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That effort should compel us to confront an uncomfortable reality underlying both the British phone-hacking scandal, with its penumbra of appalling cruelty and wanton corruption, and Fox News, America’s most popular news channel: too many people want what the News Corporation has been offering.
In another effort, the Catalyst Trust is looking at pilot projects in human-rights education across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States to determine how school curricula can best cultivate inter-faith understanding.
In its effort to help refugee students, the Catalyst Trust is examining how companies, foundations, and public-sector donors can make resources more consistently available for displaced people.
But, rather than being used to facilitate increased commercial bank lending and deposits, the additional reserves created in this process were held at the Fed – simply the by-product of the effort, via QE, to drive down long-term interest rates and increase household wealth.
This calls for a major training effort, support for mobility, incentives to accept job offers, and the opening of sheltered sectors.
For China’s effort to make Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft kowtow to its domestic political controls, and its push in Africa and Latin America to create blocs of nations that pursue economic development while ignoring human rights and environmental conservation, is a poor model for the developing world.
Indeed, as Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has pointed out, after years of effort, the benefits of unconventional monetary policy are diminishing, while the costs are increasing.
Both sides will have to make an effort: Creditors must accept some risk, and debtors must enhance their creditworthiness through structural fiscal adjustment and reforms that improve their growth prospects.
Unfortunately, the tax-reform effort currently underway in the US is not backed by a group of bipartisan centrists, but by right-wing Republicans who believe that taxes are an affront to billionaires’ liberties.
Feldstein’s language in describing the current Republican tax-reform effort is telling.
Given that the effort is being led by hard-right Republicans who care more about cutting taxes than holding down deficits, my bet is on the latter outcome – the one Feldstein warned about in the early 1980s.
An effort to diversify by selling a particular asset would have such a large impact on markets that it would produce large losses for any central bank that tried it.
American policymakers expended considerable effort devising ways to support the pound, because they knew that the same factors that made the pound vulnerable also threatened the dollar.
It was the crumbling Kuomintang that in 1947 drew and promulgated the original “11-dash line” map – subsequently reduced to nine dashes by Mao Zedong, in a fraternal gesture to Vietnam – in a futile effort to rally the population to its side via imperial ambition.
For years, the authorities tended to support the renminbi, as they pursued renminbi internationalization – an effort that culminated in the International Monetary Fund’s recent decision to add the renminbi to the basket of currencies that compose its reserve asset, so-called Special Drawing Rights.
It requires a lot of time, continuous effort, uncompromising integrity, appropriate funding and material support, and unwavering commitment.
While there is no significant effort to cap spending on some of the largest fiscal programs, including the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (which guarantees 100 days of wages to rural households) or the fertilizer subsidy, measures to improve implementation and reduce leakage are being put in place.
They see a declining superpower using economic, military, and diplomatic means in an unrelenting effort to prevent China’s rise.
The shortfalls of the civilian effort and the unwillingness or inability of the Afghan government to provide good governance are the country’s central problems.
Today, an effort is being made to incorporate emerging powers – particularly China – more deeply into the existing structures of global governance.
The accords represented an effort to improve East-West relations during the Cold War, and included an emphasis on human rights.
Gains from trade would undoubtedly take time to materialize, and restoring access to the Israeli labor market would more quickly boost incomes for a large number of ordinary Palestinians than any effort to promote the export of goods.
But whoever is elected will confront difficult choices if a nuclear-armed Pakistan remains unable or unwilling to act as an American partner and meet its responsibilities in the effort against terrorism.
As so often in the past, this latest reform effort hit the limits of permissible Party tolerance almost before it got going.
Anyone privy to details of such activities cannot comment on them, but one story circulating in the research community involved attempts to introduce condoms into African porn as part of an anti-AIDS effort.
Much more worrying, however, is what lurks unmentioned behind the Treasury report: a serious legislative effort, supported by the Trump administration, to reduce the level of scrutiny applied to banks that are on the verge of becoming systemically important.
The shared effort of eight European navies on piracy in the Gulf of Aden has achieved what none could have achieved on its own.
Can these relationships be transformed into anything resembling a cooperative effort?
But others, like India, are bound to see something more sinister afoot, an effort at encirclement.
The UN recognizes that if the information revolution is to advance further, it will take a public-private effort.
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