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According to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), a coordinated effort by South African construction firms, banks, financial institutions, and government ministries – in partnership with their counterparts in other African countries – could triple this share, potentially creating 80,000 new domestic jobs from exports of construction services by 2030.
Since taking over, Hu Jintao has arrested a number of outspoken journalists in an effort to rein in the media.
But its reaction to the book A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which is based on interviews over several years with farmers in the poor province of Anhui, was a telling reminder that public intellectuals are not welcome to contribute to that effort.
If this effort is to bear real fruit for him, however, he must continue to transform North Korea's Arogue state" image into that of a normal state.
Thanks to President John Magufuli’s effort to mobilize more domestic revenue to support increased development spending, the economy is doing well.
And, needless to say, the country’s economy has been shattered, owing to the direct effects of the conflict and to sanctions that were imposed as part of the failed effort to force Assad into a political settlement.
In an effort to strengthen economic relations with a broader range of countries, the Castro government then began putting out feelers toward the IMF.
What is clear, however, is that any effort in that direction would have been futile.
The most determined effort to remake the system arrived with the Clinton administration's proposal for a comprehensive national health insurance system jointly financed by employers and the federal government.
Still, despite the risks involved, it is important that Germany and France, in coordination with the European Union and the US, undertook this diplomatic effort.
Any effort to restrict antibiotic consumption, regulate the food and pharmaceutical industries, or change human behaviors – all strategies that are currently being discussed – will require complex ethical reflection and analysis.
As Jolie’s film so ably shows, neither the international community nor local leaders made a concerted effort to prevent bloodshed.
China makes no effort to hide its use of biometrics and artificial intelligence (AI) to police its population.
In an effort to address the problem, governments in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and elsewhere have been busy changing their tax codes, redesigning their registration systems, and exploring the potentially perverse incentive problems associated with social-welfare programs.
So the effort to democratize Iraq – indeed, the entire American project to democratize the region – has fallen under deep suspicion by even the most moderate of Muslims.
The time has arrived for a massive effort by voluntary organizations to take up the MDG’s through private action.
But, for those of us who participated in the effort to reconstruct Iraq starting in 2003, this answer is far too glib.
In an effort to win a Democratic senator’s vote for his pending tax-cut bill, he traveled to her state and told lies about her record (though the tax bill was so tilted to the richest 1% of Americans that no Democratic senator voted for it).
Trump’s heightened erratic behavior in recent days has been attributed to his growing anxiety about Mueller’s investigation into his and his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia in the Kremlin’s effort to tilt the 2016 election in his direction – an investigation that could end in a charge of conspiracy.
We know that we will all have to get used to more exposure and make the best of it, but that shouldn’t stop the effort to draw lines where they really matter.
Though the budget would provide a broad sprinkling of cash, it does not amount to a well-focused stimulus effort.
China's plans for the Silk Road combine economic, diplomatic, energy, and security objectives in an effort to create an expansive network of linked facilities to boost trade, aid strategic penetration, and permit an increasingly potent and active submarine force to play an expanded role.
Most recently, Turkey has provided vital support in the European Union’s effort to curb migration.
But the effort to build a new, composite identity clearly fell short.
Indeed, her China trip should be seen as an effort to assert leadership across the eurozone.
The recent effort by elements of the army – the shield of Kemalist secularism – to overturn the will of the people (as it has done three times in the last half-century) confirms the continuing clash between secularism and democracy in Turkey.
A successful climate agreement next December should reaffirm the two-degree cap on warming; include national “decarbonization” commitments up to 2030 and deep-decarbonization “pathways” (or plans) up to 2050; launch a massive global effort by both governments and businesses to improve the operating performance of low-carbon energy technologies; and provide large-scale and reliable financial help to poorer countries as they face climate challenges.
If taxation of profitable firms and rich households blunts those prospects, the result is reduced effort and lower economic growth.
The goals of the French government’s reform agenda are clear: A stronger France, able to thrive in a rapidly changing global environment; a fairer France, without which no effort, whether individual or collective, could be considered a success; and a more steadfast France that can serve as a stable and prosperous home for our children.
The Fed does not surprise markets often, and this has been especially true of the Ben Bernanke-led Fed, which has devoted enormous time and effort to better communication, greater transparency, and timely management of expectations.
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