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This would represent a notable reversal from the last eight years, during which President Barack Obama made a concerted effort to deepen America’s ties with Southeast Asia.
Critics call it a misguided effort that will only create more distortions and retard growth.
The crisis consists in nothing less than an effort by the major drug cartels to tame and suborn the Mexican state, and not just in the strip along the United States border, though the epicenter of the crisis is there.
The only recent parallel in Latin America was a similar effort fifteen years ago by the Colombian drug cartels.
As home to leading drug producers – and many of those most affected by these taxes – India and China should lead an international liberalization effort.
That effort appears to have backfired, because the Republicans that he leads initially balked at passing the legislation.
The Iran deal was a key element of President Barack Obama’s effort to extricate the US from the region, as it promised to neutralize one of the main sources of instability necessitating continued US attention.
Indeed, just as a national fiscal stimulus is less efficient than a coordinated effort, strengthening financial regulations without combating the laxity that prevails elsewhere makes no sense in a globalized world.
That means supporting the ongoing effort to form an interim Palestinian government of technocrats, as stipulated in the Qatar agreement.
Without this kind of concerted effort, alternative technologies simply will not be ready to take up the slack from fossil fuels.
Lee’s indictment, too, is linked to this effort.
And they devote a lot of effort to figuring out what caused this switch.
The effort by France and Germany to establish a “joint and permanent EU military headquarters” tasked with the overseas deployment of EU troops is also a step in the right direction.
Those lucky men and women who have formal jobs (less than 40%) often have “side hustles” through which they sell their time, expertise, network, or ideas to others in an effort to hedge against an uncertain labor market.
Because truly democratic policies must be inclusive, implementing reforms in a democracy takes time and effort; but the painful process of building broad pro-reform coalitions also ensures that those policies will endure.
But many member states reject a common European effort, a stance that threatens to accelerate the erosion of solidarity within the EU and reinforce the current trend toward disintegration.
So it is conceivable that Germany is not at all interested in a serious effort to resolve Europe’s crisis, because that would mean taking big risks and investing a lot of money.
France deserves applause for its brave effort to revive a process that has been going nowhere for the better part of a decade.
When it became clear that the French effort was in earnest, and a date was announced for preparatory talks on May 30, the clear timelines encouraged Palestinian officials to sign up to the process.
He will need an earnest multilateral effort, clear timelines, a commitment to justice on all sides – and perhaps a miracle.
These include the titanic $55 billion South-North Water Transfer Project, a massive engineering effort to construct three canals to bring water from China’s normally wet south to its arid north; a widespread campaign to dig ever-deeper wells; a nationwide tree-planting campaign; and even an extensive effort at “weather modification.”
This effort was so successful that Hezbollah now has two ministers in the government.
But Brazil must go beyond "time out" measures on its debt by making a major effort toward a balanced budget.
Keeping corruption at the top of political and business leaders’ agenda and ensuring that societies remain vigilant will require strong and sustained effort from actors at all levels – from international institutions to governments, businesses, and ordinary citizens.
In a democratic state these engage in the defense effort only insofar as society understands the importance of defense in the first place.
It is now, with the first chance ever to build broad structures designed to defend the democratic world that people must demonstrate a serious commitment to defense effort.
This fear is manifesting itself in an incipient effort to expand education to include the cultivation of feeling and imagination.
Its effort to deny Russia, or any other power, the right to possess similarly odious factotums is pure hypocrisy.
As its weapons program lumbers forward, it has made little effort to hide its periodic failures, marking a departure from past practices.
Speculation about North Korea’s motives for pursuing nuclear weapons is as old as the effort itself.
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