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The list of urgent challenges facing humanity is depressingly long.
They will repeat the same exercise that some of the world’s best economists tackled in a 2004 project called the “Copenhagen Consensus”: weighing up solutions to the great challenges facing the world, and deciding what should be done first.
We must endeavor to shorten the list of challenges facing humanity.
With the recent elections in the United States and the rise of Asia’s global influence, there is an opportunity to turn the world’s attention to the most critical challenges facing our planet.
Defusing the crises in Darfur and elsewhere will be among the greatest challenges facing the new Secretary-General.
The UN also has the unique role and opportunity to offer leadership in building a global consensus around vital long-term environmental and economic challenges facing the planet.
It centers on whether China is best understood as a strong country, with a promising future despite some short-term difficulties, or as a country facing serious structural problems and uncertain long-term prospects.
With much of the world facing very low inflation, and even the possibility of outright decline in the price level, the real burden of debt has been increasing.
Concepts of justice and law, legitimacy and dignity, protection from oppressive rule, and participation in community affairs are found in every society; the challenge facing human rights advocates is to identify the common denominators, and not throw up their hands at the impossibility of universalism.
But Xi has concluded that the obstacles facing the US and the West are greater.
Egypt’s Economic SirenNEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus on the economic implications of the current turmoil, whether they are in government or in opposition.
Facing external payments obligations, and with the currency under pressure, the government will again seek a proposed $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund and co-financing from other multilateral and bilateral sources.
Today, the ECB is facing a much more comfortable situation.
With the EU in the throes of the seemingly endless eurozone sovereign-debt crisis and facing a looming debate over its future decision-making architecture, the collapse of the EADS-BAE merger will be no more than a footnote in the history books.
Unless we act to step up the fight against TB, many health-care systems may find themselves facing a less abstract problem: securing the economic resources and organizational capacity to ensure treatment for the growing number of patients who want and need it.
The “Big Four” US tech firms – Alphabet Inc.(Google’s parent company), Apple Inc., Facebook, and Amazon – are also facing pressure from the EU stemming from their dominant market position.
Even funeral directors are facing new risks and challenges, from dealing with overdose victims’ relatives to safe handling of victims’ bodies.
For example, China has not only escalated its challenge to Japan’s decades-old control of the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, but is also facing off against the Philippines since taking effective control of Scarborough Shoal last year.
How to Save the EuroBRUSSELS – The European Union is facing a constitutional moment.
The Stability and Growth Pact clearly did not prevent “excessive” deficits, and the no-bailout clause failed its first test when European leaders, facing the Greek crisis, solemnly declared on February 11 that euro-zone members would “take determined and coordinated action, if needed, to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole.”
And, indeed, his book – one of the earliest political “how to" manuals – has some useful advice for economic policymakers at a time when they are facing extraordinarily confusing challenges.
We should be spearheading a European strategy to address the serious challenges facing our neighbors, as well as the countries of Western Asia and North Africa.
Even the United States, the country that we used to associate with leadership of the free world, is now facing bleak prospects.
That might very well happen if America’s next president fails to redress the financial and economic threats facing his country, and thus the rest of the world.
Now, Macron is facing strong opposition from both the far left and the far right over his plan to rejuvenate the French economy.
Nearly two decades after the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, the treaty is facing a major test.
There are four basic approaches to cleaning up a banking system that is facing a systemic crisis: recapitalization of the banks, together with a purchase of their toxic assets by a government “bad bank”; recapitalization, together with government guarantees – after a first loss by the banks – of the toxic assets; private purchase of toxic assets with a government guarantee (the current US government plan); and outright nationalization (or call it “government receivership” if you don’t like the dirty N-word) of insolvent banks and their resale to the private sector after being cleaned.
Moreover, the pressures facing a national candidate are quite different – both more magnified and more diffuse – from those facing a governor.
The issues facing the United States – the turmoil in Syria and the Middle East, Russia’s military assertiveness, and China’s emergence as both economic (and environmental) partner and strategic challenger – are simply too important to be ignored.
The election campaign will heat up at a time when the US is facing a daunting set of problems.
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