates, Diamond had managed to distance himself from the damage.
The long post-Industrial Revolution boom, which carried unskilled workers’ wages to previously unheard-of heights – keeping them within shouting (or at least dreaming) distance of the lifestyles of the rich and famous – is not necessarily a good guide to what will come next.
There are no wild animals to attract tourists, and, although the Turkana, like the Maasai, have preserved their indigenous culture, they are not renowned around the world, perhaps because of their distance from Nairobi.
Contrary to the ranting of Euroskeptic politicians in Britain and, increasingly, in eurozone member countries, the growing disenchantment of voters with politics reflects the distance that has grown between promises and results, not the distance between EU officials and member states’ citizens.
In many cases, their economies have diversified and become more dynamic, and new roads and communication networks have reduced the physical and cultural distance between rural and urban residents.
Information gets from A to B without anything passing in between – what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
Still, US President Donald Trump’s deeply antagonistic stance toward America’s NATO allies has led some to call for more distance between Europe and the US.
The risk, then, is that Trump’s anti-German rhetoric will convince Germany that it should distance itself from the transatlantic alliance and put all of its chips on Europe.
Also in April, in a case now on appeal, employees at an industrial pork plant in Missouri sued the company for failing to comply with COVID-19 health guidelines by ensuring sufficient distance between them and providing rest periods.
Democratic governors will be pressured to distance themselves from decisions made by the White House;Republicans will be expected to embrace the same decisions.
The anti-corruption program is moving ahead more slowly than expected – and it remains unclear whether the government can explicitly distance itself from the oligarchs (who retain substantial political power because they control all major media).
In addition, policymakers must tackle the “problem blindness” that results from the temporal and spatial distance between exposure to health risks and subsequent outcomes, especially for diseases with a long arc.
How should they provide assistance without PPE, given that they are unable to maintain a safe distance from the women in their care?
The ability to collapse distance and time is a major reason why digital technology (properly deployed) can vastly improve the inclusiveness and functioning of all societies.
But we cannot stop at inclusive distance learning.
But Americans learned the hard way on September 11, 2001, that distance is no guarantee of safety.
We students thought of minimizing the cost or distance of the transport.
They can do this in four ways during the two weeks while infectious: keep their physical distance; wear face masks; stay at home and away from others; and remain in a public quarantine if the home is not safe.
That means wearing face masks in public places, keeping a prudent distance from others, and monitoring ourselves and our close contacts for symptoms.
Indeed, Italy’s growing disillusion and distance from the European Union is probably much more serious for the future of the European project than the UK’s decision to leave.
But if it refers to an attempt by France to distance itself from the US and the project of European integration in order to regain some independence and sovereignty, then Macron is no Gaullist.
When it comes to cross-border fiscal and financial assistance, there is significant distance between the positions held by the “frugal four” (Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden) and the governments of southern EU countries like Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
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