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We may live in an era of globalization, but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.
The regime’s Orwellian strategy is focused squarely on social media and controlling not just what is said, but also how information flows into and around the country.
Throughout the process, US negotiators focused mainly on the auto industry.
Gates has appropriately focused on the question of NATO’s financial sustainability.
The victors were an amorphous political center, focused on domestic issues, and the annexationist religious right.
While the US presidential election is not particularly focused on policy at the moment, the campaign will soon end, at which point people will govern and policies will be adopted.
Start-Up SoupNEW YORK – Last month I was in Kyiv, speaking at a conference focused on entrepreneurs.
But this week, many activists from the developing world – the greatest beneficiaries of the Global Fund – will be focused on efforts to keep the institution viable as it passes the ten-year mark.
Indeed, many thought of the Fund as an activist entity, because it focused on three devastating epidemics that have a common denominator: economic and social inequality.
“As our country works to emerge from this recession,” its executive director wrote, “American companies need to be focused on creating jobs and encouraging innovation to put us back on a path to sustained economic growth.
Like all central banks, the Fed has a local mandate, focused on domestic price stability and employment.
In November, The Christian Science Monitor focused on the IPCC’s findings on hurricanes, the strength and frequency of which have been linked to global warming ever since former US Vice President Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth made media hay out of Hurricane Katrina.
Unfortunately, the energy debate in Africa has focused almost exclusively on the development of power infrastructure, without considering access.
An agribusiness development strategy focused on higher-value output and stronger productivity growth throughout the value chain represents one of the best opportunities for rapid and broad-based economic growth and wealth creation in Africa.
In 1976, 20 years after Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing Stalin’s crimes, Alexeyeva was among the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Group, focused on monitoring Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Accords, which had been concluded the previous year by 35 governments from Europe and North America.
At that time, a couple of colleagues and I responded to the imprisonment of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s members, as well as other disidenty, by establishing Helsinki Watch, a US-based organization focused on freeing them.
Some of the most important responses must be national and unilateral, focused on hygiene, redundancy, and resilience.
However, their narrowly focused anti-drug stance strongly influences the policies and practices of member nations.
But the RCB’s track record since 1992 has done little to stabilize inflation expectations and to persuade businessmen, investors, government officials and ordinary Russians that it is genuinely focused on reining in price growth.
Sometimes the RCB acted as the government’s banker, providing liquidity without considering the financial markets; at other times, it focused on the financial markets, providing liquidity to banks.
Casey Fiesler of the University of Colorado, Boulder, is pursuing just such experimentation by crowd-sourcing syllabi focused on tech ethics.
Mainstream parties must embrace the kind of open and constructive debate that nurtured parliamentary democracy in the Federal Republic’s early years, rather than remaining focused on political tactics.
State and local reform movements are focused on four structural threats to democracy: gerrymandering; poorly designed primary processes; money in politics; and legislative procedures that impede compromise.
We must stay focused on building and maintaining a cohesive architecture for meeting the SDGs and other international commitments, such as those embodied in the Paris climate agreement.
Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non-shareholders alike.
After the Arab Spring, which began in December 2010 and gained momentum through 2011, the UNDP began the 2015 AHDR, which focused specifically on the plight of Arab youth.
Mainstream politicians have failed to come together to combat populism because they are focused wholly on their own careers and the next election.
To that end, we should follow the advice of David Lipton, the IMF’s first deputy managing director, and move beyond the fashionable “OHIO” approach, focused on getting one’s “own house in order,” to the more demanding California – or “CA” – strategy of “collective action.”
Market reformers focused their attention on reducing the size of government, but overlooked the government’s role in raising the country’s technological capacity.
So far, most discussions in Europe regarding how to reduce Russian energy imports – which account for 34% of the EU’s gas consumption – have focused on the United States, where the rapid development of shale reserves has made a huge supply of gas available for export.
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