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Trump’s Trade IllogicLONDON – With all the public attention in the United States focused on health care, immigration, and Russia, the Trump administration’s trade policies have flown largely under the radar.
The economy will have a simple structure in the coming years, with most economic activities focused in five sectors: smallholder, or peasant, agriculture; reconstruction; port services and light manufacturing; local small-scale trade; and public services, including health care and education.
Even more to the point, policymakers need to address the financialization of the pharmaceutical industry, which is focused solely on shareholder value, rather than on all stakeholders.
In addition to suffering from a lack of clarity on key issues, EU fiscal policy remains overly focused on short-term goals, reflected in its needless emphasis on nominal deficit targets within annual budget cycles.
Their recommendations should be binding, but they should also be focused on the medium term, rather than on annual fiscal outcomes.
“Seemingly intractable circumstances turned him from the would-be architect of a new global order into a leader focused more on repairing relationships and reacting to crises – most notably the global economic crisis,” the report continued.
Focused on grand international politics, he is less involved in actual policy.
Zhou’s plan focused on reforming four key sectors: agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology.
The nature of the job had changed: it became less transactional and more focused on customer service.
This constituency could grow dramatically if democrats and economic reformers focused renewed energy on the need for honesty and fairness in government; on an enhanced social safety net financed by higher taxation of natural resource enterprises; and on further market reforms aimed at separating the economy from the grasping hands of politicians and bureaucrats.
The debate about whether and how to introduce Eurobonds has focused on the appropriate limits on issuance.
As Jon Hilsenrath of the Wall Street Journal points out, William Dudley, then the executive vice president of the New York Fed’s Markets Group, presented staff research that sought, politely and compellingly, to turn the principals’ attention to where it needed to be focused.
Russia, in particular, has focused on treaties, conferences, and political arrangements.
So, while post-crisis Asia focused in the 2000’s on repairing the financial vulnerabilities that had wreaked such havoc – namely, by amassing huge foreign-exchange reserves, turning current-account deficits into surpluses, and reducing its outsize exposure to short-term capital inflows – it failed to rebalance its economy’s macro structure.
But the pursuit of global objectives is difficult, bordering on the impossible, when central banks function under the kind of narrow, domestically focused mandates that independence requires.
Unfortunately, there is still little hard evidence about where resources should best be focused.
Economic doomsayers focused instead on previously fashionable emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India, and Turkey.
Indeed, with Kerry’s time and travel focused on the Middle East, many Asian leaders believe that Obama’s signature foreign policy – strategic “rebalancing” toward Asia – has run out of steam, even as tension between China and Japan, evident in their leaders’ statements at Davos, continues to mount.
During much of the 1980s and 1990s, the Bank oversaw structural adjustment programs in developing countries that focused on deregulation, privatization, and economic liberalization, especially trade opening, all of which helped to enable globalization.
With international attention focused on its trade actions, China then quietly seized the shoal.
Given that the new global development targets – like the current Millennium Development Goals, which have focused on health, hunger, and education – could guide the allocation of hundreds of billions of aid dollars, choosing the right areas on which to focus is critical.
Far from harboring weapons of mass destruction, he was focused on maintaining his grip on power.
With few exceptions, countries that focused on commodity exports performed dismally, whereas many resource-poor Asian countries raced ahead.
So far, the US authorities have focused on bringing Snowden home to face espionage charges.
But, in pursuing such harmonization, Europeans should recognize that their Asia strategy – which has so far focused on commerce and, to a lesser degree, on the rule of law and human rights – will have to take on a security dimension.
Rather than address the structural problems afflicting South Korea’s economy, however, Moon has focused on redistribution.
In any case, South Koreans are currently focused less on developments in North Korea and more on their own economic concerns.
In 2012, soon after Putin’s return to the presidency, the Duma enacted the so-called foreign agent law, which focused on silencing organizations that receive funding from abroad and engage in anything that can be labeled “political activity.”
With numbers like that, it would hardly be surprising if Obama tried to keep voters focused on foreign affairs in 2012, with high-profile initiatives like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Burma (Myanmar), carefully brokered diplomatic deals, and important international conferences at home, such as the NATO summit in Chicago in May.
Former Prime Minister Netanyahu focused not only on a politics of confrontation with the Palestinian leadership under Yassir Arafat, but also cultivated a politics of internal confrontation - between religious and secular Jews, between "old timers" and newcomers from the former Soviet Union, between European and Middle Eastern Jews (Ashkenazi versus Sephardi).
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