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First, education reform – with a strong
emphasis
on technical training – would endow low-income citizens with new skills that they could supply in the labor market.
This is why outsiders should place greater
emphasis
on providing military and political support to Kurdish forces and Sunni tribes.
Thus, the emerging
emphasis
on recapitalizing the banking system and more recently, on unorthodox policies, including the purchase of private sector credit securities is correct.
Leading the world in technological prowess while leading it from behind in terms of combat forces on the ground, if not in the air, America’s shift of
emphasis
is impossible to ignore.
As countries emerged, many placed a new
emphasis
on “harmony,” in an effort to redress the growing divide between rich and poor, urban and rural.
This idea is reinforced by a vast amount of neuroscientific evidence, which contradicts the
emphasis
on individualism that prevails in Western societies, suggesting instead that the human brain is wired for affective resonance, with people naturally reflecting each other’s emotions and motivational states.
But that is implausible, given that Buddhist tradition places more
emphasis
on concern for animals than Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
But will the Fund now abandon its long-held
emphasis
on government cutbacks, monetary contraction, and overall austerity, policies that – in the opinion of many development economists – do considerably more harm than good?
Another area of
emphasis
for donor dialogue with Pakistan is governance – not just reducing and controlling corruption, but also bringing policymaking closer to the people.
Long stretches of military rule, with its
emphasis
on command and control, has left policymaking in Pakistan highly centralized.
Rather than simply looking at project inputs and outputs, the
emphasis
has turned towards measuring the overall impact of an operation.
But have we taken the
emphasis
on citation too far?
In that sense, the metaphor of war - with its
emphasis
on military force is - misleading.
In considering the risks, the
emphasis
has shifted over the last decade from preventing additional states from acquiring nuclear weapons to preventing terrorist groups and other non-state actors from acquiring them (or critical components).
In 2009, the
emphasis
was on China’s aggressive post-crisis stimulus strategy.
But, since the growth model in vogue at the time laid principal
emphasis
on capital accumulation, China was widely held to have the advantage, because it could raise its investment rate higher than India, where democracy limited the extent to which the population could be taxed to increase domestic savings.
The new
emphasis
on national budgetary rules is a welcome development – but it is only a first step.
In order to attract the FDI needed to achieve this, southern African countries have enacted laws aimed at encouraging greater private sector participation, with special
emphasis
on foreign investment.
India also needs a relevant curriculum and skilled teachers who can motivate students to learn it – in short, an overdue
emphasis
on quality, in addition to officals’ understandable focus on access and inclusion.
More resources are being committed, the corporate sector is being encouraged to get involved, and there is a welcome
emphasis
on innovation.
It is crucial to ensure that our European model, with its
emphasis
on a fair deal for everyone, remains competitive.
This reflects China’s broader goal – established partly in response to America’s “pivot” toward Asia – of rebalancing its strategic focus westward, with an
emphasis
on the Arab world.
Nevertheless, although some still lament the
emphasis
that universities now place on research, proponents of expanding the university's mission have for the most part been vindicated on pedagogical grounds.
We are more likely to live with this tension for a long time, with
emphasis
shifting back and forth between approaches.
The difference between the two seems to be, more than anything else, a matter of priorities and
emphasis.
Think about it: Christmas is the main Catholic holiday, but we put more
emphasis
on the miraculous Resurrection of Christ at Easter.
Similarly Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s prime minister, who carries the mantle of her assassinated father, has become a keen advocate of development issues, with a special
emphasis
on women and their needs.
This new
emphasis
on regional security is not confined to governments.
Another problem with the
emphasis
on aid (in addition to the near impossibility of accurately measuring the scale of the flows from all sources) is that the political effort to increase it absorbs attention that would be better spent on a more powerful instrument of economic development: trade.
And Indivisible is distributing an already widely read guide for resisting Trump, with an
emphasis
on grassroots advocacy and community organizing.
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