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Moreover, the use of mechanistic rules to determine capital adequacy has also inadvertently encouraged systemic imprudence.
The Global Fund also represented a remarkable new system of funding, which encouraged collaboration between governments and civil-society organizations, and insisted that science, rather than morality and politics, should drive the agenda for resourcing national AIDS programs.
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka’s quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
I was born to a feminist father who encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to be, and what I wanted to be was a PAF officer.
In the decades prior to the current financial crisis, economists gradually came to view themselves and their profession in the same way, encouraged by research trends.
The US, for example, encouraged a population boom in its arid southwestern states in recent decades, despite water scarcity that climate change is likely to intensify.
In a near-parody of external interventions, the US and Israel encouraged President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah to dismiss the Hamas-led government, and to declare a new Fatah-led government in the West Bank.
Arab civil-society reformers must be encouraged to speak up now, or risk losing that promise for another generation.
And, in an economy with approximately 600 small independent banks and too many branches, should consolidation be encouraged and supported?
With incomes stagnant, households were encouraged to borrow, especially against home equity, to maintain consumption.
Similarly, transparency would be encouraged if only payments that are fully documented were tax deductible.
By bailing out countries in trouble time and again, the IMF allegedly encouraged investors to take unwarranted risks, plowing money into countries without properly assessing whether they could ever pay it back.
And it encouraged foreign borrowing as needed to finance the requisite level of capital formation.
It would have been better had Chinese officials encouraged earlier and more gradual adjustment, and if adjustment had come through currency appreciation, which would have enhanced workers’ command over imports, rather than inflation, which will make no one happy.
And it is not only politicians who, encouraged by the BJP’s Hindutva ideology, are propagating pseudoscience in India.
The government has encouraged Australians to change their attitude toward people in need, while claiming, as Evans does, that Australia remains one of the two or three most generous countries in accepting refugees.
They must be supported and encouraged to play their full role in both community and public life.
Physicians and nurses should be encouraged to work with new health practitioners to engage external stakeholders, such as schools, food companies, financial firms, and social services.
Seniors need to be encouraged to seize these opportunities, even if it requires them to take a break from full-time employment, though on-the-job training is also a desirable option.
Over the years Israeli governments encouraged Arabs to participate in Israel's economy.
Indeed, some countries may have been encouraged to do less than they otherwise would have in order to maintain a strong negotiating position.
Liberal Moroccan feminists understand this use of the veil by many Moroccan women, and they have encouraged a dialogue with veiled activists from the Islamist camp.
Feminist interpretations of religious texts – encouraged by increasing numbers of women in prominent religious positions – continue to challenge traditionalists of all stripes.
Combined with sweeping government benefit policies that classify millions of people living in Chernobyl-affected areas as invalids, such myths encouraged fatalistic and passive behaviors and created a “culture of dependency” among affected communities.
Civil servants have been prodded to wear customary khaki uniforms, and women encouraged to don traditional dresses.
It has a president who has encouraged the idea of a government shutdown, fueling doubts about the liquidity of the market in US Treasury bonds.
For India, the problem began in the 1970s, when major donors encouraged the government to provide farmers with free electricity for irrigation.
New domestic financial institutions should also be encouraged.
In short, more interaction, not less, should be actively encouraged.
Military coup makers and Islamists felt encouraged to contest the regime.
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