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Exhibit A is the much-touted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a $1 trillion program focused on the debt-financed construction of infrastructure in developing countries.
While many foreign-policy pundits have focused on the US “pivot to Asia,” Clinton has also executed a less-publicized, but no less important, pivot to the people.
For example, Ambassador Melanne Verveer has attended more than 1,000 events around the world focused on empowering women in areas ranging from peace negotiations to farming.
In anticipation of Putin’s victory, Gref’s Center for Strategic Research invited experts to develop two programs – one focused on the economy and the other on public administration reform – based on one fundamental directive: Don’t complicate things.
He focused taxation on imports and nonessential goods, like whiskey.
Global attention has been focused on weighing the three candidates’ strengths and qualifications, particularly their economic and financial credentials.
The Bank has been too focused on itself and its reputation, and not enough on the countries that it advises and in which it operates, while institution-building has been considered to be embedded in the growth agenda.
In addition to specific policies, today’s conversation has increasingly focused on the need for wider social change.
Each member state has selfishly focused on its own interests, often acting against the interests of others.
Making Space for ChinaLONDON – When the United Kingdom announced earlier this month that it had agreed to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the headlines focused not on the news itself, but on the friction the decision had caused between the UK and the United States.
Feminizing the Command LineBRUSSELS – This year, International Women’s Day is focused on “inspiring change” and challenging the status quo to achieve gender equity worldwide.
With Brazil’s new middle class focused on the consumption patterns commensurate with its status, the additional savings must come from the public sector – a task that previous governments found politically unmanageable.
Brazil has spawned some world-class companies – for example, aircraft manufacturer Embraer – but most industrial sectors remain focused on the internal market and are not internationally competitive.
Supporters of the war--often reluctant in any case--had picked up one or the other of these arguments, and if they focused on WMD's, they now feel betrayed.
The “Remain” campaign focused on the economic benefits of staying in the European Union and the costs of leaving, some of which fell due immediately after the results were announced: the British pound plummeted and stock markets wiped out a couple of trillion dollars of wealth.
With none of Mexico’s advantages, Vietnam pursued a strategy that focused on diversifying its economy and enhancing the productive capacity of domestic suppliers.
Meanwhile, the slow-growing sectors risk falling into a “balance-sheet recession," with highly indebted SOEs and local governments becoming so focused on paying down their debts that they stop investing in needed infrastructure, even when interest rates fall.
Following January's disappointing macroeconomic data, the PBOC acted again, by lowering the reserve ratio for banks by 50 basis points, with additional cuts for banks focused on small and medium-size enterprises (50 basis points) and for the Agricultural Development Bank of China (400 basis points).
The world could fight back with general health services in at-need areas along with more focused efforts to combat HIV and malaria.
But a pragmatic version of “America first,” focused on achieving re-election in 2020, is more likely to mean some largely symbolic measures (such as antidumping tariffs on some Chinese steel imports) and abandonment of further trade liberalization initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Only Europe as a whole, focused politically on the idea of better regulation, is big enough to block the neo-liberal tsunami.
After independence in 1947, India adopted an inward-looking planning system that focused on heavy industry.
But realizing key SDG targets – which are fully aligned with the World Bank Group’s own twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity – will require a much larger investment program focused on strengthening land tenure across the developing world.
China’s environmental activists, meanwhile, have focused on the “politically safe” issues of protecting biodiversity, recycling, and environmental education.
However, the most important reasons that the Islamic world has done worse than Latin America or Southeast Asia seem to be focused around education.
However, as with technology, the public and nonprofit sectors have been slow to keep up; both still need to recognize the value of social enterprises focused on education.
A successful central bank is more like a hedgehog; it knows one big thing – that it must remain focused on low inflation.
Most recently, concerns have focused on the treatment of some of the leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations: three of the city’s most influential activists were sentenced to up to eight months in prison for their activities, and have been prohibited from seeking public office for five years.
Both accepted the division, and, knowing that their future lay within the EU, focused their attention on accession.
After all, the crisis originated in the US and left American policy focused on its domestic troubles, opening up room for global leadership by others.
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