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What follows are some comments I offered in an accompanying panel session that focused on lessons learned from QE.
A 2004 conference that Lomborg initiated, for example, focused on global warming; for the three widely touted climate-change policies examined, Lomborg’s panel concluded that “costs were likely to exceed benefits.”
The argument should instead be focused on how to get the most effective results out of aid, both for the recipients and for a donor country’s tax-payers.
Aid, I believe, is best focused on infrastructure – the bridges, roads, Internet cables, and power stations that will help our economies to grow and allow us to trade more easily with each other.
But, again, Bush remained more focused on maintaining global stability than on advancing new visions.
The proposal did not entail any fines; rather, it focused on the stage before fines would be considered.
This year, however, the Russians sent their “A” team, and a well-attended session focused on “Russia’s More Muscular Foreign Policy.”
But those who warn that huge economic problems lie ahead for aging rich countries are focused on the wrong issue.
But the European economic recovery plan that was recently reaffirmed by the European Council of Ministers is mainly focused on national measures to support domestic demand.
US President Donald Trump has also focused on industrial policy, though his version would presumably entail substantial state intervention and protectionist measures.
Japan armed itself only lightly (restricting military expenditures to about 1% of GNP), and focused on economic growth.
So far, the chorus of criticism directed at the administration’s budget document has largely focused on its optimistic forecasts for GDP growth.
So, while older people do not prefer to live in a crisis-stricken country, they do not find it intolerable, as opportunity-starved young people do; they are simply more focused on purchasing power than on the economy’s animal spirits.
In rich countries, early interest in cargo drones has focused on the so-called last mile – a tub of sorbet onto a suburban lawn.
The MDGs were coherent because they focused on helping the poorest people in the world.
Despite global economic headwinds, China’s leaders will surely remain focused on maintaining and boosting growth, in order to lift more Chinese out of poverty and avert social unrest; they are also certain to continue monitoring the oil-rich Middle East.
Much of the discussion of the US economy is of little help, for it is focused on the wrong question: when did the recession start and end?
Since then, Turkey has focused on financial stability and structural reforms, which have strengthened economic performance and made the country more resilient to shocks.
According to the communiqué issued by the group, the meeting focused on developing a procedure for identifying which G-20 countries have “persistently large imbalances” and why they have them.
Despite the best efforts of US President Barack Obama, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and others who have stayed admirably focused and consistent, other voices – from the right, the left, and the simply muddled – are now capturing media attention, and are beginning to drown, or at least confuse, the basic message.
October’s Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia, focused on generating commitments and formulating measures to maintain ocean sustainability, including by cutting marine pollution.
Because China’s problems are long term and structural, the country should be focused on supply-side structural reform, even if it means accepting slower GDP growth.
The debate so far has focused on developed countries, but it is a question that will affect the entire world.
Likewise, as David Autor of MIT has pointed out, the automatic teller machine (ATM) displaced human bank tellers, but so reduced the cost of branches that their number rose, fueling an increase in employees focused on customer relationship management (for which ATMs are less than ideal).
Moreover, the lives of hundreds of millions of people are tied to these ecosystems, and projects that restore forest cover or improve soil health require focused planning, a massive undertaking for many governments.
In fact, bolstering growth might have been the primary motivation for the country’s political leaders, even as the PBOC remained focused on advancing the longer-term objective of strengthening the market’s role in determining the exchange rate.
The government’s initial policies aimed at raising aggregate demand focused on major infrastructure spending, including roads and mass transit.
As China takes a long-term strategic approach to strengthening its hold over the South China Sea (and, increasingly, beyond), the US is focused solely on the prospect of all-out war.
As Admiral Harry Harris cautioned last month while departing as head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, “Without focused involvement and engagement by the US and our allies and partners, China will realize its dream of hegemony in Asia.”
Focused obsessively on three issues – trade, North Korea, and Iran – Trump has watched quietly as China builds up its military assets through frenzied construction of permanent facilities on newly reclaimed land.
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