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When the yield on German government bonds falls to 2%, which is negative in real terms, German savers must redouble their efforts to achieve a certain target for retirement income.
Given the challenges implicit in establishing and maintaining a robust scientific sector, reform efforts must be undertaken carefully.
It should have focused its efforts on monitoring and implementing the G-20’s commitment not to raise trade barriers.
They must work with bureaucracies, which are naturally disinclined to have their efforts prioritized, lest they end up as anything less than number one.
Whenever we prioritize, we not only say where we should do more (which is good) but also where we should not increase our efforts (which is regarded as cynical).
That requires, first and foremost, efforts to strengthen and modernize institutions, guided by Western examples.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol marked a major step forward in efforts to head off the most disastrous consequences of climate change, establishing a precedent for legally binding limits on emissions.
To be sure, the question of how to share the economic burden of any particular global emissions path is completely different from the question of how environmentally ambitious overall climate-change mitigation efforts should be.
Our society is awash with inflated information, which is inherent to efforts in many human activities – entertainment, law courts, stock markets, politics, and sports, to name but a few – to gain greater public attention in the framework of mass civilization.
During Arpaio’s 24 years as the sheriff of a jurisdiction that includes the rapidly growing city of Phoenix, he built his reputation on his department’s aggressive efforts to track down undocumented immigrants – and on the brutal conditions he established in the facilities where they were held.
Nevertheless, NATO would succeed if outside civilian efforts, resources, organization, and leadership in Afghanistan were equal to its own.
Unfortunately, there is no central direction or even coordination of civilian efforts.
As it happens, the year during which Trump stopped accusing China of pushing down its currency was also the year that China suspended its efforts to propup the renminbi.
But now the Chinese have resumed their efforts to defend the currency, just when Trump is renewing his accusations.
But diplomatic efforts during this time have been lamentable.
During each of my field visits, I have been amazed at how these efforts are affecting women’s lives.
Moreover, while a preventive strike would delay Iran’s nuclear efforts, it would not stop the regime from rebuilding, and it might also create conditions that cause problems for the regime’s domestic opponents.
With weapons of mass destruction nowhere to be found, the justice of this intervention remains an open question--one that now turns on the coalition's efforts to establish the rudiments of legality in Iraq.
These efforts will succeed only if they include a modicum of transitional justice.
Under the next president, the US will no longer be a drag on international efforts to create a global regime that sets a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions.
If managed in ways that are transparent and participatory, and if countries combine their efforts regionally, food reserves can be an effective way to boost sellers’ market power and counteract speculation by traders, thereby limiting price volatility.
He accelerated efforts to eliminate the world’s most dangerous ancient scourge, malaria, by naming a special adviser on the disease, and by forging innovative partnerships within the UN system that have brought together private industry, foundations, and non-governmental organizations.
A facility considered secure 20 years ago might now be vulnerable to a cyber attack that bypasses its security systems or confounds efforts to keep track of its nuclear material.
And if they develop renewable-energy sources and step up their conservation efforts, they can increase their energy exports.
The victory of a Hindu chauvinist hardliner – a man who had systematically blocked his predecessor’s peace-making efforts while in opposition and demonized Pakistan in his campaign speeches – was naturally assumed to portend a bilateral chill.
And with the G20 and the OECD working to stop tax avoidance, Africa may soon benefit from global efforts to end shady accounting.
But the repeated efforts of Britain, France, and the US to keep all Islamist governments out of power only block political maturation in the region, without actually succeeding or providing long-term benefits.
Yet that is where the bilateral relationship is headed, given China’s efforts to secure maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean.
The growth in mobile-telephone technology demonstrates that the digital divide is shifting, and the focus of development efforts must change with it.
Fortunately, despite some doubts, the UK government has announced efforts to kick-start some of the necessary transport links, with the goal of shortening the Leeds-Manchester train journey to 30 minutes.
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